Captivate 4 Fundamentals

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Captivate 4 Fundamentals Seminar Schedule

Captivate 4 Fundamentals Course Description:

Captivate 4 provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to develop and build software demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, students also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects.

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.

Target Audience:

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate 4 users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Adobe Captivate 4 appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Captivate 4 Workflow Essentials

• The Captivate Creation Process
• Inputs and Outputs
• The ADDIE Model and Captivate
• The Relationship Between Captivate and Flash
• Technical Considerations
• ELearning Style Guidelines
• Using Captivate Templates

Lesson 2: Captivate 4 Overview

• The Captivate Interface
• Use an Existing Project Template
• Use a Storyboard
• Modify a Text Animation
• Modify a Caption
• Add Graphics
• The Timeline
• Scrub the Timeline
• Publishing Your First Movie
• Publish Your Movie
• Lesson 2 Lab

Lesson 3: Templates

• Template Overview
• Creating a Design Template
• What is in a Captivate Project Template?
• Creating a Project Template
• Template Elements: Background Artwork
• Template Elements: Captions
• Template Elements: Titles
• Template Elements: Skin
• Lesson 3 Lab

Lesson 4: Soft Skill Training - Adding Assets

• Captions
• Flash Animations
• Insert Flash Animation the Contains ActionScript
• Text Animations
• Images
• Highlight Boxes
• Buttons
• Lesson 4 Lab

Lesson 5: Soft Skill Training - Interactivity

• Adding Interactivity
• Adding Rollover Images
• Rollover Slidelet
• Zoom Area
• Lesson 5 Lab

Lesson 6: Application Training Recording Demonstrations

• The Recording Process
• Recording a Demonstration
• Modifying Demonstration Elements
• Full Motion Recording (FMR)
• Lesson 6 Lab

Lesson 7: Application Training Recording Simulations

• How to Record
• Multiple Modes
• Importing Captivate Slides
• Click Boxes
• Training Simulations
• Lesson 7 Lab

Lesson 8: Scenarios and Branching

• Example Scenarios
• Create New File form Scenario Template
• Using the Branching Tab
• Slide Groups
• Modifying Branching
• Lesson 8 Lab

Lesson 9: Audio in Captivate

• Audio Equipment
• Recording Tips
• Recording Audio
• Importing Audio
• Adding Audio to an Object
• Sound Editing
• Exporting Audio from Captivate
• Lesson 9 Lab

Lesson 10: Building Quizzes

• Using a Quiz Template
• Creating question slides
• Set eLearning output options
• Organizing Quizzes
• Adding a Powerpoint File
• Create random question slide
• Create Question Pool
• Moving Slides to Question Pool
• Quiz Tips and Tricks
• Lesson 10 Lab

Lesson 11: Publishing

• Web Publishing
• Executable Files
• Captivate Publishing Best Practices
• Changing how a project starts and ends
• Print a Lesson
• Step-by-Step Guides
• Storyboard
• Handouts
• Lesson 11 Lab

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