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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 - Fourth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

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)

Adding Closed Captions for slide narration

You have done a good job so far to make your course accessible. So don't forget to give yourself a pat on your back!

The last thing you need to ensure is to have Closed Captions for the slides with narration. Closed Captions make your eLearning content more accessible and more interesting for the learners. There are many situations where the Closed Captions are useful:

  • They make your Captivate projects accessible for hearing impaired students.
  • They make the project easier to understand for foreign students.
  • They are useful for the learners that have to take the online course in an office and don't want to bother their colleagues with the voice-over narrations.

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

In Captivate, Closed Captions...