Adobe Captivate: Hotshot

Prerequisites:

Course Description:

Imagine how understanding how to use Captivate's advanced features will revolutionise the way you work. Take your Captivate skills to the next level.

Adobe Captivate hands-on training provides students with the knowledge and hands-on practice they need to develop and build software demonstrations and interactive simulations with Captivate. In addition to learning key concepts, students also learn best practices for creating and publishing Captivate projects.

Delegates will learn:

• Importing & Branching
• Advanced Actions
• Question Pools
• Learning Management Systems
• Accessible Projects
• Project and Design Templates
• Variables, widgets & buttons

This course includes the following modules:

Question Pools

• Create a question pool
• Add questions to a question pool
• Insert random question slides
• Use the question pool manager

Widgets, buttons and preloader

• Insert widgets to enhance the project
• Create custom buttons using Photoshop and Captivate
• Insert a preloader into the project

Advanced interaction

• Add document information for use with system variables
• Create & insert system variables
• Create & user system variables
• Using variables to gather data
• Create advanced Interactions
• Create multiple interactions
• Object Visibility
• Named items
• Text entry boxes for user input
• Create project navigational buttons
• Writing scripts
• Attach a Script to a Slide

Advanced interaction with Flash

• Customise Captivate widgets
• Create interactive navigational buttons
• Create advance image map navigation
• Inserting a Flash animation that contains ActionScript 3
• Create Flash animations for inclusion into Captivate

Image editing with Photoshop

• Create importable slide layouts with Photoshop
• Edit slide backgrounds
• Create custom buttons using correct naming conventions
• Adding Alpha channels