Adobe Captivate

1. Adobe Captivate Rapid e-Learning Development

2. 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

3. 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/widgetking/ • For those of you that aren’t, you can still use other peoples! • http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=productHome&exc=22

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Question features • Points • Scrambling • Time limit • Attempts allowed • Don’t forget to clear the question • Failure Levels

8. 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

9. Connecting to acrobat.com • Start by registering: https://acrobat.com/SignIn.html

10. 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

11. 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