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Welcome to the Introduction to Adobe Captivate 2 course!

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01: Getting Started
Introducing what Adobe Captivate 2 can do for you as a teacher.

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02: Creating a Project: Recording a Screencast
Looking at the different sizes of recording you can make - application, custom size and full screen.
00:05:45
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03: Recording Options
Looking at the different types of screencast you can create - demonstration, assesment simulation, training simulation and custom. Looking at further recording options - colour schemes, recording live audio, controlling capture.
00:04:40
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04: Creating a Project
Image, Blank or Import PowerPoint. How to create a project not based on a screencast.
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05: The Edit Mode
A quick tour of the edit mode of Captivate, showing the different views - storyboard, edit and branching.
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06: The Timeline
The timeline controls how and when objects are displayed in your project - this lesson takes a tour of the timeline and how to work with it.
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07: The Library
The library stores, tracks and manages your assets in the Captivate project - this lesson examines how to work with the library.
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08: Saving
There's nothing worse than losing the work you have done. This lesson shows you how to save your Captivate project.
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09: The Mouse
When recording a screencast, you can capture the mouse movements. This lesson looks at how to work with and adjust the recorded mouse movements.
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10: Highlight Boxes
Highlights can draw attention to areas of your screen. This lesson looks at how to create and work with highlight boxes.
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11. Text Captions
Text captions provide a visual clue or additional information on the screen. This lesson looks at how to creata and work with text captions.
00:03:10
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12: Images
Adding images to a Captivate project is easy. This lesson looks at adding and working with images.
00:01:57
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13: Flash Videos
It is possible to add '.flv' Flash videos to your project. This means that you can add in archived video or even live streamed video directly into your project. This lesson shows you how.
00:02:47
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14: Animation
As a Captivate project ultimately produces a '.swf' Flash file, it should come as no surprise that you can add in Flash animations to your project. This lesson shows you how.
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15: Text Animations
Captivate has a number of text animations built in for you to use. Simply add in your own text, and watch a high quality animation of it. This lesson shows you how to create and work with text animation.
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16: Adding, Duplicating & Deleting Slides
It is a simple process to add or remove slides from a project. This lesson will show you how.
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17: Recording Additional Slides
If you are anything like me, it's only in the editing process that you realise you've missed something out. This lesson shows you how simple it is to record additional slides and place them correctly in your project.
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18: Importing Slides
It is an easy process to import slides and/or objects from another project into the one you are working on. This lesson show you how.
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19: Slide Properties
There are properties of the slides that you can manage and alter to provide consistency in your project. This lesson will show you how.
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20: Recording Audio
Audio acts as the time-guide for your project. This lesson shows you how to record audio for your project.
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21: Notes
Adding notes for each of your slides makes recording audio much simpler. You can also use the notes for other aspects of your project. This lesson shows you how to create and work with notes.
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22: Editing Audio
It's a simple process to edit your recorded or imported audio. This lesson shows you how to insert silence, record additional audio, remove sections of audio and adjust the volume.
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23: Importing Audio
Import audio from external files for a highly professional production. This lesson shows you how.
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24: Advanced Audio
The advanced audio function of Captivate allows you to track and manage the audio in your project. This lesson shows you how to work with this feature.
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25: Closed Captioning
Closed Captioning is a new feature of Captivate 2, which allows you to provide subtitles for your project that the user can turn on or off. This lesson shows you how.
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26: Rollover Caption
This lesson introduces interactivity into your project. When your user moves the mouse over the area of the screen you select, a caption will appear. This lesson takes you through creating and editing a rollover caption.
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27: Rollover Images
When your user moves the mouse over the area of the screen you select, an image will appear. This lesson takes you through creating and editing a rollover image.
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28: Click Boxes
The next stage in interactivity. When your user clicks on a click box, an action that you specify is performed. From simple navigation through opening a URL to executing complex JavaScript, this lesson shows you how to create and work with Click Boxes.
00:08:29
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29: Text Entry Boxes
A text entry box will ask your user to enter text and then compare it with the text that you provide. The lesson shows you how to create and work with Text Entry Boxes.
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30: Buttons
Buttons can help your user in navigation or in making choices. This lesson shows you how to create and work with text and image buttons.
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31: Questions
There are six different type of questions that you can create in Captivate – multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, matching and rating scale (Likert). This lesson shows you how.
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32: Making Slides Look Better!
This lesson gives a few clues to make your question and blank slides more ‘visually appealing’?
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33: Branching
In Captivate 2 it is an easy process to track and monitor the branching options in your project. This lesson shows you how.
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34: Previewing
Before publishing you’ll want to see how your project looks. This lesson shows you how to preview your project.
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35: Skins
New to Captivate 2, you can surround your project with a ‘skin’ that can hold the playback controls and a customisable menu. This lesson shows you how to work with the pre-built skins and how to create your own.
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36: Properties and Preferences
Project Properties allows you to add details about your project such as title, author, email contact, website and description. The ‘Preferences’ section deals with adding a pre-loader and other project preferences. This tutorial shows you how to add this information.
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37: Resizing
If you recorded the full screen, you will want to resize it to save your user having to scroll. Learn how to resize any project in this lesson.
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38: Transitions
With transitions you can alter how one slide moves to the next. Learn how in this lesson.
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39: The Quiz Manager
If you are wishing to collect data from any interactions or questions you ask your user in Captivate, then the Quiz manager will allow you to determine what you do with this data. From simply emailing the data to sending it to a Learning Management System, this lesson will show you how.
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40: Publishing
Find out how to publish your presentation as a Flash file, to an Adobe Connect Enterprise (Breeze) server, as a standalone executable file, send by email, print out or send using Captivate’s built-in FTP engine. This lesson shows you how.
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41: Quitting
Find out how to quit Captivate in this lesson.
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