Macromedia Captivate Tutorials

How to Use the Play List XML File

How to Use the Play List XML File Before you get nervous, remember that XML files are just text files. You can edit them in Notepad, Wo …

How to Use the index.html File

How to Use the index.html File I included a default index.html file for authors with either a Flash or ColdFusion background. First, fo …

Where to Go from Here

Where to Go from Here Macromedia Captivate is the easiest and most flexible way to create interactive demonstrations and software simu …

Reading the Flash Timeline

Reading the Flash Timeline Let’s take a quick look at how the Timeline is structured for imported Captivate projects within Flash …

Timing Question Slides

Timing Question Slides Setting a time limit on your quiz can help measure how quickly learners perform certain tasks and how quickly th …

Customizing a Question Slide

Customizing a Question Slide Captivate offers a large number of ways to customize a question slide. In this section I discuss the follo …

Contingency Branching with Question Slides

Contingency Branching with Question Slides Earlier in this article I demonstrated how to branch to a slide in a Captivate demo. In this …

Output Options in Captivate – Part 1: An Ove ...

Macromedia Captivate has several output options. These options might look very familiar, since most of the same options were available …

Tracking Process

Tracking Process There is a basic process for generating and integrating tracking from Captivate-based files, regardless of the output …

Recording or Creating a Captivate File with In ...

Recording or Creating a Captivate File with Interactivity Captivate has the ability to track interactivity though a number of interacti …

Setting or Modifying Reporting Options on Inte ...

Setting or Modifying Reporting Options on Interactive Components One of the most powerful features of Captivate is its ability to track …

Enabling and Configuring Tracking Options in t ...

Enabling and Configuring Tracking Options in the Quiz Manager To enable tracking and send results to any of the tracking mechanisms, yo …

Previewing File and View Tracking

Previewing File and View Tracking Select Preview > Movie from the toolbar (or click “F4” on your keyboard as a shortcut). Go …

Configuring Additional Settings and Publishing ...

Configuring Additional Settings and Publishing the Captivate File, Through the Publish Dialog Box To prepare and create other files req …

Exploring Quizzing in Macromedia Captivate

Testing your learners’ knowledge is an essential ingredient in gauging their progress. Tests give your learners the opportunity t …

Creating and Testing Quizzes

Creating and Testing Quizzes With Macromedia Captivate users can create complex, interactive quizzes that give instructors and tutors t …

Configuring Quiz Interaction

Configuring Quiz Interaction By default each time a click box, data-entry box, button, or question slide is added to your Captivate pro …

Exploring the Quiz Manager

Exploring the Quiz Manager The Quiz Manager consists of the Reporting, Quiz, and Options tabs. It enables you to set global options for …

Creating a Branching Quiz

Creating a Branching Quiz Branching (also known as contingency branching) can be defined as the path that learners take through the Cap …

Adding Question Slides to a Quiz

Adding Question Slides to a Quiz In addition to creating assessed and training simulations, you can add question slides to your Captiva …

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