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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate Prime is an enterprise learning management system (LMS) that enables organizations to deliver, manage, and track engaging learning experiences for employees, partners, and customers. This book will help you unlock the full potential of this platform to deliver world-class learning experiences. Complete with walkthroughs, examples, and strategies to fully understand Captivate Prime, this book will set you on the path to becoming an administrator, author, or teacher and see you experiment with Captivate Prime from different perspectives. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of how the features relate to one another and to your business. After setting up the platform, you'll learn how to push learning content online and arrange it to build an online course that provides a blended learning experience. You'll be able to deploy your content to different devices and explore Captivate Prime's features for monitoring your students' progress on a daily basis. Finally, you'll see how to organize and maintain your course catalog and take the learner experience to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to implement your organization’s training strategy and provide engaging learning experiences while building meaningful reports to monitor their effectiveness.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Publishing Learning Content
6
Section 2: Managing and Tracking Students' Learning
13
Section 3: Enhancing the Learner Experience
17
Section 4: Administering the Platform

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Introduction to Adobe Captivate Prime, introduces you to the Adobe Captivate Prime platform and the Adobe eLearning tools ecosystem. It also walks you through activating the Prime trial account you will need to complete the exercises in this book.

Chapter 2, Customize the Look and Feel of Captivate Prime, guides you, now that you have a working Prime trial account, through the basic configuration tasks, including adjusting the look and feel of your account to your organization's branding guidelines.

Chapter 3, Uploading Learning Content and Managing the Content Library, puts you in the role of an author to upload different types of learning content to the Captivate Prime content library.

Chapter 4, Creating Skills and Courses, starts a discussion on the concept of skills and the creation of a skill in your Prime account. Then, you will create a course using the content uploaded to the content library in the previous chapter.

Chapter 5, Managing Users, describes the different ways to define various types of users in your Captivate Prime account, as now that courses are available in your Prime account, you need students. It also describes how to assign users to roles and how to create custom roles.

Chapter 6, Enrolling Learners to Courses, takes you through the creation of course instances, learning programs, and certifications, before showing you how to enroll learners in these learning objects.

Chapter 7, Reviewing the Learner Experience, puts you in the learner role and has you go through the learning experience provided by Captivate Prime. You will learn about the fluidic player as well as the different ways learners can take a course in Captivate Prime LMS.

Chapter 8, Exploring the Instructor Role, explores the instructor role and explains how that role differs from the author role. You will also learn about the Captivate Prime tools that instructors use to manage learning sessions and review learner submissions.

Chapter 9, Configuring and Using Feedback, describes the feedback levels available in Adobe Captivate Prime. It shows you how to set up L1 and L3 feedback, how to set up feedback reminders, and how to provide L3 feedback as a manager.

Chapter 10, Reporting in Captivate Prime, focuses on the advanced reporting features of Adobe Captivate Prime that organizations use to track their Prime account on a day-to-day basis and to leverage the training data generated by the platform.

Chapter 11, Badges and Gamification, takes you through the process of configuring and using badges and other gamification features present in Adobe Captivate Prime.

Chapter 12, Enabling and Managing Social Learning, describes the social platform included in Adobe Captivate Prime. It shows you how to manage Social Learning from the administrator's perspective and how to use it from the learner's perspective.

Chapter 13, AI-Powered Recommendations for Learners, discusses the use of Adobe Sensei (Adobe's own AI technology) to generate personalized course recommendations for learners. You will also discover the tools administrators use to influence the way this AI works in their Prime account.

Chapter 14, Working with Catalogs and Peer Accounts, teaches you how to make courses available to certain audiences only through the use of course catalogs. You will also share your course catalogs with other Prime accounts using the peer account feature.

Chapter 15, Working With Messages and Announcements, describes the Adobe Captivate Prime announcement and messaging system. You will learn how to create masthead and notification announcements, as well as how to customize the email messages sent by Captivate Prime.

Chapter 16, Exploring the Integration Admin Role, focuses on how Captivate Prime can be integrated into the other systems in use within your organization. It walks you through the list of available connectors and helps you make your first steps toward using the Captivate Prime API for custom development and headless deployment.