Tables, Tables & Tables
Dec 22, 2014
Dear Friends,
I am Accounts Professor and trying to make Accounting elearning courses. It is going to be my first elearning course.
I learned Captivate 8. Since last 1 month daily around 3-4 hours I am spending on Captivate and learned it. Completed successfully my first session of 1.5 hours.
It was easy and fun and loved it. But when 2nd session started which involves Profit & Loss Account and Balance Sheet and I shocked to see that there is no tables facilities in Captivate 8. And without tables I don't know how to work in Accounting lessons ;'(
I asked my one friend and he told me to prepare course in Power Point and then use Camtesia for software simulation. I started making things in Power Point and even though Power Point is making tables wonderfully (fact is I use excel to make balance sheet and P/L A/c and then copied it to Power Point) the problem which I faced is that "i don't know t how to animate individual Rows / Columns or Cell". This is wonderful in case of Captivate since I can timing each number but its not possible in Captivate :'(
I then tried to copy powerpoint tables to captivate, but captivate don't allow paste from Microsoft Product, grrrrrrrrrr
While searching something different, today I came across Articulate. It has 2 product "Articulate Story Line 2" and "Articulate Studio"
Am confuse again. As far as I understand Articulate SL don't offer Tables facilities. And studio work with Power Point.
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE GUIDE ME THE RIGHT PATH - AM TIRED WORKING ON CAPTIVATE AND POWER POINT.
What I want is tables with Timing or good animation facility. All other things are standard which i can get in captivate or in power point. Does Articulate SL or studio will help me.
Right now I am downloading both Articulate software. Which one shall I use or both will not help me :'(
5 Replies
Hi Hussain,
Could you be more specific about what it is exactly that you'd like to show using tables? If you'd just like to do a screencast (record your screen) you can do that using either Storyline or Replay.
If you'd like the learners to be able to go in and actually complete the table, you could achieve that in several different ways using Storyline:
1. Record your screen and insert it as step-by-step slides in "Try" mode. See this article to learn how.
2. Create your own interactive tables using shapes. See this article to learn how.
I hope that helps!
Allison
Hello Allison
Thanks for the reply,
I am working on Accounts lectures. I have around 200 questions and I need to write solutions for all. All questions are based on tables only.
Attaching herewith 4 files. first two tables done in PowerPoint and that I want to animate as per need (specially timings)
3rd and 4th file is screenshot of tables I prepared using adobe captivate and each table took me around 2-3 hours to complete :'(
I check the interactive tables prepared in articulate. but for 200 questions there will be around 300-500 tables will take lots of time in either captivate or Articulate. So I prepare powerpoint tables which I can work either in powerpoint or even in Excel.
instead of jpg, attaching herewith word file with all four tables screenshot.
Thanks
Hi Hussain,
I did a quick search on google, and stumbled across this article that explains how to animate tables in PowerPoint. I tried it out, and it seems to work. If you did that, you could then use Articulate Presenter to animate and publish your project.
I hope that works for you! That is a lot of tables to animate.
Best of luck,
Allison
Thanks Allisson, I saw that method yesterday and tried. it's really painful :'(
Thinking of changing method. Am going to record one lecture of mine using Video Camera and than I check the result.
I just don't understand why these software don't support tables. Any how, thanks for the support.
I'm so sorry to hear you're having such a hard time. If you think it is a feature we should add, try submitting a feature request.
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