Enhance Adobe’s fascinating interaction with advanced and shared actions

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In today’s digital learning environment, interaction is more than just a “good” and it’s essential. As a teaching designer, over 16 years of transition from academia, I discovered Adobe Captivate’s Advanced Action and Common actions Become a powerful tool for creating rich, learner-driven experiences. In this post, I will explain how these features work and how to apply them to personalize learning pathways and increase engagement.

What are the advanced actions that Adobe is fascinated by?

Advanced actions enable developers to trigger Custom logic Use a combination of actions and conditions. Think of it as programming without writing code. These actions can:

• Show/hide content based on learner input

• Trigger navigation path

• Control variables for personalized feedback

• Create custom interactions, such as drag-and-drop feedback schemes

example: If a learner answers three questions incorrectly, redirect them to the comment slide and tailored the tips tailored to their own mistakes.

Why use shared actions?

Shared operations are advanced operations that can reuse parameters. You can’t create similar logic repeatedly, but you can:

• Define a set of actions at a time

• Apply them to different slides or objects

• Just fill in unique parameters each time

This makes you More efficient workflow Your project is easier to update or expand.

Practical application

Suppose you are building a branch plan for customer service training:

💡 hint: Combine shared actions with user variables to display learner names, roles, or custom feedback.

Benefits of using these features

• Personalization: Adapt the content to the choices of each learner.

• efficiency: Save time by reusing logic.

• Scalability: Build complex experiences with cleaner structures.

The final thought

If you’re just fascinated by Adobe or transitioning to my instructional design, I highly recommend exploring these features. They’ll really turn basic click isolation learning into Interactive, learner-centered journey.

👉I would love to hear how you can use advanced or shared operations in your project – leave a comment below for free!