Specialist training on
User Assistance
and eLearning
Training course:
Upgrading to Adobe Captivate 4
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Who is the Captivate 4 Upgrade training for?
This course enables users of previous versions of Captivate to learn and use with confidence the full range of advanced new features in Adobe Captivate 4. Familiarity with either Captivate version 2 or 3 is required.
How will I benefit from this Captivate training?
After taking the course, you will be equipped to exploit all the powerful new features in Captivate 4 including variables, advanced actions, Widgets, the Adobe Captivate Reviewer, and Design Templates. The course can be customised to your specific interests and objectives, and it provides many practical guidelines and tips based on real-life projects.
Upgrading to Adobe Captivate 4 - course duration
One day
How is this 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 Ringwood, Hampshire, UK
- Web-based coaching as a series of four 90-minute instructor-led interactive sessions
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Course outline
Overview of the most important new features in Captivate 4
Important changes to the user interface
- Tips and guidelines for using the brand new interface for recording new projects
- Changes to project preferences and settings
- A new way to edit text captions
- Explanation of the revised menu structure
- Potential pitfalls for users of previous versions
- Compared with Project Templates
- When you should use them
- Creating and editing Design Templates
- Applying Design Templates
- Issues to be aware of
The new Table of Contents feature
- Advantages and limitations of the Table of Contents
- Creating a Table of Contents
- Editing and customising a Table of Contents
- Tips for getting maximum benefit from the Table of Contents
- Enabling users to resume eLearning sessions
- Using the Aggregator to combine multiple SWFs and multiple SCOs
- Introduction to Adobe AIR and the Captivate Reviewer
- Creating reviews
- Reviewing projects
- Importing and processing review comments
Variables and advanced actions
- Introduction to variables and advanced actions
- Examples of when you would use them
- Assigning multiple actions to an event
- Explanation of system and user-defined variables
- Scripting advanced actions
- What are Widgets?
- Examples of useful Widgets
- Creating a Widget
- Key issues to consider
- Tips for maximising impact within a small screen
- How to use panning
- AVI format
- PDF format
- Choosing the most appropriate option
Introducing your trainer
Matthew Ellison has more than 20 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 RoboDemo (the previous name of this tool) version 1.0.
Matthew is an Adobe Community Expert for Captivate and RoboHelp, and an Adobe Certified Instructor. Matthew 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.
