Captivate Level 1

Course Overview

This course has been designed to cover all elements of the Adobe Captivate package that will allow delegates to design and create Captivate movies ready for the web or for CD content. A Captivate movie can be used for sales presentations, training demonstrations, simulations and assessments, including full interactive quiz capability. An ideal tool for creating E-Learning content.
Prerequisites

• For delegates to attend this course, they should be confident users of a pc, demonstrating the ability to save, open and close files. Good knowledge of the basic office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) would be an advantage.

Objectives

Delegates will be able to :

• Plan and design a movie
• Understand the capabilities and shortcomings of Captivate
• Record demonstrations for training purposes from other programs on their computer
• Create assessment packages to create interactive training sessions
• Manage the order of flow of a movie
• Add images and new interactive objects into existing movies
• Create interactivity with a movie to increase user interest and test user knowledge
• Add Quiz questions into the movie to help test and confirm knowledge learned
• Make the final movie ready for placement on a web page or onto a CD/DVD

Training Options

• Bespoke course (a course written to your specific needs) at your company office throughout the UK, at our training venue or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Private course at your company office throughout the UK, at our training room or at an independent location, convenient to you
• Scheduled public course at one of our training venues

Whats Included

• 1 delegate per computer
• 12 Months telephone and email support
• Comprehensive colour course manual and exercises
• Lunch (When at our training venue)
• Use of a Modern Training suite with 19 inch flat screen monitors
• Refreshments (When at our training venue)
• Relaxed refreshment area at our training room

Course Content
Captivate Introduction

• What is it capable of?
• Reviewing the interface
• Storyboard, edit, branching views
• Previewing a Movie

Getting Started

• Setting movie preferences
• Recording a demonstration
• Full motion recording
• Training simulation mode
• Assessment simulation mode
• Using the notes section

Enhance the Movie

• Moving and deleting slides
• Labelling slides
• Editing the playback skin
• Adding background sound
• Inserting images
• Importing other captivate slides
• Importing PowerPoint slides

The Library

• Exploring the library
• Managing library folder structure
• Viewing object usage
• Imputing to the library

The Time Line

• Zooming in and out
• Editing display period of objects
• Editing the time of a slide
• Stacking order
• Locking and hiding layers
• Aligning objects

Additional Objects

• Adding caption/text boxes
• Editing caption/text boxes
• Adding rollover caption boxes
• Editing rollover images
• Adding animated objects
• Inserting text animations

Interactive Objects

• Highlight boxes
• Click boxes for mouse capture
• Assigning actions to the click box
• Defining failure actions
• Checking for double click
• Checking for keyboard shortcuts
• Adding buttons
• Making buttons work
• Text entry boxes to capture text input
• Controlling responses

Sound

• Adding sounds to objects
• Adding narration to slides
• Importing sound
• Resolving sound problems
• Adding closed captioning

Quizzes

• Using the quiz wizard
• Adding additional questions
• Quiz settings
• Quiz reviewing

Publishing

• Resizing the movie
• Emailing the movie
• Creating web content
• Creating a CD/DVD file