Captivate Training - Captivate 3 Essentials

Audience
The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. You should already be:

• Familiar with the Microsoft Windows operating system.
• Familiar with using Microsoft Internet Explorer.
• Familiar with basic computer terminology.

Objectives

On this course, the participants will learn the following:

• Create effective training by first understanding the workflow process and storyboarding.
• Record software demonstrations and simulations with on-screen action.
• Create engaging training by using multimedia.
• Set initial recording options and project preferences.
• Preview and save projects.
• Update content by editing captions.
• Insert slide elements such as text captions, images, objects, sound, and animated text.
• Use the Timeline feature to change caption and object timing.
• Edit projects by recording additional slides.
• Ensure narrative accuracy by spell checking your project.
• Create handouts for reviewers so they can understand the projects sequence and narrative.
• Publish your project to Word documents and SWF files.
• Add narration by recording or importing audio into projects.
• Increase user interactivity by inserting click boxes and highlight boxes, and text entry boxes.
• Add interest by inserting rollover captions and rollover images.
• Test e-learners by inserting question slides and scoring options.
• Create interest by branching to different slides and projects.
• Create a backup of a project.
• Resize a project.
• Leverage existing content by importing PowerPoint slides, importing printable documentation into a project.
• Increase usability of projects by creating hyperlinks to websites and to another project.
• Create a MenuBuilder project to tie all the projects together so viewers can easily access one project after another.

Course Overview

Introducing Captivate

• Start Adobe Captivate 3 and Set General Preferences
• Open and Close Existing Projects
• View Project Information and Open Slides
• Preview a Project
• Zoom Closer to a Slide
• View the Library and Timeline

Recording

• Step Through a Script
• Set the Recording Type and Options
• Record a Project Manually
• Record a Demonstration
• Record an Assessment Simulation
• Record a Training Assessment
• Record a Custom Project
• Record a Project in Different Languages
• Record a Project in Multiple Modes at One Time

Text Captions and The Timeline

• Duplicate a Slide and Hide the Mouse
• Insert, Resize and Move Text Captions
• Change Text Caption Properties
• Change an Object’s Slide Position and Size
• View the Timeline
• Change a Slide’s Display Time
• Change Timeline View Settings
• Use the Timeline to Set Text Caption Display Times
• Show/Hide Timeline Objects
• Use Options to Control Object Timing
• Set Mouse Properties
• Check Spelling
• Align Slide Objects

Images

• Insert and Delete Slides
• Insert an Image
• Set Image Size and Slide Position
• Use the Library
• Manage Unused Images
• Create an Image Transparency
• Create an Image Watermark
• Replace an Image
• Set Image Timing Options and Transition Effects
• Work With Image Stacks
• Add a Visual Mouse Click and Click Sound

Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

• Change the Pointer Path
• Change the Pointer Type
• Edit a Slide and Object Display Times
• Insert a Text Button
• Set a Button’s Options
• Insert an Image Button
• Insert and Format a Highlight Box

Converting Demonstrations into Simulations

• Hide the Mouse
• Replace Phrases
• Insert a Click Box
• Set Click Box Options
• Change a Slide’s Display Time
• Set a Text Caption Transition
• Insert a Text Entry Box

Rollovers and Zoom Areas

• Insert a Rollover Caption
• Set Rollover Area Properties
• Insert a Rollover Image
• Insert a Zoom Area
• Insert a Rollover Slidelet
• Set Rollover Slidelet Properties
• Format and Position a Slidelet
• Insert a Caption into a Slidelet
• Insert an Image into a Slidelet

Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

• Add a Slide Label
• Add a Slide Note
• Add a Sound Effect to an Object
• Add Background Music to a Project
• Calibrate a Microphone
• Record a Slide Note
• Edit an Audio File
• Insert Silence

Animation and Flash Video

• Change a Project’s Frame Rate
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Change an Animation’s Slide Position
• Insert Text Animation
• Add Flash Video

Importing and Branching

• Import PowerPoint Animation
• Import PowerPoint Backgrounds
• Resize a Project
• Import Project Slides and Objects
• Label a Slide
• Use Buttons to Create a Branch
• Explore the Branching Tab
• Export the Branching View
• Create a Slide Group
• Work with a Slide Group

Skins and Templates

• Apply a BMP Playbar
• Apply a Skin
• Edit and Save a Skin
• Delete a Skin
• Add a Loading Screen
• Create a Project Template
• Create a New Project From a Template
• Record Additional Slides
• Edit a Template

Compliant Movies, Bandwidth and Publishing

• Enable 508 Compliance
• Add Accessibility Text
• Add Closed Captions
• Link to a Web Site
• Set Project Information
• Check Bandwidth
• Publish a Flash (SWF)
• Publish Word Handouts
• Export Captions
• Perform a “Round Trip” From Word

Creating Quizzes

• Set Quiz Preferences
• Insert a Question Slide
• Add an Image to a Question Slide
• Reuse a Slide Background
• Format the Question Title
• Use the Slide Grid
• Format the Progress Indicator
• Create and Rename Question Pools
• Add Questions to Question Pools
• Insert Random Question Slides

MenuBuilder

• Publish a Standalone Project
• Create a MenuBuilder Project
• Add Text Items to a Menu
• Format Styles
• Edit Text Items
• Export a MenuBuilder Project

Learning Management Systems

• Set Reporting Options
• Create a Manifest File
• Adjust Slide Object Interaction
• Publish a Content Package
• Create an LMS Account
• Create an LMS Lesson
• Create an LMS Course
• Create an LMS Curriculum
• Test an E-Learning Course