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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

Applying the same Skin to other projects

To create a Skin for the Encoder simulation, you started from the Theme Default Skin and customized it. In this section, you will make the current Skin the Theme Default Skin, save the Theme, and apply it to other projects using the following steps:

  1. While still in the encoderSim_800.cptx file, use the Project | Skin Editor menu item to reopen the floating Skin Editor pane.

The Skin drop-down indicates that the Theme Default (Modified) Skin is currently in use.

  1. Next to the Skin drop-down list, click the Save As icon.
  2. In the Save As box that pops up, leave the Theme Default name as it is and click OK.
  3. Confirm that you want to replace the existing Theme Default Skin with a new one.
  4. Close the floating Skin Editor pane.

The new Skin is now saved as the Default Skin of the applied Theme. You will now save the Theme in a new file and apply that theme to the Encoder demonstration.

  1. Use the Theme | Save Theme As menu item to save the current theme as...