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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 quiz questions

Now that you have a good idea of how to add Hotspots and associate actions with them, let's take a step forward. In this section, you will use Hotspots to display quiz questions in the 3D environment of your VR project. This allows you to create highly engaging and immersive eLearning content. Use the following steps to add an extra Hotspot and associate a Question slide to it:

  1. Click and drag the 360 background image to the right to bring the kitchen area into focus.
  2. Go to the Toolbar and click Hotspots.
  3. Select the question mark hotspot from the second row (Note that you can associate Question slides with any Hotspot; just pick the one that is best suited for the situation).
  4. Click and drag the Question Hotspot to place it below the kitchen chimney.
  5. With the Hotspot still selected, click the Add Questions button in the Properties inspector.

This opens the Insert Questions dialog. Notice that, at the time of writing, only Multiple Choice and True...