Overview
Adobe Captivate is a powerful development tool for creating interactive eLearning and HTML5 based mLearning content deliverable to almost any device. Rich HD eLearning content can be developed quickly (e.g. product demos, application simulations, soft skills, and compliance training) and you can also import PowerPoint slides and enhance them with actors, user interaction, and quizzes.
During this 3-day course, participants will learn the basic and advanced skills required to create powerful eLearning media covering recording demonstrations; adding screenshots, images, captions, rollovers, clickable areas, typing areas, rollovers, zoom area, and Flash animations; integrating multimedia; adding sound; create quizzes that can be integrated into SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems; and publish to the web, desktops, HTML5 and/or apps for mobile consumption. Advanced Actions and Shared Actions are explored in full, along with the Effects Panel and the new Learning Interactions.
Prerequisites
- Good Design Sense
- Knowledge of PowerPoint
- Basic knowledge of Adobe Flash is useful but not essential
Who Should Attend?
Course Outline Captivate 9 - Day 1 (Basic)
- Toolbars and Panels
- Master Slide View
- Using the Grid, Zoom and Magnify
- Using the Timeline
- Slide filmstrip
- Planning eLearning Projects
- Responsive Project design
- Mobile Platte
- Setting layouts for different device
- Screen dimensions
- Properties for particular views
- Applying Themes
- Add, delete & rearrange
- Group, Lock & Hide
- Master slides
- Slide properties and transitions
- Slide notes and Closed Captions
- Add reflection and shadows
- Align & arrange
- Change the display and visibility
- Copy, paste, and duplicate
- Grouping
- Object effects and style
- Resize, reposition and rotate
- Managing the Library
- Text captions and Animations
- Simple pre-set Animations
- Smart shapes and Highlight boxes
- Images and rollover images
- Mouse indicator
- Roll-over captions and slidelets
- Audio settings for non-interactive objects
- Zoom areas
- Mathematical Equations
- Text entry boxes
- Buttons and Click Boxes
- Project navigation
- HTML5 Animation
- Animations
- Characters
- Pyramid, Circle and Time
- Game-Like Interactions
- Learner Notes
- Drag-and-drop
- Widgets
Course Outline Captivate 9 - Day 2 (Intermediate)
- System audio recording and playback
- View audio details
- Preview/Edit Audio
- Background, Slide and Object audio
- Insert and Edit audio
- Sync Closed Caption with Audio
- Audio Management
- Speech Management
- Text-to-speech
- Export audio
- Understanding video usage
- Video in SWF and HTML5
- Event video
- Multi-side synchronized video
- Adding Closed Captioning
- Plan, record, edit and publish
- Types of recording
- Set recording preferences
- Record video demonstrations
- Record software simulations
- Pause while recording projects
- Import questions from GIFT format files
- Submitting all answers simultaneously
- Set up question slides
- Random question slides
- Quiz preferences
- Insert question slides
- Insert pretests
- Table of Contents
- The Skin Editor
- Resize projects
- Project preferences
- Preview projects
- Effects panel
- Branching View
- Spelling and Search options
- Import, export, and delete content
- Set publishing preferences
- Publishing projects as apps to devices
- Preview and publish Responsive projects
- Publish projects as executable files
- Publish projects as MP4 files
- Publish projects and SWF files
- Publish to Adobe Connect
- Importing from Microsoft PowerPoint
- Importing Photoshop Images
- Integrate with Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Course Outline Captivate 9 - Day 3 (Advanced)
- System and User Variables
- Defining new variables
- Binding variables to text captions
- Adobe Captivate SWF events
- Advanced Actions model
- Create advanced actions
- Edit statements
- Edit/delete/duplicate advanced action
- Manage conditional actions
- Copy Advanced Actions
- Finding slides in which the script is used
- Creating parameterized actions for re-use across multiple objects
- Exporting/importing shared actions between projects
- Populating templates with useful default content
- Setting up Master Slides and Themes
- Customizing the play-back skin
- Managing pop-out Table of Contents
- Creating your own default styles for text, buttons, quiz slides etc.
- Need Analysis
- Audience Analysis
- Scope/Learning Objectives
- Visualize the Course/Storyboard
- Make your scenario
- Develop
- Official blog and resources
