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Create Training Presentations & Simulations

Captivate | Level 1 teaches you how to create interactive & online training presentations, simulations, and quizzes. Learn how to create HTML5 responsive projects. Import images, sound, & videos, and create interactivity using buttons. Build software demonstrations, interactive simulations, animation & more!

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Zoom, Pan, & Picture-in-Picture with Captivate

Captivate Training Outline | Level 1

Audience
Adobe Captivate | Level 1 is a course for beginning Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations, eLearning, presentations, quiz assessment and interactivity.Captivate is a great tool for creating Computer Based Training.

Prerequisites

Basic Computer Skills & File Management on Windows or Mac

Introduction to Captivate

What is Captivate?
What can it do?
What is resolution?
What size should my projects be?
Bitmaps and Vector Images
Flow Charts
Creating a new project

Project Planning

Target Audience Connection Speeds
Target Audience – Monitor Resolution
Creating Storyboards
Interface Basics

Recording Essentials

Grabbing Still Images
Using Full Motion Recording & When
Manual Recording A Demonstration

Recording a Demonstration

Using Manual Recording Mode
Hotkey Controls
Previewing your Project
Using Automatic Recording Mode
Preview and Note differences

Project Editing

Inserting Blank slides
Creating Slide Labels & Why
Reordering Slides
Defining & Modifying Highlight Boxes
Setting Mouse and pointer options

Text Captions

Objects in the timeline
Caption Types vs Styles
Using Transparency

Object Styles

Setting Attributes
Defining New Styles
Applying Object Styles

Timeline Essentials

Object layering/reordering/stacking order
Controlling Timings (birth and duration)
End Marker and Anchors

Importing Images

Scaling Images
Managing the Library
Understanding Library Controls
Drag and drop onto Canvas vs. Filmstrip
Merge into Background
RoundTrip Image Editing
Editing & Cropping Images in Captivate
Background Trade-outs
Internal Image Editing Options

Tools

Learning all the tools
Creating Captions
Creating Text
Creating Buttons
Inserting Rollover Captions
In-course web browsing
Slidelets
Inserting Components
Characters

Creating Simulations

Training, Assessment & Demo
Recording Settings
Capturing the Mouse & Shortcut Keys
Click Boxes – an invisible button

Simulation Editing

Editing Captions - apply to all?
Success Captions
Click Box Options

The Captivate Actions List

Available Options
Linking to Websites
Linking to Files
Absolute and Relative Paths

Importing Powerpoint Projects

Selection and Placement
What’s Importable
Navigation Settings
Dynamic Linking
Editing Powerpoint within Captivate

Buttons

Three Button types explained
Custom File naming conventions: _up, _over, _down
Button vs Click Boxes

Master Slides and Templates

Defining Master Slides
Working with a Master Slide
Creating a Template
Using Templates in Projects

Publishing Enhancements

Movie Preferences
Pre-Loading Animations
Adding & Modifying Skins, Navigation, and Borders
Creating a Table of Contents Menu
Adding Project Info

Video

Importing Video
Changing skins
Stream vs Progressive download
HTML Video
Pausing Project for Video Completion
YouTube Video Streaming - share YouTube videos within a lesson

Audio

Recording Narration
Importing Audio
Editing Audio – silence /volume levels
Background Audio
Advanced Audio Management
Encoding Settings
Creating Closed Captions
Text-to-Speech

Effects

Creating Zoom areas
Panning during Recording
Working with Rollovers
Using Effect Presets
Animation Effects
Adding Drop Shadows
Creating and Editing Gradiens
Defining Trigger-based Effects

Quizzes

Types of Available Questions
Editing the Captions & Buttons
Review Areas
Displaying Progress Indicators
Using the Advanced Interactions Manager

Architecting Pools - Embedded vs Standalone
Building Question Pools
Creating a Random Questions
Publishing and Dependent files

Delivery Options

Adding Table of Contents
TOC settings

Publishing

SWF and Dependant Formats
Scaling your Project
FTP Uploading
Publishing as a PDF
Publishing as an AVI
Publish to YouTube

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