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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

Working with the Properties inspector

The Properties inspector is one of the most important and most widely used tools in Captivate. In this section, you will study the Properties inspector in more detail. When you first open Adobe Captivate, the Properties inspector is hidden by default. To turn it on, perform the following steps:

  1. Click several times on the Properties icon situated in the top-right corner of the toolbar to toggle the Properties inspector on and off.
  2. Make sure that the Properties inspector is turned off before moving to the next step.
  3. In the Filmstrip, double-click any slide. This also opens the Properties inspector.

In Captivate, double-clicking an object opens the Properties inspector and displays the properties for that object. Double-clicking anywhere on the scrap area around the stage is yet another way to open the Properties inspector.

The Properties and Library icons on the Toolbar are used to toggle the corresponding panels on and off. Make sure the Properties...