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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

Mastering Adobe Captivate 8

4.7 (3)
By: Damien Bruyndonckx
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Overview of this book

If you are a teacher, instructional designer, eLearning developer, or human resources manager who wants to implement eLearning, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of your OS is all it takes to create the next generation of responsive eLearning content.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
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1. Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 8
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Obtaining Captivate
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The first look at a typical production workflow
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Touring the Captivate interface
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Exploring the sample applications
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Discussing the sample apps scenario
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Summary
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Meet the community
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2. Capturing the Slides
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2. Capturing the Slides
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Choosing the right resolution for the project
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Recording the first project
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The inner working of the Captivate capture engine
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Controlling Captivate during the shooting session
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Exploring the preferences
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Recording the other versions of the project
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Recording with System Audio
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The Video Demo recording mode
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Automatic and manual panning
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Responsive capture
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Rescaling a project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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3. Working with Standard Objects
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3. Working with Standard Objects
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Preparing your work
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Working with the Properties panel
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Exploring the objects of Captivate
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Working with Text Effects
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Summary
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Meet the community
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4. Working with Multimedia
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4. Working with Multimedia
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Editing a Full Motion Recording
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Inserting external animations into the project
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Working with video
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Working with audio
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Adding background music to the entire project
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Adding audio to the slides
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Editing a sound clip in Captivate
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Using the Advanced Audio Management window
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Adding Closed Captions to the slides
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Summary
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Meet the community
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5. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
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5. Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
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Preparing your work
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Working with the Library
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Laying out the objects on the slides
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Working with the Timeline
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Adding effects to objects
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Summary
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Meet the community
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6. Working with Interactive Objects
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6. Working with Interactive Objects
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Preparing your work
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Working with Buttons
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Discovering the Rollover objects
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Working with the Drag and Drop interaction
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Creating a simulation
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Summary
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7. Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
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7. Working with Styles, Master Slides, Themes, and Templates
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Working with the Swatch Manager
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Working with Styles
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Working with Themes
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Creating a custom Theme
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Working with Templates
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Summary
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Meet the community
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8. Producing a Video Demo
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8. Producing a Video Demo
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The Video Demo interface
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The postproduction phase of a Video Demo project
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Publishing a Video Demo project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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9. Creating a Responsive Project
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9. Creating a Responsive Project
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About Responsive Projects
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Setting up a Responsive Project
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Testing a Responsive Project
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Adding content in a Responsive Project
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Sizing and positioning content in a Responsive Project
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Summary
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Meet the community
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10. Working with Quizzes
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10. Working with Quizzes
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Introducing the quiz
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Creating Question Slides
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Previewing the quiz
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Creating a Pretest
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Exploring the Quiz Preferences
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Working with Question Pools
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Styling the elements of the Question Slides
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Reporting scores to an LMS
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Understanding SCORM, AICC, and Tin Can
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Enabling reporting in Captivate
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Summary
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Meet the community
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11. Using Captivate with Other Applications
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11. Using Captivate with Other Applications
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Integrating Captivate with PowerPoint
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Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
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Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
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Editing audio with Adobe Audition
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Exporting to Flash Professional
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Exporting the project to XML
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Summary
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Meet the community
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12. Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
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12. Working with Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets
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Working with variables
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Working with Advanced Actions
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Geolocation in Adobe Captivate
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Working with Smart Learning Interactions
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Summary
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Meet the community
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13. Finishing Touches and Publishing
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13. Finishing Touches and Publishing
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Finishing touches
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Publishing a Captivate project
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Publishing for devices
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Summary
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Meet the community
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Index
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Index

Previewing the quiz

You now have one example of each possible question type in the project. It is now time to experience the quiz hands-on! Since you did not change any of the Quiz Preferences yet, you will live through the default quiz experience. Perform the following steps to preview the quiz:

  1. Use the Filmstrip panel to return to slide 18.

  2. Use the Preview | From this slide icon of the Big Buttons Bar to preview the project from slide 18 to the end.

  3. Go through the entire quiz as a learner would.

  4. When you reach the Quiz Results slide, click on the Review Quiz button.

    The Review Quiz button takes you back to the first slide of the quiz. Use the Forward button of the Playback Controls bar to go through each Question Slide. Note how Captivate shows the right, wrong, incomplete, and expected answers.

    When you get back to the Quiz Results slide, take some time to inspect the information it contains. Pay particular attention to the message written at the end of the slide (Sorry you failed or Congratulations...

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