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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

Final Changes


With the completion of Chapter 5, Working with Audio, we can consider that the slides of our Encoder Demonstration project are all final. There are, however, a few more things to do before the movie can be published. In this section, we will discuss these Final Changes one by one.

Checking the spelling

Checking the spelling is probably one of the most fundamental Final Changes. After all, we are supposed to be teachers, and teachers know how to write with no mistakes! The Spell Checker of Captivate works like any other Spell Checker found in many other text authoring applications.

In Captivate 6, the Spell Checker has the ability to check the text typed in various locations throughout the project. This includes the text typed in the Text Captions, in the Slide Notes, in the Text Animations, in the Buttons, and in the Table of Contents.

Before we use the Spell Checker, we will take a quick look at its options using the following steps:

  1. 1. Open the Preferences of Captivate by using...