Captivate Fundamentals
This two day course teaches participants the skills necessary to create interactive eLearning content. Attendees will learn how to create a lesson from scratch and learn to record and produce. software demos and interactive training simulations.
Upon successful completion, attendees should be able to:
Know how to control the mouse pointer and standard objects as text captions, images, characters and highlight boxes.
Able to record, import and edit audio add interactivity via click boxes, buttons and text entry boxes
Learn how to import existing PowerPoint content into Captivate
Course Topics:
Exploring Captivate
- Explore a finished Captivate Project
- Zoom and Magnify
- Navigate a project
- Explore and reset the workspace
- Preview the Entire Project
New Project & Soft Skills eLearning
- Create a blank project
- Add images to placeholders
- Insert and format a text button
- Disable click sounds
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 colour
- Insert characters
- 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
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”