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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

The Review process at a glance


There are two kinds of individuals and three important steps that make up a traditional review process.

Obviously, the two kinds of individuals are:

  • The Author(s) of the project: That's us! We have created the project, and we are the ones that initiate and manage the reviewing workflow. We know the project by heart, and we have Captivate installed on our computers.

  • The Reviewer(s): These are the ones that will view and comment on our work. Some of them might know about Captivate, but some don't know anything about the technical part of our work (which is exactly what we need to have a fresh and open-minded feedback). Consequently, lots (if not all) of our reviewers do not have Captivate available on their systems.

Now, let's take a look at the reviewing workflow itself. What are the different steps of this process and what are the tools and strategies available in Captivate to leverage each of these steps.

In Captivate, the reviewing process can be summarized...