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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>

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Preface
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Free Chapter
1
Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2017
Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2017
Getting Captivate
A first look at a typical production workflow
Touring the Captivate interface
Join the Captivate community
Exploring the sample applications
Summary
Meet the community
2
Working with Standard Objects
Working with Standard Objects
Creating a new Captivate project
Working with placeholders
Adding slides in a project
Working with the Properties inspector
Exploring the objects of Captivate
Working with Text Effects
Summary
Meet the community
3
Working with Multimedia
Working with Multimedia
Preparing your work
Inserting external animations into the project
Working with video
Working with audio
Summary
Meet the community
4
Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
Working with the Library
Laying out the objects on the slides
Working with the timeline
Working with Effects
Summary
Meet the Community
5
Working with Interactive Objects
Working with Interactive Objects
Working with Buttons
Working with Text Entry Boxes
Working with Click Boxes
Discovering the Rollover objects
Working with multistate objects
Working with the Drag and Drop interaction
Working with Learning Interactions
Summary
Meet the community
6
Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes
Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes
Working with the Swatch Manager
Working with Styles
Working with fonts
Working with Themes
Creating a custom Theme
Working with Templates
Summary
Meet the community
7
Working with Quizzes
Working with Quizzes
Introducing the quiz
Creating Question Slides
Previewing the quiz
Understanding Pretests
Exploring the Quiz Preferences
Working with Question Pools
Styling the elements of the Question Slides
Reporting scores to an LMS
Working with Knowledge Check Slides
Summary
Meet the community
8
Capturing Onscreen Action
Capturing Onscreen Action
Choosing the right resolution for the project
Recording the first project
The inner working of the Captivate capture engine
Controlling Captivate during the shooting session
Exploring the preferences
Recording the other versions of the project
Recording with System Audio
The Video Demo recording mode
Automatic and manual panning
Responsive capture
Rescaling a project
Modifying the object properties
Summary
Meet the community
9
Producing a Video Demo
Producing a Video Demo
The Video Demo interface
The post-production phase of a Video Demo
Publishing a Video Demo
Summary
Meet the community
10
Creating a Responsive Project
Creating a Responsive Project
Responsive projects
Fluid Boxes
Exploring the possibilities
Converting a Non-responsive project to Responsive
Switching to Breakpoint Mode
Summary
Meet the community
11
Using Captivate with Other Applications
Using Captivate with Other Applications
Integrating Captivate with PowerPoint
Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
Editing audio with Adobe Audition
Editing SVGs with Adobe Illustrator
Exporting the project to XML
Summary
Meet the community
12
Creating Accessible eLearning
Creating Accessible eLearning
Enabling accessibility in Captivate projects
Adding accessibility text for slides
Adding accessibility text for objects
Assigning keyboard shortcuts
Setting the tab order
Adding Closed Captions for slide narration
Summary
Meet the community
13
Working with Variables and Advanced Actions
Working with Variables and Advanced Actions
Working with Variables
Working with Advanced Actions
Geolocation in Adobe Captivate
Summary
Meet the community
14
Finishing Touches and Publishing
Finishing Touches and Publishing
Finishing touches
Publishing a Captivate project
Publishing for devices
Summary
Meet the community

Producing a Video Demo

Sometimes, all you need is a good old video file that you can embed into your website or upload to YouTube. In such cases, all you need is a Video Demo project. Video demos are used to create .mp4 video files that the learner experiences from the beginning to the end in a linear fashion. Therefore, the interactivity features of Captivate are not supported in Video Demos.

In this chapter, you will experience the entire Captivate production process using a Video Demo file as an example. First, you will return to the Video Demo you created in Chapter 8, Capturing Onscreen Action. Second, you will turn it into a professional screencast using the features in Captivate. Finally, you will publish it as an .mp4 video file. If you happen to have a YouTube account, you will even upload the video file to YouTube from within Captivate.

In this chapter, you will do the...

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