The Captivate eLearning Basics class provides professionals with the foundation skills they need to develop and build software demonstrations and interactive eLearning simulations.
What You Will Learn
- The Captivate Development Process
- Creating a new eLearning Course from a template
- Creating a new eLearning Course from scratch
- Working with Assets
- Editing eLearning Projects
- Update content by editing captions
- Increase user interactivity with click, highlight, and text entry boxes
- Add interest by inserting rollover captions and images
- Import PowerPoint slides into a project
Lesson Outline
The following is a list of possible topics for you to use as a guide. Your course will be fully customized to your unique goals, workflow, and learning pace. Because every course Workflow Creative teaches is fully customized to each group, the following list of topics to be learned should be considered a guideline, one that will be expanded or altered as required to fit your needs.
Tour
- What is Captivate?
- The Captivate Development Workflow
- Tools and Panels
- Workspace
- Timeline, Filmstrip, Properties
- View a Simulation
Your first project
- Start a Blank Project
- Start a software simulation
- Edit Text Caption
- Rollover Caption
- Using the Timeline
- Properties Panel
- Preview
Development Basics
- Storyboard Basics
- Script and Instruction Guide Creation
Standard Objects
- Text Captions
- Images
- Highlight Boxes
- Text Animation
- Roll Over Caption
- Roll Over Image
- Using the Library
External Assets
- Add an Image
- Round-Tripping with PowerPoint
- Adding Audio in Captivate
- Editing Audio
- Importing Audio – Text to Speech
- Adding Video
Publishing
- Publishing
- Going to the Web
- LMS Publishing Basics
- LMS Output options
