This workbook teaches you how to use Adobe Captivate version 9. The Adobe Captivate software does not come with this book. The software can be downloaded directly from Adobe w ww. You do not need to purchase Captivate to learn Captivate; the free trial version of the software can be downloaded via the link above. The only limitation on the trial is that it lasts for 30 days from the day you first run the software on your computer.

You will need a microphone and speakers or a headset to complete those activities. To ensure you have all of the assets you need to complete the lessons in this book, download and install the eLearning Assets via the link at www. NeoSpeech : You will learn how to convert written text into an audio file during activities beginning on page NeoSpeech comes free with Captivate but is not installed during the Captivate installation process.

You can download NeoSpeech from w ww. Microsoft PowerPoint : PowerPoint or newer is preferred. PowerPoint, which does not come with Captivate, is used during the PowerPoint integration activities beginning on page If PowerPoint is not installed, you will not be able to complete all of the activities. Microsoft Word or newer: Word, which does not come with Captivate, is used during activities beginning on page If Word is not installed, you will not be able to complete all of the activities.

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Orders placed after 2 PM Eastern may ship the next business day. By following step-by-step instructions, you will improve your screen recording skills via project templates and by pre-editing your text captions.

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Read on to discover the many surprising ways fonts can affect your content. Ralph F. Wilson did a study in to determine if serif fonts fonts with little lines on the tops and bottoms of characters, such as Times New Roman or sans serif fonts those without lines, such as Arial were more suited to being read on computer monitors. His study concluded that although Times New Roman is easily read in printed materials, the lower resolution of monitors 72 dots per inch dpi versus dpi or higher makes it much more difficult to read in digital format.

Arial 12 pt was pitted against Times New Roman 12 pt with respondents finding the sans serif Arial font more readable at a rate of two to one. So should you stop using Times New Roman in your eLearning lessons?

Not completely. For instance, you can still use Times New Roman for text content that is not expected to be skimmed over quickly or read in a hurry. You can use fancy fonts from time to time to break up the monotony of a dry lesson, but consider using such non-standard fonts sparingly. Use the fancy fonts for headings or as accents but not for the bulk of your text.

The Readability of Fonts Affects Participation A study done at the University of Michigan in on typecase in instructions found that the ease with which a font in instructional material is read can have an impact on the perceived skill level needed to complete a task. But what font would you use if you want to convey a feeling of happiness? In a study funded by Microsoft by A. Dawn Shaikh, Barbara S. Chaparro, and Doug Fox, the perceived personality traits of fonts were categorized.

The table below shows the top three fonts for each personality objective. Like any feature-rich program, mastering Captivate is going to be a marathon, not a sprint. But before the sprint comes the crawl. Start Adobe Captivate. The process of starting a program varies slightly from operating system to operating system.

The Recent tab will be blank until after you have opened or created a project. Shown below is the Macintosh version of Adobe Captivate 9. Captivate is nearly identical on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems.

Note: You are about to open a Captivate project from the group of assets data files that support the lessons in this book. Open a project from the Captivate9Data folder. Close the project and reopen it using the Recent tab. Ensure that the AceInterview project is still open. Zoom away from a slide. The gray area is known as the Pasteboard. You can drop any slide object on the Pasteboard and leave it there indefinitely.

The Pasteboard is the gray space you see surrounding the slide. You can drop slide objects here until you are ready to use them. Zoom closer to a slide. Change the slide zoom to Best Fit. Switch slides using the Filmstrip. If you need to change the attributes of one or more slides, you do not need to have it open within the main Captivate interface. Instead, you can select one or more slides on the Filmstrip and change their Properties at one time. Jump to a slide using the Go to slide field.

When the Captivate window is small, some menu items are cropped from view. Jump between slides using your keyboard. Note: If you are using a Macintosh laptop, such as a MacBook Pro without [page up] or [page down] keys, try pressing the up and down arrows on the lower right of your keyboard to move from slide to slide. Explore the Properties Inspector and the Library.

Is it a pod? Is it a panel? Is it Superman? I just dated myself with that one. According to my contact at Adobe, each panel is known as an Inspector, so clicking Properties actually displays two inspectors: Properties and Timing.

Explore the Timeline. With the Timeline and Library open, your screen is a bit more Reset the workspace. If you ever feel that the Captivate interface is getting out of control, you can reset the workspace at any time. At some point, you will finish the development process by publishing you will learn how to Publish beginning on page Once published, the eLearning lesson can be used consumed by people using all kinds of devices including desktop computers and mobile devices, such as the iPad or the Kindle Fire.

Because previewing the Project shows a quick version of a published project without starting a web browser and Next 5 slides quickly shows just a few slides at a time, I find those two options to be the most useful.

Student Activity: Preview the Entire Project 1. Preview the project. After several seconds, the fourth slide stops and waits for you to interact with it. Continue working through the preview. When you are finished interacting with the lesson you do not need to watch it in its entirety , click the End button on the toolbar at the top of the preview.

Preview the project In Browser. A preview of the lesson as it will appear via a web browser opens in your default web browser. Again, there is no need to go through the entire lesson. You can close the browser window when you are done exploring. Close the project there is no need to save if prompted. Note: You might have noticed that you cannot drag the Inspectors around your screen like you can in other programs.

However, if you have multiple monitors, you might want to put a few Inspectors on one monitor and your main Captivate window on another monitor. Click the OK button to close the dialog box and then restart Captivate. Once saved, your new workspace is available in the Workspace submenu. While custom workspaces are great, they can result in a cluttered Captivate environment. During the lessons in this module, you will create a soft skills lesson that introduces employees of an imaginary company called Super Simplistic Solutions.

Made-up content or not, the project you are about to create will include multiple slides, text captions, and images. You will add interactive buttons to the slides, allowing the learner to move through the lesson at their own pace. Student Activity: Create a Blank Project 1. Create a blank project. Specify a Width and Height for the project. It contains only a single slide.

Save the new project. Apply a theme. By applying a theme, each new slide you add during the next steps is formatted using the attributes of that theme. You will be prompted to confirm the action. Insert a new slide.

This slide is based on the Content 7 master slide and contains a few placeholders for a title and subtitle. Delete a slide. Add content to slide placeholders. Replace the title placeholder text with Lesson Overview. Replace the subtitle placeholder with During this lesson, you will learn about our management team. Insert another New Slide from Content 7. Replace the title placeholder text with Lesson Review. Replace the subtitle placeholder with During this lesson, you learned about our key managers.

Ensure that the OurManagers project is still open. Insert a slide with an image placeholder. Insert an image into an image placeholder. Select slide 3 and insert a new slide based on Content Replace the placeholders as necessary to make the new slide look like the image below. You learned how to Preview on page The lesson automatically moves from slide to slide. When the lesson is finished, you can use the playbar at the bottom of the window to rewind the lesson.

Take a bow When finished previewing, close the browser window. Spend a few moments applying a few of the other Themes to your project and take note of how the Theme designs impact your current slide layouts. When finished, save and close the project. Using Actions, you can control what happens when the learner successfully clicks a button such as Go to the next slide or Play Audio.

There are multiple types of buttons: Text, Transparent, Image, and Shapes. With the exception of the Theme and some of the wording on the slides, this is the same project you created earlier. Insert a Text button. The appearance of the button is based on the fonts and colors used by the selected theme.

This project uses the Blackboard theme. Drag the button until its position is similar to the picture below. The font used by the button is not important at this point.

Change the text displayed on the button. In this instance, when the learner successfully clicks the button on slide 1, you want the learner to be taken to the next slide. Therefore, the On Success action of Go to the next slide is perfect. Add a Hand Cursor to the button. Save your work. Preview the Project. Some people like the click sound, others do not. Assuming you do not like the click sound, you will learn how to remove it. Close the preview.

Ensure that the ButtonMe project is still open. Still working in the ButtonMe project, copy the button you added to slide 1 to the clipboard. On the Filmstrip, select slide 2. Press the [shift] key on your keyboard, click the last slide on the Filmstrip, and then release the [shift] key.

All of the slides except slide 1 should now be selected. Paste the button onto the selected slides. The cool thing about copying and pasting slide objects is that, in addition to getting the object on several slides at once, the pasted objects are all in the same slide location. Go to slide 3. The Continue button is very close to the picture of Biff.

You could leave it where it is. You can position the button anywhere on the left side of the slide. Note: Holding the [shift] key down while you press the arrow key moves the object faster than pressing the arrow key repeatedly. Go to slide 5 and select the Continue button. Change the On Success Action for the button to Jump to slide. Select 1 Slide 1 as the destination. You learned about Actions on page There should be interactive buttons on each slide allowing you to control how fast or slow you move through the lesson.

When you get to the last slide, click the Replay button to get to the first slide. Save and close the project. You can create a blank Captivate project and insert slides, just like you learned to do beginning on page If you need to capture a software application, you can use any one of several programs. For instance, I used SnagIt for the Macintosh www.

Individual screen captures can be inserted onto any Captivate slide as an image. As an alternative to using a third-party application to create screen captures, you can use Captivate to record just about anything you do on your computer.

Captivate offers three recording types: Automatic, Manual, and Video. Each mode is covered during this module. If you create projects using the Manual recording type, you are responsible for pressing a specific key on your keyboard each time you want Captivate to create a screen capture the default key is the Print Screen key in Windows.

The problem with recording projects using the Manual Recording method is that you need to be very diligent about pressing the screen capture key on your keyboard. You could easily get distracted and forget to capture important screens, rendering your recording useless and requiring you to recapture some or all of your clicks.

Using the Video recording type, Captivate does not capture individual screens like the Automatic and Manual types. Instead, when the capture process is finished, you end up with a single video demonstrating everything you have done during the recording process. A video recording is ideal if you are trying to create an eLearning lesson demonstrating complex mouse actions like those that would be required when drawing a shape in an image-editing application.

However, editing a video is more limited as compared to editing individual screen captures typical in projects created using the Automatic or Manual recording types.

In the images below, both the Automatic and Manual recording types are shown at the left. Video mode is shown at the right. Note: The Automatic and Manual modes are covered in this book. One of the lessons you plan to record using Captivate includes how to change the page orientation within Notepad or TextEdit. Here is a sample script showing the kind of detailed, step-by-step instructions you need to create or receive from a Subject Matter Expert SME.

You are expected to perform each step written below in either Notepad or TextEdit. Dear Captivate developer, using either Notepad or TextEdit, record the process of changing the Page Orientation from Portrait to Landscape, and then back again from Landscape to Portrait.

Create the recording using a capture size of x Your pal, the Subject Matter Expert. Click the File menu. Click the Page Setup menu item.

Click the Landscape orientation button. Click the OK button. Click the Portrait orientation button. Stop the recording process. The script sounds simple. However, you will not know what kind of trouble you are going to get into unless you rehearse the script prior to recording the process with Captivate.

Places everyone Minimize hide Captivate. The process of starting either Notepad or TextEdit varies slightly, depending on your operating system.

For instance, if you are using Windows 7, choose Start, type notepad, and press [enter]. If you are using Windows 8 or newer, use the Search feature to start Notepad. Locate and then open TextEdit, and then create a New document. In the images below, Notepad is pictured at the left; TextEdit is at the right.

Rehearse the script. The script worked perfectly You are now ready to work the exact steps again. Only this time, you will record every click that you make. During the recording process, Captivate creates one screen capture each time that you click your mouse. There are three main categories at the left: General Settings, Defaults, and Recording. The language you select controls the text that appears in the Text Captions that are automatically created during the recording process.

However, this feature could prove useful if you are relying on an SME to both record the lesson and provide the narration.

Instead of creating the lesson and the narration on different days, both can be created at the same time. Nevertheless, I typically work with professional audio talent and import audio files into my Captivate projects later during production you will work with audio on page System Audio allows you to record any sounds made by your computer, such as audio associated with a video you are recording or the sound you hear when error messages appear in some applications.

If you select Actions in Real Time, Captivate sets the slide timing for your project slides to match the time it took you to complete a process. If you wait 10 seconds from one click to the next, Captivate sets your slide timing to match. I typically do not use this feature. You will learn about Text Entry Boxes on page Set the Hide options. These items could get in the way if you were capturing your desktop and the Captivate application icon was on the screen.

Because I tend to create software simulations within specific application windows, I typically leave these options deselected. Ensure that new windows always appear in the Recording Area. Captivate moves the window into the Recording Area for you. Without this feature, you would have to pause the movie, drag the window into the Recording Area, and continue. I typically enable this feature. Enable Video recording.

Customize a recording key. If you were to move forward and record a lesson using Captivate, you would press [y] on your keyboard to end the recording process. You can customize the fields in this dialog box to suit your needs. For most people, the default keys work wonderfully. Reset the default Recording Keys.

I changed the keyboard shortcut to [control] [e] and things work perfectly every time. Project Cache is listed among the General Settings Preferences. Much like temporary Internet files created by web browsers as you surf the web, the Project Cache folder stores components of all of your projects until you click the Clear Cache button. The cached projects make the process of re-opening, saving, and working on projects faster than previous versions of Captivate. However, the Cache folder cannot be located on a remote location, such as a network or external drive.

To resolve the issue presented in the dialog box above, select General Settings from the Preferences category list at the left. From the Project Cache area, click the Browse button. Open your Local Disk and either select a folder on the disk or create a new one. I typically create a new folder called CpCache directly on the hard drive, but you can use any folder on the local disk. Assessment simulations allow you to record and create interactive eLearning at one time.

An Assessment includes Click Boxes to make the lesson interactive and Failure Captions to help the user who clicks in the wrong place or performs the wrong step by default.

Training simulations are similar to Assessments. However, in addition to Click Boxes and Failure Captions being automatically added, you will also gain Hint Captions captions that appear if the learner moves their mouse close to the Click Box but does not actually click anywhere. Custom recordings can be set up to be a combination of the Demonstration, Assessment, and Training modes.

Then you will use all three modes—at the same time—to record the process of changing the page orientation in Notepad or TextEdit using the script you rehearsed on page Ensure that Captivate is still running no projects should be open.

Review the default settings for Demonstration mode. At this point, the settings are back to what you would see after starting Captivate for the first time. After you have completed the lessons in this module, you can modify the recording settings. You will learn how to insert and work with Text Captions beginning on page However, during the recording process, Captivate adds a bunch of Text Captions to your slide for you, which is, quite frankly, awesome.

When you see the automatic Text Captions, I dare you not to smile! You will learn how to work with Smart Shapes on page and Rollover Captions on page By including the Mouse Location, learners see a mouse move around the screen as they watch your demonstration. The mouse they see is actually mimicking where you pointed and clicked during the recording process. And by adding Highlight Boxes, learners see a colorful box that leads the eye to the area of the screen where the action is occurring.

You will learn how to modify several aspects of the mouse pointer beginning on page ; you will learn how to work with Highlight Boxes on page Click Boxes add interactivity to your eLearning lessons. The other modes which you will review next rely heavily on Click Boxes. You will learn how to add Click Boxes to a project manually beginning on page Text Entry Boxes are also interactive and allow learners to type directly within a simulation.

You will learn how to add Text Entry Boxes to a project beginning on page Review the default settings for Assessment Simulation mode. For that reason, the captions are disabled by default. Both the Mouse and Highlight Box options are disabled by default. In addition, Failure Caption is enabled. If the learner clicks in the wrong place while moving through the lesson, the learner sees a correction via the Failure Caption. Review the default settings for Training Simulation mode.

Notice that Hint Caption is also selected. If the learner gets close to the location of the Click Box, the learner gets a hint about how to proceed. Close the Preferences dialog box by clicking the OK button.

Ensure that Captivate is running no projects should be open. Ensure that Notepad or TextEdit is running see page Display the Recording Area and control panel. Known as the Recording Area, this is the area of the screen that will be captured during the recording process. There is also a control panel containing Size and Recording Type controls. Specify what Captivate is supposed to record.

 
 

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