Course Overview

This course is designed to take participants through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations. The course is task-based, with participants learning by recording and updating projects. Along with covering the key features of Captivate, the course focuses on best practices to record Captivate projects.

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Prerequisites

• • This course is targeted at those who are looking at getting started with Captivate. You should have good general computer skills, such as the ability to copy and paste, open files and applications and resize windows. Prior experience of working with Adobe Captivate is not needed.

Course Content

• ADOBE CAPTIVATE BASICS

  What is Captivate?
  Planning your projects
  Resolution and recording size
  Guided tour of the Captivate user interface

• TEXT CAPTIONS AND THE TIMELINE

  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

• WORKING WITH OBJECT STYLES

  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

• IMAGES

  Inserting images
  Setting image size and position
  Setting image timing options and transition effects
  Using the Library

• WORKING WITH MASTER SLIDES

  What Master Slides are, and how they can help you to work more efficiently
  Creating a new content master slide
  Applying a master slide to other slides
  Modifying a master slide

• BUTTONS AND HIGHLIGHT BOXES

  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

• 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

• DRAG AND DROP

  When to use Drag and Drop
  Setting up Drag and Drop scenarios

• CREATING INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS AND TUTORIALS

  Introduction to eLearning tutorials
  Explanation of different types of recording
  Recording in different modes at the same time
  Hiding the mouse
  Inserting and working with Click Boxes

• AUDIO

  Explanation of possible audio strategies
  Adding background music to a project
  Adding audio to a slide
  Recording and editing audio

• SKINS AND THEMES

  Editing and saving skins
  Saving and using Themes

• COMPLIANT MOVIES AND PUBLISHING

  Ensuring accessibility by enabling 508 Compliance
  Adding Closed Captions (subtitles)
  Setting Project Properties

• QUESTION SLIDES AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS

  Devising an appropriate quiz strategy
  Setting Quiz Preferences
  Inserting Question Slides
  Setting Question Slide options
  Formatting and laying out Question slides
  Adding Randomised Quiz Questions

• PUBLISHING

  Understanding the issues when publishing
  Publishing locally
  Publish for Devices
  What is Adobe Captivate Prime

Included with this course

• • Comprehensive course materials and exercises