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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

Adding Text Labels

After adding 360o images or videos as slide backgrounds for 360 slides, you can add several objects on top of those special slides. In this section, let's add Text Labels to the 360 slides:

  1. Go back to Slide 1. You have already added a 360o image to this slide. 
  2. Click and drag the mouse on the image to rotate the view and stop when you have the main view visible (refer to the next screenshot).
  3. Use the Text | Label icon on the Toolbar. This adds a text label at the center of the slide. Use the Properties inspector to modify the content and the formatting of the Text Label.
  4. With the new Text Label selected, turn your attention to the Properties inspector.
  5. In the Label field, delete the placeholder text and enter Wei’s Apartment.
  6. Change the font style to Verdana and increase the font size to 72 points.
  7. Change the Highlight color to white. The Highlight Color is the background of the Text Label.
  8. Change the...