Adobe Captivate 4: Advanced Topics

 

This Adobe Captive 4: Advanced Topics training course picks up from the Adobe Captivate: Fundamentals course.  You will quickly learn Captivate's higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via project templates, design templates, advanced actions and scripts.  You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates' powerful commenting features.  You'll enhance your users experience via variable that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your customer.

To gain the most from this class, students should:

  • Be familiar with Windows or Mac OS X.
  • Be familiar with the web and its terminology.

Course Length:

2-Days

Course Outline:

Unit 1: Reviewing the Essentials

  • Set general preferences
  • Rehearse a script
  • Set recording preferences and keys
  • Record a custom simulation
  • Edit a text capture template

Unit 2: Importing and Branching

  • Import a PowerPoint presentation
  • Edit a PowerPoint presentation
  • Resize a project
  • Import project slides and objects
  • Label a slide
  • Use buttons to create a branch
  • Explore the branching tab
  • Create a slide group
  • Aggregate published SWFs

Unit 3: Question Pools

  • Insert a question slide
  • Create and rename question pools
  • Add questions to question pools
  • Insert random question slides

Unit 4: Accessible Projects

  • Set document information
  • Enable accessibility
  • Add accessibility text to slides
  • Import audio
  • Add shortcut keys
  • Add closed captions

Unit 5: Commenting, Image Editing and PhotoShop Layers

  • Send a project for review
  • Create a background mask
  • Edit a slide background
  • Delete a slide background
  • Import a Photoshop file
  • Work with Photoshop layers

Unit 6: Variables, Widgets and Buttons

  • Add document information
  • Insert a system variable
  • Edit a system variable
  • Create a user variable
  • Use a variable to gather data
  • Insert a question widget
  • Insert a certificate widget
  • Create custom buttons

Unit 7: Project and Design Templates

  • Create a project template
  • Create a project from a template
  • Record additional slides
  • Delete unused objects
  • Create a mask
  • Add a text animation placeholder
  • Create a design template
  • Format design template objects
  • Apply a design template to a project

Unit 8: Advanced Actions

  • Control object visibility
  • Name items
  • Attach multiple actions to objects
  • Create variables
  • Add text entry boxes
  • Create a script
  • Attach a script to a slide

Unit 9: Learning Management Systems

  • Set quiz reporting options
  • Create a manifest file
  • Report a button interaction
  • Publish a content package
  • Create an Inquisig LMS account
  • Create an LMS lesson
  • Create an LMS course
  • Create an LMS curriculum
  • Test an eLearning course