Mastering Adobe Captivate 8: Create Responsive Demonstrations, Simulations, and Quizzes for Multiscreen Delivery With Adobe Captivate - Softcover

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Create responsive demonstrations, simulations, and quizzes for multiscreen delivery with Adobe Captivate

About This Book

• An advanced tutorial that teaches you to build several Captivate projects including a demonstration of an interactive simulation, a SCORM-compliant quiz, and a responsive project
• Deploy your e-learning content on any SCORM, AICC, or Tin- Can-compliant LMS
• Publish your project in a wide variety of formats including Flash and HTML5, enabling virtually any desktop and mobile device to play your e-learning content

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.

What You Will Learn

• Turn your eLearning content into a stunning interactive multimedia experience using video, audio, animations, Buttons, and more
• Record onscreen action using the sophisticated screen capture engine of Captivate
• Make your eLearning content look awesome on any device using the all new Responsive Project feature of Captivate 8
• Create LMS-ready interactive quizzes
• Utilize the Templates, Master Slides, Swatches, and Styles to implement consistent formatting and rapid development
• Use Captivate with other applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Audition, Adobe Flash, Adobe Edge Animate, Adobe Edge Inspect, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Word
• Unleash the true power of Captivate using widgets variables and advanced actions

In Detail

Adobe Captivate is used to create highly engaging, interactive eLearning content. This book gives you the expertise you need to create and deploy your own professional-quality eLearning courses.

The book covers the three steps of the typical Adobe Captivate production workflow. In the first step, you will learn how to capture the onscreen action using Captivate's capture engine. In the second step, you will enhance your projects using a wide variety of tools and features. In the last step, you will make your content available to your learners by publishing it in various formats including Adobe Flash and HTML 5.

This book is an advanced tutorial, containing all the needed assets to build the sample projects. Self-exploration is encouraged through extra exercises, experimentation, and external references.

Biografía del autor

Damien Bruyndonckx has an interest in teaching that dates back to his original training as an elementary school teacher. He began his career in 1998, teaching French as a foreign language in two elementary public schools in Louisiana, USA. In 2001, he came back to Belgium, his home country, and began to work as an IT trainer. He soon acquired the title of Adobe Certified Instructor on various Adobe products, which allowed him to work for a large number of customers and Adobe-authorized training centers across Europe. In 2009, he went back to teaching in a school. He now works at IHECS (http://www.ihecs.be), a higher education school of communications, based in Brussels, where he teaches multimedia and serves as the eLearning coordinator of the school. Thanks to his work at IHECS, Damien became an Adobe Education Leader in November 2011. He also has his own company that provides Adobe Training and eLearning consultancy. Damien is the author of Adobe Captivate 7 for Mobile Learning, published in August 2013, and Mastering Adobe Captivate 7, published in February 2014, both by Packt Publishing. You will find him speaking at various Captivate and eLearning-related events around the world. He lives in Thuin, Belgium, with his girlfriend and his two children. Damien is a music lover and occasionally works as a sound and lighting technician in the entertainment industry. You can contact him on Twitter at @damienbkx and via his website at http://www.dbr-training.eu.