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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

Hiding and showing objects using Advanced Actions

The reason why you created the Shared Action in the previous section is to be able to track which ticket type students have visited. In this section, you will use that information to show the Continue button on slide 13, but only when all three ticket types have been visited at least once. The first step is to hide the Continue button and give it a name:

  1. Use the Filmstrip to go to slide 13 of the Chapter14/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Select the Continue button in the bottom right corner of the slide.
  3. At the top of the Properties inspector, give this Button a meaningful name (for example, btn_continue) and press Enter to confirm.
  4. Use the Timeline panel or the Timing inspector to make sure the Continue button Appears After 0 sec and stays visible for the Rest of the Slide.
  5. Click the eye icon in the topmost section of the Properties inspector to hide this object from the student in the published project.

Make sure the topmost section of the...