On 17 June 2019, the Vocational Education Design Team’s (VEDT) Multimedia team (consisting of Jack Dunstan, Nicky Callinan, Claire Tao, Oliver Lorraine-Wedd) attended RMIT’s Adobe XD Awards at the newly re-furnished Capitol Theatre on Swanston street. The following is a podcast by the multimedia team reflecting on the event, the beautiful heritage building and the showcase of student work. Click here to download the podcast […]
Articulate Rise vs Adobe Captivate
Branching scenario Scenario-based learning provides an engaging learning experience. Students get real content and position themselves into the storyline, becoming emotionally engaged with the content. Luckily both Articulate Rise and Adobe Captivate have branching scenario features that help designers and developers build branching scenarios a lot easier. Articulate Rise: Users can choose the character from the character library and scenario background images. Able to set up track completion without a quiz set up. The downside is that all characters are photography-based, and there isn’t an option to upload your own photos/illustrations to use as characters. The limitations of characters, facial expressions, and poses might become a disadvantage for designing branching scenario activities. Captivate: You can choose scenario characters from Captivate assets library, and the royalty-free assets store has over 100 characters to choose from. The character store also includes different visual style characters, e.g. photo-realistic drawings, cartoon illustration characters and cut out photos. Also, you can find the same character in a different pose, photo angle, facial expression, outfit and hairstyle. If you like, you can also upload a specific photo or illustration as the branching scenario character. However, to choose a character, you need to download the image first, […]
