Course Description
Adobe Captivate enables anyone to create eLearning content such as software demonstrations, simulations, and scenarios featuring spoken narrative, animation, video, and tests. Our Adobe Captivate Fundamentals course provides the vital knowledge and hands-on practice needed to build interactive content with the Captivate software.
Target Student
This course is intended for those who are new to Adobe Captivate who wish to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Captivate can be valuable to a wide variety of industries such as:
- Training and Education
- Sales and Marketing
- Technical Support and Documentation
Performance-Based Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be familiar with the following and more:
- Working with slides and masters
- Applying effects, adding buttons and rollover captions
- Editing the timeline
- Inserting images
- Adding audio, video and animations
- Creating questions and assessments
- Publishing for Learning Management Systems
- Publishing for HTML5
Prerequisites
No prior captivate knowledge is necessary. Students should be familiar with the functions of their computer's operating system such as creating folders, launching programs, copying and pasting objects, formatting text, retrieving and saving files.
Course Content
- The Adobe Captivate learning environment
- Main editing interface and workspace layout
- Creating a new project
- Options and settings
- Adding and editing slides
- Working with text captions
- Modifying the pointer
- Working with the timeline
- Working with objects
- Using Smart Shapes
- Applying themes
- Inserting animations and applying effects
- Creating HTML5 friendly animations
- Adding video and audio to a project
- Creating responsive projects
- Recording demonstrations with audio
- Inserting question slides
- Using clickboxes
- Importing PowerPoint slides
- Inserting buttons
- Using text entry boxes
- Advanced actions
- Inserting rollover captions and images
- Inserting question slides
- Setting reporting options
- Updating projects
- High definition screencasts
- Themes and project templates
- Reviewing
- Publishing for a Learning Management System (LMS)
- Publishing to HTML5
- Other reporting and publishing options