Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4

In the Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4 training course, you can capture screen shots on your computer and quickly turn them into lessons (movies). The movies you create can be interactive - you can add images, captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas and sound effects. Captivate 4 provides you with the knowledge and hands-on practice you need to get up and running with Captivate as quickly as possible.  If you're an experienced Captivate user, consider our Advanced Adobe Captivate 4 course.

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.

This course is 2 days in length.

Audience

This Adobe 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.

Course Outline

Unit 1: eLearning and Captivate

  • Education through pictures
  • Planning eLearning projects
  • The development process
  • The Captivate 4 interface
  • Set general preferences
  • Explore a project
  • Explore project views
  • Navigate a project
  • Preview a project
  • Zoom closer to a slide
  • View the timeline and library

Unit 2: Recording Demonstrations and Assessments

  • Rehearse a script
  • Set recording preferences and keys
  • Record a demonstration
  • Record an assessment simulation
  • Record a training simulation
  • Record a custom assessment simulation

Unit 3: FMRs, Panning and Image Slideshows

  • Create an FMR
  • Record a lesson with panning
  • Create an image slideshow

Unit 4: Text Captions & 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 object display times
  • Show/hide timeline objects
  • Use options to control object timing
  • Set mouse properties
  • Check spelling
  • Align slide objects

Unit 5: Images and Drawing Objects

  • Insert and delete slides
  • Insert an image
  • Set image size and slide position
  • Use the library
  • Manage unused project assets
  • Control transparency
  • Create an image watermark
  • Set image timing options and transition effects
  • Work with image stacks
  • Add a visual mouse click and click sound
  • Insert a drawing object

Unit 6: Pointers, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

  • Change the pointer path
  • Change the pointer type
  • Edit slide and object display times
  • Insert a text button
  • Set a button's options
  • Insert an image button
  • Insert and format a highlight box

Unit 7: 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
  • Insert a caption into a slidelet
  • Insert an image into a slidelet

Unit 8: Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

  • Change slide background quality
  • Add a slide label
  • Add a slide note
  • Add sound to a slide object
  • Add background audio
  • Calibrate a microphone
  • Record audio
  • Import slide audio
  • Edit an audio file
  • Insert silence
  • Convert slide notes to speech

Unit 9: 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

Unit 10: Animation and Flash Video

  • Change a project's frame rate
  • Add animation to a slide
  • Insert text animation
  • Insert Flash video
  • Set Flash video properties

Unit 11: 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

Unit 12: Introduction to Question Slides

  • 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

Unit 13: Publishing

  • Link to a web site
  • Apply a skin
  • Edit and save a skin
  • Delete a skin
  • Add a loading screen
  • Set project information
  • Create a TOC
  • Publish a Flash (SWF)
  • Publish Word handouts
  • Export captions
  • Perform a "round trip"