Introduction to Captivate 2024

Introduction to Captivate 2024 is a three – day course designed to teach the core Adobe Captivate 2024 skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content. By following step-by-step instructions, you will learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch. You’ll learn to record and produce software demonstrations, and interactive training simulations. This course will take you through three e-learning projects: a demonstration, a simulation and a SCORM-compliant quiz. This three-day Introduction to Captivate is always followed in the same week by the 2-day intermediate Captivate Course - Beyond the Essentials.

Introduction to Captivate 2024 Benefits

• In this Adobe Captivate Course, you will:

  • How to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch
  • Record and produce software demonstrations, and interactive training simulations

• Prerequisites

  You should have:

  • Practical working knowledge of Mac OS X or Windows
  • Basic Web knowledge

Essential Adobe Captivate Course Outline

Outline

Intro to Captivate 2024

• Captivate 2019 vs Captivate 2024
• Why Use Both Captivate 2019 and Captivate 2024
• Captivate 2019 and Captivate 2024 Compatibility
• HTML Responsive Design Overview
• Rescalable, Breakpoint, and Fluid Box Responsive Design
• Captivate 2024 and Fluid Box Design
• Planning Projects
• Project Development Phases
• Designing Slides
• Google Font Options in Captivate 2024

Exploring and Creating

• The Adobe Captivate Interface
• Exploring an Existing Captivate Project
• Previewing a Project
• Sharing a Project for Review
• Creating a New Project
• Exploring a Blank Captivate Project
• Adding and Arranging Slides
• Adding a Slide Background Image
• Adding Text Block Components to Slides
• Modifying a Text Style Preset
• Adding a Button Component and Setting Actions
• Editing Themes
• Exporting and Importing Themes
• Creating Infinite Slides
• Setting Captivate Preferences
• Project Settings Options

Videos and Images

• Media Block Basics
• Inserting Video Blocks
• Using Event and Slide Video
• Editing Video
• Inserting Image Blocks
• Insert an Image Grid
• Editing Images
• Adding SVG’s to a Slide
• Adding Image Accessibility Text

Audio

• Importing Audio to Slides and Objects
• Importing Background Music
• Recording and Replacing Audio
• Calibrating a Microphone
• Recording Voice Overs
• Generating Creating and Editing Text-to-Speech
• Editing and Replacing Slide Audio
• Adding Closed Captions to Video
• Adding Closed Captions to Audio
• Adding Slide Accessibility Text

Adding Interactive Components

• Buttons
• Input Boxes
• Check Boxes
• Radio Button Groups
• Dropdowns

Widgets

• Cards Widget
• Tabs Widget
• Certificate Widget
• Carousel Widget
• Hotspot Widget
• Drag-and-Drop Widget
• Timeline Widget
• Click to Reveal Widget

States and Timeline Timing

• Using and Creating Multi State Objects
• Changing and Disabling Button States
• Applying Animations

Using the Timeline Panel

• Launching the Timeline Panel
• Dragging and Positioning Objects
• Editing Audio on the Timeline
• Controlling Slide and Object Timing
• Editing Animation Timing
• Using Bookmarks
• Copy and Paste Appearances and Interactions

Variables

• Inserting System Variables
• Inserting User Variables
• Adding Text Input Fields
• Inserting User Variables

Interactions

• Adding Interactions to a Project
• Interactive Video with Overlay
• Slide Interactions
• Object Interactions
• Conditional Interactions
• Creating Object States

Animations

• Timing Based Animations
• Trigger Based Animations
• Entrance Animations
• Emphasis Animations
• Exit Animations

Quizzing

• Setting Quiz Preferences
• Question Slides Overview
• Inserting Question Slides
• Editing Question Slides
• CSV Question Import

Publishing

• Enabling and Disabling the Playbar
• Setting Up a Cover Image
• Controlling the Auto Play Feature
• Customizing the TOC and Playbar
• Slide Labeling
• Publishing to HTML5
• Enabling LMS Reporting
• Creating and Configuring Manifest Files
• Publishing LMS Output
• Exploring the Publish Content Package
• Publish a SCORM Content Package

Software Simulations

• Preparing for Screen Recordings
• Enabling Recording Settings
• Reviewing Recording Modes
• Using Multi Mode Recordings
• Recording a Simulation
• Multiple Mode Recording
• Using Panning
• Editing Software Simulations
• Editing the Mouse Pointer and Path
• Working with Captions and Click Boxes
• Using Failure, Success, and Hint Captions