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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

Preparing the buttons

The first step is to prepare the necessary buttons. There are several ways to do it in Captivate. Here is one of them:

  1. Use the Filmstrip to go to slide 11 of the Chapter05/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Click the Library icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to open the Library.
  3. In the Images section of the Library, locate the Ticket.png file.
  4. Click the fifth icon of the Library toolbar to see the Properties of the selected image.

Notice the dimensions of the picture are 521 by 320 pixels:

  1. Click the OK button to close the Image Properties dialog.
  2. Use the Shapes icon on the Toolbar to draw a rectangle on the slide. The size and the position of this rectangle do not matter at this time.
  3. With the new rectangle selected, use the Options tab of the Properties panel to give the rectangle a Width of 521 pixels and a Height of 320 pixels (You may need to deselect the Constraint Proportions checkbox).

At this point of the process, you have a rectangle shape on the slide...