Adobe Captivate Training Course

Essentials of Adobe Captivate 3 training course 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.

Captivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Captivate training course is for beginning and intermediate Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations.

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

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

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

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

"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

Rollover Captions, Images and Zoom Areas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Menu Builder

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

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