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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

Using the Jump to Bookmark action

Now that you have added bookmarks on the video, it is time to add the last piece of the puzzle and build some interactivity. In this section, you will create four buttons on your slide, one for each of the bookmarks you added in the previous section. These buttons will allow the students to jump back and forth between the bookmarks of the video. Use the following steps to add the first button:

  1. Use the Shapes icon of the Toolbar to draw a rounded rectangle shape on the left side of the video. 
  2. Double-click the newly inserted shape and type 01 Whistle inside of the rounded rectangle.
  3. Hit the Esc key to leave the text editing mode and keep the new shape selected.
  4. Use the Style Name drop-down menu located in the upper section of the Properties inspector to apply the shape_As_Button style to the new rounded rectangle.
  5. Click the Align Left icon of the Properties inspector to align the text to the left side of the button.
  6. Still in the Properties&...