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The newly formed Davao City Philippines Acrobat User Group is claiming to have the youngest active member in an Acrobat User Group. Here in this photo four-year old Sky Cubos demonstrates how to conquer villains in a complex maze.

Sky Cubos

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Later in the last Davao AUG meeting, young Sky got more serious when he assisted his father Chris Cubos, Davao Chapter Leader, in a demonstration on Adobe Flex.

Chapter Leader Chris Cubos and Sky

Asked what he hopes to learn at the AUG meetings, Sky told us he was looking forward to seeing more integration of Adobe Flash and PDF and Flex-based Adobe AIR Applications.

The new PDF Packages feature in Adobe Acrobat 8 is ideal for instructors and trainers to create content complete with an examination form. In this example I created a custom cover page for the PDF Package that is used for some instructor and couse information. The form fields contain class meeting hours, instructor office hours, a couse description and similar data.

The main document is a learning module with reading and recommended resources. Navigational buttons are contained on the document for easy browsing. When a student finishes reading over the learning module a simple button click opens the thrid file in the PDF Package. This file is a form enabled with Adobe Reader usage rights. The student completes the exam in the free Adobe Reader software and clicks the Submit button to send the exam back to the instructor. Since the form is a single PDF document, only the exam results are returned to the instructor.

Take a look at the video to see some possibilities for creating courseware using Adobe Acrobat Professional and some of the new features in Acrobat 8.

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This blog thread is designed for educational administrators and faculty who want to learn more about Acrobat and PDF in education. To kick off this thread, I added a little demonstration file created in Adobe Captivate illustrating how one might use both Captivate and Acrobat for courseware.

The example file is a demonstration for how a faculty member might use Adobe Captivate to instruct students on how to use a PDF file enabled with Adobe Reader usage rights for a lesson in basic Russian. Because Acrobat supports rich media it’s a perfect tool for a language lesson where an instructor’s audio can be heard; and with the PDF enabled with Reader usage rights, the students can record audio responses, take a test, and email the PDF back to the instructor.

To see this example, click the link below.

Russian 101A

The PDF file (6.1MB) used in the demonstration can be downloaded by clicking the link below.

Russian 101A PDF File

Anyone in education or training who has thoughts, ideas, questions, etc. about Acrobat PDF or Adobe Captivate please add your comments and suggestions.