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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

Preparing your work


Before we get started, we will make Captivate ready by opening the required files and by resetting the Classic workspace to its default appearance using the following steps:

  1. 1. Open Captivate.

  2. 2. Use the File | Open menu to open the Chapter03/encoderDemo_800.cptx file situated in your exercises folder.

  3. 3. Also open the Chapter03/drivingInBe.cptx file situated in your exercises folder.

  4. 4. When both files are open, make sure the Classic workspace is applied.

  5. 5. Use the Window | Workspace | Reset 'Classic' to reset the Classic workspace to its default look.

Note

To ensure maximum accuracy between the files you work with and the exercises as described in this book, make sure you use the files of the Chapter03 folder and not the ones you created in the previous chapter. During the exercises, feel free to experiment with the files. You'll have a fresh set of files to work with at the beginning of each chapter.

Each of the open files has its own tab in the Captivate interface. When...