Recording or Creating a Captivate File with Interactivity
Recording or Creating a Captivate File with Interactivity
Captivate has the ability to track interactivity though a number of interaction types, such as multiple choice or true/false questions and interactive components, such as click box, text entry or buttons. This section assumes you are creating a new file and will add different types of interactive components for demonstration. Follow along, but feel free to experiment with other options available, even if I don’t explicitly discuss them.
- Start Captivate (or if Captivate is already started, select Record or create a new movie… from the File menu item).
- In the New Movie Options dialog, select Blank Movie.
- Keep the preset size in the Blank Movie dialog set to 640×480.
- With the blank movie, select Insert > Text Caption… from the menu
- Type Welcome (click anywhere to begin) in the Text Caption dialog box and click OK to save and close the dialog box.
- Select Insert > Click Box… from the menu.
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Click the Options tab and deselect the Success caption, Failure caption, and Hint caption options (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Click Box options
- Click OK to save and close the dialog box.
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Resize the click box to cover the entire screen area.
Figure 2. Text Caption and Click Box
Captivate includes a number of new question types that it supports. To add a new question:
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Select Insert > Question Slide… from the menu.
Figure 3. Question Types available in Captivate
- In the Question Types dialog box, select Multiple choice (Figure 3).
- Click OK to configure the question.
- Type What is 1 + 1? for the Question text.
- Enter 1, 2, 3 and 4 (respectively) as possible answers (Figure 4).
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Select 2 as the correct answer (Figure 4).
Figure 4. Multiple Choice Question Settings
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