¡Bienvenidos, Litmos community! Those of you tasked with converting your organization’s content into rapid eLearning — we’re looking at you. Previous posts have looked at cross-functionality between Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate. The relationship between PowerPoint and eLearning is like an up-and-down romance. PowerPoint brings some cool stuff to the... more
Hello, Litmos community! Last week we talked about Adobe Captivate 5 and its marvelous ability to create demonstrations, simulations, and performance-based assessment for systems training. This feature has enormous cash value for those of you who want to quickly show something impressive to your organizational overlords. Furthermore, you can... more
Greetings, global citizens of the Litmos eLearning community! Last time—we talked about authoring tools, and we answered a few common questions about Adobe Captivate 5 and Articulate Studio ’09. As we dive more deeply, we’ll look at the strengths of each platform. This week, we’ll begin our analysis of Adobe... more
Hello, Litmos community! For those of you tasked with making an organizational transition to eLearning, we salute you—in all your overworked glory. In a previous post, we emphasized the point about having an eLearning philosophy (and standards) in place to encourage you to begin at the beginning. Tools change and... more
Greetings, worldwide Litmos community! This was going to be a post on the nuts and bolts of Adobe Captivate, but… it’s not. A few people have asked me what I meant by choosing an eLearning philosophy (subtle, gently probing, questions like “What are you talking about, fool?”). OK,” philosophy” was... more
Let me wish you a happy and productive new year from the Litmos blogging team! It’s time to continue with our occasional manifesto on how to bring eLearning to your organization (and maximize the use of your LMS). This is a food-for-thought post on authoring tools. Many Litmos clients (and... more
Here’s a secret about your learning management system (LMS): it’s rarely used to its full potential. The Litmos crew tells me that clients often have questions about how to “get stuff online.” The questions may seem strange, but the same dysfunctional process plays out all over. If you’re relatively new... more
I have run in to this problem a few times lately and some clients have recently asked the question too: “How can I get my Captivate project to play faster? It seems to take forever to start as it has to completely download before it begins.” I asked around a... more
Here’s a helpful video very kindly put together by Dave Mozealous (@dmozealous) at Articulate on how to upload and track an Articulate Quizmaker SCORM Quiz in the Litmos LMS: Thanks Dave! For more information on uploading different types of content, don’t forget to check out The Litmos Help Guide. @Schnicker
If you’re putting together your eLearning or online training content and you can’t stand the sound of your own voice, or you just need a professional voice of a different accent or language to narrate the audio, look no further than www.voice123.com. Voice123 is a really cool site that has... more
