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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

<p>Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book gives you the expertise you need to reinforce your own professional-quality eLearning course modules.</p> <p>The book takes you through the production of three pieces of eLearning content. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects one by one and uncover the application's main tools. Then, you will use the built-in capture engine of Captivate to create an interactive software simulation and a Video Demo that can be uploaded to your YouTube channel or published as an MP4 video. Finally, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, using Captivate with other applications, and more.</p> <p>This book is an advanced tutorial, containing all the assets required to build its sample projects. Self-exploration is encouraged through extra exercises, experimentation, and external references.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Creating a Responsive Project

In today's ultra-connected world, the majority of your students probably own multiple devices. And, of course, they want to be able to take your eLearning course on all of their devices. They might want to start the course on their desktop computer at work, continue it on their phone while commuting home, and finish it at night on their tablet. In other situations, students might only have a mobile phone available to take the course, and sometimes, the topic being taught only makes sense on a mobile device. To address these needs, you want to deliver your course on multiple screens, which is possible by creating a responsive project in Captivate.

A responsive project is a project that you can optimize for the desktop, the tablet, and the mobile phone. It is like providing several different versions of the course, based on the device size, in...