About this course
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.
About the Author
During Anita Horsley's years as a firefighter in Atlanta, she trained firefighters to be nationally certified personal fitness trainers. She also developed, from initiation to implementation, the health and safety program. As a Training and Development Specialist at the Oregon Office of State Fire Marshal, she founded the e-learning track and worked on all areas of training. Anita was the domain manager for the LMS, program coordinator of the e-learning implementation team, and managed the Oregon State Captivate user group. She currently teaches Adobe Captivate to local and state agencies and develops e-learning courses as an independent contractor. Anita is an Adobe Certified Expert and has her Master's degree in Education.
What are the requirements?
- 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.
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 41 lectures and 2.5 hours of content!
- Insert new slides and manage these slides using the properties panel, slides notes, master slides, and themes
- Familiarize yourself with the Adobe Captivate 6 interface and global settings to improve your workflow for future Captivate projects
- 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
What is the target audience?
- This video tutorial series is for educators, corporate training professionals, and training specialists with limited programming capabilities who want to create product demos, application simulations, and soft skill and compliance training.
