AgendaAdobe eLearning Conference 2019

Adobe Captivate 2018 comes with an extensive library of games, interactions, and images available for you to use in your training. In this session, Andrew Vass will walk through everything that is available in the Adobe Captivate Asset Library and give step-by-step instructions on how to build an entire eLearning course using the pre-built assets. Specifically, we'll cover browsing and downloading assets, combining assets into one project, importing assets into an existing project, and editing content.

Every coworker will tell you, "forced compliance training is not enjoyable." It's something we have to do...so why make it fun? Ponemon Institute and GlobalSCAPE, Inc. report that it is 2.71 times more costly for an organization when they don't ensure employees actively retain the rules and regulations regarding compliance. The average annual cost of compliance training in the United States is $5.47 million, versus $14.82 million for noncompliance violations and insurance claims. That's a difference of $9.35 million dollars each year. This session will discuss the planning, development, and implementation of FUN in compliance training through the use of game mechanics and gamified learning experiences, resulting in increased information retention and a decrease in noncompliance cost. Learn how to create engaging, active content that both teaches and entertains.

Build your first mobile-ready eLearning project! In this session, you will not only gain the skills to build your first mobile-ready eLearning project, but you will also get all the exercise files to return to your workplace and make an eLearning course that your organization can start using right away. This eLearning course will teach employees what they need to know about building evacuation in the event of an emergency. Gain the skills to create this course, which will include a fluid box responsive design so learners can use their own device to complete the training; interactive exercises, so learners will find the training truly engaging; and a scenario-driven quiz to test your learner's ability to recall what they learned.

Create a virtual reality eLearning project that learners can view on their computer screen, mobile device, or VR headset. In this session, learn how to create, publish, and view a virtual reality project. Make your project interactive by adding hotspots - with audio, additional images, text, and quizzes. You will also learn about 360 - including how to get started with 360 photography.

Much of what needs to happen when you build soft skill training needs to occur before you start to build in Adobe Captivate. In this workshop, we will review the front-end planning around establishing the goals of your course, determine how you will assess the "mushiness" of soft skill learning, and once both are in place, consider the eLearning activities we might build to accomplish the goal. Next, we'll sketch out the flowchart of a template that will help us structure the content and provide learners practice opportunities. Finally, we will jump into Adobe Captivate to visualize the structure and consider how we might implement this training.

Learners get bored with un-real, irrelevant, and boring eLearning. Micro-Scenarios make a big difference; they provide real-life experiences so the learners are put in real-work conditions with real consequences and benefits. In this session, you will learn the essential steps in creating powerful scenarios. Learn how to convert your linear and boring content into engaging learning experiences, and see the fundamentals of using Adobe Captivate (2019 release) in creating scenarios. Attend the session and get three source files for Adobe Captivate (2019 release) scenarios.

Learn how to use Adobe Captivate 2019 to create a fully immersive video-based training module. We'll review new features including adding YouTube videos to Adobe Captivate, inserting questions and knowledge checks during the video playback, and inserting bookmarks to the timeline to aid learner remediation. You'll also find out how to leverage your webcam to create a personalized video experience and other Adobe Captivate video tips and tricks.

During this fast-paced session, you will learn how to use Adobe Captivate's best-in-class screen recording features to create both a highly interactive software simulation and video demonstration.

Creating stunning graphics for your learning is easy - if you know how. This is common for most things in our field; it also applies to creating stunning graphics using Adobe Photoshop. Don't settle for "good enough" with the images used in your learning. Learn how to make good images great! In this dynamic session, see several hidden features in Adobe Photoshop that will make your graphics look professional and memorable. You'll learn things like when to use a JPEG versus a PNG and understanding graphic formats. Learn now to make simple fixes to flawed images and how to make pictures from a cell phone look brilliant.

The second part of this hands-on workshop will continue in making stunning images. We will explore what you can do with images by blending them and creating a panorama. You will also explore some of the features in making 3D models within Photoshop that can be used in your courses. We will take a 2D logo and make it into a 3D model as well as 3D text to a 2D image. We will also look at simulating a 3D image using shading, gradient fills, and filters. This session will give you the skills to unleash your creativity to design your own stunning graphics.

Audio is a critical, yet often overlooked aspect of eLearning development. Bad audio can simply ruin an otherwise perfect eLearning module. In this session, learn tips and tricks fir using text-to-speech for generating the narration of Adobe Captivate slides. If you choose to record a real narrator instead, this session will show you how to use Adobe Audition to record, edit, and produce crystal clear audio files. At the end of this session you will have learned tips, tricks, and best practices for producing the best possible audio for your next Adobe Captivate module.

In this session, learn the foundations of using Adobe Illustrator to create and modify vector graphics. We'll focus on the basic tasks common to L&D situations that will help you produce aesthetically pleasing, professional graphics to use in learning materials. This will set the stage for you, giving you the skills to use and edit vector graphics in your own work, and to continue learning and practicing with Adobe Illustrator on your own.

Sometimes just getting started is the hardest part. Join Shelly Olmstead as she shares some candid observations and experiences of starting an eLearning program from scratch. From her experience at IES Communications, Shelly reveals ideas, tips and best practices that can help navigate roadblocks and prepare for a successful program launch.

Now that you have an LMS, what do you do with it? Learn how Domino's Pizza is consulting with their franchisees on what it takes to make their LMS work for them. Domino's spends time helping their franchisees understand what goes into creating content, the timelines around it, and helping them understand that an LMS can be more than just a source for compliance training. Join them to discover how this consulting approach is paying big dividends.

Engagement is one of the most common demands for L&D professionals struggling to get more buy-in from an ever-busier workforce. There are hundreds of tactics and strategies that are credited with enhancing engagement, but which of them really have the potential to work? In this session, we'll explore three engagement enhancement options and discuss their potential to enhance the learning culture within your organization. This session goes beyond theory and focuses on what gamification, user-generated content, and social learning LMS features can do for your training program.

Publicis Groupe will discuss how Adobe's learning technology is enabling their transition towards an AI-powered platform interface, known as Marcel. Publicis' vision is to connect 80,000 employees across multiple locations, using multiple languages, with pervasive and adaptable learning. The Publicis team will demonstrate the embedded player feature, and how they are using the capability as a stepping stone towards providing decentralized, yet trackable, learning programs. Additionally, the Publicis Team will demonstrate their use of custom Tableau Dashboards and provide a view towards their data-infused, learning future.

The terms "virtual training" and "webinar" are NOT synonymous! During this session, follow the journey of developing and facilitating a virtual training that never leaves your participants scrolling through emails. See how a virtual classroom built in Adobe Connect, combined with a fantastic virtual facilitator/producer, can make your participants believers that virtual training doesn't "suck"!

Delivering training in-person can be a very different experience from delivering training in a virtual classroom, but what happens when you need to do both simultaneously? During this session, hear how Learning Tree, a leading provider of management and IT training, designs and develops courses for hybrid delivery to create experiences for students that work both in the physical and virtual classroom.

During this session, go beyond the basics and learn about some of the more intermediate to advanced features of Adobe Connect, like leveraging layouts and breakout rooms to improve engagement and make facilitation a breeze. We'll cover key layout functions, including content swaps, working with backgrounds, 'Prepare Mode', and more. Gain valuable tips on how to manage virtual breakout rooms to turn large groups into smaller collaboration sessions, and how you can easily manage the audio, content, and report-out aspects of the breakout room feature. Get the skills to take your Adobe Connect from basic to expert.

Creating a great virtual classroom takes thoughtful design and iteration. It's not about the technology but rather how the technology can be used to serve the goal of creating learning experiences that are interactive and engaging as well as consistent. Join members of the Adobe Connect team for some tips on using room layouts, templates, custom pods, and power features to create engaging learning experiences.