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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

Chapter 10. Reviewing a Captivate Project

Despite our great level of professionalism and lots of testing throughout the development phase of the project, we have most probably left lots of mistakes, inconsistencies, and technical bugs behind. These errors must be removed from the project before the final publication. The problem is that we have been working so hard and so long on these projects that we are just not able to see those little details anymore.

By letting reviewers in the project, we bring in fresh eyes and open minds. Most of the time, their feedback is an invaluable asset that helps us take a step back and see what our projects are really capable of in the real world, outside the eLearning studio.

This is not only about going the extra mile. Such a review process is an essential part of any professional project.

In this chapter we will:

  • Discuss the review process in general

  • Initiate a review process by using our own internal server or Acrobat.com

  • Install and use the Captivate Reviewer...