As a music educator, it would be immensely useful for my students to have access to interactive fingering charts. It would also be great for me to be able to utilize them in digital assessments.

As my young students are playing recorder at the moment, I thought it may be a nice exercise to explore creating these in Captivate using a few different techniques.

This first project is a very basic recorder fingering chart.

• I’ve used Shapes as buttons.
• Each has two states (Normal and Closed, a custom state). Other states have been removed from the project.
• After creating the first fingering hole with all functionality, I’ve copied it and moved it into position.
• Selecting a fingering hole changes its state.

I duplicated the pages and created a “clear” button that jumps to the duplicate page to clear/reset the fingering chart. It seems like a poor work-around, but two other methodologies would not re-trigger the “On Enter” actions or reset the state for each finger.

In the future, I’d like to:

• Add variables that display and/or play the pitch created by the fingering entered
• Create quiz content such as “enter the fingering for the second line G”
• Have the fingering chart be adaptive for Alto or Soprano
• Tackle the obstacle of partially-closed holes (especially the thumb when crossing the break) and the difficulty of notating the RH dual finger-holes.

Suggestions are welcome, and thanks!

Shawn Keech

Note: Reposted with corrected file embed as a response to comments.