Book Image

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

Viewing the presentation in PowerPoint

If PowerPoint is available on your system, take a look at the presentation before converting it into a Captivate project. Perform the following steps to view the presentation in PowerPoint:

  1. Open Microsoft PowerPoint.
  2. When in PowerPoint, open the Chapter12/Presentation.pptx presentation in the exercises files.
  3. Use the Slide Show | From Beginning menu item or hit the F5 shortcut key to start the slideshow.

While viewing the presentation, focus your attention on the following:

  • The presentation has 11 slides.
  • There is a transition between all of the slides in the presentation.
  • The presentation is mainly composed of text and images. Most of it is animated.
  • The presentation also contains smart art, shapes, and a table.
  • Some of the effects used to animate objects in PowerPoint have an equivalent in Captivate, but some do not.
  • Sometimes, a mouse click is needed to go to the next step of the presentation, but sometimes it isn't.
  • Slide 2 of the presentation...