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Adobe Captivate training

Our Adobe Captivate training helps you use this development tool for creating eLearning content e.g. interactive videos, virtual reality walkthroughs, screencasts, multi-module branched courses, soft skills and compliance training and quizzes.  You can convert existing Microsoft PowerPoint slides and easily add multimedia, interactive elements and quizzes (which can be linked to an LMS system).  Content can be sent to virtually any device.

If you’re new to Captivate our Introduction course content covers the basic skills needed to produce professional looking eLearning materials.  Experienced users should attend our Advanced course for using templates, advanced actions and scripts.

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Adobe Captivate NEW Introduction Course

2 Days

This all new version of Adobe Captivate has a new, intuitive user interface that allows for a simplified workflow.  Make use of ready-made layout slides and powerful interactive elements to quickly create professional grade courses.  All courses are responsive so your content will look good on any device, making sure that learners have a consistent experience whether they're using a desktop, laptop, tablet or mobile.

Adobe Captivate is a powerful Rapid eLearning authoring tool that allows users to create interactive content deliverable to almost any device, without the need for coding.  It can be used for product demos, application simulations, soft skills and compliance training, live and self-paced online courses, self-service videos, employee on-boarding etc.

During the course delegates will learn the basic skills required to create quizzes, add audio and video, apply effects, and publish projects to the web and mobile.

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What will you learn?

By the end of this Adobe Captivate NEW Introduction Course, attendees will have learnt to:

  • Use the all new Interface
  • Create slides using Text blocks, Media Blocks, Interactive components and Widgets and add basic interactivity
  • Understand the Timeline
  • Create your own Themes, Software Simulations and Quizzes
  • Add Video/Audio
  • Add Overlay Slides
  • Co-work on a project
  • Publish to an LMS

Audience?

eLearning authors, corporate training professionals/educators and in-house content developers.

Course Contents

Overview

  • What Captivate does
  • A tour of the interface
  • Previewing

Starting Work

  • Creating and saving projects
  • Project preferences
  • Project properties
  • Table of Contents and the Playbar

Slides

  • Creating slides
  • Slide properties

Working with Slide Content

  • Blocks and component overview
  • Text blocks
  • Text block properties
  • Text block components
  • Text block component properties
  • Animating slide objects
  • Media blocks
  • Interactive component blocks
  • Timing and the Timeline
  • Widgets

Audio

  • Working on the script
  • Recording and editing audio
  • Importing audio
  • Synchronising audio with objects
  • Text to speech
  • Closed captions and accessibility

Recording a Software Simulation

  • Preparing to record
  • Setting the recording area size
  • Recording options
  • Recording
  • What gets added during the recording process?

Quizzes

  • Creating a quiz
  • Graded question slides
  • Result Slides

Adding Interaction

  • Buttons
  • The Interaction panel
  • Triggers and Actions
  • States

Publishing

  • Reporting and Tracking
  • Output for an LMS

Reviewing

  • Creating and working with reviews
  • Explore the interface
  • Discuss project workflows
  • flash project
  • Upload to an LMS

Course Materials

Enliten IT will provide each delegate with a workbook and other useful reference materials where applicable.   These may be either paper based or in Adobe pdf format or a combination thereof.

“"It was all really useful, I had seen Captivate before but felt confident using it by the end of the course. "”

Sara, Donkey Sanctuary, Captivate

Prerequisites

No prior knowledge of Captivate is assumed however a good knowledge of PowerPoint is useful but not essential.

Additional Information

NOTE: We only offer this Adobe Captivate NEW Introduction course on a private in-house basis. For pricing and availability just pick up the phone and call us on 0845 1085481.

Enliten IT reserves the right to modify course content and materials as required in the interests of continuous course improvement, at any time, without notification.

The suggested course duration is a guideline. Course topics and duration may be modified by the instructor based upon the knowledge and skill level of the course participants.