Scrollable mobile content or text?

Report · May 19, 2017

Hi there!

I am using Flash to create individual E-Learning content for my clients. Due to known "image" problems with the format, i am looking for other tools to create E-Learnings and want to give Captivate a try. So, i am a Captivate newbie.

While doing some research about Captivate i saw the breakpoint system in C9 für mobile content and found it a great idea to keep maximum control for different screensizes of a project. Then C2017 was released and i learned, that now the responsive design is fluid. I never saw an application that needed a fluid transition between screensizes... but anyway...

The first mayor problem with mobile content i had was, that it is limited to one screen - which is very unusual for mobile content compared to responsive websites. The result of that seems to be that every longer Text gets a "more text" icon which 1. breaks the layout and 2. forces learners to read every text out of context. Is there a workaround for that? Or a solution for "mobile only" projects to be scrollable?

Thanks for your help!

Report · May 19, 2017

I am not sure to understand your question completely.

CP2017 allows both development with Fluid Boxes and with Breakpoint views. Depending on the type of responsive project you have the choice. I wrote this in my first review:

Captivate 2017's gems - Captivate blog

You can have text rescale automatically as well. In my personal opinion eLearing is not well suited with tons of text, but that is off topic.

What do you mean by 'limited to one screen'?

Report · May 19, 2017

Thanks for your quick response!

What i mean by "one screen" is - you are not allowed to scroll content or have more content than visible.

For example: you have a design with horizontal fluid boxes, one with text, one with a picture. That looks fine on a device in landscape mode. But if you swith to a device in portrait mode, the fluid boxes resize to a stacked orientation. Thats leads to a textbox that is much smaller in height than in landscape mode - text doesnt fit anymore, "more text" icon appears.

On a mobile device i would rather show all the text and let the learner wipe to the picture below the text. I would say that it is common on mobile devices to scroll instead of tapping icons to see all the text...

Report · May 19, 2017

That is why I talked about Breakpoint view work flow. Then it is possible in a breakpoint view to unlink the slide height from the project height, which will result in a scrollbar being added to the slide. As I wrote in my review: if you want to have quickly created responsive projects, fluid boxes can be a timesaver but you'll lose control over design. If Design is very important, keep to Breakpoint views, but you'll not have automatic text rescaling between breakpoint views and it will take more time.