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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

By : Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Bruyndonckx
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Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019

3.6 (10)
By: Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, 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)
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Working with Quizzes
14
Variables and Advanced Actions
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Creating a User Variable

First, you will create your own User Variable using the following steps:

  1. Return to the Chapter14/takeTheTrain.cptx file.
  2. Use the Project | Variables menu item to open the Variables dialog.
  3. Make sure that User is selected in the Type dropdown.

Note that Captivate has already generated a few User Variables for you. Two of these variables expose the name and the ID of the student when the course is hosted on an LMS (this data is transmitted from the LMS to your course module using the SCORM, AICC, or xAPI standard).

  1. Click the Add New button to create a new variable.
  2. Type v_name in the Name field.

This is the name of your new Variable. Remember that the name of a variable must comply with a strict set of rules and conventions, which are as follows:

  • A variable name cannot contain any spaces
  • A variable name cannot contain any special characters

In addition to these rules, some names are reserved by ActionScript/JavaScript and cannot be used as the names of your...

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