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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 8
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Geolocation in Adobe Captivate


What makes mobile learning so exciting and promising is the unique capabilities of mobile devices. One such capability is called Geolocation, which is the ability to detect where the learner is located while using his mobile device. Many apps take advantage of this ability to provide different content based on the user's location. For example, you can ask your mobile device to look for a restaurant within a 5 miles radius of your current location.

Captivate 8 introduces a way to leverage that power in your eLearning course. You can now access the location of the learner and provide content based on where the learner is located.

Take the Driving in Belgium project, for example. Its target audience is foreigners who want to visit Belgium. In other words, this project is not aimed at Belgian residents. In the next exercise, you will use the new Geolocation capabilities of Captivate 8 to detect the location of the learner taking the course. If you detect that the...