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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

Drawing a simple Smart Shape

You will now draw a simple rounded rectangle Smart Shape via the following steps:

  1. Make sure that you are on the newly-created slide 2.
  2. Click the Shapes icon on the toolbar. Take some time to examine the list of available shapes.
  3. Click the rounded rectangle shape in the Basic section of the list of shapes.
  4. Click and drag your mouse on the stage to draw a rounded rectangle shape in the top-right corner of the content area of the slide. Resize and move the shape as necessary.

In the top-left corner of the shape, you'll see a yellow handle in addition to the eight white handles that surround the shape. This yellow handle is one of the features that make a Smart Shape...smart. It is used to modify the shape. In this case, the yellow handle will adjust the roundness of the rectangle. Other Smart Shapes might display multiple yellow handles, allowing you to customize multiple aspects of the selected shape. The number of yellow handles actually depends on...