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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 Themes

A Theme is a file that collects all the formatting properties of a project, including (but not limited to) Object Styles. Captivate comes installed with a handful of ready-to-use themes. To have a better idea of what a Theme is, we will start with some simple experiments using the predefined Themes of Captivate:

  1. Save and close every open file.
  2. Use the File | New Project | Blank Project menu item to create a new blank project.
  3. In the New Blank Project dialog, use the Select drop-down menu to choose a size of 1024 x 627. When you are done, click the OK button.

Captivate creates a new blank project of the chosen size. When a new project is created this way, a single slide is automatically added to the Filmstrip. This new slide is already formatted.

Creating a Blank project from the Welcome screen
To create a new blank project, you can also use the New tab of the Welcome screen. In such cases, you must choose the size of the new project in the bottom left corner...