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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)

Working with Standard Objects

Now that you have a better understanding of the features of Adobe Captivate, it is time to start exploring them one by one in greater detail. In this chapter, you will begin the development of the Take the Train project you experimented with in the previous chapter.

You will begin by creating a new blank project and applying a custom theme to it, so it looks the way you want. Later in the book, you will learn how to create such themes, but for now, you will simply apply it to the project so that you can concentrate on learning the basic standard objects of Captivate.

These objects are the fundamental building blocks of each and every Captivate file. They allow you to enrich your courses with elements such as Text Captions, Shapes, Images, Animations, and more.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Create a new Captivate file
  • Apply...