Essentials of Adobe Captivate 5

In the Essentials of Adobe Captivate 5 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 5 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.

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

In this module you will learn about:

  • Education through pictures
  • Planning eLearning projects
  • The Captivate interface
  • Workspaces
  • Previewing

And you will learn to:

  • Explore a project
  • Explore the default workspaces
  • Modify and reset a workspace
  • Create a workspace
  • Navigate a project
  • Preview a project
  • Zoom closer to a slide

Unit 2: Recording Demos and Sims

In this module you will learn about:

  • Resolution and recording size
  • The development process
  • Preparing to record
  • Demonstrations
  • Assessment simulations
  • Training simulations
  • Custom recordings

And you will learn to:

  • Rehearse a script
  • Edit recording settings
  • Set recording keys
  • Record a demonstration
  • Record an assessment
  • Record a training simulation
  • Record a custom simulation

Unit 3: Captions, Styles and Timing

In this module you will learn about:

  • Text captions
  • Caption Styles
  • The timeline

And you will learn to:

  • Duplicate a slide and hide the mouse
  • Insert, resize and move text captions
  • Modify text caption properties
  • Edit the default caption style
  • Reset an object style
  • Change an objects position & size
  • View the timeline
  • Change a slide's display time
  • Use the timeline to set object display times
  • Show/hide timeline objects
  • Use the properties panel to control timing
  • Set mouse properties
  • Check spelling
  • Align slide objects

Unit 4: Images and Drawing Objects

In this module you will learn about

  • Slide quality
  • Blank slides
  • Images
  • The library
  • Image editing
  • Mouse visuals and sounds
  • Drawing objects

And you will learn to:

  • Change slide background quality
  • Insert and delete slides
  • Insert an image
  • Set image size and slide position
  • Use the library
  • Manage unused project assets
  • Crop an image
  • Create an image watermark
  • Work with image stacks
  • Add a visual click and sound
  • Draw a line

Unit 5: Pointers, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

In this module you will learn about:

  • Pointer paths and types
  • Buttons
  • Highlight boxes

And you will learn to:

  • Modify the mouse pointer
  • Edit slide and object display times
  • Insert a text button
  • Set a button's timing and options
  • Work with image buttons
  • Insert and format a highlight box

Unit 6: Rollovers and Zoom Areas

In this module you will learn about:

  • Rollover captions
  • Rollover images
  • Zoom areas
  • Rollover slidelets

And you will learn to:

  • Insert a rollover caption
  • Insert a rollover image
  • Insert a zoom area
  • Insert and format a rollover slidelet
  • Format the slidelet
  • Insert an image into a slidelet
  • Add a caption and image to a slidelet

Unit 7: Audio

In this module you will learn about:

  • Importing audio files
  • Slide notes
  • Recording audio
  • Silence
  • Text-to-speech

And you will learn to:

  • Add audio to a slide object
  • Add background audio
  • Add a slide note
  • Calibrate a microphone
  • Record a narration
  • Import voice narrations
  • Edit an audio file
  • Insert silence
  • Convert text-to-speech

Unit 8: Flash, Animation and Effects

In this module you will learn about:

  • Flash Video
  • Animation
  • Text animation
  • Object effects

And you will learn to:

  • Insert Flash video
  • Set Flash video properties
  • Add animation to a slide
  • Insert text animation
  • Apply a fly-in effect to a text caption
  • Apply a zigzag motion path
  • Add Flash video

Unit 9: Converting Demonstrations Into Simulations

In this module you will learn about:

  • Demonstrations versus simulations
  • Find and replace
  • Click boxes
  • Text entry boxes

And you will learn to:

  • Hide the mouse
  • Replace phrases
  • Insert a click box
  • Insert a text entry box

Unit 10: Introduction to Question Slides

In this module you will learn about:

  • Quiz setup
  • Add question slides

And you will learn to:

  • Edit quizzing object styles
  • Set the quiz preferences
  • Insert question slides
  • Format a question slide
  • Add an image to a question slide
  • Paste as background

Unit 11: Publishing

In this module you will learn about:

  • URL Actions
  • Skins
  • Table of contents
  • Preloaders
  • Publishing
  • Round tripping

And you will learn to:

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

Unit 12: FMRs, Panning, Manual Mode & Slideshows

In this module you will learn about:

  • Full motion recording
  • Panning
  • Manual mode
  • Image slideshows

And you will learn to:

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