Adobe Captivate is the industry-leading eLearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining a wide range of interactive Flash and HTML5-based eLearning and mLearning content. In this advanced course you will learn to improve your screen recording skills via projects templates and pre-editing your text captions. You’ll enhance your production skills by learning about object styles, master slides, themes, and advanced actions. You’ll learn to create, insert, and edit variables that will enrich the learner experience, and you will learn how to create branching scenarios that will enable learners to plot their own learning path. You’ll learn to collaborate with team members using Captivate’s powerful commenting capabilities. You’ll ensure your eLearning and mLearning output can be accessed by people with disabilities by adding such 508-compliant features as accessibility text and closed captions. Finally, you’ll learn about SCORM, AICC, SCOs, Manifests and how to upload published lessons into an LMS.
This class is fully interactive, as you will be able to speak with and hear from the instructor and other students as you work in real time to complete activities within the software. While not a requirement, some students find it helpful to attend this class using two computer monitors. This will allow for one screen to always display the instructor's screen, and the other for you to use as you follow along with the instructor.
During this 2-day, live, hands-on class you will learn advanced Captivate concepts including:
Essential Skills with a Twist
You'll get your advanced class started with a bit of a review. You'll record a software simulation using Captivate's Custom recording mode. Where's the twist? You'll edit a
little-known language file and control the text that appears in future Captivate text captions. The time you'll save by pre-editing this little file just might pay for this class.
You Will Learn About:
- Planning eLearning Projects
- The Development Process
- Resolution and Recording Size
- Custom Recordings
- Text Caption Pre-Editing
Custom Styles, Branching and Aggregating
If you've created several small projects, you'll learn that you can easily combine them into one master project. Once you've combined projects, you'll learn how to create jumps (branches) between different parts of the bigger lesson. And if you've created large lessons that are too big to combine, you'll learn how to use the Aggregator to allow independent lessons to share a TOC.
You Will Learn About:
- Custom Styles
- Combining Projects
- Branching
- Slide Groups
- Aggregator
Question Pools
You'll get a refresher on how to add a question slide to a project. Then you will learn to create question pools and random question slides that will make it difficult for learners to share quiz content with each other.
You Will Learn About:
- Question Pools
- Random Question Slides
Accessible eLearning
Creating eLearning lessons and courses that are accessible to citizens with disabilities may be a requirement in your organization. During these lessons, you'll learn some Section 508 best practices, and how to implement them within a Captivate project.
You Will Learn About:
- Accessibility and Captivate
- Accessibility Text
- Shortcut Keys
- Closed Captioning
Variables and Widgets
Variables will allow you to customize an eLearning lesson for every student. And you don't have to know a single programming code to work with variables. You'll also learn about widgets and how to add them to a project.
You Will Learn About:
- Inserting and Creating Both System and User-Defined Variables
- Inserting and Working with Widgets
Reviewing and Background Editing
We live in a world where collaboration is king. Learn how to use Captivate's free built-in collaboration tools. You will be able to get feedback about your project from team members located just about anywhere in the world.
You Will Learn About:
- Sending a Project for Shared Review Using Acrobat.com
- Background Editing
- Working with Photoshop Layers
Master Slides, Themes and Project Templates
Efficiency doesn't reach much higher than this... learn to keep the look and feel of your Captivate projects consistent across slides and projects when you create master slides, apply and customize Themes, and create and use Project Templates.
You Will Learn About:
- Master Slides
- Themes
- Project Templates
- Template Placeholders
Reporting Results
If you've included a quiz in your eLearning lesson, it's likely you'll need to track the quiz results. No Learning Management System (LMS)? No worries. You'll learn how to use the free Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer to track quiz results over the cloud... no LMS or server needed. And if working with an LMS is a requirement, we've got you covered there too. You'll learn how to prepare a Captivate project so that it will work with an LMS, and actually upload a lesson to an LMS and test it.
You Will Learn About:
- LMS Reporting Options
- Manifest Files
- Advanced Interaction
- Content Packages
- Uploading to an LMS
Advanced Actions
When a learner clicks on a button or click box, an Action occurs. But what if you want multiple, conditional actions to occur? You'll be introduced to Captivate's Advanced Actions that will allow objects to perform multiple tricks for every learner click.
You Will Learn About:
- Standard Actions
- Conditional Actions
- Conditional and Standard Action Combos
Note: The lessons outlined above comprise topics typically covered in a class of this skill level. The instructor may, at the instructor's discretion, alter the lesson plan to meet the needs of the class participants.
About Your Instructor
Kevin Siegel is the founder and president of IconLogic, Inc. He has written more than 100 step-by-step computer training books including: Essentials of Adobe Captivate 6, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 5, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4, Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3, Essentials of Macromedia Captivate, Essentials of RoboDemo 5, Essentials of RoboDemo 4, Essentials of RoboDemo 3, Essentials of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Essentials of QuarkXPress 7, Accelerated QuarkXPress 6, Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS3, Essentials of Adobe PageMaker 7 and Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 8 and many more.
Kevin spent five years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an award-winning photojournalist and has more than 24 years experience as a print publisher and technical writer. He is a certified technical trainer, has been a classroom instructor for more than 18 years and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conventions.
Kevin has been recognized by Adobe Systems, Inc., as one of the Top Five Most Highly-Rated Adobe Certified Instructors Worldwide.
