Giving people a rough idea of how much time they’ve spent on each slide of an online training is something Adobe Captivate doesn’t have the ability to do. Fortunately, you can use smart shapes and motion paths to convey each slide’s duration and how much time people have spent viewing them.
Adobe Captivate’s multiple choice questions can either be a single answer or multiple answers. A limitation of multiple answers in quizzes is that you can’t specify the number of answers you want the user to select. This tutorial shows how to get Captivate to count the number of answers selected and then display a message if correct amount is not selected.
The video “Making the Glossary interaction available throughout the course in Adobe Captivate 6,” which you can view here, explains how to show the glossary widget on any page of a project and pause the slide at the same time. Pausing allows the user to focus on the glossary without missing any of the slide’s content. When you click the close button, the glossary is hidden, the slide unpauses, and then resumes playback. Unfortunately, using this method to show/hide the glossary can be a problem if the slide is already paused because you need the user to do something first. Because pressing the button to hide the glossary unpauses the slide, the user won’t be able to complete what you needed them to do when the pause was implemented. This article explains how to conditionally show/hide the glossary which eliminates this problem.
In part one of this article, we covered how to setup remediation with failure, something you can’t do using Captivate’s default remediation functionality. In part two, we’re setting up a file to allow for two or more failed attempts before users are sent back for remediation, come back for a final attempt at the question, and then moved forward to the next quiz slide if they still answer the question incorrectly.
We’ve recently completed a small amount of visual tweaks to the site, mostly pertaining to hyperlinks. Personally, I’ve never cared much for the standard blue text with blue underline look that came as part all hyperlinks back in the pre-CSS days. With the ability to have far better control over text appearance via CSS, it was great to finally modify the appearance of elements as you wanted. I always felt particularly glad for the “text-decoration: none;” declaration which allows you to remove the underlines from text.