Captivate 5 Introduction

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Adobe Captivate is now at the centre of the Adobe eLearning Suite and is an extremely popular tool for creating Flash-based eLearning applications and software demonstrations. This practical two day course will cover how to record your actions in any software application and design and build engaging content for use in eLearning, sales, marketing or user support. This is a practical, taskbased Adobe authorised course.

Course Description

Recording a demonstration
• Previewing a Captivate project
• The workflow process
• Recording an application demonstration
• Previewing and saving a demonstration

Editing a demonstration
• Inserting slides
• Using the Filmstrip
• Working with text captions
• Using mouse pointer paths
• Changing mouse properties

Working with Objects in the Timeline
• Exploring the Timeline
• Previewing a slide
• Changing the slide timing

Working with images and sound
• Setting movie properties
• Resizing your project
• Analysing bandwidth
• Publishing your project

Adding audio
• Planning your script
• Recording audio
• Adding audio to an existing project
• Editing audio files
• Importing background audio

Recording a simulation
• Customising recording options
• Inserting click boxes
• Importing Powerpoint slides
• Inserting buttons
• Inserting text entry boxes

Adding animation
• Using rollover captions and images
• Inserting animations

Adding question slides
• Inserting true/false slides
• Editing a question slide
• Multiple choice questions
• Setting reporting options

Sending results to a Learning Management System
• Defining eLearning benefits
• Understanding Learning Management Systems
• Setting eLearning output options
• Updating your projects

Questions and answers