Text Entry Boxes (TEBs) allows your learners to type directly into your eLearning lesson. Personally, I think TEBs offer the highest level of interactivity you can add to a lesson without the need for advanced programming skills. To add a TEB to a lesson, simply choose Insert > Standard Objects > Text Entry Box.
The assumed default usage of a TEB is short bursts of information entered by your learner. For instance, many people use TEBs to simulate access into an application (the learner is asked to type a username and/or a password). However, there are instances where you might want the learner to type a sentence or two (to simulate the use of a word processor or a text field where multiple lines of text are acceptable).
In the image below, I previewed a lesson and typed a fairly long sentence into a TEB. Notice that once I reached the right side of the TEB, instead of wrapping to a second or third line, the text continued to move right.
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Thanks for the information. I need to put text, graphic, and possibly an mp4 file into the equivalent of a text box area and scroll that, and publish it to html5. At the very least a scrollable graphic. I can see how this can be done with creating the scrollable items in Flash and the importing that into Captivate, but this has to be viewed on an iPad. Do you think this can be done in Captivate 6? Possibly create the scrollable elements in something other than Captivate and import that? Patrick
Posted by: Patrick Ryan | October 29, 2012 at 05:10 PM