In this course, the participants will learn the following:

• Understand the workflow process and storyboarding.
• Record software demonstrations and simulations.
• Update content by editing captions.
• Use the Timeline feature to change caption and object timing.
• Create handouts for reviewers
• Publish your project to Word documents and SWF files.
• Add narration by recording or importing audio.
• Increase user interactivity with click, highlight, and text entry boxes.
• Add interest by inserting rollover captions and images.
• Insert question slides and scoring options.
• Create interest by branching to different slides and projects.
• Import PowerPoint slides and printable documentation into a project.
• Creating hyperlinks to websites and to another project.
• Create a MenuBuilder project tying all projects together.

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. AdobeCaptivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Unit 1: Captivate Basics

• Record Slides Manually
• Record in Demonstration Mode
• Record a Project in Assessment Simulation Mode
• Record a Project in Training Assessment Mode
• Record a Hybrid Project

Unit 2: Text Captions and The Timeline

• Insert a Text Caption
• Change Text Caption Properties
• Edit an Object’s Position and Size
• Use the Timeline to Control Object Timing
• Set Mouse Properties
• Show an Object for the “Rest of Slide”
• Duplicate a Slide
• Hide and Delete Slide Objects
• Check Spelling
• Align Captions

Unit 3: Images

• Insert and Delete Blank Slides
• Insert an Image
• Use the Library
• Set Image Size and Position
• Create a Watermark
• Set Image Timing Options and Transition Effects
• Work with Image Stacks
• Add a Visual Mouse Click and Mouse Click Sound

Unit 4: Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

• Change the Pointer Path
• Change the Pointer Type
• Insert a Text Button
• Insert an Image Button
• Insert and Format a Highlight Box

Unit 5: “Let Me Try” Projects

• Hide the Mouse
• Insert a Click Box
• Shrink an Object
• Use the Timeline to Change Slide Timing
• Change a Caption’s Transition Effect
• Insert a Text Entry Box

Unit 6: Rollover Captions, Images and Zoom Areas

• Insert a Rollover Caption
• Set Rollover Area Properties
• Insert a Rollover Image
• Insert a Zoom Area

Unit 7: Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

• Add a Slide Label
• Add a Slide Note
• Add a Sound Effect to an Object
• Add Background Music to a Project
• Calibrate a Microphone
• Record a Slide Note
• Edit an Audio File
• Insert Silence

Unit 8: Animation and Flash Video

• Change a Project’s Frame Rate
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Change an Animation’s Slide Position
• Insert Text Animation
• Add Flash Video

Unit 9: Question Slides

• Insert a Question Slide
• Add an Image to a Question Slide
• Copy and Paste a Slide Background
• Format the Question Title
• Use the Slide Grid
• Format the Question Answers
• Set Question Slide Options
• Edit the Submit Button Text

Unit 10: Importing, Resizing and Exporting

• Import a PowerPoint Presentation
• Resize a Project
• Import Slides from an Existing Captivate Project
• Create a Branch
• Create Word Handouts
• Export Captions
• Import Captions

Unit 11: Skins, Templates, Linking and Publishing

• Set Playback Controls
• Add a Loading Screen
• Create a Project Template
• Use a Template
• Edit a Template
• Create and Edit a Skin
• Set Up a Project to be 508 Compliant
• Add Closed Captioning

Unit 12: Links

• Link a Project to a Web Site
• Link to Other Captivate Projects
• Set Project Properties
• Use the Bandwidth Monitor
• Publish a Project as a Flash Project File

Unit 13: Menu Builder

• Publish Projects
• Create a MenuBuilder Project
• Format Styles
• Edit Items
• Export a MenuBuilder Project

Unit 14: Learning Management Systems

• Publish a Flash Project
• Create an LMS Account
• Add an SCO to an LMS
• Create an LMS Course
• Create an LMS Curriculum
• Test an e-Learning Course

Plus there are two modules containing information on the following:

Unit 15: e-Learning Basics

• Building a Successful e-Learning Program
• Strategies of e-Learning
• Project Management
• Analysis, Design and Development
• Implementation and Evaluation
• Instructional and Technological Building Blocks
• Training Techniques
• Management Systems
• Open Standards
• Course Design and Content

Unit 16: Human-Computer Interaction

• The History of Human-Computer Interaction
• What is HCI?
• Affordance
• HCI on the Internet
• HCI and Help Systems
• HCI and Captivate Projects
• On-line Meetings and Distance Learning