Captivate 201 Green Belt

Who is this course for?

This course is for intermediate Captivate users who would like to create software demonstrations and interactive simulations. Captivate appeals to a wide variety of audiences, typically grouped in training and education, sales and marketing, or technical support and documentation.

Objectives

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.

Prerequisites

It is assumed you have already taken the Adobe Captivate 101 Yellow class with Academy Class or have the equivalent experience. Please check the course content from the 101 class to make sure you are fully prepared.

Benefits

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

Question Pools

Create a question pool
Add questions to a question pool
Export question pools
Insert random question slides
Use the question pool manager
Create multi answer feedback
Add partial and negative quiz scoring

Widgets

Insert widgets to enhance the project
Edit widgets to enhance the project
Setup widgets with variables

Buttons

Smart shape buttons
Create custom buttons using Photoshop and Captivate
Create toggle buttons using advanced actions

Advanced interaction

Add document information for use with system variables
Create & insert system variables
Create & insert user system variables
Create sound toggle buttons
Using variables to gather data
Display variable data within a project
Create advanced Interactions
Create multiple interactions
Control object visibility
Named items
Text entry boxes for user input
Create project navigational buttons
Writing scripts
Attach a script to a slide
Create conditional actions
Use IF and ELSE conditions

Projects

Learn to create complex projects
Create breadcrumb trail
Create a slide counter
Create navigation buttons/menu
Create a sequence visibility
Create a password protected project
Create a forced interaction
Creating flash based content
Create HTML 5 friendly content
Output to HTML 5
And many more!

Animation

Add animation to a project
Create trigger based animation
Advanced interaction
Customise Captivate widgets
Create interactive navigational buttons
Create advance image map navigation
Inserting animation
Create animations for inclusion into Captivate

Image editing with Photoshop

Edit slide backgrounds
Create custom buttons using correct naming conventions
Optimising projects