Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions
1h 38mIntermediate2020-05-15
Authors
Anastasia McCune
Developing interactive projects and elearning since 1998
Course details
Adobe Captivate offers advanced actions for adding interactivity, engagement, and customization. In this course, Captivate expert Anastasia McCune shows you how to use advanced actions to take your elearning projects to the next level. First, learn how to build a screen layout where users can click to reveal more information, and modify the interaction to fit your real-world use case scenario. Next, learn how to create, access, and display Captivate variables to customize your interactions with personalized information about your project or users, and how to control the flow and behavior of your presentation with conditional actions. Anastasia then shows how to capture user input and perform calculations, and closes with some tips on extending Captivate with shared actions and JavaScript.
Topics include:
Creating a click-to-reveal interaction
Using system and user variables
Controlling presentations with conditional actions
Calculating quantities with expressions and user input
Reducing redundancy with shared actions
Topics include:
Creating a click-to-reveal interaction
Using system and user variables
Controlling presentations with conditional actions
Calculating quantities with expressions and user input
Reducing redundancy with shared actions
Skills covered
CaptivateE-Learning SoftwareTraining and EducationAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Extend Captivate with advanced actions
- 02 - What you should know
- 03 - Introducing advanced actions
1. Standard Actions
- 04 - Click-to-reveal actions - Setup
- 05 - Click-to-reveal actions - Build out
- 06 - Challenge - Reset the slide
- 07 - Solution - Reset the slide
- 08 - Click to reveal with multi-state objects
2. System and User Variables
- 09 - Introducing Captivate variables
- 10 - Using system variables to display slide count
- 11 - Utilizing user variables to customize interaction
3. Conditional Actions
- 12 - Conditional actions to control object visibility
- 13 - Control audio and navigation
4. Using Advanced Actions for Calculation
- 14 - Utilizing expressions and calculations
- 15 - Utilizing user input in expressions
- 16 - Challenge - Modify the advanced action
- 17 - Solution - Modify the advanced action
5. Extending Advanced Actions Further
- 18 - Reducing redundancy with shared actions
- 19 - Extending Captivate with JavaScript
Conclusion
- 20 - Growing your Captivate skills