Adobe Captivate 2017 Introduction Masterclass 4 Days - Manchester

Captivate 2017 Introduction 4 Days Overview

This 4-day Masterclass course helps you learn about the tools and features available in Adobe Captivate 2017. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes eLearning to a new level. With our help you will create quizzes, add audio and video, apply effects, and publish your projects.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Navigate the Captivate environment
• Work with timelines and images
• Create quizzes with question slides
• Apply transition effects and timing options
• Insert buttons, boxes, and rollover images
• Record and add music and other audio
• Animate slides and add Flash video
• Edit skins and templates
• Publish your projects
• Understand quiz reporting for Learning Management Systems
• Set up advanced templates and share libraries
• Review video setups, including multi-slide video
• Create and use system and user variables
• Write complex conditional scripts
• Use the Branching panel
• Randomise quizzes by using question pools

Our goal is for you to be able to create engaging eLearning projects that are ready to use for the web and on mobile devices.

This course can be taken in a single 4-day block or split into a 2-day block (Introduction) and then a separate 2-day block (Advanced) taken at a later date.

Course Target Audience and delegate prerequisites

This course is designed for those who are new to interactive design and development and who want to develop skills to work with Captivate to build intuitive, attractive and accessible projects.

You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer's operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.

 

Captivate 2017 Introduction 4 Days Course Outline

The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.

Day 1

Introduction
• Create a new project
• The interface
• Previewing a Movie
Add Text
• Modify text captions
• Add callouts
• Object Style Manager
Graphics
• Add smart shapes
• Manipulate smart shapes
• Insert graphics
• Resize and edit graphics
• Add drop shadows and reflections
The Timeline
• Zooming in and out
• Editing display period of Slide Objects
• Editing the time of a slide
• Stacking order
• Locking, hiding and grouping layers
Slides
• Moving and deleting slides
• Labelling slides
• Duplicate slides
• Importing PowerPoint slides
• Import slides from another Captivate project
Themes
• Adding a theme
• Create a basic theme with master slides
Using the Library
• Import assets to the library
• Update assets
• Select and remove unused items
• Open library from another Captivate project
Adding Objects
• Highlight box
• Mouse
• Zoom area
• Web object
Interactions
• Button
• Click box
• Learning interactions

Day 2

Software Simulations
• Preparation
• Set preferences
• Demo, Training and Assessment Modes
• Setting screen sizes
• Editing
Video Demo
• Set preferences
• Setting screen size
• Pan and zoom
• Slicing
• Trimming
• Transitions
• Clean pop-ups
Quizzes
• Adding question slides
• Type of questions
• Editing question slides
• Set quiz preferences
Other Media
• Adding audio to background slides and buttons
• Adding video (event video and multi-slide synchronised video)
• Add characters
Publishing
• SWF vs. HTML5 - Which to choose?
• Add action to end of project
• Exporting to an LMS (Sign up to scorm cloud)
Extras
• Using states
• Using animations
• Object styles

Day 3

Variables
• What is a variable?
• Understanding and using user variables
• Use system variables to display information
Advanced Actions
• Advantages of using advanced actions
• Exploring the advanced actions panel
• Creating shared actions
Standard Actions
• Create a simple ‘Show & Hide’ action
• Using the Toggle action
• Add a simple effect to your action
• Show and hide multiple objects with groups
• Using expressions
Conditional Actions
• Using IF ELSE statements
• Create a Toggle Switch to start and stop audio
• Create a Toggle Switch to show and hide a group
• Stacking order
Locking, hiding and grouping layers
Advanced Quizzing
• Create a pre-test to test user’s knowledge
• Create a question pool to create randomly selected question slides
• Write and import GIFT format files to automatically create question slides
• Amend the results slide with advanced actions
• Create drag and drop interactions

Day 4

Changing Defaults
• Change preferences
Templates
• Difference between templates and themes
• Create a basic template with placeholder objects
• Save and load a template
Using States
• Using states to show/hide
• Using the states with smart shape buttons
Responsive Projects
• Using fluid boxes
• Using breakpoints
• Responsive project considerations
Accessibility
• Accessibility considerations (Equality Act 2010, Section 508)
• Accessibility features in Captivate
• Creating closed captions
• Adding text to speech (TTS)
• Enabling accessibility in publish settings
Testing
• Publish project to Scorm Cloud

What's Included

The following are provided for your best experience on this course:

• All computers for your use with choice of Windows or Mac systems
• Small class size (limited to a maximum of 4-8 attendees on all sessions)
• Quality reference manual for post course reference to take away with you
• 6 months post course support to assist you where needed
• Official Adobe Authorised Certificate for your successful completion of the course
• Lunch To give you the most flexible options for lunch we provide lunch vouchers which can be redeemed locally at a number of popular eateries including Pret A Manger, EAT, Starbucks, Tesco, Sainsburys, Boots and Greggs
• Refreshments to keep you on top form are available for you throughout the course with a full range of teas, coffees and biscuits
• Pads and pens

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

Further details on benefits included with this Adobe Captivate 2017 course:

Adobe Certified Instructor

We are an Adobe Authorised Training Centre and our trainers are Adobe Certified Instructors with years of experience teaching Captivate. Get the elearning skills you need with our experienced Captivate professionals.

Quality training manual

Included with our Captivate courses is the E-Learning Captivate book provided for free to use as a post course reference resource. This is a full 300+ page manual to supplement the content covered during the course.

6 months support

Included with your course booking for all delegates on this course is 6 months free support so if you run into problems or need assistance relating to anything covered during your course we would be happy to assist you during this time.

Adobe Authorised Certificate

After your Adobe class with XChange Training you will receive our official Adobe Authorised Training Certificate as a record of your successful completion of the Adobe Certified Captivate course.

Lunch & refreshments

Delegates attending scheduled or bespoke courses at our training centres will receive lunch and plentiful refreshments including tea, coffee and hot chocolate for each day of the course.

Training Location

This course is provided at the XChange Training Manchester training centre based at:

Piccadilly House
49 Piccadilly
Manchester
M1 2AP

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Piccadilly House is located in the heart of Manchester directly next to the Piccadilly Gardens transport interchange with excellent bus and tram connections and is easily accessed from Piccadilly train Station (5 mins). Victoria station is also close by (around 10 mins).

Daily course times run between 10am and 5pm with an hour break for lunch and both mid morning and mid-afternoon refreshment breaks. We recommend arrival at 9.45am for registration on the first day of the course.

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Great course! The trainer explained the theory behind what we were doing, was patient and very knowledgeable.

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