Captivate 5 Fundamentals

Cost:

$595.00 (Online Class - Lodestone Live)
$795.00 (Lodestone Training Center)

Time: 10 am - 4:30 pm EST
Length: 2 day class
Type: Instructor-led

Course Description:

Captivate 5 provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to develop and build software demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, students also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects.

Learning Objectives:

In this course, the participants will learn the following:

• Understand the workflow process and storyboarding.
• Record software demonstrations and simulations.
• Update content by editing captions.
• Use the Timeline feature to change caption and object timing.
• Create handouts for reviewers
• Publish your project to Word documents and SWF files.
• Add narration by recording or importing audio.
• Increase user interactivity with click, highlight, and text entry boxes.
• Add interest by inserting rollover captions and images.
• Insert question slides and scoring options.
• Create interest by branching to different slides and projects.
• Import PowerPoint slides and printable documentation into a project.
• Creating hyperlinks to websites and to another project.

Target Audience:

The audience for this course is beginning and intermediate Adobe Captivate 5 users who want to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Adobe Captivate 5 appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Overview of the Captivate 5 Workflow: Building a Better Course

• What is Captivate 5 and review of the completed course
• The Captivate Workflow - ADDIE (Modified) - eLearning Suite 2 content
• Inputs and Outputs
• Flash Technology
• Captivate Development Requirements
• Creating a Pilot

Lesson 2: Navigating The Captivate 5 Interface

• Examining existing files - open two files
• Working with Panels - Docking, undocking
• Setting Your Workspace
• Major Panels - Filmstrip, Timeline, Properties
• Using Help

Lesson 3: Creating Your First Lesson

• Adding Background Artwork
• Adding a Text Caption
• Adding an Image
• The Captivate Timeline
• Adding a Flash animation
• Previewing your Work

Lesson 4: Master Pages and Templates

• The relationship between Master pages and Templates
• Using a Storyboard and a Template
• Using Master Pages
• Building a Template
• Using a Template
• Lab: Create a new Master Page and Add a layout to a Template

Lesson 5: Inserting Objects

• Text Captions
• Images
• Highlight Boxes
• Text Animation
• Using the Library
• Lab: Creating a new slide with multiple objects

Lesson 6: Adding Interactivity

• Roll Over Caption
• Roll Over Image
• Roll Over Slidelet
• Using Buttons
• Using a simple Action
• Branching
• Lab: Adding a new interaction

Lesson 7: Audio and Video

• Adding Audio in Captivate
• Editing Audio
• Importing Audio - Text to Speech
• Adding Video - FLV and F4V
• Slide Video - The Video panel
• Lab: Adding Video with a Green Screen

Lesson 8: Publishing to the Web and Print

• The Publishing process / Options
• Going to the Web
• LMS Publishing Basics
• LMS Output options
• Output to Print
• Lab: Send a Quiz to Print

To Register:

Toll Free - 866.665.9441 or click on a date to register online.

9/20-9/21/2010
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Instructor:
Josh Cavalier

Lodestone Training Center:
Charlotte or Online

10/4-10/5/2010
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Instructor:
Josh Cavalier

Lodestone Training Center:
Charlotte or Online

10/27-10/28/2010
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Instructor:
Mark Hooper

Lodestone Training Center:
New York or Online

11/29-11/30/2010
10:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Instructor:
Josh Cavalier

Lodestone Training Center:
Charlotte or Online

Please note, assigned instructor may change. Lodestone confirms instructor schedules two weeks prior to class date.

*Classes are online via Lodestone Live and at a Lodestone training center.
The only time that a class will cancel is either if there is a power failure or other major disruption in service.