Adobe Captivate Introduction:

Gain the knowledge and hands-on experience needed to create powerful and engaging interactive media presentations Duration: 2 days (this course can be customised to run over one or two days. In some cases, content from the advanced course may be included)

Course Outline
Captivate Introductory Course 2 Day

Objectives

This course will provide delegates with the knowledge and hands-on experience they need to create powerful and engaging software training/simulations, compliance courses, soft skills courses, branched scenarios, quizzes and much more.

Introduction:

• Project ‘Workflows’
• Project & user requirements
• Resolution & recording size

Explore the Interface:

• Menu bar & buttons
• Filmstrip
• Properties panel/Library
• Timeline

Creating a new Project & Themes:

• Using built-in Themes & Theme colours
• Set a default Theme
• Creating a new Theme

Working with Slides & Masters:

• Adding blank slides
• Using different slide layouts
• Converting layouts
• Adding text to placeholders
• Restoring placeholders

Work with Images:

• Inserting into placeholders
• Set image size & position
• Align, arrange & distribute
• Grouping/ungrouping objects
• Using the Library

Working with Text:

• Insert text captions
• Use the spell checker
• Edit text objects

Styles:

• Applying & modifying built-in styles
• Using the Object Style Manager
• Creating new styles & deleting styles
• Exporting & importing styles

Master Slide View:

• Editing the slide Master
• Editing the Project background
• Creating New Content Masters
• Adding/formatting placeholders

Previewing your Project

• Preview options
• HTML5 preview

Timing & Slide Transition Effects

• Timing the slide
• Timing objects on the slide
• Setting timing defaults
• Slide transition effects

Timeline:

• Displaying/collapsing the timeline
• Adjust time & transition effects
• Using the play controls
• Control stacking order
• Hiding/locking objects on the timeline

Shapes (Smart Shapes) & Characters:

• Inserting Characters
• Add & formatting shapes
• Editing points
• Use for interactivity (as a Button)

Adding Interaction - Buttons:

• Add different button types (Text, Transparent & Image)
• Formatting buttons
• Create links
• Create custom buttons
• Add click boxes

Creating Links & Branching:

• Naming Slides
• Changing button behaviour
• Jump to slides (branching)
• Explore the branching view

Adding Interaction – Click Boxes:

• Using Success, Failure & Hint boxes
• Choosing ‘On Success’ actions
• Setting Display options

Adding Interaction – Rollover Captions & Images:

• Limitations of rollovers
• Rollover caption & zoom areas
• Formatting the rollover area
• Formatting rollover text & images

Multistate Objects:

• Multistate view
• Creating & duplicating states
• Apply states to actions

Adding other Objects:

• Highlight Boxes & Zoom areas
• Mouse paths & pointers

Add sound:

• Importing audio to the project background & slides
• Importing audio to objects
• Deleting audio
• Record audio
• Calibrate the microphone
• Edit an audio file (cropping, adding silence)
• Add closed captioning

Skins, Playback Controls and Table of Contents:

• Apply a skin to a project
• Selecting controls
• Adding a Table of Contents
• Change the style
• Edit and save a skin
• Remove a skin

Animation & Flash Video:

• Limitations
• Add animation to a slide
• Insert text animation
• Insert Flash video
• Set Flash video properties

Adding other Video:

• Video types (streaming, progressive download)
• Multi-slide video
• Event video
• YouTube video

Object Effects:

• Animating text
• Animating other objects
• Animated gifs

Captivate & PowerPoint Slides:

• Import slides from PowerPoint
• Linking Captivate & PowerPoint
• PowerPoint “round-tripping”
• Edit PowerPoint slides from within Captivate
• Updating a link
• Resizing projects

Performing a Word “Round-trip”:

• Exporting Captivate text content to Word
• Importing edited Word document to Captivate

Software:

Software Demonstration/Simulation

• Recording options & considerations
• Editing/deleting mouse pointer & path
• Editing & formatting the text captions
• Merging shapes with the background

Question Slides:

• Question types
• Setting up quiz preferences
• Insert a question slide
• Add content to a question slide
• Format the questions and answers

Project Info & Publishing:

• Adding project information & publishing your projects
• Start, end & pre-loader
• Publishing options