Captivate: The New Robodemo

Want to learn more about the new and improved Robodemo e-learning tool? The old Robodemo has been re-packaged and upgraded by its new license owner - - Macromedia - - into a product called Captivate. There is an interesting case study on training challenges at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV) and how the university uses Captivate to train faculty. “Captivate makes it very easy to build interactive demos and tutorials,” says Sam McCool, a web instructional design specialist at UNLV’s Teaching and Learning Center (TLC). “You can quickly capture not just screen shots, as well as sequences of online activities—the mouse movement, rollovers, any kind of information that comes up on the computer screen. The result looks like a movie—and not just like a series of screen shots.”