Use Shared Actions!

Demonstration project showing interactions created exclusively with shared actions. Prologue to a short course about USING existing shared actions.

Parameters in Captivate (Back to Basics)

What are parameters in Shared actions ? How do you use them? What is the difference between Compulsory and Candidate parameters. Blog is NOT about creating Shared actions, meant to be able to use parameters when you are provided with shared actions. like in an interaction.

Setup Matchstick Game

Step-by-step explanation of the Matchstick Game, including screenshots of layout, timeline, variables, shared and advanced actions used.

Matchstick Game (use case Shared Actions)

Refurbished version of an older game (SWF output), to make it ready for HTML output. Uses lot of more recent features, still an easy to reproduce interaction due to the shared actions.

Review status for scored Drag&Drop slide.

Setup to have a scored D&D slide behave like other quiz slides during Review: indicators for the answers and navigation buttons.

Progress Indicator (%) for a Non-Linear project – Solution 2

Solution where the progress indicator shows the ‘viewed slides’ percentage, not including the active slide which still has to be viewed.

Progress Indicator (%) for a Non-Linear project – Solution 1

Showing a percentage of slides viewed as progress indicator which will be functional in a non-linear project.

Setup course with intermediate score slides

Detailed explanation of setup for custom intermediate score slides.

Intermediate (partial) Score Slides – Review D&D slide

Workflow to create partial score slides in a course, with actions using system and user variables. Moreover you’ll see a Drag&Drop slide with a Review status similar to such a status for normal scored quiz slides.

Setup: Limit Review to wrong answers.

Explains the setup for a quiz, where Review will be limited to wrongly answered questions. It is companion blog for a sample project. System variables cpQuizInfoLastSlidePointScored and cpInReview mode are used. It is also a perfect use case if you want to wet your toe with (easy) Shared Actions.

Review quiz: limit to wrong answers

Upgrading a post (Captivate 6) about the same topic, using new features like extra system variables and Shared actions..