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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 placeholders

The Title Master Slide you just applied to the first slide of the project contains many objects. Some of these objects, such as the blue circle on the right edge of the slide, the blue lines stretching across the slide, or the image background, are aesthetic design elements.

Other objects define the placement and formatting of your content. These objects are called Placeholder objects. Your next task is to write some text in the two placeholders present on the slide:

  1. Double-click the title placeholder.
  2. Write Take the train ! in the placeholder.
  3. Double-click the subtitle placeholder.
  4. Write A guide to the best way of moving around in Belgium ! in the placeholder.
  5. Click anywhere on the slide or press the Esc key to validate your new text.

Using Master Slides and placeholders makes it incredibly easy and fast to develop your eLearning content. It also ensures...