Captivate Fundamentals: An Introduction to Captivate 7

Adobe Captivate 7 is the industry-leader for authoring e-Learning content. With Adobe Captivate, you can capture the on-screen action, enhance e-Learning projects, insert compliant quizzes, and publish your projects in various formats for easy deployment on virtually any desktop and mobile device.

his course comprises three e-Learning projects:

• A demonstration
• A simulation
• A SCORM-compliant quiz

What You Will Learn

Audience

• Instructional designers
• Technical writers

Prerequistes

A practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows

Course Outline

1. Getting Started with Captivate

• The Captivate Production Process
• Touring the Captivate Interface
• Understanding Panels in Captivate
• Creating a Custom Workspace
• Exploring the Sample Applications to be Built in this Course

2. Capturing the Slides

• Choosing the Right Resolution for the Project
• Resizing the Project after the Initial Shooting
• Using the Panning Feature
• Using the New Scalable HTML Content Feature
• Exploring the Recording Preferences
• Shooting Alternative Versions of the Project
• Full Motion Recording
• Understanding the Captivate Capture Engine
• The Video Demo
• Automatic and Manual Panning
• Rescaling a Project

3. Working with Standard Objects

• Working with the Properties Panel
• Exploring the basic Objects
• The Text Caption Objects
• Formatting a Text Caption
• Modifying the Content of a Text Caption
• The Highlight Box Object
• Working with the Mouse
• Working with Images
• Using the Image Editing Tools
• Inserting a Picture Slide
• Working with Characters
• Working with Smart Shapes
• Formatting a Smart Shape
• Using the Align Toolbar
• Working with Styles
• Managing Styles with the Properties Panel
• Resetting a Style
• Creating new Styles
• Modifying a Style
• Applying Styles Automatically
• Working with the Object Style Manager
• Exporting a Style
• Importing a Style
• Creating a Style with the Object Style Manager
• Working with the Timeline
• Using the Timeline to Select Objects
• Hiding and Locking Objects with the Timeline
• Using the Timeline to Change the Stacking Order of the Objects
• Use the Timeline to Set the Timing of the Objects

4. Working with Animations and Interactive Objects

• Discovering the Animated Objects
• Using the Text Animation
• Converting a Typing Object into a Text Animation
• Inserting External Animations in the Project
• Working with the Zoom Area
• Inserting a Video File
• Adding Effect to Objects
• Combining Effect
• Working with Buttons
• Working with Rollover Captions
• Working with Rollover Smart Shapes
• Using the Align Toolbar to Adjust the Size and the Position of Objects
• Working with Rollover Images
• Working with Rollover Slidelets
• Inserting and Formatting a Rollover Slidelet
• Inserting Objects in a Rollover Slidelet
• Working with the Library
• Reusing Library Items
• Importing Objects from Another Library
• Deleting Unused Assets from the Library
• Creating a Simulation
• Hiding the Mouse
• Using Find and Replace
• Working with Click Boxes
• Working with Text Entry Boxes
• Fine Tuning the Simulation
• Branching with Click Boxes
• Objects and Animations in Video Demo projects
• Interactivity in Video Demo projects
• Using Pan and Zoom
• Adding Transitions in Video Demo

5. Working with Audio

• Adding Audio to Objects
• Adding Background Music to the Entire Project
• Adding Audio to Slides
• Recording Narration with Captivate
• Setting up the Sound System
• Importing External Sound Clips
• Editing a Sound Clip in Captivate
• Using Text-to-Speech to Generate Narration
• Installing the Captivate Speech Agents
• Working with the Slide Notes Panel
• Converting Text to Speech
• Using the Speech Management Window
• Adding Closed Captions to the Slides
• Viewing the Closed Captions
• Closed Captioning a Video File

6. Final Changes and Publishing

• Final Changes
• Checking the Spelling
• Start and End Preferences
• Project Metadata and Accessibility
• Other Project Preferences
• Exporting the Project Preferences
• Working with the Skin Editor
• Customizing the Playback Controls
• Working with Borders
• Adding a Table of Contents
• Applying the Same Skin to Another Project
• Publishing
• Publishing to Flash
• Scalable HTML Content
• Publishing to HTML5
• Using the HTML5 Tracker
• Publishing to PDF
• Publishing as a Standalone Application
• Publishing as a Video File
• Publishing to YouTube
• Publishing a Video Demo Project
• Publishing to Word
• Publishing Options

7. Working with Quizzes

• Introducing the Quiz
• Creating Question Slides
• The Multiple Choice Question
• The Short Answer Question
• The Matching Question
• The True/False Question
• The Hotspot Question
• The Fill-In-The-Blank Question
• The Sequence Question
• Creating Surveys with Likert Questions
• Previewing the Quiz
• Creating a Pretest
• The Quiz Preferences
• Setting the Passing Score for a Quiz
• Creating Question Pools
• Reporting Scores to an LMS
• SCORM and AICC
• Enabling Reporting in Captivate at interaction and project levels
• Creating a SCORM Manifest
• Publishing an e-Learning-Enabled Project
• Integrating the SCORM Package in the LMS
• Taking the Quiz
• Using the Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer

8. Templates, Master Slides, and Themes

• Experimenting with Themes
• The Elements of a Theme
• The Master Slides
• The Styles
• The Skin
• Creating a Theme
• Customizing the Master Slides of the Theme
• Adding Placeholders to the Master Slides
• Applying the Master Slides to the slides of the project
• Modifying a Master Slide
• Adding Styles to the Theme
• Styling the Standard Objects
• Styling the Question Slides
• Styling the Buttons
• Adding a Skin to the Theme
• Working with Templates
• Adding Placeholder Slides
• Creating a New Captivate Project from a Template

9. Using Captivate with Other Applications

• Captivate with PowerPoint
• Converting an Existing Presentation to Captivate
• Viewing the presentation in PowerPoint
• Creating a Captivate Project from a PowerPoint Application
• Round Tripping between Captivate and PowerPoint
• Updating a Linked PowerPoint Presentation
• Inserting a PowerPoint Slide in a Captivate Project
• Localizing a Captivate Project Using Microsoft Word
• Exporting the Project to XML
• Importing a Photoshop File into Captivate
• Exporting to Flash Professional

10. Reviewing a Captivate Project

• The Review Process
• Distributing the Project
• Commenting a Captivate project
• Installing the Adobe Captivate Reviewer Application
• Using the Captivate Reviewer to Create New Comments
• Exporting the Comments
• Collecting and Addressing the Comments
• Ending a Review

11. Variables, Advanced Actions, and Widgets

• Variables
• System and User-Defined Variables
• Generating Text Dynamically
• Using User-Defined Variables
• Creating User-Defined Variables
• Capturing V

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