Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials

This book has been created as a companion to our Adobe Captivate 4: The Essentials book. The goal of the "Essentials" book is to get you up and running using Adobe Captivate 4 as quickly as possible. After completing that book, which tips the scales at over 200 pages, you will have an excellent grasp of how to both record and produce eLearning lessons using Adobe Captivate 4. However, there is a ton of information that just didn't fit into that book.

"Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials" picks up where the "Essentials" book left off. You will quickly learn Captivate's higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via project templates, design templates, advanced actions and scripts. You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates' powerful commenting features. You'll enhance your users experience via variables that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your customer.

There are lessons in this book about the PowerPoint linking and import workflow, importing Captivate project assets into other projects, branching, question pools, creating accessible projects, commenting, image editing, Photoshop layers, variables, widgets, creating custom buttons, project and design templates, advanced actions and, last but not least, uploading content into an LMS (and creating a manifest file).