Questions of the Week

Question: How Do You Force a Captivate Slide to Stick While Adding a URL Link?

One of my Captivate slides contains a button pointing to a website URL. After clicking the button and returning to the lesson, the lesson is no longer on the slide with the button. How do I stop this behavior from happening?

Answer

When setting the URL for the button, deselect "Continue playing project" from the drop-down menu at the right of the URL field.

Question: Where Can I Create Menus For My Captivate Lessons

I’m having a disagreement with one of my colleagues. He says that you can only use Dreamweaver to create menus for my Captivate published lessons. Is that so? 

Answer

Absolutely not. You can use just about any Web authoring tool to create eLearning menus. In fact, Captivate comes with an application called MenuBuilder. While not overly powerful, MenuBuilder allows you to quickly make a functional menu using many of the same features and tools found in Captivate. To start MenuBuilder, start Captivate and choose File > Record/Create > MenuBuilder project. 

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