Adobe Captivate 5/5.5
Captivate Essentials
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Adobe Certified Captivate Training

Bootcamp Registration is for All Three Courses

You can register for each course individually - Fees are shown under each course description

Course CAP10

Adobe Captivate 5.0/5.5

This course introduces users to Adobe Captivate. The course is designed to take participants through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations. The course is task-based, with participants learning by recording and updating projects. Along with covering the key features of Captivate, the course focuses on best practices to record Captivate projects.

Audience

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Adobe Captivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Course Outline

Unit 1: eLearning and Captivate

• Explore a Project
• Explore the Default Workspaces
• Modify and Reset a Workspace
• Create a Workspace
• Navigate a Project
• Preview a Project
• Zoom Closer to a Slide

Unit 2: Recording Demos and Sims

• Rehearse a Script
• Edit Recording Settings
• Set Recording Keys
• Record a Demonstration
• Record an Assessment
• Record a Training Simulation
• Record a Custom Simulation

Unit 3: Captions, Styles and Timing

• Duplicate a Slide and Hide the Mouse
• Insert, Resize and Move Text Captions
• Modify Text Caption Properties
• Edit the Default Caption Style
• Reset an Object Style
• Change an Object’s Position & Size
• View the Timeline
• Change a Slide’s Display Time
• Use the Timeline to Set Object Display Times
• Show/Hide Timeline Objects
• Use the Properties Panel to Control Timing
• Set Mouse Properties
• Check Spelling
• Align Slide Objects

Unit 4: Images and Drawing Objects

• Change Slide Background Quality
• Insert and Delete Slides
• Insert an Image
• Set Image Size and Slide Position
• Use the Library
• Manage Unused Project Assets
• Crop an Image
• Create an Image Watermark
• Work With Image Stacks
• Add a Visual Click and Sound
• Draw a Line

Unit 5: Pointers, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

• Modify the Mouse Pointer
• Edit Slide and Object Display Times
• Insert a Text Button
• Set a Button’s Timing and Options
• Work With Image Buttons
• Insert and Format a Highlight Box

Unit 6: Rollovers and Zoom Areas

• Insert a Rollover Caption
• Insert a Rollover Image
• Insert a Zoom Area
• Insert and Format a Rollover Slidelet
• Format the Slidelet
• Add a Caption and Image to a Slidelet

Unit 7: Audio

• Add Audio to a Slide Object
• Add Background Audio
• Add a Slide Note
• Calibrate a Microphone
• Record a Narration
• Import Voice Narrations
• Edit an Audio File
• Insert Silence
• Convert Text-to-Speech

Unit 8: Flash Video, Animation and Effects

• Insert Flash Video
• Set Flash Video Properties
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Insert Text Animation
• Apply a Fly-In Effect to a Text Caption
• Apply a ZigZag Motion Path

Unit 9: Converting Demonstrations Into Simulations

• Hide the Mouse
• Replace Phrases
• Insert a Click Box
• Insert a Text Entry Box

Unit 10: Introduction to Question Slides

• Edit Quizzing Object Styles
• Set the Quiz Preferences
• Insert Question Slides
• Format a Question Slide
• Add an Image to a Question Slide
• Paste as Background

Unit 11: Publishing

• Link to a Web Site
• Apply a Skin
• Edit and Save a Skin
• Delete a Skin
• Create a TOC
• Add a Loading Screen
• Publish a Flash (SWF)
• Publish Word Handouts
• Export Captions
• Perform a “Round Trip”

Unit 12: FMRs, Panning, Manual Mode & Slideshows

• Create an FMR
• Record a Lesson With Panning
• Record Manually
• Create an Image Slideshow

Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $845.00 + HST (CDN)

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, you should already:

Be familiar with the Microsoft Windows operating system
Be familiar with using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Be familiar with basic computer terminology

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Course CAP11

Adobe Captivate 5.0/5.5 Advanced Features

This Advanced Features course is designed to cover Captivate's higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via object styles, project templates, advanced actions and scripts. You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates' powerful commenting features. You'll enhance your users experience via variables that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your participant. With scripting and actions you can add logic to customize your eLearning activities.

Unit 1: Reviewing the Essentials

• Planning project
• Development process
• Resolution and size
• Custom Recordings
• Text Caption Pre Editing

Unit 2; Working with PowerPoint and Rescaling

• Importing PowerPoint
• PowerPoint Collaboration and Synching
• Rescaling Projects

Unit 3: Custom Styles, Branching and Aggregating

• Custom Styles
• Combining Projects
• Branching
• Slide Groups
• Aggregator projects

Unit 4: Question Pools

• Pools and Random Question Slides
• Tools for managing Question Pools

Unit 5: Accessible eLearning

• Accessibility and Captivate
• Accessibility Text
• Shortcut Keys
• Closed Captioning

Unit 6: Variables and Widgets

• Variables
• Project Variables
• System Variables
• Editing System Variables
• User Variables
• Collecting information with User Variables

Unit 7: Reviewing and Background Editing

• Acrobat.com Shared Review
• Using Review tools
• Background Editing
• Working with Photoshop Layers

Unit 8: Master Slides and Project Templates

• Master Slides
• Adding Images and Editing
• Applying Master Slides and Linking
• Project Templates
• Creating Project Templates
• Copy/Paste project assets
• Export/Import project assets
• Template Placeholders
• Working with Templates

Unit 9: Reporting Results

• Acrobat.com as an LMS Alternative
• LMS Reporting Options
• Manifest Files
• Content Packages

Unit 10: Actions and Advanced Actions

• Standard Actions
• User Variables
• Creating Rollover objects for actions
• Object Visibility
• Create and delete Standard Actions
• Conditional Actions
• User Variables
• Create Conditional Actions
• Name Objects
• Create Conditional and Standard Actions
• Working with Decision Blocks
• Adding Multiple IF Statements
• Create Actions to trigger events such as show a button
• Assign content to Variables
• Attach Actions to Objects

Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $895.00 + HST (CDN)

Prerequisites: Completed CAP10 or equivalent experience:

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Course CAP12

Adobe Captivate 5.0/5.5 Actions and Variables

You'll enhance your users experience via variables that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your participant. By working with Actions you will create a high degree of interactivity and engagement for your learner. With scripting and actions you can add logic to customize your eLearning activities.

Course will include:

• Setting User and System Variables
• Learning Assignment properties
• Working with conditional logic
• Decision blocks
• Creating Tabbed Navigation
• Send back to slide
• Controlling playbar Visibility
• Creating drop down menus

Duration: 1 days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $425.00 + HST (CDN)

Prerequisites: Completed CAP10 and CAP11 or equivalent experience:

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Course CAP10

Adobe Captivate 4.0

This course introduces users to Adobe Captivate. The course is designed to take participants through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations. The course is task-based, with participants learning by recording and updating projects. Along with covering the key features of Captivate, the course focuses on best practices to record Captivate projects.

Audience

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Adobe Captivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Captivate Preferences and Interface

• Planning eLearning Projects
• The Development Process
• The Captivate 4 Interface
• Set General Preferences
• Explore a Project
• Explore Project Views
• Navigate a Project
• Preview a Project
• Zoom Closer to a Slide
• View the Timeline and Library

Unit 2: Recording Demonstrations and Assessments

• Rehearse a Script
• Set Recording Preferences and Keys
• Record a Demonstration
• Record an Assessment Simulation
• Record a Training Simulation
• Record a Custom Assessment Simulation

Unit 3: Full Motion Recordings (FMRs), Panning and Image Slideshows

• Create a FMR
• Record a Lesson With Panning
• Create an Image Slideshow

Unit 4: Text Captions & the Timeline

• Duplicate a Slide and Hide the Mouse
• Insert, Resize and Move Text Captions
• Change Text Caption Properties
• Change an Object’s Slide Position and Size
• View the Timeline
• Change a Slide’s Display Time
• Change Timeline View Settings
• Use the Timeline to Set Object Display Times
• Show/Hide Timeline Objects
• Use Options to Control Object Timing
• Set Mouse Properties
• Check Spelling
• Align Slide Objects

Unit 5: Images and Drawing Objects

• Insert and Delete Slides
• Insert an Image
• Set Image Size and Slide Position
• Use the Library
• Manage Unused Project Assets
• Control Transparency
• Create an Image Watermark
• Set Image Timing Options and Transition Effects
• Work With Image Stacks
• Add a Visual Mouse Click and Click Sound
• Insert a Drawing Object

Unit 6: Pointers, Buttons and Highlight Boxes

• Change the Pointer Path
• Change the Pointer Type
• Edit Slide and Object Display Times
• Insert a Text Button
• Set a Button’s Options
• Insert an Image Button
• Insert and Format a Highlight Box

Unit 7: Rollovers and Zoom Areas

• Insert a Rollover Caption
• Set Rollover Area Properties
• Insert a Rollover Image
• Insert a Zoom Area
• Insert a Rollover Slidelet
• Set Rollover Slidelet Properties
• Format and Position a Slidelet
• Insert a Caption Into a Slidelet
• Insert an Image Into a Slidelet

Unit 8: Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

• Change Slide Background Quality
• Add a Slide Label
• Add a Slide Note
• Add Sound to a Slide Object
• Add Background Audio
• Calibrate a Microphone
• Record Audio
• Import Slide Audio
• Edit an Audio File
• Insert Silence
• Convert Slide Notes to Speech

Unit 9: Animation and Flash Video

• Change a Project’s Frame Rate
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Insert Text Animation
• Insert Flash Video
• Set Flash Video Properties

Unit 10: Converting Demonstrations Into Simulations

• Hide the Mouse
• Replace Phrases
• Insert a Click Box
• Set Click Box Options
• Change a Slide’s Display Time
• Set a Text Caption Transition
• Insert a Text Entry Box

Unit 11: Introduction to Question Slides

• Set Quiz Preferences
• Insert a Question Slide
• Add an Image to a Question Slide
• Reuse a Slide Background
• Format the Question Title
• Use the Slide Grid
• Format the Progress Indicator

Unit 12: Publishing

• Link to a Web Site
• Apply a Skin
• Edit and Save a Skin
• Delete a Skin
• Add a Loading Screen
• Set Project Information
• Create a TOC
• Publish a Flash (SWF)
• Publish Word Handouts
• Export Captions
• Perform a “Round Trip”

Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $845.00 + HST (CDN)

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, you should already:

Be familiar with the Microsoft Windows operating system
Be familiar with using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Be familiar with basic computer terminology

Register for this course

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Course CAP11

Adobe Captivate 4.0 Advanced Features

This Advanced Features course is designed to cover Captivate's higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via project templates, design templates, advanced actions and scripts. You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates' powerful commenting features. You'll enhance your users experience via variables that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your participant.

Unit 1: Reviewing the Essentials

• Set General Preferences
• Rehearse a Script
• Set Recording Preferences and Keys
• Record a Custom Simulation
• Edit a Text Capture Template

Unit 2: Importing and Branching

• Import a PowerPoint Presentation
• Edit a PowerPoint Presentation
• Resize a Project
• Import Project Slides and Objects
• Label a Slide
• Use Buttons to Create a Branch
• Explore the Branching Tab
• Create a Slide Group
• Aggregate Published SWFs

Unit 3: Question Pools

• Insert a Question Slide
• Create and Rename Question Pools
• Add Questions to Question Pools
• Insert Random Question Slides

Unit 4: Accessible Projects

• Set Document Information
• Enable Accessibility
• Add Accessibility Text to Slides
• Import Audio
• Add Shortcut Keys
• Add Closed Captions

Unit 5: Commenting, Image Editing and PhotoShop Layers

• Send a Project for Review
• Create a Background Mask
• Edit a Slide Background
• Delete a Slide Background
• Import a PhotoShop File
• Work with PhotoShop Layers

Unit 6: Variables, Widgets and Buttons

• Add Document Information
• Insert a System Variable
• Edit a System Variable
• Create a User Variable
• Use a Variable to Gather Data
• Insert a Question Widget
• Insert a Certificate Widget
• Create Custom Buttons

Unit 7: Project and Design Templates

• Create a Project Template
• Create a Project From a Template
• Record Additional Slides
• Delete Unused Objects
• Create a Mask
• Add a Text Animation Placeholder
• Create a Design Template
• Format Design Template Objects
• Apply a Design Template to a Project

Unit 8: Advanced Actions

• Control Object Visibility
• Name Items
• Attach Multiple Actions to Objects
• Create Variables
• Add Text Entry Boxes
• Create a Script
• Attach a Script to a Slide
• Test and Edit a Script

Unit 9: Learning Management Systems

• Set Quiz Reporting Options
• Create a Manifest File
• Report a Button Interaction
• Adjust Slide Object Interaction
• Publish a Content Package

Duration: 2 days, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Fee: $895.00 + HST (CDN)

Prerequisites: To gain the most from this class, you should already:

Be familiar with the Microsoft Windows operating system
Be familiar with using Microsoft Internet Explorer
Be familiar with basic computer terminology

Register for this course

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