Adding Multiple Click-based Animations on a Screen with Adobe Captivate 5
May 24, 2011
Adding Multiple Click-based Animations on a Screen with Adobe Captivate 5
May 24, 2011
Pooja is the Founder and CEO of Digital Learning Nook, a boutique GenAI-first eLearning and instructional design studio, with a track record of creating award-winning eLearning courses. An expert in the field, she has authored books and video courses on eLearning tools and technologies. Her experience includes building the digital learning function at Icertis Academy and key roles as a Principal eLearning Evangelist at Adobe. With certifications in CPTD and SHRM-SCP, Pooja holds a master's degree in Education and Economics and a doctorate in Educational Technology. She was recognized as a Guild Master by The Learning Guild for her outstanding contributions to the eLearning community.
Legend 227 posts
Followers: 32 people

You are creating a simulation-based course and you need to demonstrate a couple of related workflows which include just about six to eight steps each. You are not convinced to create separate screens for such small demonstrations. So, what should you do?

Looks like you need a screen where you can include all these simulations which play on-demand, one at a time. Let’s learn how to create such a screen.

Here’s an example for you… There is one common animation area and five different buttons that trigger the animation. Notice that the animation plays from the starting frame every time you click the related button.

And here’s how you can create such a screen:

Let me know if you found this post useful or have any questions by leaving a comment on this post.

Happy Captivating! 🙂

All Comments
Sort by:  Most Recent
2013-05-26 07:48:00
2013-05-26 07:48:00

Thank you for this video, helped me out a lot. The only thing I cant seem to get working is getting my videos to reset themselves after clicking another button.

Like
()
2011-12-11 00:00:30
2011-12-11 00:00:30

[…] Here are some demonstrations on how to create a screen with rollover audio, click-reveal text, click-display animation, tabs, and a […]

Like
()
2011-11-18 20:10:14
2011-11-18 20:10:14

[…] Click-based animations screen […]

Like
()
2011-08-11 12:07:38
2011-08-11 12:07:38

[…] create interactive screens with a pop-up, click-reveal text, rollover text, rollover audio, tabs, click-display animation, etc. But the fact that the learner might miss out on some hidden content is always our cause of […]

Like
()
2011-07-14 14:07:00
2011-07-14 14:07:00

Great but I cant hear any sound

Like
()
2011-06-22 14:24:00
2011-06-22 14:24:00

Very nice. But I cant hear any audio or text to speech?

Like
()
(1)
2012-01-09 18:21:00
2012-01-09 18:21:00
>
Anonymous
's comment

There’s no audio added to the screen and demonstration.

Like
()
2011-06-08 15:45:00
2011-06-08 15:45:00

great tutorial, this script also work with text or images?

Like
()
(1)
2012-01-09 18:20:00
2012-01-09 18:20:00
>
Anonymous
's comment

Yes, it does.

Like
()
2011-06-05 19:34:27
2011-06-05 19:34:27

Very helpful. Thanks for sharing this

Like
()
2011-05-28 01:25:09
2011-05-28 01:25:09

Excellent idea, will put it into practice immediately
Thanks

Like
()
(1)
2011-05-31 20:31:03
2011-05-31 20:31:03
>
Anonymous
's comment

Thanks Roy 🙂

Like
()
2011-05-27 23:07:05
2011-05-27 23:07:05

this was very helpful…did take me a minutes to figure out you probably first had to create all 5 animations in separate captivate files and publish…is that what you did?

Like
()
(1)
2011-05-31 20:30:29
2011-05-31 20:30:29
>
Anonymous
's comment

Yes, that’s exactly what I did! 🙂

Like
()
2011-05-24 15:20:17
2011-05-24 15:20:17

Hi Pooja, your advanced actions will only be functional if everything is indeed on slide 1. To make this action more versatile, to be able to use it on any slide, not only the first one, you could replace the Jump to Slide 1 statement by this:
Assign cpCmndGotoSlide with rdinfoCurrentSlide

This would be functional on any slide.

Like
()
(1)
2011-05-24 15:28:03
2011-05-24 15:28:03
>
Anonymous
's comment

Thanks Lieve 🙂

Like
()