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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

Creating course instances

To understand course instances, it is necessary to remember that a Captivate Prime course can include both synchronous and asynchronous modules. As a reminder, asynchronous activities are self-paced modules such as videos, online quizzes, PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, and others that learners can review at their convenience, while synchronous activities require learners and instructors to be present together at the same time, either physically in a classroom or lecture hall or online using a video conferencing system.

But there is another major difference between synchronous and asynchronous activities: synchronous activities are time-bound, while asynchronous activities are not.

Let's look at a quick example. Imagine it's early April and you're creating a course that includes a virtual classroom activity scheduled for, say, mid-May. If learners register for the course before the end of April, all is well. But if they register...