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Create software simulations

Adobe Captivate

Create software simulations projects. Captivate allows you to simultaneously create software simulations in all the three available modes: Demo : Demostrate a software procedure. Let’s create a short software simulation of the steps required to create a new PowerPoint presentation.

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Software Simulation Part 1 & 2

Adobe Captivate

In this first part of a two part video tutorial, I cover the procedures for recording your software simulation. Know your keyboard shortcuts – While I don’t use all the shortcuts, it’s important to know where on your keyboard you need to press to activate certain functions. This is a known bug with Captivate.

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How to Record Software Simulation in Adobe Captivate 9

CommLab India

Various other authoring tools provide this facility to record simulations, but Adobe Captivate 9 is the most easy-to-use tool to create software simulations. It allows you to create simulations in “show me”, “try it” and “test me” modes, which are basically “Watch-Try-Do” software simulations. Screen Area.

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eLearning: More Reflection

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by Kevin Siegel      Last week I wrote about how you can use  Reflector to create software simulations and demonstrations  from your mobile device. Instead, you can simply see what's happening on the mobile device through your computer.

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Adobe Captivate: Mac Cures

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    Start Captivate and create a software simulation.   And here's another issue that's been reported: when attempting to create a software simulation on a Mac, the red recording area doesn't show up (meaning you really can't create the simulation). . 

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Adobe Captivate: Nudge the Screen Area

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by Kevin Siegel    When creating a new Software Simulation in Adobe Captivate, the red box that you can drag to any area of your screen display is known as the  Screen Area.       Next, Timothy pressed the arrow keys on his keyboard to nudge the screen area box. Perhaps Captivate 6?

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eLearning: Is Right-Clicking Right?

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For instance, in Microsoft Word you can make a selected word bold using a menu, a toolbar button, pressing a keyboard shortcut, or by right-clicking the text. If you're responsible for creating a software simulation that teaches a learner how to make Word text bold, which of the commands are you going to simulate?