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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

Adding Closed Captions to the slides


Closed Captions make our eLearning content more accessible and more interesting for the learners. There are many situations where the Closed Captions are useful:

  • They make our Captivate projects accessible for the hearing impaired students.

  • They make the project easier to understand for the foreign students.

  • They are useful for the learners who have to take the online course in an office and don't want to bother their colleagues with the voice-over narrations.

For the previous reasons (plus the ones not listed here), it is a good idea to use Closed Captions each time we add voice-over narration to a slide.

In Captivate, Closed Captions are always associated with a slide level audio clip or with a Multi-Slide Synchronized Video inserted with the Video | Insert Video feature.

As for the Text-to-Speech narration, the text of the Closed Captions is found in the Slide Notes Panel.

In the following exercise, we will add Closed Captions to the Encoder Demonstration...