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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 Question Pools

A Question Pool is a repository of Question Slides. The idea is to let Captivate randomly choose questions from the pool to create a unique Quiz for each student. You can have as many Question Pools as needed, and each pool can contain an unlimited number of Question Slides.

Perform the following steps to create a Question Pool:

  1. Make sure you are in the Chapter07/takeTheTrain.cptx project.
  2. Use the Quiz | Question Pool Manager menu item to open the Question Pool Manager dialog.

As described in the following screenshot, The Question Pool Manager dialog is divided into two main areas:

  • On the upper-left side of the box is a list of all the Question Pools of the current project. Just above the list of pools, the + and - icons (see 1 in the following screenshot) are used to add or remove Question Pools.
  • The right side of the box shows the list of the Question Slides associated with the pool selected on the right side. The + and - icons (see 2 in the following...