Learning Devcamp 2015: In this session, you will learn how to effectively use Adobe Captivate master slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets corporate guidelines. Object style is a set of visual attributes, such as color and font. You will also learn how to define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project. I’ll also provide lessons learned and real-world project examples.
2. You’re in the middle of developing a
Captivate project and you think to
yourself
“Boy, it sure would be nice to have my
company logo appear on all of the
slides.
And maybe a footer at the bottom of
each slide that displays the course
title.”
3. Helps create a consistent look quickly.
Great for including common objects such as
images and background colors.
Can have regular objects and placeholder
objects.
Masters are applied to individual slides in
the properties panel.
4. The main master slide is the first slide in the Master Slide panel.
The name of this slide is the same as the name of the theme.
Objects and background color of this master slide appear on all other
master slides.
Each theme has one main master slide.
5. Contains layouts and objects
that you can use for content
slides.
For example, a Title master
slide can be used for the title of
the project.
You can have multiple content
masters for a project.
7. Each theme contains a separate master
slide for the following question types:
Matching
Hot spot
Likert
Other question types: multiple choice, fill-in-
the-blank, true-false question, short answer,
and sequence questions
Result slide
Each question master slide contains
placeholder questions, answers, and
captions with the style related to the
theme.
18. A Theme file has the file extension
.CPTM.
It is a convenient way to quickly load
items such as
master slides
player bar styles
captions styles
button styles and a few other items to your
project.
Note: when you apply a
theme, all overrides to object
styles and properties will be
lost.
23. Choose from a bunch of out-of-the-box
responsive themes to render
differentiated content for multiple
devices.
You can customize these themes to
meet your requirements, or create your
own themes.
You can also save these themes for
reuse across projects.
24. You can choose the Preset
Theme Colors or
customize Theme Colors to
make your own color schemes.
26. You are part of a team of developers
who are working together to create a
massive amount of simulations for a
major project.
The look and feel of everyone’s
simulations should be the same.
27. Templates help you achieve a uniform
look-and-feel for all your projects.
They also help you and your co-authors
save time during authoring by letting
you focus on content rather than the
aesthetics of the project.
28. Used to ensure that projects are set to a specific size and
contain specific objects in specific locations.
Use a “cptl” extension
Using templates in Adobe Captivate, you can create
standard:
Sizes for projects. The size specified for a template is taken
as the default size for all projects that are based on the
template.
Sizes for objects such as images and videos within the
project.
The templates can contain the actual object itself or a
placeholder for the object. If there are placeholders, the
content developers insert the actual object at the time of
authoring. The objects are resized to the size of the
placeholders.
Set of preferences for projects, recording, and quizzes.
Skins—TOCs and playback controls—for project outputs.
29. With Templates files you can build out
the initial structure of a course and
use this as the base of your new
projects, where a theme file basically
provides you only with Master Slides,
Player Bar styles, etc.