Course Outline
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Unit 1: Introducing Captivate
- Introducing Captivate
- Previewing a Captivate project
- Exploring Captivate’s working environment
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Unit 2: Recording a Demonstration
- Describing the workflow process
- Recording an application demonstration
- Previewing and saving a demonstration
- Best practices for recording projects
- Record a Video Demo
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Unit 3: Editing a Demonstration
- Using the Filmstrip
- Editing text captions
- Inserting new text captions
- Working with pointer paths
- Changing highlight box properties
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Unit 4: Working with Objects in the Timeline
- Using the Timeline
- Exploring the major components of the Timeline
- Previewing a slide using the playhead
- Changing the slide timing
- Changing the order of object layers
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Unit 5: Working with Images & Objects
- Inserting images
- Resizing images
- Aligning images
- Stacking objects / images
- Merging objects / images
- Adding sound to a specific image
- Using Smart Objects
- Inserting Characters
- Inserting Video
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Unit 6: Publishing Your Project
- Checking the spelling of your project
- Editing the Skin Editor
- Inserting a Table of Contents
- Setting movie preferences
- Resizing your project
- Analysing bandwidth
- Publishing your project to
- SWF
- HTML5
- Adobe Connect
- Media
- YouTube
- FTP
- Exporting from Captivate to Flash
- Using the HTML5 Tracker
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Unit 7: Adding Audio
- Describing audio features
- Recording a custom-sized project
- Recording audio while creating a new project
- Calibrating your microphone
- Adding audio to an existing project
- Importing audio files
- Editing audio files
- Importing background audio
- Closed Captioning
- Accessibility and 508 Compliance
- Speech Management
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Unit 8: Recording a Simulation
- Recording an assessment simulation project
- Customizing recording options
- Inserting click boxes
- Importing PowerPoint slides
- Inserting buttons
- Inserting text entry boxes
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Unit 9: Adding Animation
- Introducing rollover captions and images
- Inserting rollover captions
- Inserting rollover images
- Inserting text animation
- Inserting animation
- Insert Interactions
- Insert Widgets
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Unit 10: Adding a Quiz and Question Slides
- Planning for questions
- Inserting and understand each type of question
- Multi-choice and Multi-answer
- True/False & Yes/No
- Fill-in-the-blank
- Short Answer
- Matching
- Hot Spot
- Sequence
- Rating Scale (Likert)
- Random Question
- Editing a question slide
- Understand the different options for each question type
- Introducing branching
- Creating a multiple path
- Setting reporting options and tracking interactions
- Sending scoring results and tracking simulations
- Quiz Properties
- Quiz Preferences and Settings
- Insert a Pre-test
- Understand GIFT File format
