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Getting Started with Adobe Captivate 2019

Welcome to Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019, Fifth Edition. Since its introduction in 2004, Captivate has been the leading solution for authoring interactive eLearning content. In the beginning, it was a very simple screen-capture utility called FlashCam. In 2002, a company named eHelp acquired FlashCam and turned it into a full-fledged eLearning authoring tool called RoboDemo. In 2004, another company called Macromedia acquired eHelp and changed the name of the product once again. Macromedia Captivate was born. A few months later, Adobe acquired Macromedia and, consequently, Macromedia Captivate became Adobe Captivate.

As the years passed, Adobe released Captivate 2, 3, and 4, adding tools, objects, and features along the way. One of the most significant events in the Captivate history took place in July 2010, when Adobe released Captivate 5. For that release, Adobe engineers rewrote the code of the application from the ground up. As a result, Captivate 5 was the first version to be available on both macOS and Windows. Version 6 was another milestone for Captivate as it was the first version to offer an HTML5 publishing option. More recently, version 8 has introduced the ability to create Responsive Projects, as well as a brand new user interface. A Responsive Project allows you, the eLearning developer, to automatically adjust the layout of your Captivate projects to fit the various screen sizes of tablet and smartphone devices. This makes mobile learning a whole lot easier by creating content that looks perfect on any device.

At the time of writing, the latest version of Captivate is Adobe Captivate 2019. This version introduces many new features and enhancements, including the ability to create Interactive Videos and an exciting new project type for creating Virtual Reality training courses. Other new features introduced in Captivate 2019 include the ability to test your content on an actual mobile device (a feature called Live Preview on Devices) the ability to record your webcam and to change the background of your video (something called the Chroma Key effect) as well as other smaller enhancements.

With all this power only one click away, it is easy to overload your projects with lots of complex audiovisual effects and sophisticated interactions that can ultimately drive the learner away from the primary objective of every Captivate course: learning.

While working with Captivate, never forget that Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool. At the most basic level, it simply means that you, the developer, and your audience are united by a very special kind of relationship: a student-teacher relationship. Therefore, from now on–and for the rest of the book–you will not be called the developer or the programmer, but the teacher. The ones who will view your finished applications will not be the users or the visitors, but will be called the learners or the students. You will see that this changes everything.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

Discovering the available options to install Captivate
Seeing the general steps of the Captivate production process
Exploring and customizing the Captivate 2019 interface
Working with panels and workspaces
Viewing the completed sample applications you will work with during the course of this book

Key benefits

Build responsive, interactive and highly engaging eLearning 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

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 360° 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

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Dee Arr Dec 11, 2020

My background is mostly in PowerPoint and a smattering of Camtasia, so when my company approved for me to have this software, I searched for a book to train me and settled on this one.Why did I choose “Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019?” When I was deliberating between this and other books, it was the author’s credentials that sold me. Dr. Pooja Jaisingh has experience putting together eLearning courses and is a senior learning evangelist at Adobe. Who better to teach Adobe Captivate?Dr. Jaisingh does not teach in generalities. This is not a book where it runs through and defines everything and tells us how each button and slider work. There are files to download and she walks you through putting together a training. For those of us with little or no knowledge about software that might be similar, this is an excellent way to teach us. Right from the start, it is a hands-on approach. At first the author walks us through everything step-by-step. The next time she tells you to perform the actions, which forces you to remember or perhaps to look back to jog your memory. Either way, YOU are doing the work and the repetition helped me to cement the knowledge in my memory.Readers/learners who have experience with similar software programs might be tempted to work on your own projects, substituting them for files the author tells you to download. If you can do that, great! If not, you might consider working through Dr. Jaisingh’s training files to see how the software performs before moving on to personal projects.I have read enough of the book (and worked through the training exercises) that I am ready to dive in and work on my first project. While I will undoubtedly have to refer back to the book, but working the training I not only learned the program but where I need to go when I get stuck (and I made it easier on myself with constant hightlighting). I paid about 50% more to have the paperback, but my learning style is to read/underline/do, so it worked out for me. You may be satisfied with a Kindle version, which will save you a few bucks. Either way, this book is worth the cost. What I’ve learned is that the software is amazing, and the author has certainly helped to quickly get me up to speed so I can begin creating. Five stars.

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Rich VanDeventer Mar 29, 2020

Normally, I like reference books more than learn-by-example books. However, because this book is a mix of both, I like it a lot. It takes one example of elearning and works you through it from beginning to end utilizing virtually every aspect of Captivate 2019. The book is 735 pages, so it contains a ton of information. It took me several weeks to work my way through it.

Pamela Pierce Mar 31, 2019

This is written by an Adobe teacher and is excellent. I've read the other Captivate 2019 books and find this to be the best.

Andy Feb 25, 2021

this is an extensive reference book on Adobe Captivate. It is not intended to be read cover to cover, but serves as an excellent reference regarding all of the nuances of Captivate.

Pamela Manning Jun 14, 2021

Awesome book! It is very easy to understand and they give great examples. You actually build a course from start to finish using this book. I highly recommend it.

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