Did you know that Captivate 8 takes virtually all of the work out of creating responsive online courses?

Of course it is marketing hype, almost the only feature that everyone is shouting about, but I never did see a work flow, or real time experience described in all those blogs. I never write about some features I didn't explore, so I started with those that are also useful for the many companies that are not turning to mobile or BYOD yet, and have talked about those, including limitation and possible improvements.

However, Rod, I don't agree totally with you. There is work taken out of your hand with the Responsive project work flow in Captivate. Responsive themes, smart positioning, resizing of objects, text, repositioning for phone break point, and testing with Edge Inspect are working pretty well, especially for this first implementation in Captivate (do not expect miracles). And from a usability standpoint, you have to reflect indeed on how the concept has to be, and that is different for each device. Such a mindframe takes a lot more than what a newbie playing for one day with Captivate can realize (as proclaim most blog posts), you don't have to persuade me about that. However I don't agree with your statement  'you effectively need to build the same course three times', but so-called 'single-source publishing' has always been a dream that will never be realized IMO, certainly not for eLearning.

I am busy creating a real responsive tutorial (for Captivate) and will try to explain later on what I learned by doing. Only at that moment I will 'write', marketing is certainly not one of my skills

Lieve

We might find some answers in Pooja's Do's and Don't session today :-)

Sreekanth

My answer was not 'totally disagree' as you could see. For those who need responsive projects, it will save time, but not as described by that sentence. You know 'virtually' is always a vague word How close is is to 'really'?

If questioned, Adobe will hide under the word "virtually", which I believe they mean "almost". Now, how much work goes into that word is anybody's guess.

Sreekanth