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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

Activating and using course discussions

When you take a face-to-face course, informal interactions naturally occur between participants (learners and instructors). Breaks and lunchtime are particularly prone to these informal discussions. More often than not, discussions that began during the formal training continue during these breaks, and relevant aspects of the subject matter are often discussed or expanded upon over a coffee, a tea, or a sandwich.

The Captivate Prime equivalent of these informal discussions is the Course Discussion Boards. This type of discussion is related to a specific course and is only available to learners enrolled in that course.

To take a closer look at this feature, it is necessary to log in to your Prime account twice: once as an administrator and once as a learner. Follow these steps to do so:

  1. Open a first browser window and log in to your Prime account as an administrator.
  2. Open a private browser window (or another browser altogether...