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MicaOli
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June 29, 2016
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Can you do these things on captivate9? List below!

  • June 29, 2016
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1. Can you draw something on the published project? I mean, the idea some of my collegues have is that you would have an activity with different choices, and you draw a circle around the correct one. I believe it's not possible, but my trial expired and I wanted to make sure (we're still in process of licensing and all that)

2. Can you import things from Illustrator to Captivate? Here, we design our projects (buttons, texts, etc) on Illustrator and then we pour everything onto the storyline project (which is the platform we use right now). I don't know exactly how they do it because I'm not part of the designing department, but is it possible for Captivate? I'd think yes because it's part of the adobe package, but I have no idea.

3. I did some activities in the demo project I worked on on captivate, but I can't remember right now. Can you have a certain amount of tries for an activity? I mean, like 2 tries, 3 or unlimited.... If you can, you have different feedbacks for 'try again', 'correct' and 'incorrect', right?

4. Can you redesign the activities individually (not through the master slide)? I remember that when I added activities into the project, it had a preexisten design that didn't go with the project. Can you design them individually? Storyline has this tool called 'freeform' with makes activities out of common objects (drag and drop, pick one, pick many, etc), is there something similar on captivate that isn't just the drag and drop?

5. Into this demo I made, I added a rollover slidelet. Thinking it would work as a hover thing, with nothing else, and that the elements would disappear when the mouse left the rollover area. But to my surprise, it added a small box in the corner with a cross to close the slidelet, which is not the idea, that's why it's rollover and not click or anything. The hilarious thing is that when you go and try to click it, everything disappears because yeah, you exited the rollover area, so it's completely useless. Is there a way to get rid of that cross there? I didn't have time to explore the thing because I was near the deadline of delivering the demo.

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Correct answer Lilybiri

Are these Storyline or Captivate questions? Short answers:

  1. Not possible
  2. You can import SVG's and there is roundtripping with Illustrator for them. For other objects, you'll have to save to bitmap format, import them to the Library (which you can structure) and drag everything from the Library to the Stage.
  3. .Yes, multiple tries, multiple failure captions, advanced answer actions, all possible.
  4. You can use a blank master slide, although I don't see why you should skip the advantages of a Theme which includes Theme color palette, Object Styles (including states for interactive objects and styles for all breakpoint views), Master slides and Skin. As for what you call 'activities', you have Learning interactions and Drag&Drop.
  5. Rollover slidelet can be designed to disappear after a certain time. However: if you think about responsive projects, you have to know that mobile devices are not compatible with rollovers.

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Lilybiri
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June 29, 2016

Are these Storyline or Captivate questions? Short answers:

  1. Not possible
  2. You can import SVG's and there is roundtripping with Illustrator for them. For other objects, you'll have to save to bitmap format, import them to the Library (which you can structure) and drag everything from the Library to the Stage.
  3. .Yes, multiple tries, multiple failure captions, advanced answer actions, all possible.
  4. You can use a blank master slide, although I don't see why you should skip the advantages of a Theme which includes Theme color palette, Object Styles (including states for interactive objects and styles for all breakpoint views), Master slides and Skin. As for what you call 'activities', you have Learning interactions and Drag&Drop.
  5. Rollover slidelet can be designed to disappear after a certain time. However: if you think about responsive projects, you have to know that mobile devices are not compatible with rollovers.
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MicaOliAuthor
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June 29, 2016

They are questions about Captivate... I just brought up storyline because of characteristics it may or may not have.

So...

1. Thanks.

2. I'll try to figure out how they do it and check with them if the method you describe would be complicated or anything.

3. Awesome, thanks.

4. The thing with the theme is that we tend to make our palletes and all that stuff from scratch to meet the client's color palette and design, so a premade theme (or even one we make from scratch with the colours) would be a bit complicated (mostly because the client who asked that we used captivate saw all our demos made from storyline, which have an activity thing where we make them from scratch). But if we can use the blank, i think that'll work...

- But another question on this, can you make that a random object on the stage (a circle, image, etc) act like the option itself rather than adding premade buttons (the round ones or the ticking boxes, for example)?

5. I had that issue with the rollover slidelet where it disappeared on its own (which was also not the idea because it disrupts the idea that the learner should read on his own pace). But even after that, I still had the useless cross on the corner.(and no worries with responsive, because for the moment we're not going to need that... i know some tools and things can't be used in responsive). So, you brought up that disappearing after a certain time thing, could you disable that? and get rid of the closing cross in the corner?

Thanks!

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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June 29, 2016

When I need to create a Theme for a client, I start with a Theme color palette as well. No one tells that you have to use the provided themes, and I didn't tell that at all. Even when you want to work with the Blank master slide, you'll still have the Theme color palette available as a design assistance. You can have a look at my last blog post for more details:

What's in a Theme - a Template? - Captivate blog

I always use shape buttons, and typical for a shape button is that you can fill each state with any image that you want. It has all the functionality of normal buttons but can be used on master slides, on question slides, and timed for the rest of the project. Have a lot of stuff on my blog about shape buttons as well. You seem to suppose that Captivate cannot be customized

I don't know which version you used in the past, one of them had a bug with the Closing button. But really, I do avoid all rollovers now, since they cannot be used on mobile devices.

The big advantage of SVG is that they are responsive and have a very small file size compared with bitmap images. Most of my clients when they offer the design assets up till now offer layered Photoshop files, the roundtripping between Photoshop and Captivate is working very well, a big time saver. That is not possible with Illustrator.

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