Installing Capture 2.0
Capture 2.0 uses some new base technologies which means it can't be a standard update from 1.4 like previous versions of the Capture application. Instead, it requires a new installation.
When you run your currently-installed Capture application it will prompt you if you are able to download Capture 2.0, and you can then install it or get your IT team to install it.
If you do not see the prompt, you will need to contact your IT team to carry out the installation.
Capture File Compatibility
Any Capture lessons created in Capture 1.4 can be opened and edited in Capture 2.0, so there's no need to create new lessons.
Once a Capture 1.4 file is edited in Capture 2.0, though, it will only be editable in Capture 2.0 moving forward.
You can now add additional hotspots to any step and create branched or alternative pathways through a lesson.
This is really helpful when there is more than one way to do a task in a software tool.
The initial action captured when recording the lesson is now designated the Primary, and any additional actions are Secondary hotspots.
Secondary hotspots can take the learner:
This article has all the details on this new feature.
Working with Secondary Hotspots and Branching in a Capture Lesson >>
Another new way to provide a branching-based experience is to use the new Decision Step.
The Decision Step takes the learner to different scenes, which you choose when setting the step up using the Edit Step feature under Step in the top menu.
The decision step shows the learner a panel with choices of where to go next, based on the scenes selected.
A new field below the stage in the Capture application allows you to add test instructions for a step.
This text is shown to the learner when the lesson is run as in Test mode either as practice or as a scored question.
This is helpful in cases where you want to provide the exact information a learner must type for a Typed step, for example.
In fact, Test Instructions for Typed steps are generated automatically for you!
A new Word doc-based template (JSON file) lets authors define the display styles and standardized text used in their Capture lessons.
For example, you can set your Capture lessons to always use "select" instead of the standard "click" when creating step text, and set the text name of what the learner is selecting to automatically display as bold and a specific color.
This is available under a new Text tab in the Capture Preferences (File >> Preferences), where you can download the template to edit in Word then upload it again to set it as your chosen template.
Capture files now automatically save on your local computer while you work.
They will be saved with a time-stamped default name initially, which you can update any time by doing a Save of the file.
The text editing for Step, Details, Hint, Feedback, the new Test Instructions, Introductions, Summaries and Markers has been updated.
The editor is more robust and now also offers text color options as well as a Remove Formatting feature.
Authors can now allow all typed info to be set to uppercase as a preference. This is a checkbox setting under a new Text tab in the Capture Preferences (File >> Preferences).
And by default Capture will create Test Instructions for typed steps that show what the input should be.
We have improved the ability of Capture to help create more accurate auto-step text in applications using older versions of Java.
This is really helpful for creating lessons for older enterprise type applications.
New step options, text formatting and Word document publishing improvements highlight version 1.4 of the Capture application
I would like to move my Capture files from my work computer to my home computer to work on them. How can I move the files over to my home computer?
Thank you!
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Does anyone have any suggestions to help with fixing the zooming in on the simulation in Capture? Why is there not an option to add a hotspot to the last step in a scene? Whenever I draw a box or a circle around an object in a step in never shows up when I publish the scene into Flow. Please help!
I'm trying out Capture on an iMac running OS X Monterey. I have tried using Capture on both Safari and Microsoft Edge. In both cases, it has crashed before I could finish recording.
Help?
I asked this question somewhere else but I think it was in the wrong place.
Is there a way to reorder steps when you are editing a capture? It doesn't always come out perfectly the first time and I need to redo some scenes but now I can't figure how to move them to the correct order.
I've recorded a large (95 slide) software simulation using capture, and its not uploading into Domknow. I click Share- for authoring, then when ready, I drag into the Domiknow page. I get a status bar, and when complete, I'm back at Domiknow in the project. The Page says :"Drag your new published capture anywhere into this placeholder."
I'm experiencing some strange issues in the Capture Step Text.
1. Use of apostrophe - To highlight key words in the step text I have made the word bold and enclosed with a pair of apostrophes e.g select the 'Home' button. Sometimes capture will put a space between the first apostrophe and the first letter e,g, ' Home'. It wont let me permanantly delete this space. When playing in show me/try me mode, the word with the space included after the first apostrophe will move down to the next row an...
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