Adobe Captivate 5: Shhh! The Password Is…

by Kevin Siegel

A simple-to-use but often overlooked Publish Setting is the ability to assign a password to published Captivate projects. Once a password has been assigned, the eLearning lesson will not begin to play until the correct password has been entered by the eLearning student.

To assign a password to a project, open a project and choose File > Publish Settings.

From the Project group, select the Start and End preferences.

Select Password Protect Project and then click the Options button to open the Password options dialog box.

Type a password into the Password text field. You can further control the messages that will appear on the Password page by typing the desired messages into the Message, Retry Message and Button Text fields. When finished, click the OK button for both the Password options dialog box and the Preferences dialog box.

Preview the project and the first thing you will see is the Password screen. You can test the Retry message by typing an incorrect password into the Password field. Notice also that until a correct password is entered, the lesson's playbar is hidden, preventing forward navigation.

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