Captivate

Table of Contents

1. Captivate Introduction
   1. Sneak Peek
   2. Things that go bump in the night
2. Create A Presentation
   1. Start a project
   2. Set up the framework
   3. Preview Your Work
   4. Adding a Screen Capture
   5. The Time Line
   6. Fine Tuning the Action Captions
   7. Changing the Playback Bar
   8. Editing the Click Captions
   9. Adding a script
3. Advanced Topics
   1. Add the voice-over
   2. Edit Your Sound Clips
   3. Adding Background Music
   4. Accessiblity Issues
   5. Check Your Bandwidth
   6. Add a Credit Screen and animated "The End"
   7. Publishing Your Presentation
   8. Creating Handouts
   9. Adding Interactive Quizzes
   10. Quiz Options
   11. Simulations - Make the user do the work for better learning
   12. Resources

Resources

This presentation was created using Course Genie, Jing (for screen shots and animations), and Captivate (for animation demo).

Jamendo, An excellent source for free music.

http://iconlogic.blogs.com/weblog/2007/06/adobe_captivate_2.html - An excellent blog entry describing the hazards of recording using high screen resolutions.

iStockPhoto.com - The designers' best-kept secret. This stock-photo site allows you to buy rights to professional photos for as little as $1. There are also several very active forums on design, photography, software, and camera equipment. Registration is free.

North Texas Captivate Users Group has a blog with lots of advanced Captivate tips. Once you are up and running you may want to check this site out for some good ideas and/or solutions.

Publish your demonstration to YouTube - Here's an excellent tutorial from Adobe.

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This completes the workshop on Using Captivate

Written by Peter K. Johnson - May 2008

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