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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

Adding Placeholder Slides

The next slide of the Template is where the question slides of the project should be placed. When developing the template, you do not know what question types will be used and what the actual questions will be. You only know that the quiz begins on that slide. To enforce this rule, you will add Placeholder Slides to the Template.

There are two types of Placeholder Slide available:

  • A Recording Slide Placeholder is meant to be replaced by a screenshot-based recording using the techniques you will learn about in Chapter 8, Capturing Onscreen Action.
  • A Question Slide Placeholder is meant to be replaced by a Question Slide. Quizzes and Question Slides will be covered in Chapter 7, Working with Quizzes.

In this case, you need a Question Slide Placeholder. Use the following steps to insert it into the Template:

  1. If needed, use the Filmstrip panel to go to the last slide (slide 4) of the Template.
  2. Use the Insert | Placeholder Slides | Question Slide Placeholder menu...