User manual MACROMEDIA CAPTIVATE 2

[. . . ] Adobe Captivate 2 ® TM Using Adobe Captivate © 2006 Adobe Systems Incorporated. Using Adobe® CaptivateTM If this guide is distributed with software that includes an end user agreement, this guide, as well as the software described in it, is furnished under license and may be used or copied only in accordance with the terms of such license. Except as permitted by any such license, no part of this guide may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Please note that the content in this guide is protected under copyright law even if it is not distributed with software that includes an end user license agreement. [. . . ] Select the slide directly before the location where the new slide should appear. (For example, if you want to insert the blank frame as Slide 6 of your project, click the slide currently labeled Slide 5. ) 3. From the Insert menu, select Blank Slide. The new slide is added to your project. You can edit and work with the new slide just like other slides in the project. Inserting images as slides You can insert existing images (JPG, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ICO, EMF, or WMF) as slides in Adobe Captivate projects. Image slides can be useful in many types of projects, especially in overviews of a product or website. Image slides can also come in handy when you want to use an image, such as a company logo, as an introductory slide for a project. To insert an image as a slide: 1. Select the slide directly before the location where the new slide should appear. (For example, if you want to insert the image as Slide 6 of your project, click the slide currently labeled Slide 5. ) 3. From the Insert menu, select Image Slide. The Open dialog box appears. 4. Select an image from the list or browse to a new location for a different image. (Optional) You might be asked if you want to crop or rescale the image. Crop This option centers the image and crops the edges of the image that do not fit into the capture size area. Resize This option resizes the image to provide a good-quality resized image that fits the capture size area. The image slide is added to the project. Tip: You can create multiple image slides at one time by holding down Shift or Ctrl while selecting images in the Open dialog box. Tip: You can also create an image slide by dragging an image from Windows Explorer to the Filmstrip. Creating question slides Adobe Captivate lets you create state-of-the-art e-learning projects. The powerful quizzing features make it easy to design many different types of questions such as multiple choice, short answer, matching, true/false, likert, and fill in the blank. 152 Chapter 10: Slides You have complete control over what happens when users answer questions correctly or incorrectly. For example, you can set one action (such as "go to the next slide") when a user supplies a correct answer, and you can set a different action (such as "Open URL or file") when a user supplies an incorrect answer. Measure student performance by using the reporting feature with any type of quiz. Track number of attempts, track correct and incorrect responses, and send pass/fail data to your learning management system (LMS). You can also choose to provide students with feedback based upon correct or incorrect responses. You can create six different types of question slides in Adobe Captivate: · · · · · · Multiple choice True/False Fill in the blank Short answer Matching Likert For more information about question slides, see Chapter 13, "Creating eLearning Content, " on page 201. Adding animation slides If you have a SWF, AVI, or animated GIF file, you can add the file to your Adobe Captivate project as a new slide. [. . . ] If you encounter an error message while exporting the Adobe Captivate project to Flash, locate the DLL, move it to another folder, and copy RDMFISTUB8. dll from Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2\ to the same location. · After exporting Adobe Captivate output to Flash, the required files are missing. You should first save the project in Adobe Captivate, and preview or publish the project before exporting the project to Flash. This ensures that all the files are exported. Troubleshooting JavaScript that does not appear JavaScript does not appear while previewing Adobe Captivate output. If the Execute JavaScript option is selected in the Project end options of the Project Preferences dialog box, Adobe Captivate may not display an error message when the JavaScript is previewed. This is because the Show Borders option as set to On (enabled), by default. [. . . ]