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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

Creating a custom Geolocation variable

Now that you have a way to detect the user's location, you will create a new User Variable in which you will store the geolocation coordinates of Belgium. At runtime, you will compare the cpInfoGeolocation System Variable, to your custom Belgium variable. If you detect that the learner is in Belgium, you should display the slide that you inserted in the project earlier in this section. Use the following steps to create a custom Belgium variable:

  1. Still in the Variables dialog of the takeTheTrain.cptx file, use the Type dropdown to return to the User Variables.
  2. Click the Add New button to create a new User Variable.
  3. Type v_locationBelgium in the Name field.
  4. Select the Geolocation checkbox below the Unused Items button.

By selecting this checkbox, you are telling Captivate that you want to create a custom Geolocation variable. The difference between a Geolocation variable and a standard variable lies in the way you express the value...