Audience

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

Course Outline

Unit 1: About This Book

• About the Author
  
• About IconLogic Books
  
• Book Conventions
  
• Confidence Check
  
• System Requirements
  
• Data files
• Download Data Files From the Web
• Need More Books?
  

Unit 2: eLearning and Captivate

• Education Through Pictures
  
• Planning eLearning Sessions
  
• The Development Process
  
• The Captivate 4 Interface
  
• Set General Preferences
  
• Explore a Project
  
• Explore Project Views
  
• Navigate a Project
  
• Preview a Project
• Zoom Closer to a Slide
• View the Timeline and Library
  

Unit 3: Demonstrations and Simulations

• Resolution and Recording SIze
• Preparing to Record
• Rehearse a Script
• Set Recording Preferences and Keys
• Demonstrations
• Record a Demostration
• Assessment Simulations
• Record an Assessment
• Training Simulations
• Record a Training Simulation
• Custom Recordings
• Record a Custom Simulation
  

Unit 4: FMRs, Panning and Image Slideshows

• Full Motion Recording
• Create an FMR
• Panning
• Record a Lesson With Panning
• Image Slideshows
• Create an Image Slideshow
  

Unit 5: Text Captions and the Timeline

• Text Captions
• Duplicate a Slide and Hide the Mouse
• Insert, Resize and Move Captions
• Change Text Caption Properties
• The Timeline
• Change an Objects Slide Position and Size
• View the Timeline
• Change a Slide's Display Time
• Change Timeline View Settings
• Use the Timeline to Set Objects Display Times
• Show/Hide Timeline Objects
• Use Options to Control Object Timing
• Set Mouse Properties
• Check Spelling
• Align Slide Objects

Unit 6: Images and Drawing Objects

• Blank Slides
• Insert and Delete Slides
• Working With Images
• Insert an Image
• Set Image Size and Slide Position
• The Library
• Use the Library
• Manage Unused Project Assets
• Image Effects
• Control Transparency
• Create an Image Watermark
• Set Image Timing and Transition Effects
• Work With Image Stacks
• Mouse Visuals and Sounds
• Add a Visual Click and Sound
• Drawing Objects
• Insert an Oval Drawing Object
  

Unit 7: Pointers, Buttons, and Highlight Boxes

• Pointer Paths and Types
• Change Pointer Path
• Change Pointer Type
• Buttons
• Edit Slide and Object Display Times
• Insert a Text Button
• Set a Button's Options
• Insert an Image Button
• Highlight Buttons
• Insert and Format a Highlight Box
  

Unit 8: Rollovers and Zoom Areas

• Rollover Captions
• Insert a Rollover Caption
• Set Rollover Area Properties
• Rollover Images
• Insert a Rollover Image
• Zoom Areas
• Insert a Zoom Area
• Rollover Slidelets
• Insert a Rollover Slidelet
• Set Rollover Slidelet Properties
• Format and Position a Slidelet
• Insert a Caption Into a Slidelet
• Insert an Image Into a Slidelet

Unit 9: Slide Labels, Notes and Audio

• Slide Quality
  
• Change Slide Background Quality
• Slide Labels and Notes
• Add a Slide Label
• Add a Slide Note
• Adding Audio Files to Projects
• Add Sound to a Slide Object
• Add Background Audio
• Working With Audio
• Calibrate a Microphone
• Record Audio
• Import Slide Audio
• Edit an Audio File
• Silence
• Insert Silence
• Text to Speech
• Convert Slide Notes to Speech

Unit 10: Animation and Flash Video

• Frame Rates
• Change a Project's Frame Rate
• Animation
• Add Animation to a Slide
• Text Animation
• Insert Text Animation
• Flash Video
• Insert Flash Video
• Set Flash Properties
  

Unit 11: Click and Text Entry Boxes

• Demonstrations versus Simulations
• Hide the Mouse
• Find and Replace
• Replace Phrases
• Click Boxes
• Insert a Click Box
• Set Click Box Options
• Change a Slides Display Times
• Change Transition Effects
• Text Entry Boxes
• Insert a Text Entry Box
  

Unit 12: Introduction to Question Slides

• Question Slides
• Set Quiz Preferences
• Insert a Question Slide
• Insert an Image onto a Question Slide
• Reuse a Slide Background
• Format the Question Title
• Use the Slide Grid
• Format the Progress Indicator
  

Unit 13: Finishing Touches

• Links
• Link to a Web Site
• Skins
• Apply a Skin
• Edit and Save a Skin
• Delete a Skin
• TOCs
• Create a TOC
• Preloaders
• Add a Loading Screen
• Publishing
• Publish a Flash (SWF)
• Publish Word Handouts
• Round Tripping
• Export Captions
• Perform a "Round Trip"
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