![]() ![]() ![]() one of the ones you will see most often on job postings. I now have my own personal, fully functional version of one of the “big” e-learning authoring softwares. So was it worth it? Yes, definitely, for me it was. Once I contacted them, the Adobe folks were very helpful and I got the serial number. When I didn’t get anything, I was confused and posted a question about it. Originally, when I saw the post, it said you’d get an email automatically in the quarter after you earned the incentive. Basically, though, the onus is on YOU to contact THEM once you hit whatever level. To save yourself some confusion, read this post from Adobe: Well, if you set up notifications, you will get an automated email telling you that you hit a level like “Guide” but nothing whatsoever about the free three months you have earned. When you read the description for incentives, if you’re like me, you think once you hit a level you will get some kind of email or something with info about your prize. The process for getting it, though, was a bit confusing. Getting my Free adobe captivateįirst of all, I’m very happy to say that I did get my one year license for Captivate which is awesome. Again, I’m not necessarily qualified to say it ISN’T an active and highly engaged community. That’s a problem if the goal of the incentive program is to encourage an active and highly engaged community. I’m just saying that once I hit my point goal, I didn’t feel compelled to go back and keep participating in discussions. Now, to be fair, I’m not on there every day so maybe that isn’t how it is all the time. When there are topics where you could have a meaningful discussion, there doesn’t seem to be much participation. A person or two may chime in with a solution and that’s about it. I also found that most of the discussions revolve around problems people are having so there isn’t a whole lot of back and forth interaction. Generally speaking, I found the whole site confusing to navigate. It’s just not a very intuitive system for asking questions or posting a discussion topic. Once it does post, you get 10 points which is good. It goes into a “pending” status for some kind of approval. And then, once you create a post, it doesn’t actually post. I had a question about the incentive program but there isn’t a category or subcategory for that. There is no “General” category so whatever category I picked really didn’t match what I was asking. You have to pick a Category and then a Subcategory and then a tag or tags. Posting a question, for example, is very confusing and not user friendly. Part of that, though, is the overall set up of the site. The ExperienceĪs I mentioned, going through and liking/commenting on enough things to reach 1000 points was pretty tedious. So, while I don’t necessarily recommend my method for everyone, it did work, which is what I wanted to see. Ideally, you would earn the points organically as you share and comment on various topics and posts. Obviously, the goal of the program is not to encourage a marathon session of “likes” and brief comments. It was a bit tedious, to be honest, but I got my thousand points. I did this over a period of about three days during Thanksgiving break, dedicating a few hours a day. The idea is, the more you participate, the more points you get and points lead to incentives. There are a bunch of others as well which you can see. If you actually write a blog article, you get 100 points. If you post a comment, you get two points. For example, for every post or blog article you “like”, you get a point. ![]() The gist of it is that you get points for taking certain actions. Once you are there, check out the incentives and levels. Basically, you go to and sign in with your Adobe ID (or create one if you don’t have one already). If you watched the video, you already know how it works, but I’ll recap it here in case you didn’t. And free? Now you’re talking my language! After learning about the method Cara mentions, I decided I’d give it a try. $1300 is definitely too rich for my blood. It’s $34 a month for the subscription (where you have to commit to a year) or $1300 for a perpetual license. I’ve been wanting to try the newest version of Captivate (2019 Release) for awhile now. This whole adventure started when I came across this video: which describes how to get Adobe Captivate for free. It was for me which is why I was excited to find out I could get one (Adobe Captivate) for FREE. The software can be pretty expensive, though, which may be prohibitive for many. Ideally, though, you want to have your own copy. If you want to include e-learning samples in your portfolio, you need to have access to e-learning authoring software. ![]()
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