Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 [Video]
This is the code repository for Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 [Video], published by Packt. It contains all the supporting project files necessary to work through the video course from start to finish.
About the Video Course
Adobe Captivate 6 is a sophisticated, leading edge, and progressive e-learning authoring tool that is fun and easy to use to create interactive content. Adobe Captivate 6 has many new features such as improved quiz properties, advanced interactions, smart shapes, characters, high definition video, HTML publishing, and many other enhancements that will help improve your e-learning workflow. This video course will fast track your basic skills by teaching you everything you need to know practically and functionally get started with using Adobe Captivate 6.
Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 will teach you how to design, develop, and share e-learning faster than ever before and get the most out of your Adobe Captivate experience.
Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 provides you with the essentials for getting started with Adobe Captivate 6 with useful examples and best practices on how to construct an e-learning course from start to finish in about 2 hours.
In this course, you’ll be learning how to use built-in themes, create styles, import images, round trip with PowerPoint slides, add relevant content, and work with animations and smart interactions. Additionally, you’ll learn how to prepare for and record a software simulation, add and synchronize video, record audio, and build quizzes into your project. This course will enable you to reach a wider audience by publishing projects to the web, desktops, YouTube, notebooks, tablets, and learning management systems.
Overall, the goal of this video course is to make you a better e-learning developer by mastering the basic skills first. Each section is self-contained and provides a practical exercise designed to help you recall the information you just learned and apply it when you’re on your own.
What You Will Learn
- Familiarize yourself with the Adobe Captivate 6 interface and global settings to improve your workflow for future Captivate projects
- Insert new slides and manage these slides using the properties panel, slides notes, master slides, and themes
- Easily insert characters, themes, images, Photoshop files, animations, effects, highlight boxes, and zoom areas to provide emphasis and make your courses aesthetically pleasing
- Organize the assets in your project using the library, timeline, grouping, object style manager, and unique and common object properties
- Insert interactive elements into your content with just a click and customize the content and its appearance
- Rapidly create product demonstrations with high definition video and record training simulations
- Easily edit videos and add pan and zoom, transitions, smart shapes, audio, and captions
- Enrich your courses with audio – insert or record narration to presentations and eliminate mistakes with the easy-to-use audio editor tool
- Learn about the variety of publishing options such as SWF, HTML5, word documents, PDFs, and Adobe Connect
Instructions and Navigation
Assumed Knowledge
To fully benefit from the coverage included in this course, you will need:
Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 is aimed at helping new users wrap their head around the basics of using Adobe Captivate 6. Discover how to use Adobe Captivate 6 to create interactive online learning content using realistic demonstrations and practical materials to develop a course from start to finish.
Technical Requirements
This course has the following software requirements:
Adobe Captivate
Windows 2 GHz or faster Intel processor Windows operating systems - Microsoft Windows 7 with Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, or Windows 10 Windows 64-bit operating system is supported. 8 GB RAM 10GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on removable flash-based storage devices) Adobe Flash Player 10 (or more) for viewing multimedia content 1024x768 display (1280x1024 recommended) with WebGL compatible Graphics Cards
Mac OS Multicore Intel processor Mac OS X v10.13.5 (or later); iOS 11.4 (or later) 8 GB RAM 10 GB of available hard-disk space for installation; additional free space required during installation (cannot install on a volume that uses a case-sensitive file system or on removable flash-based storage devices) Adobe Flash Player 10 (or more) for viewing multimedia content 1024x768 display (1280x1024 recommended) with WebGL compatible Graphics Cards