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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

Creating a SCORM package from the Video Demo project

A Video Demo is a project that uses the .cpvc file extension. As discussed earlier in Chapter 9, Producing a Video Demo, such a project can only be published as an .mp4 video file. The publishing options that are available for a Video Demo project do not allow for the creation of a SCORM package. But there is a trick! In the next exercise, you will import a .cpvc Video Demo project inside a standard Captivate project and publish it as a SCORM package using the following steps:

  1. Return to Captivate and close every open file.
  2. Use the File | New Project | Blank Project menu item to create a new Blank Captivate project.
  3. In the New Blank Project dialog, select the size of 1280 x 720 and click OK.

Captivate creates a new project that is 1280 pixels in width and 720 pixels in height. The next step is to insert the Video Demo CPVC project inside this new project.

  1. Use the Insert | CPVC Slide menu item to insert the Video Demo into the current...