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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

Creating a single course package from multiple SCOs

The publish folder of your exercises should now contain three separate SCORM packages: takeTheTrain_HTML5_SCORM.zip, takeTheTrain_SWF_SCORM.zip (from the Extra Credit section), and encoderVideo.zip, which you created in the previous section. Each of these packages has a unique SCO identifier that's defined in the imsManifest.xml file inside each package.

Using the MultiSCO packager, you will now combine these SCOs into a single SCORM course. At the end of this procedure, you will have a single .zip file containing all three modules. This single .zip file can be uploaded as-is into a SCORM-compliant LMS, such as Moodle.

Perform the following steps to create the SCORM package:

  1. Return to Captivate and use the File | New Project | Multi-SCORM Packager menu item to open the Adobe Multi SCO Packager AIR application.

The Multi SCO Packager application is an external AIR application that is part of your Captivate installation. As shown...