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Essentials of Macromedia Captivate
 If you are an instructional designer
or technical writer, you have no doubt spent years attempting
to perfect the art of teaching programs using fewer and fewer
words. If you are in the business of educating, you know how difficult
this job can be.
These days, interactive lessons that can be viewed over the Internet
or from a CD are all the rage.
There are many programs that can be used to capture a computer's
screen, mouse action and audio. Unfortunately, the resulting movies
can be huge--a five minute lesson could easily gobble up nearly
100mb of storage space on a hard drive. Downloading a file that
large will take a lot of time, even if a user has a fast Internet
connection. Large file sizes are just part of the problem. The
movies may not be cross-platform (they may not work on both Macs
and PCs). Interactivity is a feature most of the "mouse capture"
applications do not support. And there are few of these programs
that allow images to be imported.
In short, the technology for creating interactive lessons WAS
bad. But not anymore. Using Captivate, you can capture screen
shots on your computer and quickly turn them into lessons (movies).
The movies you create can be interactive--you can add images,
captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas and sound effects.
Note: To complete the lessons
presented in this book, you will need the following software and
hardware: Macromedia Captivate, 600 MHz Intel Pentium III processor
or equivalent, Windows 2000 or Windows XP, 128 MB of RAM, 100
MB available disk space. Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, Flash
Player 6 or later, Microphone to record audio, Speakers and a
sound card
Captivate does not come with this book. The software
can be purchased directly from Macromedia.
This book includes lessons on the following Captivate features:
Captivate Basics
- Resolution and Recording Size
- Set Captivate Preferences
- Explore a Completed Movie
- Create a New Movie Manually
- Record in Demonstration Mode
- Record a Movie in the Assessment Modes
Captions and the Timeline
- Insert Text Captions
- Change Caption Properties
- Use the Timeline to Control Caption Timing
- Use the Timeline to Control Caption Timing
- Set Mouse Properties
- Use the Timeline to Control Display Time
- Duplicate a Slide
- Hide and Delete Slide Objects
- Change Slide Timing
- Check Spelling
- Align Captions
Images
- Insert and Delete Blank Slides
- Insert Images
- Make an Image Transparent
- Use the Timeline to Control Image Appearance
Order
- Set Image Timing Options and Transition
- Work with Image Stacks
Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes
- Change the Pointer Path
- Insert a Text Button
- Insert and Format a Highlight Box
- Create Captions Automatically
"Let Me Try" Movies
- Show Me vs. Let Me Try Movies
- Add Click Boxes
- Add Text Entry Boxes
Rollover Captions and Rollover Images
- Insert a Rollover Caption
- Set Rollover Area Properties
- Insert a Rollover Image
Slide Labels, Notes and Audio
- Add a Slide Label
- Add a Slide Note
- Add a Sound Effect to an Object
- Add Background Music to a Movie
- Calibrate a Microphone
- Record Audio
- Edit an Audio File
- Insert Silence
Animation
- Change a Movie's Frame Rate
- Add Animation to a Slide
- Create a Animation Slide
Question Slides
- Create Quiz Slides
- Link Movies to Web Sites
- Link Movies Together
- Work with an LMS
Importing and Publishing
- Import a PowerPoint Presentation
- Resize a Movie
- Import Slides from One Captivate Movie into
Another
- Set Movie Controls
- Create a Template
- Setup a Movie to be 508 Compliant
- Publish a Movie as a Word Document
- Publish a Movie as a Flash Movie File
- FTP of Movie to a Server
- Create a Menu Builder Project
plus you'll find valuable information about Building a Successful
e-Training Program, Strategies of e-Learning, Project Management,
e-Learning Analysis, e-Learning Design and Development, e-Learning
Implementation and Evaluation, e-Learning Instructional and Technological
Building Blocks, Training Techniques, Management Systems, Open
Standards, Course Design & Content and Human-Computer Interaction.
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