Adobe Captivate: The Essentials
Adobe Captivate 12.4: The Essentials
A self-paced classroom in a book that teaches the core Adobe Captivate 12 skills
This is a self-paced classroom in a book... the perfect pathway to mastering the all-new Adobe Captivate (version 12.4).
After downloading the free book assets per the instructions in the About This Book section, launch Captivate, open an existing project, and learn how to navigate the streamlined interface.
You will be guided through hands-on activities and learn to create a soft skills course from scratch. You will add slides, text, images, and videos to a Captivate project. Record, import, and edit audio. You will also create audio on the fly with text-to-speech.
Engage your learners by adding interactivity with click boxes, buttons, data entry boxes, and quizzes.
Learn about cool features such as never-ending slides, object actions and triggers, system variables, user variables, conditional triggers, states, drag-and-drop widgets, and random quizzes.
Create accessible eLearning by adding closed captions, accessibility text, and image alt text.
Set up a shared review, allowing you to collaborate with stakeholders who do not use Adobe Captivate.
Publish projects as HTML5 so learners can take your training via a web browser on desktop computers, laptops, tablets, and smartphones.
Learn about SCORM and how to prepare your output so that it reports quiz results to a Learning Management System.<br>
And just when you think Captivate cannot get any more awesome, prepare to get knocked off your feet as you use Captivate to record screen actions, create software demonstrations, and killer interactive software simulations.
This book features:
- Captivate projects, images, audio files, and other assets to get started
- Dozens of step-by-step, hands-on activities
- Confidence Checks to challenge your new skills
- Hundreds of supporting screenshots
Important Notes: This book does not include the Adobe Captivate software. The software must be downloaded from the Adobe website and is subject to Adobe's license agreement. The Captivate software should be installed on your computer before starting the activities. This book supports Adobe Captivate 12, software version 12.4, that Adobe released in September 2024. The book does not support older versions of Adobe Captivate, such as Adobe Captivate Classic or Adobe Captivate 2019.
Contents
Preface
- Education Through Pictures, page 2
- RoboDemo to Captivate, page 3
- Planning eLearning Projects, page 4
- eLearning Development Phases, page 5
- eLearning Level of Effort, page 6
- Designing Slides in Captivate, page 7
- Fonts and eLearning, page 8
Exploring and Creating
- The Adobe Captivate Interface, page 12
- Guided Activity 1: Explore an Existing Captivate Project, page 12
- Previewing, page 16
- Guided Activity 2: Preview a Project, page 16
- Previewing Confidence Check, page 17
- Guided Activity 2: Preview a Project, page 16
- Soft Skills eLearning, page 18
- Guided Activity 3: Create a New Project and Add a Background Image, page 18
- Slides Confidence Check, page 25
- Guided Activity 4: Add a Text Block to a Slide, page 26
- Guided Activity 5: Modify a Text Style Preset, page 28
- Text Components Confidence Check, page 30
- Guided Activity 3: Create a New Project and Add a Background Image, page 18
- Buttons and Themes, page 31
- Guided Activity 6: Add a Button and Set an Action, page 31
- Guided Activity 7: Edit a Theme, page 33
- Buttons Confidence Check, page 35
- Infinite Slides, page 37
- Guided Activity 8: Create an Infinite Slide, page 37
Videos, Images, and Audio
- Videos, page 40
- Guided Activity 9: Insert a Video, page 40
- Videos Confidence Check, page 46
- Guided Activity 9: Insert a Video, page 40
- Images, page 47
- Guided Activity 10: Insert an Image Grid, page 47
- Images Confidence Check, page 50
- Guided Activity 10: Insert an Image Grid, page 47
- Image Accessibility Text, page 52
- Guided Activity 11: Add Accessibility Text to an Image, page 52
- Image Accessibility Text Confidence Check, page 52
- Guided Activity 11: Add Accessibility Text to an Image, page 52
- Importing Audio, page 53
- Guided Activity 12: Import Background Music, page 53
- Background Audio Confidence Check, page 54
- Guided Activity 12: Import Background Music, page 53
- Recording and Replacing Audio, page 56
- Guided Activity 13: Calibrate a Microphone, page 56
- Guided Activity 14: Record Voiceover Audio, page 58
- Text-to-Speech, page 60
- Guided Activity 15: Generate Text-to-Speech, page 60
- Guided Activity 16: Edit Audio, page 62
- Guided Activity 17: Replace Slide Audio, page 63
- Replace Audio Confidence Check, page 64
- Closed Captioning, page 65
- Guided Activity 18: Add Closed Captions to a Video, page 65
- Video Closed Captions Confidence Check, page 68
- Guided Activity 19: Add Closed Captions to Audio, page 70
- Closed Captions Confidence Check, page 71
- Guided Activity 18: Add Closed Captions to a Video, page 65
- Slide Accessibility, page 75
- Guided Activity 20: Add Slide Accessibility Text, page 75
- Slide Accessibility Text Confidence Check, page 76
- Guided Activity 20: Add Slide Accessibility Text, page 75
States, Animations, Timing, and Variables
- States, page 78
- Guided Activity 21: Change Button States, page 78
- Animations, page 80
- Guided Activity 22: Add a Hover Interaction, page 80
- Animations Confidence Check, page 81
- Guided Activity 22: Add a Hover Interaction, page 80
- Timing, page 82
- Guided Activity 23: Control Slide and Object Timing, page 82
- Confidence Check, page 84
- Guided Activity 23: Control Slide and Object Timing, page 82
- System Variables, page 85
- Guided Activity 24: Insert a System Variable, page 85
- User Variables, page 87
- Guided Activity 25: Create a User Variable, page 87
- Guided Activity 26: Add and Format an Input Field, page 88
- Guided Activity 27: Insert a User Variable, page 90
- User-Defined Variables Confidence Check, page 90
Advanced Actions and Quizzing
- Conditional Actions, page 94
- Guided Activity 28: Create an Object State, page 94
- Guided Activity 29: Create a Conditional Action, page 97
- Quizzing, page 100
- Guided Activity 30: Set the Quiz Preferences, page 100
- Guided Activity 31: Insert a Multiple Choice Question Slide, page 102
- Guided Activity 32: Edit a Question Slide, page 104
- Quiz Confidence Check, page 106
Reviewing and Publishing
- Share For Review, page 110
- Guided Activity 33: Share a project for review, page 110
- TOCs and the Playbar, page 113
- Guided Activity 34: Label Slides, page 113
- Guided Activity 35: Modify the Playbar, page 115
- HTML5 Output, page 116
- Guided Activity 36: Publish as HTML5, page 116
- Publishing LMS-Ready Output, page 119
- Guided Activity 37: Enable LMS Reporting, page 120
- Manifest Files, page 121
- Guided Activity 38: Configure the Manifest File, page 121
- Content Packages, page 123
- Guided Activity 39: Publish a SCORM Content Package, page 123
Software Simulations
- Screen Recording Rehearsals, page 126
- Guided Activity 40: Rehearse a Screen Recording, page 127
- Guided Activity 41: Review Recording Settings, page 128
- Multimode Recordings, page 131
- Guided Activity 42: Review Recording Modes, page 131
- Guided Activity 43: Record a Simulation Using Multiple Modes, page 134
- Panning, page 138
- Guided Activity 44: Record a Panning Software Simulation, page 138
- Software Simulation Confidence Check, page 139
- Guided Activity 44: Record a Panning Software Simulation, page 138
- Editing Software Simulations, page 141
- Guided Activity 45: Change the Pointer Appearance, page 141
- Guided Activity 46: Change the Pointer Path, page 142
- Pointer Path Confidence Check, page 142
- Guided Activity 47: Edit Click Box Captions and Presets, page 143
- Failure Caption Confidence Check, page 145
