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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

Switching to Breakpoint Mode

The responsive eLearning workflow was added to Captivate back in version 8, and the Fluid Boxes workflow was added in version 2017. In Captivate 8 and 9, you could create responsive eLearning courses using the Breakpoint Mode. This approach, based on breakpoints, is still available in the Captivate 2017 and 2019 release:

  • Breakpoints are the different layouts that are designed based on the viewport size of the devices your students use.
  • Viewport size is the visible area (excluding the area covered by the address bar and other menu options) in the device browser.

You can use the Breakpoints approach if you have an older Responsive Project to maintain, or if you feel more at ease with the Breakpoint approach rather than with the Fluid Boxes approach.

Follow these steps to switch to the Breakpoint Mode in Captivate 2019:

  1. Create a new Responsive Project in Captivate 2019.
  2. Click File | Save, navigate to the Chapter 10 folder, and save the file as Breakpoints...