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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

Extra Credit  Creating a Closed Captions toggle button

In this Extra Credit section, you will create an additional button next to the Mute button you created in the previous sections and develop a Conditional Advanced Action to turn the Closed Captions on and off. The main difference between this button and the Mute button is the System Variable you need to manipulate. In this example, use the cpCmndCC variable to turn Closed Captions on and off. The general steps for this procedure go as follows:

  • Create a Closed Captions button using the images stored in the Chapter14/images folder. Make sure you create a custom Active state for the button and place it next to the Mute button. Don't forget to give this new button a name in the topmost section of the Properties inspector.
  • Use the Timing panel to make the button visible for the whole project on top of any other elements.
  • Use the Project | Variables dialog to read the description of the cpCmndCC system variable.
  • Create...