Adobe Captivate 5 Intro

Class length: 3 days
Hours: 10:00 am - 5:30 pm
Cost: $1,350

Captivate 5 Intro

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Adobe Captivate 5 software lets you rapidly author and maintain professional eLearning experiences including software demonstrations, application simulations, and branching scenarios without programming. Work more productively thanks to an intuitive user interface. Engage and retain learners with multimedia, interactivity, and quizzes. Collaborate more efficiently and track results conveniently by leveraging Acrobat.com. Enable learner collaboration using the Twitter widget from Adobe. Deliver content to the web, desktops, mobile devices, and leading Learning Management Systems.

Our three-day course will provide you with the core skills you need to make the most of this extremely powerful application.

Intro Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Overview of the Captivate 5 Workflow: Building a Better Course

  • What is Captivate 5 and review of the completed course
  • The Captivate Workflow - ADDIE (Modified) - eLearning Suite 2 content
  • Inputs and Outputs
  • Flash Technology
  • Captivate Development Requirements
  • Creating a Pilot

Lesson 2: Navigating The Captivate 5 Interface

  • Examining existing files - open two files
  • Working with Panels - Docking, undocking
  • Setting Your Workspace
  • Major Panels - Filmstrip, Timeline, Properties
  • Using Help

Lesson 3: Creating Your First Lesson

  • Adding Background Artwork
  • Adding a Text Caption
  • Adding an Image
  • The Captivate Timeline
  • Adding a Flash animation
  • Previewing your Work

Lesson 4: Master Pages and Templates

  • The relationship between Master pages and Templates
  • Using a Storyboard and a Template
  • Using Master Pages
  • Building a Template
  • Using a Template
  • Lab: Create a new Master Page and Add a layout to a Template

Lesson 5: Inserting Objects

  • Text Captions
  • Images
  • Highlight Boxes
  • Text Animation
  • Using the Library
  • Lab: Creating a new slide with multiple objects

Lesson 6: Adding Interactivity

  • Roll Over Caption
  • Roll Over Image
  • Roll Over Slidelet
  • Using Buttons
  • Using a simple Action
  • Branching
  • Lab: Adding a new interaction

Lesson 7: Audio and Video

  • Adding Audio in Captivate
  • Editing Audio
  • Importing Audio - Text to Speech
  • Adding Video - FLV and F4V
  • Slide Video - The Video panel
  • Lab: Adding Video with a Green Screen

Lesson 8: Publishing to the Web and Print

  • The Publishing process / Options
  • Going to the Web
  • LMS Publishing Basics
  • LMS Output options
  • Output to PrintLab: Send a Quiz to Print