Captivate Fundamentals: An Introduction to Captivate 7

Day 1

Getting started with Captivate

• The Captivate production process
• Touring the Captivate interface
• Understanding panels in Captivate
• Creating a custom Workspace
• Exploring the sample applications to be built in this course

Capturing the Slides

• Choosing the right resolution for the project
• Resizing the project after the initial shooting
• Using the panning feature
• Using the new Scalable HTML content feature
• Exploring the recording preferences
• Shooting alternative versions of the project
• Full Motion recording
• Understanding the Captivate capture engine
• The Video Demo
• Automatic and Manual Panning
• Rescaling a project

Working with Standard Objects

• Working with the Properties panel
• Exploring the basic objects
• The Text Caption objects
• Formatting a Text Caption
• Modifying the content of a Text Caption
• The Highlight Box object
• Working with the Mouse
• Working with images
• Using the image editing tools
• Inserting a picture slide
• Working with Characters
• Working with Smart Shapes
• Formatting a Smart Shape
• Using the Align toolbar
• Working with styles
• Managing styles with the Properties panel
• Resetting a style
• Creating new styles
• Modifying a style
• Applying styles automatically
• Working with the Object Style manager
• Exporting a style
• Importing a style
• Creating a style with the Object Style Manager
• Working with the Timeline
• Using the Timeline to select objects
• Hiding and locking objects with the Timeline
• Using the Timeline to change the stacking order of the objects
• Use the Timeline to set the timing of the objects

Lesson 4: Working with Animations and Interactive Objects

• Discovering the animated objects
• Using the Text Animation
• Converting a typing object into a Text Animation
• Inserting external animations in the project
• Working with the Zoom Area
• Inserting a video file
• Adding effect to objects
• Combining effect
• Working with buttons
• Working with Rollover Captions
• Working with Rollover Smart Shapes
• Using the Align toolbar to adjust the size and the position of objects
• Working with Rollover Images
• Working with Rollover Slidelets
• Inserting and formatting a Rollover Slidelet
• Inserting objects in a Rollover Slidelet
• Working with the Library
• Reusing Library items
• Importing objects from another Library
• Deleting unused assets from the Library
• Creating a Simulation
• Hiding the mouse
• Using Find and Replace
• Working with Click Boxes
• Working with Text Entry Boxes
• Fine tuning the Simulation
• Branching with Click Boxes
• Objects and animations in Video Demo projects
• Interactivity in Video Demo projects
• Using Pan and Zoom
• Adding Transitions in Video Demo

Day 2

Working with Audio

• Adding audio to objects
• Adding background music to the entire project
• Adding audio to slides
• Recording narration with Captivate
• Setting up the sound system
• Importing external sound clips
• Editing a sound clip in Captivate
• Using Text-to-Speech to generate narration
• Installing the Captivate Speech Agents
• Working with the Slide Notes panel
• Converting text to speech
• Using the Speech Management window
• Adding Closed Captions to the slides
• Viewing the Closed Captions
• Closed Captioning a video file

Final Changes and Publishing

• Final Changes
• Checking the spelling
• Start and End preferences
• Project metadata and accessibility
• Other project preferences
• Exporting the project preferences
• Working with the Skin Editor
• Customizing the Playback Controls
• Working with Borders
• Adding a Table of Contents
• Applying the same Skin to another project
• Publishing
• Publishing to Flash
• Scalable HTML content
• Publishing to HTML5
• Using the HTML5 Tracker
• Publishing to PDF
• Publishing as a standalone application
• Publishing as a video file
• Publishing to You Tube
• Publishing a Video Demo project
• Publishing to Word
• Publishing options

Working with Quizzes

• Introducing the Quiz
• Creating Question Slides
• The Multiple Choice question
• The Short Answer question
• The Matching question
• The True / False question
• The Hotspot question
• The Fill-In-The-Blank question
• The Sequence question
• Creating surveys with Likert questions
• Previewing the Quiz
• Creating a Pretest
• The Quiz Preferences
• Setting the passing score for a Quiz
• Creating Question Pools
• Reporting scores to an LMS
• SCORM and AICC
• Enabling reporting in Captivate at interaction and project levels
• Creating a SCORM manifest
• Publishing an eLearning-enabled project
• Integrating the SCORM package in the LMS
• Taking the Quiz
• Using the Adobe Captivate Quiz Result Analyzer

Templates, Master Slides and Themes

• Experimenting with Themes
• The Elements of a Theme
• The Master Slides
• The Styles
• The Skin
• Creating a Theme
• Customizing the Master Slides of the Theme
• Adding Placeholders to the Master Slides
• Applying the Master Slides to the slides of the project
• Modifying a Master Slide
• Adding styles to the Theme
• Styling the Standard Objects
• Styling the Question Slides
• Styling the Buttons
• Adding a Skin to the Theme
• Working with Templates
• Adding Placeholder Slides
• Creating a new Captivate project from a Template

Day 3

• Captivate with PowerPoint
• Converting an existing presentation to Captivate
• Viewing the presentation in PowerPoint
• Creating a Captivate project from a PowerPoint application
• Round Tripping between Captivate and PowerPoint
• Updating a linked PowerPoint presentation
• Inserting a PowerPoint slide in a Captivate project
• Localizing a Captivate project using Microsoft Word
• Exporting the project to XML
• Importing a Photoshop file into Captivate
• Exporting to Flash Professional

Reviewing a Captivate Project

• The Review process
• Distributing the project
• Commenting a Captivate project
• Installing the Adobe Captivate Reviewer application
• Using the Captivate Reviewer to create new comments
• Exporting the comments
• Collecting and addressing the comments
• Ending a review

Variables, Advanced Actions and Widgets

• Variables
• System and User-Defined variables
• Generating text dynamically
• Using User-Defined variables
• Creating User-Defined variables
• Capturing values with a Text Entry Box
• Using User-Defined variables to dynamically generate text
• Advanced Actions
• the Standard Action
• Automatically turning on Closed Captions with an Advanced Action
• Conditional Actions
• Creating the necessary variables
• Assigning a score to each possible answers
• Giving names to objects
• Conditionally showing and hiding objects
• Using a Conditional Action to implement Branching with the Pretest
• Widgets
• Locating Widgets
• Understanding the types of Widgets
• Static Widgets
• Interactive Widgets
• Question Widgets
• Adobe Captivate Exchange
• Blogs and websites
• Working with the Smart Learning Interactions