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Thoughts on Instructional Design and TechSmith Camtasia

There are many different tools for instructional design. And I have seen many different approaches to interactive content. In this blog, I share some occasional thoughts on what I am seeing in this rapidly growing field. Have questions or thoughts to share? Please post your comments below or share them by contacting me.

You may have noticed that when you view a Captivate 13.1 project in a browser, the browser tab will show something like My Project.cpt. You may want to avoid the appearance of the .cpt extension, or you may want an entirely different name to appear on the browser tab. Here is how you fix that.

Once you build your project, edit the project.js file in assets > js. Search for the string pN:' . This must be a case-sensitive search, as there are many occurrences of pn:' in the file. You can also search for the name of your project file. For example, if your project file is My Project.cpt, search for My Project.cpt. You will find a line that looks like the following:

pN:'My Project.cpt'

Change the text between the two single quotes to whatever you want the browser tab to show when your project is run. For example:

pN:'This Is My Project Name'

Make sure you save your changes to the project.js file. That's it!