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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

Phil Cowcill

Phil Cowcill started his career in education when he was hired by Canadore College as an Educational Technologist in 1983. In 1984, he joined a unique team that developed Canada's first Interactive Videodisc (IVD). On this project, Phil wore many hats. He created some of the 3,000 graphics, shot and edited video, applied instructional design as he wrote some of the detailed storyboards, and programmed the IVD using a C-style language called MicroNATAL.

Phil worked in a variety of roles at the college. In 1995, he took on a full-time teaching position, becoming the coordinator of the post-graduate Interactive Multimedia program. Here, he worked with non-programming students and taught them how to develop websites and interactive CD-ROM productions. It was during this time that he led his students in building one of the first news websites that had streaming video (1996). In 2011, Phil developed the curriculum and taught Canada's first dedicated mobile application...