September 11, 2018
Wanting to import/use a branded PPT slide as a background for Quizzes
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September 11, 2018
Wanting to import/use a branded PPT slide as a background for Quizzes
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I have a PPT slide that has (off to the side) our company’s corporate colors and branding. I would like to use this slide in Captivate 2019 as the background for the quizzes I want to develop for training purposes. That is, the quizzes would appear on the screen (and function as intended), but so would the graphic elements of the corporate slide behind them as a static image.

Is there a way this can be done without painstaking trying to redesign the entire corporate elements inside Captivate so it regards it as a Theme? And if i were to take this route, would it still work? Is there a format conversion trick that can be used?

And suggestions at your earliest convenience would be appreciated. Thank you!

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2018-09-12 08:55:52
2018-09-12 08:55:52

Sorry, was sighing again. PPT is to me the worst possible starting point for an eLearning course in Captivate, since the ‘template’ in PPT is so much more limited than a full Theme in Captivate. If you create once a full custom Theme for your company in Captivate and set it as default theme, you never have to bother about it anymore. It can be a responsive theme, which is impossible in PPT as well.A theme consists of a Theme Color palette (branded for your company , all object styles, master slides, setup of the Skin and eventually Recording defaults.The quizzing master slides in Captivate are very special (you have 5) because they have embedded objects which have a lot of embedded functionality.  You just have to create one background image, insert it in the Library. From the Library you can use it as background image for all the Quizzing master slides (5) and if necessary make it responsive using the Position Properties. I suspect you also wil need content slides, hope you don’t keep to imported PPT slides which lead mostly to pretty boring eLearning courses since there is no real interactivity. BTW a ppt is in reality a zipped folder. You can unzip it and use the assets in Captivate.

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