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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
Book Image

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive, and responsive eLearning content. This book takes you through the production of a few pieces of eLearning content, covering all the project types and workflows of Adobe Captivate. First, you will learn how to create a typical interactive Captivate project. This will give you the opportunity to review all Captivate objects 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 published as an MP4 video. Then, you will approach the advanced responsive features of Captivate to create a project that can be viewed on any device. And finally, you will immerse your learners in a 360o environment by creating Virtual Reality projects of Adobe Captivate. At the end of the book, you will empower your workflow and projects with the newer and most advanced features of the application, including variables, advanced actions, JavaScript, and using Captivate 2019 with other applications. If you want to produce high quality eLearning content using a wide variety of techniques, implement eLearning in your company, enable eLearning on any device, assess the effectiveness of the learning by using extensive Quizzing features, or are simply interested in eLearning, this book has you covered!
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
7
Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions

Workspaces in normal mode

You can return to the normal interface mode using the following steps:

  1. Use the Adobe Captivate | Preferences (macOS) or Edit | Preferences (Windows) menu item to reopen the Preferences dialog of Captivate.
  2. In the General Settings category, deselect the Enable custom workspaces/panel undocking and click OK to validate.
  3. Restart Captivate without saving the changes made to the open project.
  4. When Captivate reopens, double-click the encoderDemo_800 thumbnail to reopen the project.

Confirm that the Properties and Library buttons are back in the top-right corner. This indicates that you are back in normal interface mode.

  1. Click the workspace switcher button at the top right corner of your screen. It should currently read Classic.

In normal interface mode (that is, when the Enable custom workspaces/panel undocking option of the Preferences is not selected), only the Classic workspace can be applied or reset. If you want to use your custom Timing workspace again, you first need to return to Advanced Interface Mode, and then restart Captivate.

Before moving on to the next topic, these are the key points to keep in mind when creating custom workspaces:

  • It is necessary to set Captivate to Advanced Interface Mode to dock and undock panels and create new workspaces.
  • Use the Window | Workspace | New Workspace menu item to save the current panel layout as a new workspace. This menu item is also accessible from the workspace switcher at the top right corner of your screen.
  • Use the Window | Workspace | Manage Workspace menu item to rename or delete your custom workspaces.
  • To update an existing workspace, use the New Workspace command to give the new workspace the same name as the workspace you want to update.
  • The default Classic workspace of Captivate cannot be deleted or renamed.
  • In normal interface mode, only the default Classic workspace is available.