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Captivate
Training (1-day)
In this one-day
course, you'll learn how to create a simulation with interactivity and a
standalone e-Learning training project.
Receive a course handbook with more than 100 pages of
information that includes: more than 40+ hands-on exercises, tips and tricks,
tutorial and e-Learning design, as well as course CD
to repeat any chapter back at the office.
Class Outline
1. Captivate Overview
-
Demo of both completed Captivate simulations to be made in class
-
Captivate, simulation and e-Learning
terminology
-
Good simulation practices
2. Before you fire up Captivate
- Plan your simulation (e.g., storyboard)
- Resolution
- Understand recording options and preferences
- New Project options
- Recording Window
- Recording Mode
- Full Motion Recording
- Change Recording Key
- Tip and tricks before you film
3. Get to Know the Work Environment, Setup,
and Film
-
Open
Captivate
- Learn the work environment for easy navigation (e.g.,
Storyboard View)
- Know pre-setup options before you film
- Select the appropriate screen resolution for your audience
- Understand the Menu Bar, Toolbar, Timeline, and Slides
- Understand the uses of the different capture area
selections (e.g., Full screen)
- Prepare to film the simulation
- Start and end the filming process
- Describe how to save your project
4. Open, Preview, Copy and Backup a Project
- Open a project
- Preview options
- Backup a project
- Resize a project
- Copy a Captivate movie
5. Additional Slides
- Add a blank slide
- Add a colored slide
- Use the Color Dialog Box
- Add an image slide
- Add an animated text slide
- Use the Filmstrip with the slides
- Label slides
- Miscellaneous slide options
- Rearrange slide order
- Delete a slide
6. Text Captions
- Overview of text captions (e.g. auto-generated text
captions)
- Understand the value of captions
- Understand the value of auto-generated text captions
- Add captions
- Add
multiple captions to an individual slide
- Edit text caption
- Add roll-over captions
- Set caption transitions
- Stack text captions
- Move and resize text captions
- Delete captions
- Spell-check captions
7. Images and Objects
- Overview of images and objects
- Set
image properties
- Insert an image
- Add multiple images on one slide
- Resize images
- Align images
- Change image properties
- Stack images on a slide
- Merge an image into a slide
- Preview in browser
8.
Beginning Timeline
- Overview of the timeline
- Change
the timings
using the timeline
- Set
slide timing globally
- Set
caption timing globally
- Add
mouse options
9. Interactivity
- Overview of interactivity
- Add click boxes and highlight boxes
- Move and resize boxes
- Add Next buttons
- Delete boxes
10. Start and End Options and Playback Controls
- Add a movie start option (loading screen)
- Create a customized loading screen
- Add an end to the movie (loop)
- Customize playback controls
- Remove Progress bar from playback controls
- Add 'info' about the company to the Info button
11. Audio and the Timeline
- Overview of audio features (e.g., Notes)
- Add audio using a script
- Know the audio tricks and tips
- Record audio
- Preview audio
- Edit and rename an audio
- Overview of the Advanced Audio Management Dialog Box
- Use the Timeline to manage timing after the audio is
inserted
- Delete audio
12. Add a Quiz to Add Interactivity
- Overview of interactivity (e.g. quizzes, click boxes)
- Create click boxes
- Create true and false selections
- Create multiple choice selections
- Add buttons to the quiz
- Score a quiz
- Add a JavaScript to email score results
13. Add the Finishing Touches (e.g., text animations)
- Insert Text animation
- New Animation dialog
- Change highlight box properties
- Spell check your project
- Add transparent captions to former PowerPoint presentation
now in Captivate
- Create hyperlinks to websites and to another project
14. PowerPoint and Captivate
- Overview of using PowerPoint with Captivate
- Limitation of importing a PowerPoint presentation into Captivate
- Import several PowerPoint slides into a Captivate project
- Add transparent captions to former PowerPoint presentation
now in Captivate
15. Distribution and Publishing
- Bandwidth analysis
- Movie properties and controls
-
Distribution/Publish
16. Tips and Tricks/problem solving
- Audio problem (double - voice or echo)
- Transparent captions not showing
- Bullets in captions
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