This class gives the students the hands-on experience, skills and best practices needed to create interactive e-learning demonstrations and simulations with Adobe Captivate.
Info: (650) 537-6478 and/or gabino@amazingelearning.com
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Captivate
Recording types
Demonstration and Simulation
Recording a demonstration (web browser)
Recording a simulation
Recording a custom demo
Do a full motion recording (youtube creep)
Record in multiple languages
2. Timeline and text captions
Adding a text caption
Move and resize text captions
Change text caption properties
Get familiar with Timeline display and settings.
Control object timing
Show/hide items and lock/unlock items
3. Audio
Add audio to slide
Normalize audio
Insert silence
4. Images
Adding images
Move and resize images
Change image transparency
Change image transition effect and timing
Create an image watermark
5. Click boxes and entry box
Adding a click box
Set click box properties
Adding an entry box
Set entry box properties
6. Pointer Paths, Buttons and Highlight Boxes
Show/Hide mouse
Change mouse icon
Add mouse click and audio
Set the mouse pointer path
Adding a button
Set button properties
Adding a highlight box
Set the highlight box properties
7. Rollover and Zoom Areas
Add a rollover caption
Set rollover caption properties
Add audio to rollover caption
Add an rollover image
Set rollover image properties
Add a zoom area
Adding a slidelet
Adding a caption into a slidelet
Adding an image into a slidelet
Redraw rollover area of slidelet.
8. Notes, Slide labels
Adding a slide note
Adding a slide label
Add background audio to demo.
Import Powerpoint slides into captivate
9. Animations and Flash Videos
Add an animation
Set animation properties
Add flash video
10. Question Slides
Add a question slide
Set question slide properties
Format the results page
Copy and paste background of question slide to other question slides.
Set random question slides.
11. Skins and Templates
Add a graphic playbar
Add a animated playbar
Set playbar properties
Adding a loading screen
Create demo template.
Create a project from a template
Edit template
12. Compliant Movies, Bandwidth and Publishing
Add accessibility text
Add close captioning
Enable 508 compliance
View project information
Publish a swf demo
Publish a word document handout
Publish a standalone project
13. Menu Builder
Add a menubuilder project
Add and edit text items
Export different types of menubuilder project
14. Learning Management Systems
Create a SCORM package.
Create an LMS course with Moodle
Import an captivate SCORM package into an LMS course
View an captivate course from and LMS
Requirements:
- Bring your own laptop.
- Captivate 3 installed in your computer (Software can be downloaded
for a 30 day trial from Adobe's website).
Instructor:
Gabino Chu has created e-learning courses for the past 3 years with Captivate. He created software simulations for Sun Microsystems, Purcell Murray and Amazing eLearning.
Schedule:
The class meets from 10am-12:00pm then from 1pm-5pm for each day.
Class size:
10 students
More info:
E-mail: sales@amazingelearning.com
Phone: 650-537-6478
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