Course duration
- 4 days
Course Benefits
- Learn to control the mouse pointer and add such standard objects as text captions, images, characters, assets from the eLearning Brothers, and highlight boxes.
- Learn to record, import, and edit audio and further enhance the learner experience by adding interactivity via click boxes, buttons and text entry boxes.
- Learn to import existing PowerPoint content into Captivate.
- Learn to publish your project in SWF and HTML5 formats so that your content can be uploaded to a web server for consumption on virtually any device, including the iPad, iPhone and other mobile devices.
- Learn to create video demos.
- Learn to work with styles.
- Learn to create question pools and random question slides that make it difficult for learners to share quiz content.
- Learn Section 508 best practices.
- Learn to work with widgets and learn how to add them to a project.
- Learn to add multiple and conditional actions to your buttons and click boxes.
- Learn to leverage Captivate's collaboration tools.
- Learn to create a consistent look and feel across your projects using themes.
- Learn how to track quiz results.
Course Outline
- Exploring Captivate
- Explore a Finished Captivate Project
- Zoom and Magnify
- Navigate a Project
- Explore and Reset the Workspace
- Preview the Entire Project
- New Project and Soft Skills eLearning
- Create a Blank Project
- Add Images to Placeholders
- Insert and Format a Text Button
- Disable Click Sounds
- Recording Demos and Sims
- Recording Demos and Sims
- Rehearse a Script
- Review Recording Settings
- Review Recording Modes
- Record Using Multiple Modes
- Record a Custom Simulation
- Record a Demonstration that Pans
- Manually Record the Screen
- Captions, Styles and Timing
- Insert and Edit Text Captions
- Edit the Default Caption Style
- Change a Callout Type Used by a Text Caption
- Control Slide Timing
- Control Slide Object Timing
- Check Spelling
- Align Slide Objects
- Images and Smart Shapes
- Insert, Resize, and Restore an Image
- Transform an Image
- Use the Library
- Manage Unused Project Assets
- Crop and Rename an Image
- Remove a Background Color
- Insert Characters and eLearning Brother Assets
- Insert a Cloud Callout
- Create an Image Mask
- Delete a Slide Background
- Work with Photoshop Layers
- Create an Image Slideshow
- Pointers, Paths, Boxes, and Buttons
- Control Mouse Effects
- Edit a Mouse Path
- Clone an Object Style
- Insert a Highlight Box
- Insert an Image Button
- Control Appear After Timing
- Rollovers and Zooms
- Insert a Rollover Caption
- Insert a Rollover Image
- Insert a Rollover Slidelet
- Insert a Zoom Area
- Audio
- Import Audio onto a Slide Object
- Import Background Audio
- Add a Slide Note
- Calibrate a Microphone
- Record Slide Audio
- Import Audio onto a Slide
- Edit an Audio File
- Insert Silence
- Convert Text-to-Speech
- Video, Animation and Effects
- Insert a Flash Video
- Set Flash Video Properties
- Add Animation to a slide
- Insert Text Animation
- Apply an Effect to a Slide Object
- Apply a Free Fall Effect to an Object
- Edit Effect Timing
- Adding Interactivity
- Hide the Mouse
- Replace Phrases
- Insert a Click Box
- Insert a Text Entry Box
- Working With PowerPoint
- Import PowerPoint slides
- Resize One Object and Apply to All
- Round-Trip PowerPoint Edits
- Synch With Source
- Rescale a Project
- Introduction to Question Slides
- Edit Quizzing Object Styles
- Set the Quiz Preferences
- Insert Question slides
- Insert Knowledge Check Slides
- Finishing Touches
- Create a Link to a Web Site
- Apply a Skin
- Edit, Save and Delete a Skin
- Create a TOC
- Check Publish Settings and Add a Loading Screen
- Publish a SWF and PDF
- Run the HTML5 Tracker
- Publish as HTML5
- Publish as both SWF and HTML5 (Multiscreen)
- Export Captions
- Perform a "Round Trip"
- Caption Pre-Editing
- Rehearse a Script
- Set Recording Preferences
- Record a Software Simulation
- Edit a Text Capture Template
- Video Demos
- Video Demos
- Record a Video Demo
- Add a Video Zoom
- Add a Video Pan
- Smooth a Mouse Path and Show Visual Clicks
- Split a Video
- Trim a Video
- Insert a Video Project into a Standard Project
- Publish a Video Demo
- Custom Styles, Branching and Aggregating
- Custom Styles, Branching, and Aggregating
- Create a Text Caption Style
- Apply a Style Globally
- Export and Import a Style
- Name a Slide
- Copy/Paste Project Assets
- Use Buttons to Create a Branch
- Explore the Branching Tab
- Create a Slide Group
- Publish SWFs
- Aggregate SWFs
- Random Quizzes
- Review a GIFT File
- Import a Question from a GIFT File
- Create Question Pools
- Move Questions to Pools
- Insert Random Question Slides
- Accessible eLearning
- Set Document Information
- Enable Accessibility
- Add Accessibility Text to Slides
- Import Slide Audio
- Add Shortcut Keys
- Add Closed Captions
- Set a Tab Order
- Variables and Widgets
- Add Project Information
- Insert a System Variable
- Edit a System Variable
- Create a User Variable
- Use a Variable to Gather Data
- Insert and Format a Widget
- Interactions
- Insert a Process Circle
- Create a Basic Drag and Drop Interaction
- Manage Drag and Drop Buttons and Write Captions
- Create a "Trick" Retry Slide
- Explore an Advanced Drag and Drop Project
- Create an Advanced Drag and Drop Interaction
- Change the States of a Smart Shape
- Use States to Swap Images
- Actions
- Use a Completed Action
- Name Objects
- Create a Mask
- Control Object Visibility
- Create a Standard Advanced Action
- Attach an Action to a Button
- Group Timeline Objects
- Create a Variable
- Create a Conditional Action
- Create Decision Blocks
- Masters, Themes, and Templates
- Work with the Main Master Slide
- Work with Content Masters
- Apply a Master to Filmstrip Slides
- Edit a Master
- Apply a Theme
- Create a Custom Theme
- Review a Template
- Base a Project on a Template
- Create a Project Template
- Insert a Placeholder
- Responsive Projects
- Review a Responsive Project
- Customize Breakpoints
- Save a Standard Project as Responsive
- Insert and Name Fluid Boxes
- Add Content to Fluid Boxes
- Switch Design Modes
- Use the Position Inspector
- Modify a Single Breakpoint
- Exclude from View
- Add a New Breakpoint
- Position and Link Objects
- Edit Breakpoint Object Styles
- Reporting Results
- Set Quiz Reporting Options
- Create a Manifest File
- Report a Button Interaction
- Adjust Slide Object Interaction
- Preview in SCORM Cloud
- Publish a Content Package
- Create an LMS Account
- Create an LMS Course
- Attach a Lesson to a Course
- Test an eLearning Course
Class Materials
Each student will receive a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Instructor-led courses are offered via a live Web connection, at client sites throughout Europe, and at our Geneva Training Center.