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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

Reusing Shared Actions across projects

In the previous section, you created a Shared Action and used it three times in the same project. It is also possible to share actions across projects using two different techniques:

  • With regard to the first technique, take a look at the Library panel and notice the Shared Actions section toward the bottom of the panel. In Chapter 4, Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools, you learned how to open the Library of another project in the current project to share assets (including Shared Actions) across projects.
  • The second technique is to use the icons located in the top right corner of the Advanced Actions dialog. Using these icons, you can Import Shared Actions in the project or Export Shared Actions from the project. Captivate uses a file with the .cpaa extension to save a shared action externally:
Shared Advanced Actions is a very powerful and advanced feature of Captivate. If you want to know more about it, consult the official Captivate...