Course Overview
TOPIn two days this Adobe Captivate training class teaches you how to quickly get up and running with this popular application for authoring e-learning content, screen captures, simulations, and video presentations. In this Adobe Captivate class, you'll learn to capture content, create assessments, design quizzes, and add interactivity and animations. This Captivate class also covers ways in which Captivate content can integrate materials from presentation applications such as Microsoft PowerPoint. After the two-day class, you will have the skills needed to create your own e-learning presentations using Captivate. Our public Captivate course is delivered using Captivate Classic. Training for the new Captivate is available as a separate course.
Scheduled Classes
TOP| 06/30/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 08/11/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 09/22/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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| 11/17/25 - AGI - Virtual Instructor-Led - Virtual Instructor-Led | (click to enroll)
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What You'll Learn
TOP- Captivate's role in eLearning
- How to create new Captivate projects
- Create simulation training
- Create training for soft skills such as policies, procedures, and awareness
- Create recordings using Captivate
- Import or create captions
- Add pointers, buttons, and highlights to call out on-screen items
- Add images and video to your training and simulation projects
- Apply effects
- Integrate PowerPoint with Captivate projects
- Create quizzes and tests in Captivate
Outline
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Lesson 1: Understanding Captivate s role in eLearning
- Education through pictures
- Planning eLearning projects
- Explore a finished captivate project
- Explore the default workspaces
- Modifying the workspace
- Creating a workspace
- Zooming and magnification
- Navigating a project
- Previewing a project
- Create New projects
- Inserting standard objects onto slides
Lesson 2: Creating new Captivate projects
- Creating software simulations & screen recordings
- Creating soft skills training: policies, procedures, awareness training
- Learning to create new projects
- Importing images
- Use Shapes as buttons
- Disabling sounds
Lesson 3: Creating screen recordings in Captivate
- Understanding recording settings
- Enabling access for assistive devices
- Reviewing default recording mode settings
- Recording using multiple modes
- Recording a custom simulation
- Recoding demonstrations with pan view
- Manually recording the screen
Lesson 4: Creating video demonstrations
- Recording video demonstrations
- Adding zoom effects
- Adding pan effects
- Smoothing a mouse path
- Showing visual clicks
- Splitting and trimming video
- Inserting video projects into standard projects
- Publishing
Lesson 5: Creating captions
- Styles and timing in Captivate
- Inserting, resizing, and moving text captions
- Modifying caption properties
- Editing caption styles
- Changing a callout type used by a text caption
- Control slide and slide object timing
- Checking spelling
- Importing and exporting captions
- Align slide objects
Lesson 6: Using pointers, buttons, and highlight boxes
- Adding a visual click and sound
- Modifying the mouse Pointer
- Inserting and formatting text buttons
- Setting a button s pause after timing
- Working with image buttons
- Inserting and formatting highlight boxes
- Changing mouse paths
- Closing object styles
- Inserting a rollover caption
- Inserting a rollover image
- Creating a zoom area
- Using rollover slides
Lesson 7: Working with images, videos, and drawing objects
- Inserting and resizing images
- Transforming image size and position
- Crop and rename an image
- Remove a background color
- Using the library
- Managing project assets
- Inserting a cloud callout
- Creating an image slideshow
- Inserting videos
- Setting video properties
Lesson 8: Using and working with audio
- Importing audio onto a slide object
- Adding background audio music
- Adding slide notes
- Calibrating microphones
- Recording slide audio
- Importing voiceovers onto a slide
- Editing audio files
- Inserting silence
- Converting text-to-speech
- Using rollover captions
Lesson 9: Working with states, animation, and effects
- Adding Animation to slides
- Inserting Text Animation
- Applying Effects to Slide Objects
- Applying Filter Effects
- Modifying Effect Properties
- Saving and Importing Effects
- Changing State Views for Buttons
- Adding Animation to Slides
Lesson 10: Creating simulations
- Causing the mouse to be hidden
- Replacing phrases
- Inserting click boxes
- Inserting text entry boxes
Lesson 11: Using Captivate with PowerPoint
- Importing PowerPoint slides
- Resizing objects
- Using apply to all to format objects consistently
- Updating the Captivate project with edited PowerPoint files
- Synchronizing with source files
Lesson 12: Creating quizzes in Captivate and using question slides
- Editing quiz object styles
- Setting quiz preferences
- Applying themes
- Hiding slide images
- Inserting and editing question slides
- Adding images to question slides
- Comparing the submit all and submit buttons
- Inserting knowledge checks
- Reviewing GIFT files
- Importing GIFT files into Captivate projects
- Creating question pools
- Moving questions into pools
- Inserting random question slides
Lesson 13: Publishing to distribute your Captivate project
- Creating Internet links
- Naming slides
- Applying, editing, saving, and deleting skins
- Create a table of contents
- Checking publish settings and adding a loading screen
- Publishing SWF and PDF files
- Using the HTML5 Tracker
- Publishing as HTML5
- Exporting captions
Prerequisites
TOPThis Captivate training course is delivered using Captivate Classic. See our other Captivate classes for the new version of Captivate. You must have the Adobe Captivate software to attend this class. Virtual labs are not provided.
