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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

Inserting the first Question Slide

To get started, you will now insert the first Question Slide in your project by performing the following steps:

  1. Return to the Chapter07/takeTheTrain.cptx project.
  2. Use the Filmstrip panel to go to slide 23. Notice that the project currently contains 24 slides.
  3. Click the Slides | Question Slide icon on the Toolbar. You can also use the Quiz | Question Slide menu item to perform the same action. The Insert Questions dialog opens.

The Insert Questions dialog lists the types of Question Slides available in Captivate. For this first example, you will add a single Multiple Choice question to the project.

  1. In the Insert Questions dialog, select the Multiple Choice checkbox.
  2. Open the Graded drop-down list associated with the Multiple Choice question.

The dropdown provides three options: Graded, Survey, and Pretest:

  • Graded: This type of question has correct and incorrect answers. For example, Does Belgium have an extensive train network? (True/False)...