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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions
Working with Standard Objects

Now that you have a better understanding of the features of Adobe Captivate, it is time to start exploring them in greater detail. In this chapter, you will begin developing the Take the Train project you experimented with in the previous chapter.

You will begin by creating a new blank project and applying a custom theme to it, so the project looks the way you want. Later in the book, you will learn how to create themes, but for now, you will simply apply it to the project so you can concentrate on learning how to work with the Standard Objects of Captivate.

Standard Objects are the fundamental building blocks of every Captivate project. They allow you to enrich your courses with Text Captions, shapes, images, and more.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating a new Captivate file
  • Applying a theme to the newly created file
  • Adding...