In the 2019 release of Adobe Captivate, you can add bookmarks to interactive video, to make your courses more engaging.
What is a bookmark?
A bookmark is a point in video timeline, which you want to visit later.
Why Bookmarks?
- Bookmarks allow you to divide your course into smaller modules and make the navigation across modules easy.
- Bookmarking enables you to revisit certain content by bypassing the normal flow of content.
- You can bookmark important points in the video, which learners can seek based on their interaction with the course
Now let’s create a sample course with an interactive video and use bookmarks in it.
Here are the steps:
1. Create a responsive or blank project.
2. Go to Interactive video button in Big button Bar.
3. Choose a video on your computer or enter a YouTube video URL to insert a YouTube video.
4. Play the video from the timeline and pause wherever you want to add a bookmark. On the playhead , you will see add Bookmark icon, click on that.
A small popup opens asking you to name the bookmark. Give it a meaningful name. Click the Tick mark icon or press enter to save the name.
The bookmark has been added to the video. Drag the bookmark , if you feel its not rightly placed in the video.
5. Add another slide and add one button on it, In the Property Inspector, go to the actions panel, you will see jump to bookmark. Select the jump to Bookmark action. Now you will see the list of all bookmarks added in the video. Assign appropriate bookmark to this button. So now, on click of this button, video will start playing from the point/frame where bookmark is there.
6. Add a question slide, in the failure action, set jump to Bookmark action , so that if the question is answered incorrect, learner goes to the corresponding part of video.
Sample CPTX:Bookmarks_Sample_Project
In the sample project shared, I have used bookmarks to create an index slide and assigned failure action in question slide as jump to Bookmark.
You can do the same from overlay slide, Knowledge check marked as overlay slide and any other slide. You can also combine other actions with jump to bookmark using advanced actions and achieve complex scenarios where objects on video can be manipulated after jump to frame is done.
Interactive video with overlays and power of Bookmarks can be a game changer in e-Learning.
I like to create a menu with the bookmarks, as described in this blog post:
https://elearning.adobe.com/2018/09/interactive-video-cp2019-navigation-button/
Beware: overlay KC slides are only possible when you create a pure interactive video, not when you use an interactive video slide. But I’ll soon post a blog post about quiz slides (not KC slides) in combi with interactive video.
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