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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

And action!

The signal is the red Record button at the bottom of the recording window. Once you click it, all your actions are recorded by Captivate until you stop the capture:

If you have a problem while doing this exercise, refer to the Chapter08/final/encoderDemo_1_1024.cptx file of your exercises folder.
  1. Click the red Record button at the bottom of the recording window. After a short countdown, you'll be in the recording mode.
  2. In the Adobe Media Encoder window, perform the actions as written in the scenario you rehearsed earlier in this chapter.

During the recording, pay close attention to the following things:

  • Each time you click, you should hear a camera shutter sound
  • When you type in the Width field, you should hear keystrokes
  • After clicking the Start Queue button, AME displays a progress bar in the bottom right panel
  • When the encoding process is finished, the application plays a brief chimes sound effect and the Start Queue button is greyed out

Also, make sure you perform...