This course teaches you how to create interactive & online training presentations, simulations, and quizzes. Learn how to create HTML5 responsive projects. Import images, sound, & videos, and create interactivity using buttons. Build software demonstrations, interactive simulations, animation & more!
Audience
Adobe Captivate | Level 1 is a course for beginning Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations, eLearning, presentations, quiz assessment and interactivity. Captivate is a great tool for creating Computer Based Training.
Prerequisites
Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac
Course Outline
Introduction to Captivate
- What is Captivate?
- What can it do?
- What is resolution?
- What size should my projects be?
- Bitmaps and Vector Images
- Flow Charts
- Creating a new project
Project Planning
- Target Audience Connection Speeds
- Target Audience – Monitor Resolution
- Creating Storyboards
- Interface Basics
Recording Essentials
- Grabbing Still Images
- Using Full Motion Recording & When
- Manual Recording A Demonstration
Recording a Demonstration
- Using Manual Recording Mode
- Hotkey Controls
- Previewing your Project
- Using Automatic Recording Mode
- Preview and Note differences
Project Editing
- Inserting Blank slides
- Creating Slide Labels & Why
- Reordering Slides
- Defining & Modifying Highlight Boxes
- Setting Mouse and pointer options
Text Captions
- Objects in the timeline
- Caption Types vs Styles
- Using Transparency
Object Styles
- Setting Attributes
- Defining New Styles
- Applying Object Styles
Timeline Essentials
- Object layering/reordering/stacking order
- Controlling Timings (birth and duration)
- End Marker and Anchors
Importing Images
- Scaling Images
- Managing the Library
- Understanding Library Controls
- Drag and drop onto Canvas vs. Filmstrip
- Merge into Background
- RoundTrip Image Editing
- Editing & Cropping Images in Captivate
- Background Trade-outs
- Internal Image Editing Options
Tools
- Learning all the tools
- Creating Captions
- Creating Text
- Creating Buttons
- Inserting Rollover Captions
- In-course web browsing
- Slidelets
- Inserting Components
- Characters
Creating Simulations
- Training, Assessment & Demo
- Recording Settings
- Capturing the Mouse & Shortcut Keys
- Click Boxes – an invisible button
Simulation Editing
- Editing Captions - apply to all?
- Success Captions
- Click Box Options
The Captivate Actions List
- Available Options
- Linking to Websites
- Linking to Files
- Absolute and Relative Paths
Importing Powerpoint Projects
- Selection and Placement
- What’s Importable
- Navigation Settings
- Dynamic Linking
- Editing Powerpoint within Captivate
Buttons
- Three Button types explained
- Custom File naming conventions: _up, _over, _down
- Button vs Click Boxes
Master Slides and Templates
- Defining Master Slides
- Working with a Master Slide
- Creating a Template
- Using Templates in Projects
Publishing Enhancements
- Movie Preferences
- Pre-Loading Animations
- Adding & Modifying Skins, Navigation, and Borders
- Creating a Table of Contents Menu
- Adding Project Info
Video
- Importing Video
- Changing skins
- Stream vs Progressive download
- HTML Video
- Pausing Project for Video Completion
- YouTube Video Streaming - share YouTube videos within a lesson
Audio
- Recording Narration
- Importing Audio
- Editing Audio – silence /volume levels
- Background Audio
- Advanced Audio Management
- Encoding Settings
- Creating Closed Captions
- Text-to-Speech
Effects
- Creating Zoom areas
- Panning during Recording
- Working with Rollovers
- Using Effect Presets
- Animation Effects
- Adding Drop Shadows
- Creating and Editing Gradiens
- Defining Trigger-based Effects
Quizzes
- Types of Available Questions
- Editing the Captions & Buttons
- Review Areas
- Displaying Progress Indicators
- Using the Advanced Interactions Manager
- Architecting Pools - Embedded vs Standalone
- Building Question Pools
- Creating a Random Questions
- Publishing and Dependent files
Delivery Options
- Adding Table of Contents
- TOC settings
Publishing
- SWF and Dependant Formats
- Scaling your Project
- FTP Uploading
- Publishing as a PDF
- Publishing as an AVI
- Publish to YouTube
Note:
ALL our classes come with a CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.
Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.
School Notes: Important - Students must bring their own laptop with the Adobe application loaded to be prepared for class. We do not supply computers. It's Bring Your Own
Computer.
