There is only so much space on a Captivate slide and eventually you’re going to encounter a passage that won’t fit on a slide. When this happens you only have a few options; use smaller text, bring the passage up over two or more slides, or use a scroll box. In Adobe Captivate, a scroll box is easy to implement and I show you how to implement them in a non-responsive project or a responsive project with breakpoints.
I often use the Scrolling Text interaction to replace a Text Entry Box. Maybe a workflow you didn’t think about yet? That interaction is not ‘interactive’ in the sense that it has no pausing point, nor the ability to be scored. But it has a lot of advantages over the TEB. Have a look at:
http://blog.lilybiri.com/scrolling-text-interaction-to-replace-text-entry-box
Another way of showing more text is to use one of the learning interactions: porcess circle, timeline, accordion, tabs…
However to me long texts are better presented, well formatted in a nice pdf. I don’t think they fit well in an eLearning course.
In past projects, I have used PDFs for long passages and had them open in a separate tab. In some cases I think that’s the right choice and in other cases I find it distracting. Lately, I’ve found myself using scroll boxes in a variety of ways, it’s a few extra steps but I’ve found them to be very versatile.
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