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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)

Reporting scores to an LMS

LMS stands for Learning Management System. The help files of Captivate give the following definition for an LMS:

"You can use a learning management system (LMS) to distribute a computer-based tutorial created using Adobe Captivate over the Internet. A learning management system is used to provide, track, and manage web-based training."

An LMS offers many services to both teachers and students involved in eLearning activities. The following list states some of them:

  • An LMS is a website that is able to host your eLearning courses.
  • An LMS maintains a list of teachers and students. Thanks to this listing, an LMS can be used to enroll students in online courses and to define one or more teacher(s) for each course.
  • An LMS is able to enforce the pedagogical decisions of the teacher. For example, the LMS can be programmed to give access to the next...