Learning experience design · Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate L&D Design: First-Week Onboarding
A scenario-based onboarding course that turns a 164-page employee handbook into focused practice, feedback, and assessment.
The challenge
A 164-page employee handbook contains essential information, but asking a new employee to remember every policy is not an effective onboarding strategy. The design challenge was to identify the decisions people need to make during their first week and turn dense source material into a focused, usable learning experience.
The course also needed clear boundaries. It could support orientation and practice without replacing official policy documents, required compliance training, benefits enrollment, or formal acknowledgments.
The learning strategy
The course is organized around six practical outcomes: finding the right support, working reliably, protecting information, communicating professionally, distinguishing reporting responsibilities, and completing a first-week action plan.
The 27-screen structure includes:
- 20 orientation, content, and practice screens
- Six unscored scenario-based practice activities with explanatory feedback
- Six scored final-check questions
- One results experience with review and retry states
- A proposed 25–30 minute completion time, pending learner validation
This structure moves from information to guided decisions and then to independent application rather than treating the handbook as a page-by-page presentation.
From source to storyboard
Each learning objective and scenario was mapped back to the supplied handbook. The storyboard records learner-facing copy, interaction behavior, feedback, production notes, and source references for every screen.
The content strategy deliberately avoids turning detailed legal, benefits, leave, and employment provisions into universal instructions. Where rules depend on role, location, classification, or current policy, learners are directed to the appropriate official source or support role.
Captivate production
The working Adobe Captivate build translates the storyboard into a responsive course with consistent navigation, content slides, knowledge checks, and a final assessment.
Production work includes:
- Building and naming the course screens in Adobe Captivate
- Importing structured multiple-choice questions
- Creating choice-specific feedback and retry behavior
- Configuring the six-question final check
- Setting the proposed completion rule at five correct answers out of six
- Correcting inherited navigation and validating forward progression
- Keeping teacher-specific material optional rather than applying it to every learner
Accessibility and responsible content
The design targets keyboard access, visible focus, meaningful control labels, logical reading order, sufficient contrast, and feedback that does not depend on color. Core content is available as on-screen text, with no required dragging, hovering, timers, or autoplay narration.
The public portfolio treatment does not include the source handbook, internal portal addresses, personal records, or unverified organizational branding. Any public demonstration should use fictional contacts and privacy-safe examples.
Evidence status: The working Captivate v02 HTML5 experience is available through the interactive portfolio course, supported by a complete 27-screen storyboard. Representative learner feedback, assistive-technology review, organizational approval, and LMS tracking validation have not yet been completed and are not claimed.
What this project demonstrates
- Converting dense source material into role-relevant learning decisions
- Writing measurable objectives, scenarios, feedback, and assessment items
- Building a structured Adobe Captivate learning experience
- Applying privacy, accessibility, and source-governance judgment to L&D production
- Distinguishing a portfolio prototype from an approved operational course