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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

Meet the Community


Lieve Weymeis

Bio

Lieve Weymeis is a civil engineer and professional musician. After eight years of research in shell construction stability (several publications), she started her career as a college lecturer in the Construction and Real Estate departments, teaching several technical courses and Information and Communications Technology (ICT). She is known as a specialist in building site project management, blended learning, and eLearning.

As head of the Construction Department for 10 years, Weymeis introduced new pedagogical methodologies and the use of a Learning Management System. Presently she is researching blended learning, eLearning, and social media. She also develops eLearning courses and offers training in Adobe Photoshop®, InDesign®, Adobe Captivate®, and eLearning Suite software.

As a beta tester for Adobe Captivate, she was invited in 2009 to be a member of its Advisory Board. In 2010, she agreed to serve as a moderator for Adobe Captivate online Help. She...