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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

Exploring the basic objects


Captivate offers more than a dozen objects to enhance the slides of our projects. In this chapter, we will explore five of those objects. We will start with the most basic of them: the Text Caption.

The Text Caption object

The Text Caption is one of the most basic and popular objects of Captivate. It is used in many different situations where we need to display text to the learners. In its most basic form, the Text Caption is just a piece of text that appears and disappears from the screen according to its position on the Timeline.

The Demo auto-recording mode we used during the filming in the previous chapter has already added lots of Text Captions to our slides. Some of these might be just right, but most of them, if not all of them, need some extra work.

Modifying the content of a Text Caption

When working with Text Captions, you can be in either one of two modes.

First, you can consider the Text Caption as an object. In this case, eight white squares appear...