Book description
Create responsive eLearning content, including quizzes, demonstrations, simulations and Virtual Reality projects that fit on any device with Adobe Captivate 2019
Key Features
- Build responsive, interactive and highly engaging learning content with Adobe Captivate 2019
- Build Virtual Reality eLearning experiences with Adobe Captivate 2019
- Assess your student knowledge with interactive and random quizzes
- Seamlessly integrate your eLearning content with any SCORM or xAPI compliant LMS
Book Description
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!
What you will learn
- Learn how to use the objects in Captivate to build professional eLearning content
- Enhance your projects by adding interactivity, animations, and more
- Add multimedia elements, such as audio and video, to create engaging learning experiences
- Use themes to craft a unique visual experience
- Use question slides to create SCORM-compliant quizzes that integrate seamlessly with your LMS
- Make your content fit any device with responsive features of Captivate
- Create immersive 360B0; experiences with Virtual Reality projects of Captivate 2019
- Integrate Captivate with other applications (such as PowerPoint and Photoshop) to establish a professional eLearning production workflow
- Publish your project in a wide variety of formats including HTML5 and Flash
Who this book is for
If you are a teacher, instructional designer, eLearning developer, or human resources manager who wants to implement eLearning, then this book is for you. A basic knowledge of your OS is all it takes to create the next generation of responsive eLearning content.
Publisher resources
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Foreword
- Contributors
- Preface
-
Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019
- Getting Captivate
- A first look at a typical production workflow
- Exploring the Captivate interface
- Joining the Captivate community
- Exploring the sample applications
- Summary
- Meet the community
- Working with Standard Objects
- Working with Multimedia
-
Working with the Timeline and Other Useful Tools
- Working with the Library
- Laying out the objects on the slides
- Working with the Filmstrip
- Working with the Timeline
- Working with effects
- Summary
- Meet the community
-
Developing Interactivity
- Working with Buttons
- Working with Text Entry Boxes
- Working with multi-state objects
- Working with Drag and Drop interactions
- Working with Interactive Video
- Working with Learning Interactions
- Using the Rollover objects
- Summary
- Meet the community
- Crafting the Graphical Experience with Styles and Themes
-
Working with Quizzes
- Introducing the Quiz
-
Creating Question Slides
- Inserting the first Question Slide
- Using the Multiple Choice question
- Importing Question Slides from a GIFT file
- Importing Question Slides from a CSV file
- Working with Matching questions
- Working with Short Answer questions
- Working with True/False questions
- Adding the remaining Question Slides
- Working with the Fill-in-The-Blank question
- Working with Hotspot questions
- Working with Sequence questions
- Creating surveys with Likert questions
- Previewing the Quiz
- Understanding Pretests
- Exploring the Quiz Preferences
- Working with Question Pools
- Styling the elements of the Question Slides
- Reporting scores to an LMS
- Working with Knowledge Check Slides
- Summary
- Meet the community
-
Capturing Onscreen Action
- Choosing the right resolution for the project
- Recording the first project
- The inner workings of the Captivate capture engine
- Controlling Captivate during the recording session
- Exploring the Preferences
- Recording the other versions of the project
- Recording with System Audio
- Automatic and Manual Panning
- Responsive capture
- Rescaling a project
- Modifying the object properties
- Summary
- Meet the community
-
Producing a Video Demo
- The Video Demo recording mode
- The Video Demo interface
- The post-production phase of a Video Demo
- Publishing a Video Demo
- Summary
- Meet the community
-
Creating a Responsive Project
- Responsive Projects
- Fluid Boxes
- Exploring the possibilities
- Converting a non-responsive project to responsive
- Switching to Breakpoint Mode
- Summary
- Meet the community
- Creating Virtual Reality Projects
-
Using Captivate with Other Applications
- Integrating Captivate with PowerPoint
- Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
- Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
- Editing audio with Adobe Audition
- Editing SVGs with Adobe Illustrator
- Exporting the project to XML
- Summary
- Meet the community
- Creating Accessible eLearning
-
Variables and Advanced Actions
- Working with Variables
- Working with Advanced Actions
- Geolocation in Adobe Captivate
- Working with JavaScript in Adobe Captivate
- Summary
- Meet the community
-
Finishing Touches and Publishing
- Finishing touches
-
Publishing a Captivate project
- Publishing to Flash
- Using the Scalable HTML content option
- Publishing to HTML5
- Publishing a Responsive Project
- Publishing a Virtual Reality project
- Publishing an eLearning-enabled project
- Working with the MultiSCO packager
- Publishing to PDF
- Publishing as a standalone application
- Publishing as a .mp4 video file
- Publishing to Microsoft Word
- Publishing for devices
- Summary
- Meet the community
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 - Fifth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789803051
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