On-Demand: Beginner Adobe Captivate Training
This pre-recorded beginner Adobe Captivate course will introduce you to the essential Captivate skills needed to develop awesome eLearning projects.
As your class begins, you’ll get comfortable with the Captivate interface by exploring an existing Captivate project. You’ll learn to use the Filmstrip, explore the inspectors, and poke around other areas of the Captivate interface.
Create a soft skills eLearning lesson from scratch. Work with themes, add slides, work with placeholders to add text and images. You’ll even add interactive buttons that will allow the learner to control the pace of the lesson and create a simple branching scenario.
Once you’re comfortable creating projects, tap into Captivate’s powerful screen recording features and create software demonstrations, interactive software simulations, and video demos. You’ll leverage Captivate’s multi-mode recording features to record three projects at the same time (one demo and two simulations).
Learn to add, modify, and control the timing of objects such as text captions, images, videos, and highlight boxes. You’ll learn to record, import, and edit audio, and how to further enhance the learner experience by adding interactivity via click boxes, buttons, and text entry boxes.
Engage your learner by adding quizzes, knowledge checks, and random quizzes to a project. And you’ll leverage and enrich existing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations by importing them into Captivate.
Learn how to output/publish a finished Captivate project for use by the widest possible audience so that your course can be used by learners on just about any device including desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
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Note: This is a recording of a live class. While it's not a live class, we created the recording with you in mind. Everything taught in the class is step-by-step. You'll follow along with the instructor just as if you had attended the course live. To follow along with the recording, you just need a current version of Adobe Captivate (even the trial version is fine). We will send you our Captivate workbook and supply the course assets mentioned in the recording.
How Do I Access the Recording?
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Lessons Covered During this 2-Day Class
Note: The lessons outlined below comprise activities 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.
eLearning and Captivate
As your class ramps up, you won't just learn how to start Captivate and click each tool, you'll begin the process of creating eLearning lessons from the ground up. You'll not only learn how to create effective eLearning, but why those lessons will be effective.
- Explore the Captivate Interface
- Zoom and Magnify
- Navigate a Project
- Preview a Project
- Create a New Project
Recording Software Simulations and Video Demos
Recording your desktop actions is one of Captivate's key features... and you'll cover the hottest recording modes: demo, assessment, training and custom.
- Rehearse a Script
- Edit Recording Settings
- Set Recording Keys
- Record a Demonstration
- Record an Assessment
- Record a Training Simulation
- Record a Custom Simulation
- Record and edit Video Demos
Captions, Styles and Timing
Once you've recorded your lessons, the real work begins. During these lessons, you will learn how to add text caption, set object styles and control the timing of slides objects.
- Insert, Resize and Move Text Captions
- Modify Text Caption Properties
- Edit the Default Caption Style
- Change a Callout Type Used by a Text Caption
- Control Slide Timing
- Control Slide Object Timing
- Check Spelling
- Align Slide Objects
Images and Videos
Adding images and Videos to your project will enhance the learner experience. These lessons will teach you how to add images and videos, manipulate them and manage them.
- Insert, Resize and Restore an Image
- Transform an Image’s Size and Position
- Use the Library
- Manage Unused Project Assets
- Insert and manage videos
Pointers, Buttons and Highlight Boxes
If you've created a demonstration, that pesky mouse can sometimes have a mind of its own. You'll learn how to tame that wild mouse during these lessons. Then you'll learn how to add some basic interactivity to a lesson via buttons.
- Add a Visual Click and Sound
- Modify the Mouse Pointer
- Insert and Format a Text Button
- Set a Button’s Pause After Timing
- Work With Image Buttons
- Insert and Format a Highlight Box
Audio
eLearning lessons that contain voiceover audio and sound effects are more effective than lessons that don't... and that's just a fact! Learn how to add, edit and record audio during these lessons. And if that's not enough, you'll also learn how to convert Text-to-Speech, which is just cool!
- Work with Rollover Captions
- Import Audio onto a Slide Object
- Import Background Audio
- Add a Slide Note
- Calibrate a Microphone
- Record Slide Audio
- Import a Voiceover onto a Slide
- Edit an Audio File
- Insert Silence
- Convert Text-to-Speech
Animations & Effects
You can control the way interactive objects look before they’re clicked, as they’re clicked, and after they’re clicked via Captivate’s States feature. There are lessons for adding Animation and special effects too.
- Work with States
- Add Animation to a slide
- Insert Text Animation
- Apply an Effect to a Slide Object
- Apply Filter Effects
- Modify Effect Properties
- Save and Import Effects
Creating Simulations out of Demonstrations
Interactive eLearning is generally thought to be more effective than passive demonstration videos. During these lessons, learn how to convert an existing demonstration into a highly engaging, interactive powerhouse.
- Hide the Mouse
- Replace Phrases
- Insert a Click Box
- Insert a Text Entry Box
Working with Microsoft PowerPoint
Often times the eLearning project begins in Microsoft PowerPoint. Why not use that content in your Captivate project? These lessons will help you master the PowerPoint to Captivate workflow.
- Import PowerPoint slides
- Resize One Object and Apply to All
- Round-Trip PowerPoint Edits
- Synch With Source
- Rescale a Project
Quizzing
Captivate sports some robust quizzing tools. You'll learn how to setup, create, import, and edit question slides.
- Edit Quizzing Object Styles
- Set the Quiz Preferences
- Insert Question slides
- Import Quiz Questions from GIFT files
- Format a Question slide
- Add an Image to a Question slide
Publishing
No project is finished until it has been published so that it can be consumed by your learners. Learn the best publishing format to use for the widest audience (including SWF and HTML5 output). Learn how to add a TOC to your lessons and the ideal settings for publishing.
- Work with Skins
- Name slides
- Create a TOC
- Check Publish Settings and Add a Loading Screen
- Publish a SWF and PDF
- Run the HTML5 Tracker
- Publish as HTML5
