ADOBE CAPTIVATE Rapid 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   For those of you that aren’t, you can still use other peoples!  vent=productHome&exc=22 vent=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:

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