Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions

Adobe Captivate: Advanced Actions

1h 37mIntermediate2020-05-15

Authors

Anastasia McCune

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

Skills covered

CaptivateE-Learning SoftwareTraining and EducationAdobeDeep Dive (X:Y)

Concepts

Introduction

  • Extend Captivate with advanced actions
  • What you should know
  • Introducing advanced actions

Standard Actions

  • Click-to-reveal actions - Setup
  • Click-to-reveal actions - Build out
  • Challenge - Reset the slide
  • Solution - Reset the slide
  • Click to reveal with multi-state objects

System and User Variables

  • Introducing Captivate variables
  • Using system variables to display slide count
  • Utilizing user variables to customize interaction

Conditional Actions

  • Conditional actions to control object visibility
  • Control audio and navigation

Using Advanced Actions for Calculation

  • Utilizing expressions and calculations
  • Utilizing user input in expressions
  • Challenge - Modify the advanced action
  • Solution - Modify the advanced action

Extending Advanced Actions Further

  • Reducing redundancy with shared actions
  • Extending Captivate with JavaScript

Conclusion

  • Growing your Captivate skills
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