Adobe Captivate Training

e-Learning:
Adobe Captivate 3

Duration : 2 days
Cost: $399.00

Summary: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.

Prerequisites:Students should have mastery basic computer operation skills including using a mouse, opening, saving, and finding files, and opening and closing computer programs. If a student is unable to keep up with the material in class, they may need to observe the lessons in order not to slow down the rest of the class. We are able to provide one-on-one consulting services and tutoring to support students in that situation.

What You Will Learn:

  • Recording a Demonstration
  • Editing a Demonstration
  • Working with Objects in the Timeline
  • Working with Images
  • Publishing Your Project
  • Adding Audio
  • Recording a Simulation
  • Adding Animation
  • Adding Question Slides
  • Sending Results to a Learning Management System
  • Updating Your Projects
  • Creating Standalone Viewer with MenuBuilder

Time: Class time is 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. We usually break for lunch between 12:00p.m. & 1:00p.m. Students can either bring their lunch or eat at any of the restaurants nearby. We take other small breaks throughout the day as needed.

Customized Training: Web Etcetera also offers customized training on this software at our location or yours. For more information, call us at (414) 963-1229 or e-mail us at webetc@web-etc.com.

Registration: Please fill out our Registration Form

Related Courses:Flash 8 Rich Content Creation and Dreamweaver 8 Website Development. Please take a look at our other course outlines.

Adobe Captivate 2 Training 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 Macromedia Breeze Meeting
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