When working on an eLearning project, it is very important to precisely format the various objects present in your projects. Never forget that you are actually teaching your students something. In such a situation, most students will try to make sense of every single formatting anomaly. Inconsistent formatting will most likely mislead and confuse them.
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Consistent formatting in eLearning
In my first eLearning project with Captivate, I used blue Text Captions to explain things to the learners and black Text Captions when I wanted them to do something. After a short while, the learners knew that when seeing a blue Text Caption, they just had to read through the text, and when seeing a black Text Caption, they made themselves ready to do something. Learners have reported that this formatting consistency helped them structure their learning.
A style enables you to save the formatting properties of an object and to reapply them on other objects of the same type. Captivate...