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Adobe Captivate 5 Training for Beginners
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Adobe Captivate 5 Training for Beginners

Adobe Captivate 5 Training for Beginners
4.0 (11 ratings)
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Created by VHOT Training Inc.
Last updated 11/2012
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What you'll learn
  • Learn the basics of building an eLearning course in Adobe Captivate 5 and 5.5.
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  • Basic understanding of the Windows or OSX operating system.
  • Basic computer skills such as cut, copy, paste and terminology such as 'right click'.
Description

Welcome to the Udemy Captivate Training: Adobe Captivate Tutorial for Beginners Online Training Course. Your VHOT instructor for this course is a full-time eLearning developer, Certified Technical Trainer CTT+, and has over ten years of experience teaching the Adobe software solutions. In this course you will learn skills and techniques from an instructor that develops eLearning content in Adobe Captivate on a daily basis.

This Captivate Training video course includes demonstrations and examples of building eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5 as well as tips and tricks for productivity. You will start with the basics of learning the Adobe Captivate interface and creating a new project, and move very quickly into building quizzes and assessing your learners. VHOT Training Inc. also offers online live instructor-led training and on-site custom training classes.

Take this Adobe Captivate Training course now and learn from ultimate Adobe Captivate Tutorial for Beginners.

Note: Due to image license agreements, there are no downloadable files for this course. However, you may substitute with your own royalty free graphics and follow along as we guide you step-by-step through the Captivate development process.

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Course content
Expand all 44 lectures 04:18:49
+ – Introduction to the Adobe Captivate 5 Learning Video SeriesMy First Section
3 lectures 14:20
Adobe Captivate 5 Course Overview - Brief introduction to the Adobe Captiavte 5 course.
Preview 01:06

Lesson 2: In this lesson, we will be creating a new Captivate project and navigating an existing project. This includes an overview of the workspace and various panels. Preview default work spaces, customizing panel layout, previewing projects, creating new projects.

Adobe Captivate 5 Creating a New Project
Preview 09:16

Lesson 3: In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, we will cover some basic resources for gathering graphic assets, planning your projects, and what professional software tools you may want to use when working with Adobe Captivate.

Adobe Captivate 5 Project Planning and Resources
03:58
+ – Getting Started and Learning the Basics
7 lectures 48:02

Lesson 4: In this Adobe Captivate Tutorial, you will learn how to create a new Captivate project, save the project, add images, and adjust properties of the images in Adobe Captivate.

Adobe Captivate 5 Importing and Editing Images
06:35

Lesson 5: In this lesson we will cover the basics of working with the vector drawing tool objects, the rectangle tool and the line tool, object properties, working with the color panel, dropper tool, and working with a custom set of color swatches.

Adobe Captivate 5 Working with the Vector Drawing Objects
07:16

Lesson 6: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson, we will create a custom color theme for your Captivate eLearning project. We will use this theme in Adobe Fireworks and the Adobe Kuler desktop AIR application.

Adobe Captivate 5 Creating a Custom Color Theme with Adobe Kuler
07:57

Lesson 7: In this lesson we will cover more image editing techniques in Adobe Captivate. We will also cover batch processing images in Adobe Fireworks and round-trip image editing with Adobe Fireworks and Adobe Photoshop.

Adobe Captivate 5 Editing Images with Adobe Captivate, Photoshop, and Fireworks
07:57

Lesson 8: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson we will cover the Adobe Captivate 5 topics of adding slides, managing slides in the film strip, adding a new slide, adding a blank slide, creating a master slide, attaching master slides, managing multiple master slides.

Adobe Captivate 5 Creating and Working with Master Slides
07:55

Lesson 9: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn how to import multiple images and assets to the Captivate library. We will also take a look at the various workflow options and features of the Captivate asset library. Learn to export, delete, organize, view properties, and work with an external project library.

Adobe Captivate 5 Managing Project Assets with the Library
07:11

Lesson 10: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn the various options for previewing and testing your Adobe Captivate project as you are designing and developing. We will take a look at the various preview choices, shortcuts, and launch our project into the browser window from the Adobe Captivate production environment.

Adobe Captivate 5 Previewing Your Captivate Project
03:11
+ – Adding Text Captions, Buttons, and Managing Styles
5 lectures 35:13

Lesson 11: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn to add a text caption, style the text caption, choose different fonts, align the text in the text caption, and create a text caption that has a transparent background.

Adobe Captivate 5 Adding and Styling Text Captions
06:29

Lesson 12: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn to create Object Styles with the Captivate Object Style Manager. Create and manage global styles for all of your objects in the project. Apply, update, and manage Object Styles.

Creating Styles with the Object Style Manager
06:13

Lesson 13: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn to add and style buttons in your Captivate projects. Three button types are demonstrated including text buttons, image buttons, and transparent buttons.

Adding and Styling Buttons in Captivate
07:42

Lesson 14: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn to add and align multiple images and buttons. Learn to use the align tools in Adobe Captivate to quickly align and space your images. Add actions to buttons for navigation to slides in Captivate.

Adobe Captivate 5 Working with Multiple Images and Buttons
07:19

Lesson 15: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn to branch to multiple slides in your project using the button object. We will also explore other button actions to open external web pages from the Captivate project.

Adobe Captivate 5 Button Actions and Project Branching
07:30
+ – Mastering the Adobe Captivate Timeline
4 lectures 28:19

Lesson 16: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn the basics of working with the timeline. Learn the basic functionality, locking layers, toggle visibility of objects, scrubbing the playhead, adding and object, adjusting object duration, animating with placement and transitions, and adjusting the default duration for objects added to the timeline.

Adobe Captivate 5 Introduction to the Timeline
08:54

Lesson 17: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn the basics of managing objects on the timeline. Learn timeline placement of objects, object stacking order, duration of slide, adjusting object duration, animating with timline positioning, and managing multiple objects with menu options.

Adobe Captivate 5 Object Management on the Timeline
06:46

Lesson 18: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson we will take a look at preparing your images for timeline animation. Learn different image types, PNG, JPG, and GIF. Edit your images in Adobe Fireworks. Remove the background of images using the magic wand tool.

Adobe Captivate 5 Preparing Your Images for Timeline Animation
05:39

Lesson 19: In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson we will add timeline effect to images in the project. Add a drop shadow effect, animate objects, add linear animation, add fade-in animation, combine effects, and adjust properties of timeline effects.

Adobe Captivate 5 Adding Animation and Timeline Effects
07:00
+ – Adding Navigation and Table of Contents (TOC)
3 lectures 15:03
In this Adobe Captivate training tutorial we will add a standard navigation system (Playback Control) for our elearning lesson. Add TOC, Playback Control, properties, settings. Free Adobe Captivate Training!
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding a TOC and Navigation
05:38
Lesson 21: In this Adobe Captivate lesson we will modify and customize the Table of Contents. Learn the various options for TOC presentation, properties, color, and placement.
Adobe Captivate 5 Customizing the Table of Contents
04:11
Lesson 22: In this Adobe Captivate training tutorial we will take a look at some of the more advanced properties and settings in the Adobe Captivate 5 Table of Contents object. Learn how to modify the information, add an image, and nest slides into sub-directories.
Adobe Captivate 5 Table of Contents Advanced Tips and Tricks
05:14
+ – Adding Standard Objects in Captivate (Highlight Boxes, Rollover Captions, Rollover Images, etc …)
4 lectures 19:16
Lesson 23: In this Adobe Captivate training video we will add highlight boxes to our project for emphasis and adjust the properties of the Highlight Box using the properties panel as well as the Object Style Manager.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding and Modifying Highlight Boxes
05:17
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In this Adobe Captivate Training Video we will add a Rollover Caption and style the width, colors. Adobe Captivate allows you to create engaging eLearning content with a variety of built in objects that enhance the learning environment.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding and Styling a Rollover Caption
03:10
Lesson 25: In this Adobe Captivate Training Video you will learn how to create images in Adobe Fireworks CS6 for import into Adobe Captivate. You will also learn the steps to adding a Rollover Image to a slide in Adobe Captivate 5. This video is part of the VHOT Training Adobe Captivate Free learning series.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding a Rollover Image
05:36
Lesson 26: In this Adobe Captivate Training Video you will learn the basic steps to add a Rollover Slidelet to your Captivate slide. We will take a close look at the different objects in the Rollover Slidelet as well as the various properties for customizing the Slidelet. Add an image, text caption, and Adobe Flash animation content to your slidelet.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding a Rollover Slidelet
05:13
+ – Adding Flash Animations, Flash Video, and Custom Flash Content
5 lectures 24:39
Lesson 26: In this Adobe Captivate Training Video you will learn how to import Adobe Flash animations and content into your eLearning lesson. We will also look at the current Adobe Flash market based web statistics and facts. This video is part of the VHOT Training Adobe Captivate Free learning series.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding Flash Animations and Content
04:35
In this Adobe Captivate Training Video you will learn how to add Adobe Flash Video to your Captivate eLearning project. We will also take a look at converting your videos to the FLV and F4V format with the Adobe media encoder. Add Adobe Flash video to your eLearning projects.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding Flash Video (FLV and F4V)
04:08
In this Adobe Captivate lesson we will take a look at creating custom Adobe Flash content for Captivate projects with Adobe Flash CS6. You will need to be familiar with Adobe Flash and Flash ActionScript to complete this objective and follow along. Creating custom Flash content opens the doors for unlimited interactive eLearning content.
Adobe Captivate 5 Building Custom Flash Content for Your Captivate Projects
08:39
In this Adobe Captivate lesson we will take a look at editing a custom Adobe Flash interaction that is embedded in Captivate with Adobe Flash. You will need to be familiar with Adobe Flash and Flash ActionScript to complete this objective and follow along. Adobe Captivate 5 makes it easy to edit your Flash content with round trip features.
Adobe Captivate 5 Roundtrip Editing with Adobe Flash
03:21
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson you will learn how to add widgets to your Adobe Captivate projects. Widgets allow you to extend the functionality of Captivate with custom Flash SWF objects. We will add a Timer Widget and a Course Certificate of Completion Widget.
Adobe Captivate 5 Working with Widgets
03:56
+ – 10 Minute Break (See the New Features in Adobe Captivate 6)
1 lecture 10:08
In this Adobe Captivate 6 video we will cover 10 new version features in 10 minutes. Get ready to learn fast as we cover Adobe Captivate 6 Themes, Characters, Object Rotation, Adding a Drop Shadow, HTML5 Preview, HTML5 Tracking Panel, Smart Shapes, New Interactive Widgets, HD Video Capture, and the Submit All Feature for Captivate Quiz Scoring.
Adobe Captivate 6 New Features - 10 New Features in 10 MInutes
10:08
+ – Adding and Modifying Question Slides
5 lectures 28:35
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson, we will start to build out our Assessment by adding a multiple choice question slide in Adobe Captivate. This short training video covers adding a multiple choice question slide, modifying the properties, and modifying the point value to track back to the LMS.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding a Multiple Choice Quiz Slide
05:59
In this Adobe Captivate Training video you will learn to add True/False and Matching Question Slides in Adobe Captivate. Learn to modify the properties of the various question slides to customize your Captivate quiz.
Adobe Captivate 5 Adding True/False and Matching Question Slides
04:46
In this Adobe Captivate 5 Training video, you will learn how to modify question slide styles with the properties panel as well as the Object Style Manager in Adobe Captivate 5. You will also learn how to add a Hotspot Interaction Question Slide and customize it for your quiz.
Adobe Captivate 5 Modifying Quiz Styles and Adding a Hotspot Question Slide
05:45
In this Adobe Captivate 5 lesson you will learn how to score Buttons and Standard Objects and include them into your quiz. With a combination of question slides, buttons, and standard objects such as Clickboxes, you can test your learner on many different levels of proficiency.
Adobe Captivate 5 Scoring Buttons and Standard Objects
05:23
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson, you will learn how to review your quiz slides for scoring accuracy and the basics of the Advanced Interaction window. You will also learn how to set up the global quiz properties for pass and failure, as well as final branching based on learner assessment.
Adobe Captivate 5 Advanced Interaction Window and Quiz Properties
06:42
+ – Captivate Variables and Advanced Actions
4 lectures 23:16
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson, you will learn how to create a Captivate Variable and add the variable to a slide. Learn how to create and update variable values and the difference between Captivate User Variables and Captivate System Variables.
Adobe Captivate 5 Introduction to Adobe Captivate Variables
07:56
In this Adobe Captivate Training video you will learn how to create and Advanced Action to control a Captivate User Variable on a slide in your project. Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate allow you to create conditional if/then statements and improve your level of control as an eLearning developer.
Adobe Captivate 5 Introduction to Advanced Actions
06:18
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson, we will use a System Variable and Advanced Actions in Captivate to control the properties of an image on a slide. You can show and hide the visible properties of an image or other objects dynamically in your eLearning courses with this technique.
Adobe Captivate 5 Controlling Object Properties with Advanced Actions
05:45
In this Adobe Captivate Training lesson, you will learn how to control the visibility of the Playback control in your eLearning courses with Advanced Actions. This technique can be used to manage the navigation of the learner through the quiz slides and prevent them from navigating back to the previous quiz slide.
Adobe Captivate 5 Controlling the Visibility of the Playback Control with Advanced Actions
03:17