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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

Experimenting with Themes


Captivate 6 introduces this new feature called Themes. Captivate ships with a few ready-to-use Themes right out of the box. In order to have a better idea of what a Theme is, let's start with some simple experiments using those predefined Themes:

  1. 1. Once in Captivate, use the File | New Project | Blank Project menu item to create a new blank project. You can also use the Blank Project link on the right-hand side of the Welcome screen, if the Welcome screen is visible.

  2. 2. In the New Blank Project dialog, use the Select drop-down menu to choose a size of 800 x 600 for the project. When done, click on the OK button.

Captivate creates a new blank project of the chosen size. A single slide is automatically added to the Filmstrip (1) This slide already contains a bunch of elements. Notice the Themes Panel (2) that spans across the entire width of the stage, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

If the Themes panel is not automatically displayed on the screen, use the...