Using Captivate
2 days | 9:30am - 4:30pm | $895

Description

Using Adobe Captivate 2 provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to develop and build software demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, students also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects.
Audience

This course is for beginning and intermediate Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Captivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Introducing the Course
* Understanding the course structure
* Outlining the course content

Unit 2: Introducing Captivate
* Introducing Captivate
* Previewing a Captivate project
* Exploring Captivate’s working environment

Unit 3: Recording a Demonstration
* Describing the workflow process
* Recording an application demonstration
* Previewing and saving a demonstration
* Best practices for recording projects

Unit 4: Editing a Demonstration
* Inserting slides
* Labeling slides
* Using the Filmstrip
* Working with text captions
* Editing text captions
* Inserting new text captions
* Changing caption properties
* Working with pointer paths
* Changing project pointers
* Changing mouse properties
* Changing highlight box properties

Unit 5: Working with Objects in the Timeline
* Using the Timeline
* Exploring the major components of the Timeline
* Previewing a slide using the playhead
* Changing the slide timing
* Changing object display times and lengths
* Changing the order of object layers

Unit 6: Working with Images
* Inserting images
* Resizing images
* Aligning images
* Setting image properties
* Stacking objects / images
* Merging objects / images
* Adding sound to a specific image

Unit 7: Publishing Your Project
* Checking the spelling of your project
* Setting movie properties
* Setting movie preferences
* Resizing your project
* Analyzing bandwidth
* Publishing your project
* Exporting from Captivate to Flash
* Modifying Captivate projects with Flash

Unit 8: Adding Audio
* Planning your e-learning projects
* Describing audio features
* Recording a custom-sized project
* Recording audio while creating a new project
* Calibrating your microphone
* Adding audio to an existing project
* Importing audio files
* Editing audio files
* Importing background audio

Unit 9: Recording a Simulation
* Recording an assessment simulation project
* Customizing recording options
* Inserting click boxes
* Importing PowerPoint slides
* Inserting buttons
* Inserting text entry boxes

Unit 10: Adding Animation
* Introducing rollover captions and images
* Inserting rollover captions
* Inserting rollover images
* Inserting text animation
* Inserting animation

Unit 11: Adding Question Slides
* Planning for questions
* Inserting a true/false question slide
* Editing a question slide
* Introducing branching
* Creating a multiple path
* Inserting a multiple choice question slide
* Setting reporting options and tracking interactions
* Sending scoring results and tracking simulations

Unit 12: Sending Results to a Learning Management System
* Defining e-learning benefits
* Introducing Learning Management Systems
* Using an LMS
* Defining AICC and SCORM standards
* Setting e-learning output options
* Introducing the Manifest File
* Creating a Package Interface File
* Using Captivate with Acrobat Connect

Unit 13: Updating Your Projects
* Recording additional slides
* Importing slides from one project to another

Unit 14: Creating Standalone Viewer with MenuBuilder
* Introducing MenuBuilder
* Creating a MenuBuilder project
* Creating links
* Previewing a MenuBuilder project
* Editing a MenuBuilder project
* Exporting a MenuBuilder project
* Introducing CaptivatePlayer