Publishing Your Captivate File
Captivate enables you to publish your file in a variety of forms ranging from executables that can be pl …
Enabling User Input with Text Entry Boxes
Text entry boxes are a great way to test knowledge. In Captivate, you not only provide the te …
Adding a Capture to an Existing Project
Now that the transition slide is completed, you can concentrate on creating the simulation. Be …
Adding a Navigation Button to a Slide
Without something to hold the playhead in place, the user will see the text for a couple seconds …
Transitioning from Demo to Simulation Mode
The second part of this tutorial is where you say to the student “OK, now you do it. …
Previewing a Captivate File
Having made all of your changes, you will most likely want to see the fruits of your labor. Here’s ho …
Using the Timeline
A major addition to Captivate is the Timeline. In many respects, you can regard the Timeline as a visual timing edit …
Working with Captions
Captivate does not permit you to add text directly to a slide. Instead you enter text into a caption and then pla …
Editing a Captivate File
When you are returned to Captivate you will be placed in the Storyboard view. The thumbnails you see are calle …
Creating a Demonstration
The plan is to show you how to define a site in Dreamweaver MX 2004. For most of my students the hardest part …
Getting Started
While this article is about how to create demonstrations and simulations with Captivate, you still need to understand t …
Having grown up with Macromedia Director and then discovering Macromedia Flash, I was, like most new media developers, a bit of a contr …
The Process: Users Taking a Perception Assessment that Uses a Captivate Simulation
When participants take a Perception assessment, a qu …
Importing Your Simulation to Perception
Import the Perception QML file that Captivate published into Perception using the following ste …
Exporting Your Simulation from Captivate
When you have added your questions, export the simulation so that you can use it in Perception …
Adding Questions to Your Simulation
You can now add questions to the simulation; for example, you can add questions to a click box.
Whe …
Creating a Simulation with Captivate
First, use Captivate to create your simulation. If you’re not sure how to create a simulatio …
By using Questionmark Perception with Macromedia Captivate, you can use an animation to create an interactive test for participants rat …
Note: This article concerns changes to the security model in Macromedia Flash 7. Macromedia has made some changes to the cross-domain s …
Conclusion
Captivate is a great tool for capturing and building interactive training demonstrations and simulations. It makes it easy f …