6 Building a Responsive Project
Building a Responsive Project
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- Start by opening Adobe Captivate and click the “New Project” tab.
As you can see, there are a variety of project types that you can create – we typically stick to Responsive and Virtual Reality projects since those are the only ones capable of handling 360 content.
2. Select “Responsive Project” and click “Create.”
Once the project opens up, you’ll notice it looks a lot like PowerPoint! That’s because Captivate is Microsoft PowerPoint compatible, and can even import .ppt files to be used as module slides. Click on the plus button at the top left to view the different slide types.
Here’s a quick overview of what each slide can do:
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- Content Slides – These can be used to create basic text and image slides, just like you would in PowerPoint. If you have applied a theme to the project, that will be the background image of this slide.
- Blank Slides – These slides are the best slides for adding interactive video elements, or designing your own content slide. Since the theme does not apply to this slide type, you will have a blank slate to create your own design.
- Question Slides – This slide type is pretty self-explanatory. There are a variety of different types of quiz questions you can incorporate in your module. We’ll get to those in a second! *Note: If there will be a lot of emphasis on the questions in the module, a Responsive project will be preferable because a VR project has very few question type options.
- Knowledge Check Slide – These slides can be overlaid on top of videos that are playing on blank or content slides. This allows you to include pop-up quiz questions in your videos.
- Software Slide – Software slides allow you to create a “demo” for a product or software you may be using or trying to promote. It has directly editable objects and elements, and can process code.
- Video Demo Slide – This slide allows you to import other presentations or videos and edit them as you would in basic film editing software such as iMovie or Premiere.
- PowerPoint Slide – This is a slide type that can be directly imported from Microsoft PowerPoint. Once you’ve imported your PowerPoint file, you can add Captivate elements to it such as quiz questions and interactive videos.
- 360 Slide – This is the only slide type that is 360 capable. In order to create any VR immersive environment, you will need to import your 360 footage to this slide.
In this chapter, we’ll be covering how to use 360 and Quiz slides (these are the most important for our purposes).
Creating a 360 Slide with Hotspots
To import a 360 image, click the plus sign in the middle of the slide. This will open up your file finder, and you can navigate to where you have stored your 360 images. Note: 360 images must be saved in a .JPEG format in order to import correctly.
Once you’ve imported the image, it will look something like this:
Notice the blue spot in the middle? That’s a hotspot! Hotspots can be used to engage stude