Adobe Captivate – The Essentials

Duration: 2 days Dates: 10 June 2027

A course that teaches the fundamental Adobe Captivate skills required to create eLearning courses.

EXPLORING CAPTIVATE

  • Exploring a finished Captivate project
  • Zooming and magnifying
  • Navigating a project
  • Exploring and resetting the workspace
  • Previewing the entire project

NEW PROJECTS & SOFT-SKILLS ELEARNING

  • Creating a blank project
  • Adding images to placeholders
  • Importing images
  • Using a smart shape as a button
  • Disabling click sounds

SCREEN RECORDINGS

  • Rehearsing a script
  • Reviewing recording settings
  • Reviewing recording modes
  • Recording with multiple modes
  • Recording a custom simulation
  • Recording a demonstration with panning
  • Manually recording the screen

VIDEO DEMOS

  • Recording a video demo
  • Adding a video zoom
  • Adding a video pan
  • Smoothing a mouse path and showing visual clicks
  • Splitting a video
  • Trimming a video
  • Inserting a video project into a standard project
  • Publishing a video demo

CAPTIONS, STYLES, TIMING AND ROUND-TRIPPING

  • Inserting and editing text captions
  • Editing the default caption style
  • Changing the caption type of a text caption
  • Controlling slide timing
  • Controlling the timing of slide objects
  • Checking spelling
  • Aligning slide objects
  • Exporting captions to Word
  • Importing captions from Word into Captivate

POINTERS, PATHS, FIELDS AND BUTTONS

  • Controlling mouse effects
  • Editing a mouse path
  • Cloning an object style
  • Inserting a highlight box
  • Inserting an image button
  • Controlling the “appear after” timing

IMAGES AND VIDEOS

  • Inserting, scaling and restoring an image
  • Importing images into the library
  • Scaling, transforming and aligning images
  • Managing unused library items
  • Creating an image slideshow
  • Inserting a video
  • Setting video properties

AUDIO

  • Working with rollover captions
  • Importing audio into a slide object
  • Importing background audio
  • Adding a slide note
  • Calibrating a microphone
  • Recording slide audio
  • Importing audio into a slide
  • Editing an audio file
  • Inserting silence
  • Converting text to speech

STATES, ANIMATIONS AND OBJECT EFFECTS

  • Changing the state views of a button
  • Adding an animation to a slide
  • Inserting a text animation
  • Applying an effect to a slide object
  • Applying a free-fall effect to an object

SOFTWARE SIMULATIONS

  • Hiding the mouse
  • Replacing phrases
  • Inserting a click box
  • Inserting a text entry box

WORKING WITH POWERPOINT

  • Creating a project from a presentation
  • Editing the source presentation
  • Synchronising with the source
  • Rescaling a project

QUIZZES

  • Editing quiz object styles
  • Setting quiz preferences
  • Question slides
  • Inserting question slides
  • Editing a question slide
  • Comparing the “Submit All” and “Submit” buttons
  • Inserting a knowledge check
  • Reviewing a GIFT file
  • Importing a GIFT file into a project
  • Creating question pools
  • Moving questions into pools
  • Inserting random question slides

PUBLISHING

  • Applying a skin
  • Editing, saving and deleting a skin
  • Naming slides
  • Checking publish settings and adding a loading screen
  • Running the HTML5 Tracker
  • Publishing as HTML5
Learning Solution

Firmenseminar, Individualcoaching, Klassenraumtraining, Online Live Webinar

Language

Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Italienisch

Dates

2027/06/10, flexibel, auf Anfrage

Location

Brüttisellen, Lausanne, flexibel, auf Anfrage

 

  • You will learn to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch.
  • You will learn to record and produce software demonstrations, interactive training simulations and video demos.
  • By the end, you will know how to add standard objects such as text captions, images, characters, videos, smart shapes and more to a slide.
  • You will record, import and edit audio.
  • You will also further enhance the learning experience by adding interactivity through click boxes, buttons, text entry boxes and quizzes.
  • You will learn to import existing PowerPoint content into Captivate.
  • You will learn to publish a Captivate project as HTML5, so your content can be used on virtually any device, including desktop computers, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

 

 

 

Price range: CHF1'300 through CHF4'400 excl. VAT

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