Overview

Captivate is Adobe's e learning application - successor to Authorware.

Captivate makes it easy to record or assemble application demos and simulations and publish them for easy distribution across a network or the Internet.

Custom courses

Custom courses are available that contain elements from any of the applications we cover. For example you may want to extend Captivate's interactivity with a module from Flash.

And if you need a more advanced course - get in touch.

What you get

Examples and your creations to take away with you.

3 months free support - for issues covered in the course.

Courseware or manuals are available.

Adobe Captivate

Versions:
5, 4

Captivate introduction - 2 days

e-Learning
Pros and cons
Guidelines and best practice
Research and planning
Development task list
Possible feature list

Captivate overview
Files and filing
Tour of the interface
Workflow

Recording a demo or simulation
Preparing to record
Recording types
Recording modes
Recording setup
Panning while recording
Recording
Recording best practice

Working with slides
Inserting slides
Setting slide properties
Slide notes

Slide content
Understanding recorded slide content
Timing and the Timeline panel
Transitions
Cursor paths
Text captions
Rollover elements

Interactive slide content
Buttons and click boxes
Branching view

Multimedia slide content
Importing graphics
Recording and importing audio
Editing audio
Text to speech
Encoding and adding Video
Animations

Templates
Developing projects using templates

Accessibility
Making content accessible to screen readers
Closed captioning

Quizzes
The different types of question
Scoring
Reporting to an LMS

Preparing to publish
Skinning the Playbar
Table of Contents
Setting start and end options

Publishing and deploying
Output options
Optimisation issues
Adding a Captivate movie to a web page