The first step to create good-looking eLearning content is to create good-looking course assets, and buttons are an integral part of it. So, let’s see how we can dress up Captivate buttons and make them look pretty! 🙂
A lot of button images come packaged with Adobe Captivate. But if you want to get creative in how the buttons should look like, here’s the way to go!
It’s just a three step process to add custom buttons to your courses:
- Create button graphics in ‘x_up’, ‘x_over’ and ‘x_down’ states. You can have the same button saved with these three names, or you can change some properties of the image like color, effects, etc. and save it as different version.
- Insert Image button in Captivate and browse to the button image you created.
- Adjust the location and size of the button on the screen.
Here’s a screen full of custom buttons… I’ve used stock images from Fotolia to create these buttons.
Let me show you a demo on how I created the page curl button and then you can try the rest.
Want to be more creative with the buttons? Check out Allen’s blog post on Custom Adobe Captivate 5 Buttons with Sounds.
Happy Captivating! 🙂
Hello. I am trying to have a user jump to a URL and then return to the course. No matter what I do with the action buttons [New, unclicking continue playing the project], I cannot return to the Captivate course. Any suggestions? Thank you.
I want to create several buttons on a page to link to external URLs. But I want the page to stay paused while a user does this. They can manually forwards to next page when ready. Right now when they click on the buttons, it opens the URL, but also advances the page. How do you pause the page and have multiple buttons? Captivate 6.
I am attempting to create an “exit” button to allow users to leave the training before it is completed. The problem I am having is that the button is presented in the first part of the training (after the objectives are covered) and the objectives are covered in part one of an aggregated project. I have tried creating my “closing” slide as a seperate project and adding the action Open another project to route the user to the closing project (which is at the end of the aggregated project). That didn’t work. I have also tried (based on my limited Java script knowledge) a java script command: System.exit(0); but that won’t work either. Any ideas?
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