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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

Creating a Theme


In this section, we will return to the drivingInBe.cptx file and create a new Theme. To do it, we will first apply one of the predefined Themes of Captivate 6 to the project. We will then fine-tune all three components of this Theme one by one starting by the Master Slides, then the Styles, then the Skin. Perform the following steps to create a new Theme:

  1. 1. If needed, return to the Chapter08/drivinInBe.cptx file.

  2. 2. Use the Themes | Show/Hide Themes panel to turn the Themes panel on.

    We will use the Blank Theme as a starting point to create our own custom Captivate Theme.

  3. 3. Apply the Blank Theme to the project.

    By applying the Blank Theme to the project, we modify the overall look and feel as well as some of the styles of our project.

  4. 4. Use the Themes | Save Theme As menu item to create a new Theme based on the Blank Theme.

  5. 5. Save the new Theme as Chapter08/MFTC-Theme.cptm.

  6. 6. Acknowledge the successful creation of the new Theme by clicking on the OK button.

Note the file extension...