With all the talk lately about responsive design, breakpoints, and fluid boxes, it makes me wonder how many developers out there still use Captivate solely and exclusively for creating traditional courses for a desktop only playback. I ask because that is the exact situation I find myself in with one of my clients . . . no need or desire at all for mobile courses.
Are you still developing only for traditional desktop playback?
CHUCK
I’m not sure where you are located Dee ST but I can offer a couple of things for you to consider. First, if you are planning on attending Devlearn this year, consider tacking on the Adobe Learning Summit. It’s a one-day event that is co-located with Devlearn dedicated to eLearning from Adobe. I and many other Adobe eLearning experts will be there conducting sessions. I haven’t finalised my topic yet, but I know it will be a one-hour session on responsive design using the new fluid boxes in Adobe Captivate 2017. If you register before this Friday you will get the Super Early discount. Register here: https://elearning.adobe.com/2017/07/10th-annual-adobe-learning-summit-2017-oct-24-las-vegas/
If you can’t make it to Devlearn, I have a 1 hour, 20 minute premium course hosted on Udemy that covers designing custom quiz questions. About 20 minutes is just on responsive design, but you’ll learn about multi state objects, advanced and conditional actions and much more. Here is a link that includes a discount for you to kickstart your learning https://elearning.adobe.com/2017/06/25-off-adobe-captivate-2017-udemy-course/
In our setup we have 100% of Non-responsive projects. but later this year we intend to incorporate mobile learning for which i would need to create responsive project. can anyone suggest tool or training on same.
Many of the courses I’ve designed in the last half decade were for the employees of the Toronto Airport. They are due for updating and I want to make sure they can be delivered to their much more mobile employees. About 80% do not sit at a desk. They also work in an environment where they have access to free WiFi. If I could complete my required training in a comfortable airport lounge using an iPad, over having to return to a windowless office and use a boring PC, I know what I would do.
Agreed.
I have been meeting with customers specifically higher ed colleges and universities who still are very keen towards desktop only publishing, they are approaching mobile but in fragments, the thought is to move in phases to keep the content integrity for their students alive. My call is 70-30, tilted towards desktop.
I wonder how much of this shift will be driven by learner demand rather than by whoever is putting the training course together.
Both my large online classrooms contains hundreds of nonresponsive but scalable HTML5 captivate courses. I have no plan yet to switch to responsive. Naturally, small mobile screens is not ideal option to learn comfortable. People uses rather 10 tablets and 13,3 notebooks. There are more traditionally oriented, than technologies )))
I plane to learn Action Script 3 enviroment deeply, so I want to publish some AIR and desktop products and apps.
Same here. I have clients who have no interest in mobile and others who want everything to be mobile-ready.
Joe, same question to you that I just asked Paul. If you had to put a percentage to it … for example 50% responsive, 50% non-responsive, what percentages would you sssign?
Currently, I’d guess it’s about 50/50.
Thanks for that percentage, Joe. Like I just said to Paul, I suspect we will gradually see those percentages shift – with the percentages growing toward the mobile side. All the more reason for me to put my head down and dive into learning fluid boxes.
Peace,
CHUCK
Oh sure. One of my biggest projects this year is a non responsive project. I am publishing it as HTML5 with scaling so in the event that someone uses these course on a mobile device it will still function for them. This course is using a bunch of software sims and video demos so non responsive still makes sense.
So Paul, if you had to put a percentage to it … for example 50% responsive, 50% non-responsive, what percentages would you sssign?
50/50 sounds about right. I have to say that with the ease I can now design responsive, thanks mostly to fluid boxes, why wouldn’t I just design with responsive anyway? If employees discover they can complete training on their smartphone, what a happy accident that increases employee engagement.
For me the only issue is the delivery of video. I’m looking for a solution that gives me the best of all worlds. Opening video in a new window ensures users can view video full screen but I hesitate because of the potential break from the training flow that a new window can cause.
Thanks for sharing that Paul. I suspect 50/50 will gradually shift with the percentage toward mobile growing. I’m getting ready to develop a project which will replace a course that had about a 6 year shelf-life. While my users for that course may not be using mobile NOW, I’m thinking of including fluid box design (with some very definite help from your videos) because if this new course has the same shelf life, I’m sure at some point during that time, learners will be able to view the course via mobile.
CHUCK
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