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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading solution for authoring E-learning content. With adobe Captivate one can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert SCORM and AICC-compliant quizzes and then, publish your work in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 is a comprehensive guide to creating SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations and quizzes with Adobe Captivate. The sample projects demonstrate each and every feature of Adobe Captivate giving you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professionalquality e-learning courses. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 will guide you through the creation of three e-learning projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. The first part of the book will drive you through the main three steps of the Captivate production process. In the first step, we will use the powerful capture engine of Captivate to generate the needed slides and screenshots. In the second step, we will enhance our slides and screenshots using the objects provided by Captivate. These objects include animations, interactions, videos and more. In the third step, we will make our project available to the outside world by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash PDF, video, and even HTML 5. The second part of the book will focus on the advanced tools of Captivate. These tools include the questions slides that make up a quiz, SCORM and AICC compliance, localization of your e-Learning content and widgets among others. In the last chapter, you we will unleash the true power of Captivate by using the variables and the advanced actions to create a unique e-Learning experience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 6
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, we have imported sound effects on objects, voice-over narration on slides and background music on the entire project.

To produce these audio files, Captivate offers the ability to record our own clips, but we can also import audio clips produced in an external application or convert text typed in the Slide Notes panel to speech using one of the Speech Agents provided by Captivate or already present on the system.

Wherever they are coming from, these audio files make our eLearning content much more interesting, more interactive, and fun to use.

When adding voice-over narration, it is a good idea to add Closed Captions as well. The Closed Captions will greatly enhance the usability and accessibility of the Captivate movie. The same Slide Notes used for Text-to-Speech can also be used to generate the Closed Captions.

With the addition of audio files in our projects, we slowly reach the end of the post-production phase. Our projects are now completely different from the...