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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

Customizing the feedback messages

There are two feedback messages associated with the Drag and Drop interaction: The Success Caption and the Failure Caption (with the currently selected options, only the success caption will ever be displayed). These types of messages can also be associated with other interactive objects, such as Buttons, Click Boxes, Text Entry Boxes, and Quiz slides. Sometimes, a third feedback message (called the Hint caption) can be added, though this is not the case for the Drag and Drop interaction you are currently working with:

  • The Success Caption shows only if the student submits the correct answer or performs the correct action.
  • The Failure Caption shows only if the student submits the wrong answer or performs the wrong action.
  • The Hint Caption shows when the student rolls the mouse over an interactive object (such as a Click Box, a Text Entry Box, or a Button).

In Captivate 2019, these feedback messages are based on the Smart Shape object. It means that they...