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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 6

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading solution for authoring E-learning content. With adobe Captivate one can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert SCORM and AICC-compliant quizzes and then, publish your work in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 is a comprehensive guide to creating SCORM-compliant demonstrations, simulations and quizzes with Adobe Captivate. The sample projects demonstrate each and every feature of Adobe Captivate giving you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professionalquality e-learning courses. Mastering Adobe Captivate 6 will guide you through the creation of three e-learning projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. The first part of the book will drive you through the main three steps of the Captivate production process. In the first step, we will use the powerful capture engine of Captivate to generate the needed slides and screenshots. In the second step, we will enhance our slides and screenshots using the objects provided by Captivate. These objects include animations, interactions, videos and more. In the third step, we will make our project available to the outside world by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash PDF, video, and even HTML 5. The second part of the book will focus on the advanced tools of Captivate. These tools include the questions slides that make up a quiz, SCORM and AICC compliance, localization of your e-Learning content and widgets among others. In the last chapter, you we will unleash the true power of Captivate by using the variables and the advanced actions to create a unique e-Learning experience.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Adobe Captivate 6
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

About the Reviewers

Michael Givens is the CTO of U Saw It Enterprises, a web-technology consulting firm based in Spring, TX. As a multi-years experienced web-technology specialist, he is willing to shift gears at a moment's notice to the Client's technology of choice. He is both an Adobe Community Professional and an Adobe Corporate Champion known to share his experience and evangelism of all things Adobe. He is certified both in ColdFusion 5 and as an advanced CFMX developer. He has written Adobe Apollo in Flight (Digital Short Cut), co-written Adobe AIR Programming Unleashed, written Sams Teach Yourself AIR Programming in 24 Hours, numerous articles, and blogs regularly at www.flexination.info.

Nicole Sell is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) and Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT). She has been training since 2004 across various industries, in multiple countries.

Nicole specializes in eLearning design and development as well as web design and development. She also has a background in working with electronic forms.

Over the years, Nicole has been invited to speak in conferences and user group meetings. She is actively involved in her areas of specialty. She has started and maintained user group meetings to provide knowledge and support in various applications.

Nicole is available for training and consulting. You can contact her from her company's website, www.redvineconsulting.com. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and follow her on Twitter.

Nicole Sell has worked for training centers before starting her own company, Red Vine Consulting. She enjoys training, and consulting, and the ability to work with different people on a variety of different projects.