ADOBE CAPTIVATERapid e-Learning Development

What is Captivate

Captivate is a program that lets you build assessments into your presentations

It is similar to PowerPoint but has a few advantages: Presentations are interactive Quizzes can be added to your presentation,

and are marked by Captivate Results can be sent to instructor or stored in a LMS

It has a screen casting built in You can import your existing PowerPoint

presentations

Lets take a look

Tour of built in question types Quizzes can be reviewed once finished For those of you who are programmers

out there, you can make your own questions http://www.infosemantics.com.au/widgetkin

g/ For those of you that aren’t, you can still

use other peoples! http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/in

dex.cfm?event=productHome&exc=22

Creating a Master Slide

Starting place for your slide design You can create many master slides in the

same presentation When adding a new slide to your

presentation, you can select which master slide to use

Let’s try this and a few other quick things Adding Text Adding an Image

Adding a New Slide

The process is pretty straightforward... with one minor annoyance Adobe is obsessed with timelines, slides will

disappear after a fixed time To avoid this you can add a next button

Select your the theme you want to use (master slide)

Select your transition Let’s add a graph with some roll over captions Creating a style:

Captivate let’s you save the properties of display objects

Questions

We’ll review each of the built in question types so you can see how to create your own and add it to the presentation: Multiple Choice True/False Fill In The Blank Short Answer Matching Hot Spot Sequence Scale

Question features

Points Scrambling Time limit Attempts allowed

Don’t forget to clear the question Failure Levels

Question Pools

Question pools are more versatile than just a question slide

Questions can be grouped into pools Pools can be shared/imported! Questions can be randomly selected from a pool

ie. Pick 5 questions randomly from these 20 Makes cheating harder The number of questions you select must be less than

or equal to the number in the pool Let’s add our questions to a couple of pools

and use them to insert random question slides

Connecting to acrobat.com

Start by registering: https://acrobat.com/SignIn.html

Connecting to acrobat.com

In the project preferences we can connect it to our acrobat.com account Let’s add this to the demo Students can submit their quiz online and you will receive

all of the scores Class by class Lesson by lesson Student by student Question by question

Who wants to mark homework anyways? It can also connect to a Moodle server

Captivate comes with another program, the quiz results analyzer Let’s update the project to allow results to be posted and

look at them in the quiz results analyzer

Branching

Captivate also has some great features for directing your lesson Based on quiz results you can branch to different slides The order does not always have to be sequential

Students who answer correctly can keep going, but when they get one wrong, it can direct them to a slide for feedback On Success, jump over explanation

There are more complex branching methods but we won’t get into them here See advanced actions

Let’s add an explanation to one of our questions and setup the branching feature