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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

Creating a new Captivate project from a Template

In this section, you will play the role of an eLearning developer who has to use your new Template to develop a new course module for the DiDaXo Company:

  1. Close every open file so that you can see the Captivate Welcome screen.
  2. Use the File | New Project | Project From Template menu item to start creating a new Captivate project based on an existing template.
  3. Navigate to the Chapter06/DiDaXo-Train.cptl Template file you created in the previous section to choose it as the base of a new project.

The new project that opens in Captivate is a copy of the Template you created in the previous section. Note that the new project uses the standard .cptx file extension. Before moving on, you will quickly preview the project.

  1. Use the Preview | Project icon on the Toolbar to preview the entire project.

When the project appears in the Preview pane, note that the Smart Shape Placeholder of the first slide does not appear in the final output. Also...