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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

Step 1 Creating the necessary variables

The first step toward creating this advanced interactive sequence is to create the Variables that you will need to track the ticket types that are visited by the students:

  1. Still in the Chapter14/takeTheTrain.cptx file, use the Project | Variables menu item to open the Variables dialog.
  2. At the top of the Variables dialog, click the Add New button.
  3. Type v_standardTicket_visited as the Variable name.
  4. Type 0 as the initial value of the Variable.
  5. Optionally, type a meaningful description into the Description field.
  6. Click the Save button to save the new Variable.
  7. Repeat the preceding process to create the v_pass_visited and v_subscription_visited Variables. Be sure to give the new Variables a value of 0.

Make sure that the Variables dialog looks like the following screenshot before moving on:

Each of these three Variables has an initial value of 0, indicating that the corresponding slides have not yet been viewed by the student. You will...