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Add a card widget to your Captivate project

  1. Captivate User Guide
  2. Introduction to Captivate
    1. What's New in Adobe Captivate
    2. Adobe Captivate System Requirements
    3. Adobe Captivate Updates
      1. Adobe Captivate (12.4 update) release notes
      2. Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) release notes
      3. Adobe Captivate (12.2 update) release notes
      4. Adobe Captivate (12.1 update) release notes
    4. Download Adobe Captivate
    5. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Add a slide
    1. Slide navigator in Adobe Captivate
    2. Add a conversation slide
    3. Add characters to your Adobe Captivate project
    4. Edit the background image on a slide
    5. Add padding to content blocks and components
    6. Create a long scroll project
  4. Add text blocks
    1. Add text to a project
  5. Add media blocks
    1. Add images to a project
    2. Add videos to a project
    3. Add quotes
    4. Add SVGs to a project
  6. Interactive components
    1. Add a button
    2. Add an input field
    3. Add a radio button group
    4. Add a dropdown
    5. Add a checkbox
  7. Widgets
    1. Add a Card
    2. Add Tabs
    3. Add a Certificate
    4. Add a Carousel
    5. Add a Hotspot
    6. Add Drag-and-Drop
    7. Add a Timeline
    8. Add Click to Reveal
  8. Create quizzes
    1. Add a Multiple-choice question
    2. Add a True or false question
    3. Add a Match the column question
    4. Add a Short answer question
    5. Add a Sequence question
    6. Add question pools and random question slides
    7. Import questions as CSV
  9. Add audio to a project
    1. Add audio
  10. Interactions
    1. Add interactions to a project
    2. Create interactive video with overlay
    3. Create a slide-level interaction
    4. Create an object-level interaction
  11. Animations
    1. Add animations to a project
  12. Accessibility
    1. Make a project accessible
  13. Customize the timeline
    1. Timeline panel in Adobe Captivate
  14. Customize TOC and Playbar
    1. Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate
  15. Edit project properties
    1. Variables in Adobe Captivate
    2. Preferences
    3. Project dimensions
    4. Themes
  16. Create a simulation project
    1. Simulation
  17. Preview a project
    1. Preview
  18. Share a project for review
    1. Share for review   
  19. Publish a project
    1. Publish your project
  20. Upgrade projects in Adobe Captivate
    1. Upgrade projects to the latest version 

Learn how to add a card widget that allows learners to interact with content by flipping a card to reveal additional information.

Note:

Adobe Captivate introduces content blocks, such as text or an image block, which contain components like text, image, or button. Play this video to learn more about content blocks and components.

What is a card widget

A card is a popular mechanism to add interaction in eLearning courses that allow learners to interact with content by flipping a card to reveal additional information. 

In the all-new Adobe Captivate, you can create a card widget, which enables learners to select one side of a card to reveal corresponding concepts, such as descriptions, images, and cues on the other side.

Add a card widget 

Select Add New Widget > Cards in the left toolbar.

Modify the properties of the card widget

At the widget level, Adobe Captivate lets you add or remove the number of cards in the widget, choose from a set of pre-defined design options, add or remove a title or image, and many more.

  1. Select the card widget. In Visual Properties, in Alignment and Spacing section, you can adjust the following:

    • Content width: Move the slider to increase or decrease the width of the widget. You can also add padding to the right or left of the widget to introduce space on either side.
    • Content spacing: Move the slider to adjust the spacing between the components.
  2. Move the Number of flipcards slider in the Visual Properties panel to increase or decrease the number of cards. You can add at most four cards in the widget.

  3. Select a card widget design from the list of Design Options.

    For more information, view Design options.

  4. In the Components section, you can change the following:

    • Title: Add or remove a title.
    • Body: Add or remove the body of the widget.
    • Instruction: Add or remove the instruction on the widget.
    • Next button: Add or remove this button to take the learner to the next slide.
    • Previous button: Add or remove this button to take the learner to the previous slide.

    The following customizations are available for the content at the front of the card widget. Add or remove components from a card widget:

    • Image: Add or remove the images on the cards.
    • Title: Add or remove the titles on the cards.
    • Subtitle: Add or remove the subtitles on the cards.
    • Icon: Add or remove the icons on the cards. When the learner selects the icon at runtime, the card flips.
    Note:

    The customizations done at this level are applied to all cards in the widget. If you want to make changes to individual cards, visit Change the properties of a card inside the widget.

    Note:

    You can align the components in the Components section. Hover over a component and select any option (Align left, Align center, or Align right).

  5. In the Appearance section, change the appearance of widget's background. You can change the widget's color,  add a border, and apply an inner shadow.

    • Solid color: Select the color picker and change the slide's background color. You can also select the Solid background dropdown and choose from the following options:
      • Linear gradient: Shades from the starting point to the ending point in a straight line.
      • Radial gradient: Shades from the starting point to the ending point in a circular pattern.
      • Image: Add an image as a background. You can pick the image from Assets or from a location on your computer.
    Change the background color
    Change the background color

    You can change the border's color, width, and specify the end caps (Butt, Round, Projecting).

    The borders and shadows reflect based on the sides. For example, the left border applied on a front card becomes the right border on the back due to the flip effect.

  6. In the Card tab in Appearance, change the properties for the cards on the widget. You can change the card's appearance by changing the properties, such as color, border, radius for corners, or shadows.

  7. Select the Overlay solid color checkbox if you want to change the overlay color inside a card on the front panel of the widget. Select the color picker and select any color.

  8. In the Settings section, enable the toggle Move to next slide when the widget completes. This enables the Next button only after a learner selects all the cards.

    Note:

    On selecting the Previous or Next button, the interactions to move to the previous or next slide are set by default. But you can customize the interaction from the Interactions panel.

Change the properties of a card inside the widget

Change a card's appearance, add a title or subtitle, or add an image to the icon.

  1. Select a card in the widget.

  2. In the Components section in Visual Properties, you can change the following:

    • Image: Add or remove the image.
    • Title: Add or remove the title.
    • Subtitle: Add or remove the subtitle.
    • Icon: Add or remove the icon on the card. When the learner selects the icon at runtime, the card flips.
    Note:

    You can align the components in the Components section. Hover over a component and select any option (Align left, Align center, or Align right).

  3. You can add the card's background color, border, radius, or shadow in the Appearance section.

  4. Select an icon to change the icon's properties.

  5. In the Visual Properties panel, you can:

    1. Click the folder icon to replace the icon from Assets or on your computer. For more information, view SVGs in Adobe Captivate.
    2. In the Flip icon section, select Flip horizontally or Flip vertically, so that when a learner clicks the icon, the icon flips in the selected mode.
    3. Move the Opacity slider to increase or decrease the transparency of the icon.
    4. Change the icon's color using the Solid color picker.

Responsive mode behavior

When you change the properties of the card widget in a device mode, the horizontal scrollbar lets you view the cards.

Authoring in responsive mode
Authoring in responsive mode

Modify the image on a card

Apply an image filter, change an image's blur or brightness, add border, or replace the image.

  1. On the slide, select a card. Then, select the image on the card. Using the placeholder icon on the image, replace the image. For more information, view Images in Adobe Captivate.

  2. In the Appearance section of the Visual Properties panel, you can apply a filter, blur the image, and adjust the brightness and contrast.

  3. You can also add a border to the image. You can change the width of the border and add color, and add a border on one or four sides of the image.

  4. Select Drop shadow to add a shadow to the image's border.

  5. If you want to replace the existing image, click the folder icon in the Image Source section. You can pick the image from the Assets or on your computer.

  6. Select the pencil icon in the Image Source section to crop the image. For more information, view Images in Adobe Captivate.

  7. In the Reporting section, select the checkbox Inlcude in quiz if you want the quiz to be included in an LMS. Each scorable unit of Captivate is automatically assigned a unique Interaction ID. This Interaction ID is what makes data tracking by the LMS possible. 

Change the text on a card

Adobe Captivate allows you to change the properties at the text level. At the text level, you can apply a preset text style, change the font, change the text color, apply bullets and numbering, and many more.

  1. Select a card in the widget and then select a text object.

  2. In the Appearance section of the Visual Properties panel, change the text style, font, font size, text spacing, etc.

    text
    Edit text properties

  3. Change the text color in the color picker and apply a shadow if needed.

  4. Select Bullets and numbering to add bullets to the text. You can also change the size of the bullets, add colors, and change the indentation.

To know more about working with text in the all-new Adobe Captivate, view Text in Adobe Captivate.

Change the properties of the back of a card

The back panel contains cards where you can customize the text and description on each card and modify or change the image.

  1. Select Back in the selection dock below the cards.

    Select back card
    Select back card

    The back panel of the card container displays.

  2. Add a title and button in a card in the Components section of the Visual Properties panel. You can change the following:

    • Title: Add or remove the widget's title.
    • Next button: Add or remove this button to take the learner to the next slide.
    • Previous button: Add or remove this button to take the learner to the previous slide.

    The following customizations are available in the back matter of the card widget. Add or remove components from a card widget

    • Image: Add or remove the images on the cards.
    • Title: Add or remove the titles on the cards.
    • Subtitle: Add or remove the subtitles on the cards.
    Note:

    You can align the components in the Components section. Hover over a component and select any option (Align left, Align center, or Align right).

  3. In the Appearance section, change the radius of the border, background color, border, and shadow of the back of a card. For more information, view Change the widget's background.

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