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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

Exploring Start and End preferences

The next final touch you will focus on lets you decide how the course should start and how it should end. This is very important for fine-tuning a student's experience and to optimize the performance of the project when viewed over the internet.

In the following exercise, you will explore the available Start and End preferences by using the following steps:

  1. If needed, return to the Chapter15/encoderDemo_800.cptx file.
  2. Use the Edit | Preferences (Windows) menu item or Adobe Captivate | Preferences (Mac) menu item to open the Preferences dialog.
  3. On the left-hand side of the Preferences dialog, select the Start and End category in the Project section.

The preferences pertaining to the Project section of the Preferences dialog are specific to the current project only. Your screen should now display the dialog that's shown in the following screenshot:

The Start and End preference page is divided into two sections. At the top of the page is Project...