Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019

Explore how to create page layouts, style shapes, and work with images and text using the default objects and interactions in Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019.

Explore text captions in Adobe Captivate, learning to insert text captions, text entry boxes, and shapes, customize fonts, alignment, margins, bullets, and how animation and timeline interact.

Learn to use shapes for page design in Captivate, adjust colors with the color picker and eyedropper, and balance text and images with margins, grouping, and captions.

Manipulate shapes and icons in Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019 to create page layouts. Edit images, crop to stage, adjust opacity, and name assets to enable interactive hides and shows.

Modify the skin editor to center text and adjust fill opacity, preview in HTML, and explore custom interactions like buttons, click boxes, and glossaries for better page design.

Explore default objects in Adobe Captivate classic fundamentals 2019—highlight boxes, mouse cues, zoom areas, rollover captions and images, HTML5 preview, and publishing considerations.

Explore how to add and configure interactive elements in Adobe Captivate, including text, image, and transparent buttons, click boxes, drag and drop, and learning interactions, with exit pause and triggers.

Explore Adobe Captivate classic 2019 learning interactions, including tabs and accordions, and learn to insert, customize, and preview content with responsive text for interactive learner experiences.

Learn to design engaging pages with shapes beyond plain backgrounds and apply tips to improve styling, transitioning to the next section on external media such as images and videos.

Learn to work with external media in Adobe Captivate by importing assets from Photoshop or Illustrator, or Final Cut Studio and Adobe Premiere, and adjusting them in Captivate.

Explore the asset library to insert icons, 360 assets, images, videos, audio, buttons, and themes, discover templates from third-party services, and learn SVG versus PNG and media licensing.

Learn to import and edit images in Captivate, adjust brightness, contrast, saturation, and grayscale, crop and resize to the stage size, and use external editors for round trips.

Learn to import narration into the timeline, edit audio with built-in tools or Adobe Audition, and add closed captioning to meet accessibility, while keeping audio per page short.

Learn to insert and manage video in Captivate, choosing between event and slide video, adjusting timing, and compressing to keep course size small using HandBrake or streaming services.

Explore how Captivate characters personalize eLearning and guide learners through content. Select, download, and insert characters from media or discover libraries, then adjust size with shift for a clean fit.

Condense and compress external media before importing into Captivate projects to keep files manageable. Build on lessons from audio, images, asset library, and media library as you prepare responsive pages.

Learn to build responsive pages in Adobe Captivate 2019 using fluid boxes, background images, and content wrapping to adapt to different screen sizes. Hide nonessential content on small screens.

Create a responsive Captivate project and explore differences from non-responsive layouts. Learn how fluid boxes, position anchoring, and width-based behavior shape the layout, including the 1024 by 627 default.

Discover how to create and convert content into fluid boxes, build a two-column layout with image left and text right, and adjust padding and alignment for responsive behavior.

Explore why and when to use a responsive project in Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019, comparing responsive with scalable designs, and how to convert layouts for varying screen sizes.

Convert your project to a responsive version by using file, save as responsive, then replace. Learn how fluid boxes and anchoring affect images, text, and video.

Convert a project to a responsive layout with fluid boxes, split the page into two columns (image right, text left), and tune padding for responsiveness.

Discover how to add a background image in Captivate using fluid boxes, tiling, and center anchoring to keep text readable and adapt layouts across screens.

Adjust the flow and wrap in fluid boxes by setting vertical alignment to top, zero margins, and wrap behavior for uniform text scaling with a minimum 12 across sizes.

Learn to hide less important objects on small screens by marking items as optional, adjusting flow, and unlocking from fluid boxes to keep essential content visible.

adjust layouts with a 50/50 horizontal fluid box, snap captions, and apply a solid image fill to optimize padding and responsiveness for the next animation section.

Practice by revisiting pages, pausing the video, and creating your own pages to apply the concepts. Next, learn animation basics, including page entrances, object animations, and the timeline in 2019.

Explore animations and transitions in Adobe Captivate, learn to add simple animations (F8) and advanced ones, adjust entrance and exit effects, and use motion paths to move objects along pathway.

Learn to animate along the timeline by timing when elements appear and disappear, adjust pauses, extend animations to the end, and align with audio.

Select an object to open the timing properties panel, adjust specific times or rest of slide/project, and control when the object appears or disappears by dragging the page timeline.

Choose simple transitions for objects by using fade in or fade in and out, not page transitions, and preview to ensure the effect appears at the right moment.

Learn to apply and stack specific effects in Adobe Captivate classic fundamentals 2019, including alpha, emphasis, rotation, and motion path, with timing and basic trigger options.

Use motion paths in Adobe Captivate to move icons across slides, choosing custom line or left-to-right paths on a blank slide, with triggers for click start and on-exit pauses.

The Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019 course shows content coming alive with animations, entrances and exits, and motion paths, then introduces interactivity through quiz questions.

Explore how to use quiz questions in Adobe Captivate classic fundamentals 2019, including multiple choice, true/false, matching, hot spots, and drag-and-drop, and how results transfer to the learning management system.

Add and customize quiz slides with multiple choice, hot spot, and fill-in questions, set graded or survey status, enable randomization and partial scoring, and tailor feedback, navigation, and reporting settings.

Learn to create true or false questions in Adobe Captivate, including two-choice setup, scoring options, time limits, captions, navigation controls, and previewing feedback.

Master fill in the blank quiz questions in Adobe Captivate classic fundamentals 2019. Learn prompts, underscores, answer options, case sensitivity, and mark blank with user input or dropdown.

Learn how to build a graded matching question in Adobe Captivate, mapping left items to right answers with dropdowns, supporting multiple matches, shuffle options, timing, feedback, and preview.

Create a hotspot question by adding a hotspot, applying the image fill, and selecting the correct option; configure multiple hotspots, answer settings, and click behavior with a preview.

Learn to build a drag and drop interaction in Adobe Captivate Classic 2019 using the wizard, define drag sources and drop targets, and map correct answers.

This module reviews multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, hot spots, and drag-and-drop questions, explains why wrap-up pages should follow the results page, and previews exploring actions in adobe captivate.

Explore how actions in Adobe Captivate trigger responses to user interactions, including clicks and page events, and learn common actions like opening URLs, hiding or showing content, and executing JavaScript.

Explore how to add and manage actions in Adobe Captivate classic fundamentals 2019, using tab interactions, buttons, and state changes to create multi-state content and advanced actions.

Learn how to configure page navigation triggers in Captivate, using continue versus jump to slide, set tab states, and build branching menus with specific slide targets.

Explore how to implement hide and show interactions in Adobe Captivate, using buttons to toggle a star object, configure show/hide actions, and experiment with disable, enable, and basic toggle states.

Explore how to control the Captivate player with triggers, including showing and hiding the table of contents and the player bar, and locking navigation for precise page access.

Explore executing JavaScript in Adobe Captivate, using alerts, calculations, and variables with the Captivate API to set and retrieve values, and to drive interactivity.

Explore interactions and actions in Adobe Captivate, including triggering actions on button clicks, page enter/exit events, turning shapes or images into buttons, and using advanced actions for conditional outcomes.

Learn how to use advanced actions in Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019, including creating, updating, and deleting actions, with conditionals and loops, and build a tab interaction with completion gating.

Explore advanced actions in Captivate, including on enter and on exit triggers, per-object actions, and multi-step workflows. Learn to use conditions, decisions, variables, and shared actions to build reusable interactions.

Learn how to update an advanced action in Adobe Captivate by using the folder icon or the existing actions dropdown, view usage, and remove unused actions to save space.

Create and display Adobe Captivate variables—system and user—via advanced actions or properties, increment a score, and use simple if-based conditions to control updates.

Learn how to use variables in Adobe Captivate to display a score, increment and decrement with plus and minus buttons, and set up advanced actions and conditions.

Explore sectioning advanced actions with decision points in Captivate, adding conditions to trigger at five and show a congrats message while keeping the alert hidden by default.

Learn to use if/else conditions in Adobe Captivate by creating advanced actions that run only when the score is five or more, using variables, comparisons, and else blocks.

Master the while loop in Adobe Captivate by building a tabbed interaction that shows a monster while the score is under five and hides it as thresholds change.

Explains creating a four-state tab interaction in Adobe Captivate, using state view and advanced actions to swap tab text and images and reveal a next button after all four tabs.

In Adobe Captivate Classic Fundamentals 2019, learn to implement a tab interaction condition by tracking tab visits with variables and showing a continue button after all four tabs are visited.

Master variables, conditions, and advanced actions by building a tab interaction from scratch. Review and repeat the module to solidify knowledge, then explore upcoming video demos and 360 interactions.

Explore the new interaction types in Captivate 2019, including video demos, interactive videos with timed popups and buttons, and 360 interactions for diverse projects.

Learn how to create a video demo in Adobe Captivate by configuring recording settings, selecting slides, enabling camera access, and inserting the demo at the end.

Create interactive videos in Adobe Captivate by inserting media from computer, YouTube, or Vimeo, and using bookmarks, overlays, triggers, and tab interactions. Preview and refine continue buttons to guide learners.

Create 360 interactions in Adobe Captivate 2019 with hotspots on 360 slides to link exterior and interior views, usable on phone or desktop.

Explore interactive video and 360 images on headset, phone, or computer. Discover the 2019 features and how to publish content to a learning management system.

Publish Adobe Captivate projects to a web server or learning management system, with tracking, and configure geolocation and mobile gestures. It previews the in action sections after the core fundamentals.

Publish your Captivate course to an LMS by exporting and importing the swarm/squirm packaging. You may also publish as a website with a full file bundle.

Publish Adobe Captivate projects to an LMS using standard LMS options (storm 2004 or xAPI), configure completion and quiz-based success thresholds, and ensure proper packaging for upload.

Explore publishing and accessibility options in Adobe Captivate, including mobile gestures for video control and geolocation-based actions using latitude, longitude, and accuracy.

Preserve the original Adobe Captivate project file and backups to update a published course; don't edit the published zip, keep the kept file to access slides, triggers, and variables.

Celebrate completing the course and explore the optional in-action sections to deepen skills with variables, conditionals, advanced actions, and show/hide content, including a tab interaction and a game.