Rapidly create, smoothly deliver, and easily maintain rich eLearning content

Add software demonstrations, interactive simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes to your courseware without programming using Adobe® Captivate® 5 software. Go beyond screen capture and achieve superior results in fewer steps thanks to an intuitive user interface, collaboration workflows, and a multitude of timesaving features.

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• Centre for Strategic Infocomm Technologies (CSIT)
• National Institute of Education (NIE)
• Arcanum Asia
• Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ)
• Capstone Asia Pacific
• Citibank - Philippines
• Integrated Health Information Systems (IHiS)
• ANZ Banking Group Ltd

• Professionals in any line of business who are willing to create online support for end users.
• Trainers and lecturers who want to share lessons and training materials with their students.

This one day task based lab is designed to give you the skills to build powerful and engaging software simulations and demonstrations.

Introduction

• The differences between simulations and demonstrations
• Describing Captivate projects

Recording a software demonstration

• Using the menu bar, toolbar, timeline and filmstrip
• The storyboard and edit views
• The Slide properties dialog box
• Checking the timings of your project

Working with text captions

• Auto-generated text captions
• Inserting and editing captions

Working with the Timeline

• Previewing the Timeline

Working with images and objects

• Inserting images
• Setting image properties
• Setting object transitions
• Merging images
• Setting project preferences

Converting from text to speech

• Scripting and recording a project

Recording an interactive simulation

• Recording options dialog box
• Importing Powerpoint slides
• Moving slides on filmstrip
• Inserting buttons and text entry points

Inserting rollover captions and images

• The rollover caption dialog box
• Adding click boxes
• Adding animations
• Adding highlight boxes

Inserting question slides

• Planning for questions
• The Question Types dialog box

Using Menubuilder

• Linking to Flash SWF files

Questions and answers