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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

Exporting to Flash Professional


Adobe Flash Professional and Captivate have a lot in common. Both applications are used primarily to generate .swf files that can be played back by the free Flash Player plugin.

That being said, the Flash technology has a lot more to offer than what is actually used by Captivate to produce our eLearning content. On the other end, Adobe Flash Professional is the ultimate Flash authoring tool. By using Adobe Flash Professional, a Flash developer is able to leverage the full power of the Flash technology.

It is possible to export a Captivate project to Flash Professional where a Flash developer is able to tweak our Captivate projects in many ways that are not possible in Captivate.

In the following exercise, we will export our Captivate project to Flash Professional CS5.5 or CS6.

Note

The following exercise requires Flash Professional to be installed on the computer along with Captivate. If you obtained Captivate as part of the eLearning suite, Flash Professional...