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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

Modifying the Overlay Slide

In this section, you will quickly review the workflows allowing you to modify and unlink the Overlay Slide using the following steps:

  1. Return to slide 20 of the Chapter05/takeTheTrain.cptx file and open the Timeline panel if necessary. 
  2. In the Timeline panel, hover the mouse over the Overlay Slide diamond around the 5:00 second mark.

As shown in the following screenshot, this action reveals a popup with the image of the overlay slide:

Notice the two icons in the bottom-right corner of this pop-up window.

  1. Click the first icon (the two rectangles with a + sign).

This action reopens the Overlay dialog allowing you to change the slide used as the Overlay Slide.

  1. Click the Cancel button to close the Overlay dialog.
  2. Back in the dark pop-up window, click the second icon (the icon of a broken link).

This action removes the Overlay slide and the yellow diamond from the Timeline. On the Filmstrip, slide 21 is no longer a sub-slide of slide 20.

  1. Use the Edit...