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Adobe Captivate Training:
Captivate 5 Foundation/Intermediate
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Who is the Captivate foundation/intermediate training for?
This course enables novice and intermediate users of Adobe Captivate 5 to use the full range of key features with confidence. No previous experience of working with Captivate is required—however, familiarity with the Windows operating system (2000 or later) is a prerequisite.
How will I benefit from this Captivate training?
After taking the course, you will be equipped to work more efficiently and effectively, and to maximise the benefits of this powerful eLearning tool. The course is customized to your needs, and provides many practical guidelines and tips for creating both software demonstrations and interactive tutorials. You'll also learn how to integrate Captivate training modules with a Learning Management System (LMS).
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Captivate foundation/intermediate course duration
| Standard course: | Two days |
| Custom course: | One to three days, depending on your objectives and previous experience |
How is this Captivate training delivered?
This course is delivered in the following three ways:
- Hands-on classroom training for groups of up to ten students at your own place of work
- One-to-one coaching in Southampton, UK
- Web-based coaching as a series of 90-minute instructor-led interactive sessions
Captivate training course outline
- What is Captivate?
- Planning your projects
- Resolution and recording size
- Guided tour of the Captivate user interface
- Recording projects
- Pros and cons of Automatic Recording
- Selecting an appropriate Recording Mode
- Multi-mode Recording
Pointer Paths, Text Captions and the Timeline
- Changing the pointer path
- Adding a visual mouse click and mouse click sound
- Using the "Align with Previous Slide" option
- Working with text captions
- Editing an object's position and size
- Using the timeline to control object timing
- Showing an object for the "Rest of Slide"
- Aligning captions
- Hiding and deleting slide objects
- How object styles can increase consistency and make your projects easier to maintain
- Creating a style for text captions
- Applying a style to other text captions
- Modifying a style
- Using styles with other object types
- Copying styles from one project into another
- Inserting blank slides
- Inserting images
- Setting image size and position
- Setting image timing options and transition effects
- Merging images into the background
- Working with image stacks
- Using the Library
- Importing images from other Adobe Captivate projects
- What Master Slides are, and how they can help you to work more efficiently
- Creating a new master slide
- Applying a master slide to other slides
- Modifying a master slide
- Inserting a Text Button
- Inserting an Image Button
- Using colour to highlight an area of the screen
- Highlighting an area by greying out the rest of the screen
Creating
interactive simulations and tutorials
- Introduction to eLearning tutorials
- Explanation of interactive objects
- Hiding the mouse
- Inserting and working with Click Boxes
- Auto Recording with interactivity
- Inserting and working with Text Entry Boxes
- Showing and hiding typing
Rollover Captions, Images, and Zoom Areas
- Introduction to Rollovers
- Working with Rollover Captions
- Working with Rollover Images
- Using Rollovers to provide a "true" Hint facility
- Using Rollovers to enable users to explore on their own
- Inserting Zoom Areas
Slide Labels, Notes, and Audio
- Working with Slides Labels and Notes
- Explanation of possible audio strategies
- Adding background music to a project
- Adding audio to a slide
- Recording and editing audio
- Adding sound effects to slide objects
- Working with animation slides
- Inserting Animations to draw attention
- Inserting Text Animations
- Inserting Flash Video
- Setting Flash Video Properties
Importing, Exporting, and Branching
- Importing PowerPoint presentations
- Importing Captivate slides and objects
- Using Buttons to create a branch
- Working with the Branching Tab
- Publishing Word handouts
- "Round-tripping" text captions to and from Word
- Editing and saving skins
- Adding a Loading Screen
- Creating a Project Template
- Recording a new project based on a Template
- Editing a Template
Compliant Movies and Publishing
- Ensuring accessibility by enabling 508 Compliance
- Adding Closed Captions (subtitles)
- Linking to a Web Site
- Setting Project Properties
- Publishing Flash and Standalone projects
- Using FTP
Question Slides and Learning Management Systems
- Devising an appropriate quiz strategy
- Setting Quiz Preferences
- Creating a Manifest File
- Inserting Question Slides
- Setting Question Slide options
- Formatting and laying out Question slides
- Editing the Submit Button text
- Adding Randomised Quiz Questions
- Publishing a Zipped Flash Project
Introducing your trainer
Matthew Ellison has over 25 years of experience as an eLearning professional in the software industry, and is a qualified teacher (PGCE) and Certified Technical Trainer. He has worked with Captivate since the very first version in 2002, which was then called RoboDemo.
Matthew is an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Certified Expert for Captivate, and is well known around the world for his authoritative and entertaining presentations. He is also is a participant in Adobe's pre-release program for the next version of Captivate, and was invited to present an extended workshop Introduction to Captivate at the 2009 WritersUA Conference in Seattle, WA.
