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Part number: 90069280 (09/06) CONTENTS CHAPTER 1: Getting Started . ......................................... 5 What's new in Adobe Captivate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Guide to Adobe Captivate instructional media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER 2: Installing Adobe Captivate. ................................ 9 System requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Installing Adobe Captivate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER 3: Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11 13 16 36 42 About the work environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About creating projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About editing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . E-learning options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About publishing projects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX: Keyboard shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 Magnification Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 3 4 Contents CHAPTER 1 Getting Started Adobe® CaptivateTM is a professional software tool for quickly creating interactive demonstrations and simulations in a variety of formats including Macromedia® Flash® from Adobe (SWF) and executable files (EXE). Anyone who needs to develop online product demonstrations, software simulations for e-learning, or online tutorials for user support will find Adobe Captivate an ideal solution. Adobe Captivate includes everything you need to record actions in any application and instantly create a simulation. Adobe Captivate enables you to add customized text captions, audio (voice-overs, background music, and sound effects), Flash® Video and animations, text animations, images, hyperlinks, and more to your projects. A small file size and high resolution make Adobe Captivate simulations and demonstrations easy to publish online or burn to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support. If you use Adobe Captivate to create e-learning content, you can add fully interactive question slides, buttons, click boxes, and text entry boxes. Adobe Captivate is SCORM 1.2 and 2004 certified, PENS, and AICC compliant, allowing effortless integration with any learning management system (LMS), Adobe® Authorware®, or Questionmark Perception. What's new in Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate provides major new features and enhancements, including the following: · · Compile scenario simulations for training Easily create interactive training modules. You can simulate scenarios that form building blocks of demonstrations, assessments, or training sessions in three easy steps. View complex scenario branching Rapidly develop scenario-based training by visually mapping out the different learner paths. Collapse and expand sections of the simulation and focus on the branching at the end of slides based on a learner's choice in the beginning of the simulation. Manage project interactions globally Speed up development and manage all project interactions globally. Organized as a table, the Advanced Interaction dialog box provides easy editing of all interaction options such as branching, attempts, success and failure actions, shortcuts, time limits, scoring and reporting. · 5 · Enhance training with Flash Video Add and customize the presentation of video in training content with an easy, dialog box-driven process. Benefit from alpha channel support and the ability to insert Flash® Video recorded with green screens. Create engaging content with avatars pointing out screen areas, or use videos for characters in scenarios. · · Create scenario- or interaction-based training Develop projects for training that include soft skills such as role-play, sales, or management training. With scenario simulation, you can create a project in three easy steps. Reuse and update content in the Library Save production time and manage all project components using the Library. Drag objects from the Library onto the slide or into the Timeline. Reuse content and import libraries from existing projects. Launch third-party tools from the Library so you can edit or update Library objects such as audio or image files. Focus the learner's attention by zooming in or graying out · Engage the learner by focusing attention to specific areas. Simply gray out the rest of the screen or magnify a particular screen area with a zoom effect. Both effects can be combined for maximum awareness. The zoom effect retains all interactivity of the enlarged area so learners can focus on practicing a particular task. · Export projects from Adobe Captivate to Macromedia Flash 8 Take projects from Adobe Captivate to Flash for further development using the improved, powerful Flash export feature. Adobe Captivate also exports the playback controls and other objects such as full-motion slides and text animations. · Improve look and feel with skins and menus Simplify navigation by adding a pop-up menu with a list of demonstrations or simulations. Create a professional look and feel by using a customizable skin. The playback controls and the menu are displayed as part of the skin and don't cover any areas of the training content. · Leverage industry standards Leverage SCORM 2004 packaging and run-time communication. Adobe Captivate supports SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, PENS, and AICC, so that you can easily deploy simulations through any LMS. You can generate demonstrations and simulations that are 508 compliant so you can reach audiences with disabilities. Output printed step-by-step job aids Provide printed documentation and generate concise step-by-step guides. You can turn Adobe Captivate into a performance support tool and automatically convert complex tasks into an easy to follow, printer friendly job aid. Other new print output styles include a lesson format and a storyboard format. Customize scoring slides Control the look and feel of quiz result slides. All aspects of the slide, including the score options displayed and the default text captions, are customizable. You can reposition the slide by dragging it in the Filmstrip. Insert slide notes from the Edit, Storyboard, and Branching tabs · · · · You can now use the Slide Note panel in the Edit, Storyboard, or Branching tabs to add notes to slides in your presentation. Customize the size and position of objects You can use the Size and Position tab to define the size and position of objects such as captions, boxes, buttons, zoom area, text animation. Also you can use the Position tab to define the position of Flash Video. The size and position dimensions are displayed in the Stage toolbar when you select the object. 6 Chapter 1: Getting Started · Work faster, edit more easily Save time and increase productivity with a multitude of streamlined workflows and usability enhancements such as the new Hide and Lock option in the Timeline, automatic addition of text-entry boxes during simulation capture, color picker, customizable workspace, zoom in Edit view, an improved user interface, and many more. You benefit from increased product and playback performance and the ability to import and export or copy and paste quiz question slides. The Apply to all option in the Slide Properties and all object dialog boxes, lets you choose to apply options selected in the Settings menu, to all slides in the project. The Settings menu in the Slide Properties lets you select how to apply property changes in the project. · Enhanced settings for object properties · Simplified e-learning content transferring from authoring or content systems to an LMS Adobe Captivate 2 supports PENS, so you can publish eLearning courseware to an LMS with a one-time configuration in Adobe Captivate, and a single click while publishing content. · Improved Accessibility Closed captioning gives people with hearing disabilities access to Adobe Captivate presentations. You can add descriptive information that explains the audio recording in written text. Guide to Adobe Capti ...