Adobe Captivate 4:
Advanced Techniques

At Digital Training & Designs, we provide you with the right training solutions to help you learn Adobe Captivate 4 for creating demonstrations and simulations. Check our schedule for class dates and prices for Instructor-led Captivate training in Dallas Texas or call us for private training at your site.

This Dallas Captivate training course takes you through the development process of building software demonstrations and interactive simulations using Adobe Captivate 4. During class, you will learn more advanced features of Captivate 4 such as: Sophisticated Branching scenarios, Variables and Captivate's Advanced Actions Panel.

Instructor's Note: This class relies on several of the new advanced features of Captivate 4. It would not benefit a Captivate 3 user who is not planning on upgrading to the new version.

Topics covered in this two-day class are:

Branching

  • Branching Decisions: Aggregator vs Internal
  • Duplicating Slides to Change State
  • Branching for Advanced Navigation

Variables

  • Variable Types
  • Implementing Variables

Advanced Actions

  • Captivate Scripting Essentials
  • Conditional Statements
  • Validation

Widgets

  • Defining Widgets
  • Using Widgets
  • Widget Settings
  • Custom Widgets

The Captivate Actions List

  • Additional Options
  • Linking to Websites
  • Linking to Files
  • Absolute and Relative Paths

Advanced Customization

  • Modifying Skins
  • Editing TOC defaults
  • Creating Captivate CPR preferences files
  • Controlling Text Captions Margins
  • Modifying the Preloader

FRM Editor

  • What can be edited
  • Modify an existing Project

LMS Reporting

  • What is an LMS
  • Defining AICC and SCORM
  • Using the Moodle LMS
  • Packaging
  • Sample Reports

SCORM Packager

  • What's it's purpose
  • Bundling Multiple Projects