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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

Applying a theme to an existing project

When you install Captivate, predefined themes are installed along with the application. You will now apply one of these themes to your new project and explore what a Theme is made of:

  1. Still in your new blank project, click the Themes icon on the Toolbar.

As shown in the following screenshot, the Themes icon lists the available themes. Looking at this list, you also learn that the theme that's currently applied is the Pearl theme, as indicated by the frame around its thumbnail (see the arrow in the following screenshot):

Choosing the default theme
In the preceding screenshot, also notice the checkmark in the bottom-left corner of the Pearl theme. This checkmark indicates that the Pearl theme is the default theme that's applied to every new project. To choose another theme as the default, right-click a Theme and choose the Set as Default Theme menu item.
  1. Click any thumbnail to apply the corresponding theme to the current project.
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