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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

Responsive capture

Responsive Projects were first introduced in Adobe Captivate 8. They allow you to adapt the content and the layout of your Captivate project for different device sizes.

When it comes to screen capture, the Responsive Projects allow you to capture static screenshots and to pan to the relevant area which contains the Highlight Box or Click Box. The exact procedure is as follows:

  1. Restart AME to reset the user interface.
  2. Delete all the .mp4 files present in the videos/MOV folder of the exercise.
  3. Return to Captivate and close any open files so that you see the Welcome screen.
  4. Double-click the Responsive Project thumbnail on the New tab of the Welcome screen. You can also use the File | New Project | Responsive Project menu item.

This action creates a new Responsive Project. For this first experiment with the Responsive Projects, you will use the default settings of Captivate. At the top of the stage, you should see the Layout Preview bar, which gives a quick preview of...