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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Damien Bruyndonckx
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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

Adding Hotspots

Hotspots are special objects that can be added to 360 slides only. They are used to add interactivity to 360 slides. You can use them to display text, play some audio, or display an image. You can also use them to navigate to other slides inside your project. You will now add Hotspots to the second slide of your project, using the following steps:

  1. Go to slide 2 and turn your attention to the Properties inspector.
  2. Under the Style tab, click the trash can icon to remove the current 360 image from the slide background.
  3. Click the Add 360 Image / Video button located at the center of the slide.
  1. In the Select 360 degree Image/Video dialog, select the  Living Room.jpeg image and click OK. Since this image is already present in the Library (it is used as the background image of slide 1), there is no need to import it again.
  2. Click and drag the mouse on the image to move the sofa to the center of the slide.

You will now add a first interactive...