Captivate 3

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Course Overview

With Adobe Captivate 3 software, anyone can develop interactive, engaging content without programming knowledge or multimedia skills. For training professionals, educators, and business users, interactive content is much more effective than static demonstrations or presentations.

Developing and updating professional quality simulations however is expensive, time consuming, and difficult. With the Captivate training course, you can learn how to create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario based training in Adobe's Macromedia Flash format, without learning Flash.

The course is designed to take participants through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations. The course is task based, with participants learning by recording and updating projects. Along with covering the key features of Captivate, the course focuses on best practices to record Captivate projects.

The Captivate 3 course is a blended learning solution which combines our 2 day instructor led tuition, with 6 months access to our Learning Management System (LMS) including support forums, Captivate glossary, additional exercises and samples, and other online learning support.

Audience

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations.

Skills Gained

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.

Prerequisites

You should already be:

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

Course Outline

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

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