Captivate Course Online September 23, 2024

Adobe Captivate training class topics covered

Lesson 1: Understanding Captivate’s role in eLearning

• Education through pictures
• Planning eLearning projects
• Explore a finished captivate project
• Explore the default workspaces
• Modifying the workspace
• Creating a workspace
• Zooming and magnification
• Navigating a project
• Previewing a project
• Create New projects
• Inserting standard objects onto slides

Lesson 2: Creating new Captivate projects

• Creating software simulations & screen recordings
• Creating soft skills training: policies, procedures, awareness training
• Learning to create new projects
• Importing images
• Use Shapes as buttons
• Disabling sounds

Lesson 3: Creating screen recordings in Captivate

• Understanding recording settings
• Enabling access for assistive devices
• Reviewing default recording mode settings
• Recording using multiple modes
• Recording a custom simulation
• Recoding demonstrations with pan view
• Manually recording the screen

Lesson 4: Creating video demonstrations

• Recording video demonstrations
• Adding zoom effects
• Adding pan effects
• Smoothing a mouse path
• Showing visual clicks
• Splitting and trimming video
• Inserting video projects into standard projects
• Publishing

Lesson 5: Creating captions

• Styles and timing in Captivate
• Inserting, resizing, and moving text captions
• Modifying caption properties
• Editing caption styles
• Changing a callout type used by a text caption
• Control slide and slide object timing
• Checking spelling
• Importing and exporting captions
• Align slide objects

Lesson 6: Using pointers, buttons, and highlight boxes

• Adding a visual click and sound
• Modifying the mouse Pointer
• Inserting and formatting text buttons
• Setting a button’s pause after timing
• Working with image buttons
• Inserting and formatting highlight boxes
• Changing mouse paths
• Closing object styles
• Inserting a rollover caption
• Inserting a rollover image
• Creating a zoom area
• Using rollover slides

Lesson 7: Working with images, videos, and drawing objects

• Inserting and resizing images
• Transforming image size and position
• Crop and rename an image
• Remove a background color
• Using the library
• Managing project assets
• Inserting a cloud callout
• Creating an image slideshow
• Inserting videos
• Setting video properties

Lesson 8: Using and working with audio

• Importing audio onto a slide object
• Adding background audio music
• Adding slide notes
• Calibrating microphones
• Recording slide audio
• Importing voiceovers onto a slide
• Editing audio files
• Inserting silence
• Converting text-to-speech
• Using rollover captions

Lesson 9: Working with states, animation, and effects

• Adding Animation to slides
• Inserting Text Animation
• Applying Effects to Slide Objects
• Applying Filter Effects
• Modifying Effect Properties
• Saving and Importing Effects
• Changing State Views for Buttons
• Adding Animation to Slides

Lesson 10: Creating simulations

• Causing the mouse to be hidden
• Replacing phrases
• Inserting click boxes
• Inserting text entry boxes

Lesson 11: Using Captivate with PowerPoint

• Importing PowerPoint slides
• Resizing objects 
• Using apply to all to format objects consistently
• Updating the Captivate project with edited PowerPoint files
• Synchronizing with source files

Lesson 12: Creating quizzes in Captivate and using question slides

• Editing quiz object styles
• Setting quiz preferences
• Applying themes
• Hiding slide images
• Inserting and editing  question slides
• Adding images to question slides
• Comparing the submit all and submit buttons
• Inserting knowledge checks
• Reviewing GIFT files
• Importing GIFT files into Captivate projects
• Creating question pools
• Moving questions into pools
• Inserting random question slides

Lesson 13: Publishing to distribute your Captivate project

• Creating Internet links
• Naming slides
• Applying, editing, saving, and deleting skins
• Create a table of contents
• Checking publish settings and adding a loading screen
• Publishing SWF and PDF files
• Using the HTML5 Tracker
• Publishing as HTML5
• Exporting captions