Captivate Training Course Content
Topic 1:CAPTIVATE BASICS
- What is Captivate
- Planning your projects
- Resolution and recording size
- Guided tour of the Captivate user interface
Topic 2:TEXT CAPTIONS AND THE TIMELINE
- Working with text captions
- Editing an object’s position and size
- Control object timing by using the timeline
- Showing an object for the “Rest of Slide”
- Aligning captions
- Hiding and deleting slide objects
Topic 3:WORKING WITH OBJECT STYLES
- How object styles can increase consistency and make your projects easier to maintain
- Creating a style for text captions
- Applying a style to other text captions
- Modifying a style
- Using other object types with styles
- Copying styles from one project into another
Topic 4:IMAGES
- Inserting images
- Setting image position, size, timing, options and transition effects
- Using the Library
Topic 5: WORKING ALONG WITH MASTER SLIDES
- What Master Slides are, how they can help you to work more efficiently
- Creating a new content master slide
- Applying a master slide to other slides and Modifying a master slide
Topic 6: BUTTONS AND HIGHLIGHT BOXES
- Inserting a Text Button and an Image Button
- Highlighting an area of the screen using colours
- Highlighting an area by greying out the rest of the screen
Topic 7: ROLLOVER CAPTIONS, IMAGES, AND ZOOM AREAS
- Introduction to Rollovers
- Working with Rollover Captions
- Working with Rollover Images
- Using Rollovers to provide a “true” Hint facility
- Using Rollovers to enable users to explore on their own
- Inserting Zoom Areas
Topic 8: DRAG AND DROP
- When to use Drag and Drop
- Setting up Drag and Drop scenarios
Topic 9:CREATING INTERACTIVE SIMULATIONS AND TUTORIALS
- Introduction to eLearning tutorials
- Explanation of different types of recording
- Recording in different modes at the same time
- Hiding the mouse
- Inserting and working with Click Boxes
Topic 10:AUDIO
- Explanation of possible audio strategies
- Adding background music to a project
- Adding audio to a slide
- Recording and editing audio
Topic 11:SKINS AND THEMES
- Editing and saving skins
- Saving and using Themes
Topic 12:COMPLIANT MOVIES AND PUBLISHING
- Ensuring accessibility by enabling 508 Compliance
- Adding Closed Captions (subtitles)
- Setting Project Properties
Topic 13:QUESTION SLIDES AND LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
- Devising an appropriate strategy for quiz
- Setting Preferences on quiz
- Inserting Question Slides
- Setting Question Slide options
- Laying out Question slides and Formatting
Topic 14:PUBLISHING
- Understanding the issues
- Publishing locally
- Publish for Devices
- What is Adobe Captivate Prime publishing
