Ross Shafer
Keynote Speaker, 6 – time Emmy Award, TV host, Author, Writer, Comedian
Game Design Workshop: A complete guide to designing fun eLearning games
People learn best when they have fun! This is something teachers and instructors have known for thousands of years, which is why games are one of the oldest and most effective learning strategies known to mankind. Therefore, the ability to develop meaningful eLearning games is a must for all eLearning developers.
In this session, you will cover some of the most common game design elements and learn how to implement them with Adobe Captivate 2019 by building simple eLearning games from scratch. Game design elements covered in this session include
By the end of this workshop, you will have reviewed the tools and techniques you'll need to include the most common game design elements in your own Adobe Captivate 2019 projects.
Quiz and Knowledge Check Workshop: Discover & learn different kinds of assessment options
During this lively hands-on session, you will learn how to take advantage of the most important features of Captivate Quiz and Knowledge Check slides. When should you use them? When should you avoid them? Is there a way to create your own? Can you extend them? In this session, you will practice the following:
Virtual Reality Workshop - Making eLearning Courses Immersive
Virtual Reality is exciting! To your e-learning courses, it is what lemon zest is to key lime pie. It adds that suave layer of interest to our e-learning courses with zero complexity while creating it. If done right, it’s a sure-shot way of turning your courses from routine to memorable. The best part, you can always get it right! In this session, we will walk through:
Introduction to Virtual Reality
Recording/selecting 360 assets
Selecting the VR Device
Add 360° images and videos to VR courses
Add hotspots and quiz questions to VR courses
Create guided and exploratory VR experiences
Use the live device preview option for VR courses
Add 360° slides to other course types
Mobile responsive eLearning Workshop - Create Courses That Work Across Devices
Every day more people want to use their mobile devices for work, education, and entertainment. The demand for eLearning to be available on mobile devices continues to increase. Having the knowledge and skills to design and develop eLearning that works on a wide range of devices and screen sizes is becoming an essential skill for developers. In the future, eLearning design and development jobs will go to those who have these skills. In the competitive job market, you need these skills.
In this workshop, users will learn:eLearning Storyboards Workshop - Writing Effective Storyboards
Storyboarding is a vital step for building your eLearning courses. When created effectively, storyboards will help you define the course flow, make it easy for stakeholders to provide feedback, and smoothen the eLearning course creation process.
Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create a storyboard from start to end. During this workshop, you will learn about the best practices to write slide titles, on-screen text, instructional text, scenarios, interactions, animations, narration script, quiz questions, tech details, visual instructions, and so on. Also, be prepared to share some of your own best practices during this fun and interactive workshop!
Screencast and Application Simulation Workshop - Creating Effective Product Demos
When creating training that shows how to do something in a software or an application, screenshots are useful, but video and simulations are more engaging and contextual! You need an easy way to capture the procedure, step by step.
Join us to learn how to easily record your own awesome screencasts and application simulations!
JavaScript Workshop: Get started with Javascript in eLearning
Visual Design Workshop: Photoshop essentials for eLearning
Visual Design can encompass a wide variety of disciplines. People will often discuss titles like graphic designer, user interface, user experience or even learning experience designer. In this session we will start by taking a holistic approach to visual design and define in more concrete terms what it means for you as an eLearning professional. This presentation will also show several examples that demonstrate solid visual design techniques.
The next part of the workshop is geared to be hands-on. Here we will open Photoshop to learn some of the skills all eLearning creators need to know. You will also learn how to make some of the images discussed in the Visual Design presentation. This segment will explore selecting content, fixing flaws in images, accessing filters, and even working with true 3D within a Photoshop document. You will also be shown how to optimise images to be delivered over the web and displayed on mobile devices. Finally, we will explore some of the newest features in Photoshop that will not only enhance the images you make but significantly save you time.
This complete workshop comes with sample Captivate files, assets used to create images and all the completed images that are taught. This workshop is geared for eLearning professionals of all levels and you’ll learn skills that can be applied immediately.
Multi-Module Branched Course Workshop - Guide to Scenarios and Branching
In this session, Kirsten will cover:
First level branching – The home button and jump to slide
The illusion of branching – Triggering MSO’s
What about responsive design? – what changes in your plan?
Quick Start Projects
Simple Branching and Forced Navigation with Keywords
Intermediate/Advanced Branching with Advanced Actions
Scenarios and Storytelling
Branching and Consequences
Creating Accessible eLearning with Adobe Captivate
During this hands-on session, you will learn how to:
Custom Interactions Workshop - Learn All About Shared and Advanced Actions
In this hands-on workshop you will
Converting PPT & Videos to eLearning Workshop - Transform PPT and Classroom Videos to Interactive Courses
In this Workshop you will learn:
How to enable flipped learning for your sessions
In this session, Renaldo will cover:
Learn to write effective scripts for voice-overs
10+ Hacks with Adobe Captivate & the Creative Cloud
Enhance your eLearning applications, get creative, and improve productivity by combining the power of the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications with Adobe Captivate. This session will explore tips, tricks, and workflow ideas to enhance and spice up your eLearning applications. In this session you will learn:
How to grab students attention in a post-COVID scenario
In this session, Jane will share:
How to create eLearning scenarios
There are traditional instruction types of scenarios and modern living and experience-based scenarios. The first one is about showing pathways to decisions and learning stories, conflicts, and choices, and consequences.
The second one is about solving real-life work problems. The session will help you understand how to design scenarios that are both learning and problem-solving.
Join the session and see demos, examples, and illustrations. Attend the sessions and get for free 7 Captivate 19 sources files for micro-scenarios and thinking tools.
How to do eLearning project management
When you improve your capacity to manage projects, you affect a large part of your life. Our goal for you as you move through your projects has two parts:
How to create performance-based learning objectives
Description: Creating learning objectives are often the most tedious and frustrating part of the instructional design process. Perhaps you have experienced one of the following in your career:
Do any of these quotes sound familiar? If so, this is the session for you. We will discuss why we need learning objectives, better approaches to writing them, and how to use them in your instructional design process. We will also refer to evidence-based research to inform what common learning objective practices should be avoided.
Welcome Address & Chief Guest Address
Keynote Address
Panel Discussion on Drinking Water Supply and Distribution in India
Partner Enablement Excellence with Adobe Captivate Prime
How to set up a customer education program with Adobe Captivate Prime
Developing the capabilities of your current and future workforce
In this session, Ollie Browning and Craig Hamill from Go1 discuss several ways to build scalable upskilling programs to increase your workforce’s current and future performance. They will focus on:
A Tour of Adobe Captivate Prime - Deliver world-class learning experiences
Leverage digital learning as a customer acquisition strategy
Cytiva launched its first customer facing, external course launched in June 2020. One year on, what are the key insights and learnings? We have proven that providing high-quality, easy-to-access, on-demand training is valued by our customers and potential customers. In this presentation, I will expand on these learnings and suggest areas where we can work with Adobe on further enhancements.
Learning Disrupted: prospects, resilience, and new mindsets for reskilling
A practical guide to implement a “Headless LMS” using Adobe Captivate Prime APIs
FirstService Residential University – A fun journey to build your own digital university with Adobe Captivate Prime
Join FirstService Residential on an exclusive story around their migration to Adobe Captivate Prime. Shifting the mindset from a traditional compliance to a learning experience platform, FirstService Residential reimagines learning in a post-pandemic environment.
In this session, you will:
Keynote & what's new with Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Prime & Adobe Connect
Keynote & What's new with Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Prime & Adobe Connect
Five secrets of stellar virtual events
Have you noticed that some online presenters facilitate their sessions with such passion and skill that it’s a pleasure to participate? You wouldn't think of multitasking because they command your attention and engage interest. They masterfully manage the web platform, create a powerful learning experience, keep it "up close and personal," and make it seem as if you are in a collaborative classroom. If you want to shine in the virtual classroom, then join Cynthia Clay, author of Great Webinars: Interactive Learning that is Captivating, Informative, and Fun in this engaging webinar. Learn the five secrets of masterful online training that can help you create stellar experiences for your audience.
Objectives
By the conclusion of this session, you will be able to:
Driving engagement for successful learning and retention
In this session, Bob will cover:
Designing Virtual Experience workshop 1: Designing visually stunning virtual environments
Join us to see what’s possible when you leverage the full range of capabilities in Adobe Connect.
Participants will:
Supporting instructors to use Adobe Connect to teach effectively: Ontario’s experience
Many of the issues that arose during the pandemic - low bandwidth, privacy issues, keeping learners’ attention – Contact North has been assisting instructors overcome for over a decade. As a shared service, Contact North has provided web conference virtual classrooms to Ontario’s colleges, universities, school boards, indigenous institutes and training providers for over 15 years, originally Saba Centra and Adobe Connect since 2018. At the onset of the pandemic, Contact North shifted from supporting a maximum of 400 concurrent users and 50-60 instructors to over 3,000 concurrent users and 500 faculty, overnight. The service we provide Ontario educational institutions includes: scheduling and enrolling students into their sessions, technical support for instructors and students and, perhaps most importantly, instructor training, support and resources by our team of eLearning specialists.
In the shift to more online education, many educational practitioners are struggling to engage their students. Good teachers use visual cues, body language and eye contact to gage whether they are reaching their audience. While webcams can help for smaller classes, many describe the transition to teaching online as going into a classroom with a blindfold on. The advantage of the face-to-face classroom isn’t really about physical proximity, it’s about a controlled environment and sensory feedback.
So how do you create an engaging experience without the tools you have learned to rely upon your whole professional life? Just as someone who loses their sight compensates by exploiting other senses, you discover other techniques that are just as effective as those you lost. Joni Sharkey, Contact North’s e-Learning Specialist, and Charmaine Kissmann, Director of IT at Contact North, will outline Contact North’s approach to training and supporting faculty, instructors and teachers across Ontario to leverage the tools and functionality of Adobe Connect to create truly engaging experiences – with or without the webcam. While Adobe Connect is a powerful platform, the transition from the traditional F2F classroom to teaching online is akin to learning a new language or learning to function after losing one of our five senses. Learning to teach online is more than just learning a new technology, it’s about creating a new paradigm and frame of reference which requires time, training, mentoring and support.
In this workshop we will outline Contact North’s model of web conferencing as a shared service, how we quickly ramped up during the pandemic, the keys to success and some of the challenges, with a particular focus on the support provided to faculty. This session is particularly suited to influencers and thought leaders who are passionate about supporting faculty, instructors and teachers to embrace Adobe Connect as their undiscovered sixth sense to create a truly powerful and engaging learning experience for their students.
Designing live virtual learning experiences to remember: Virtual event using templates
The design of your virtual classroom is the foundation to enabling the facilitator to create a great learning experience for your attendees. In this interactive webinar live online learning specialist Jo Cook is going to explore key design elements to help you with a digital first approach.
Outcomes include:
Designing Virtual Experience workshop 3: Designing collaborative experiences with breakout rooms
Create collaborative activities and team exercises in Adobe Connect.
Participants will:
Virtual Mixology: Combining active and passive tools for maximum learner engagement
This session will show you how to effectively combine active virtual platform tools (like chat and polls) with passive tools (like content sharing and video streaming) to encourage simultaneous interaction from your learners. You’ll also learn when to strategically add the occasional splash of consecutive interaction to balance the blend of both physical and cognitive engagement. You’ll leave this session with a menu of tips, tricks, and creative “mixes” that will quench your learners’ thirst for engaging, interactive virtual learning experiences.
Advancing your virtual facilitation skills
Virtual instructor led training is here to stay! It’s so normal to connect with participants (and family) using an internet connection and a webcam that it has now potentially become …boring. And boring can lead to complacent trainers and disengaged participants! So, what’s next? How can you take your virtual facilitation skills to the next level? What is the next level?
Let’s discover and explore these ideas together and while we’re at it, we will:
