Step by step tutorial to build three projects including a demonstration, a simulation and a random SCORM-compliant quiz featuring all possible question slides. Enhance your projects by adding interactivity, animations, sound and more. Publish your project in a wide variety of formats enabling virtually any desktop and mobile devices to play your e-learning content. Deploy your e-Learning content on a SCORM or AICC-compliant LMS Learn by doing. Each concept is immediately explained with a meaningful exercise.

A visual guide on how to use Adobe Captivate 5 for developing e-Learning modules. Step-by-step guide with screen shots and clear guidelines how accomplish various tasks in Captivate quickly. Topics include: * The new features in Captivate 5 * Setting project preferences and quiz settings * Using Templates, master slides and object styles * Recording * Adding Text Captions * Adding Images * Adding Interactivity * Adding Emphasis and Attracting Attention * Adding Audio & Configuring Closed Captions * Using the Text-to-Speech Feature * Adding video * Keeping it Organized & Standardized * Working with PowerPoint Projects * Adding a Table of Contents & Skins * Creating Quizzes * Creating LMS-Ready Files * Publishing for a Learning Management System * Publishing for an Autorun CD

Want it in full-color? Check out the Kindle version! The E-Learning Uncovered series is designed to give you the maximum amount of information in the minimum amount of time. You'll learn about virtually every check box, every menu, and every option in Adobe Captivate 6 for PC. But we don't just tell you HOW to check that box or click that menu (that's the easy part), we also tell you WHY you might or might not want to. Brand new users will walk step-by-step through every aspect of building great e-learning in Captivate. Intermediate users will learn how to use more advanced features, such as effects, actions, variables, and advanced actions--all in one book! Everyone will benefit from the special tips and insider secrets that let you do more and save time. Look for: Design Tips: instructional design, graphic design, and usability tips that give you insight on how to implement the different features of the software. Power Tips: advanced tips and secrets that can help you take your production to the next level. Time Savers: software shortcuts and ways to streamline your production efforts and save you time. Bright Ideas: special explanations and ideas for getting more out of the software. Cautions: "lessons learned the hard way" that you can use to avoid common problems. Web Resources: the free companion website includes useful resources such as reference guides, screencasts, and practice files.

This book is a step-by-step tutorial including all the needed assets to build the three sample projects it covers. It is divided into lots of small sub-topics and follows a clear and logical outline to help you structure your new knowledge. Every single feature covered is immediately illustrated by a meaningful exercise. Self-exploration of the software is strongly encouraged through extra exercises and experimentations. The book also introduces you to the Captivate community by providing lots of external reference and tips and tricks from established e-learning professionals. If you are: A teacher wanting to produce high quality e-learning content for your students. Working in a training department and want to implement e-learning in your company. Using a SCORM or AICC-compliant LMS and want to produce e-learning content to track your students’ performance. A webmaster in need of a fun and interactive way to produce an FAQ or a support site. Interested in e-learning. Then, this book is for you! A basic knowledge of your operating system (Mac or Windows) is all it takes to author the next generation of e-learning content with this book.

A self-paced training manual that teaches the higher-end, more advanced functionality of Adobe Captivate. By following step-by-step instructions, you will improve your screen recording skills via project templates and by pre-editing your text captions. You'll enhance your production skills by learning about object styles, master slides, themes, and advanced actions. You'll learn to create, insert and edit variables that will enrich the learner experience, and you will learn how to create branching scenarios that will enable learners to plot their own learning path. You'll learn to collaborate with team members using Captivates' powerful commenting capabilities. You'll ensure your eLearning and mLearning output can be used by people with disabilities by adding such 508-compliant features as accessibility text and closed captions. Finally, you'll learn about SCORM, AICC, SCOs, Manifests, and how to upload a published lesson into a Learning Management System. [publisher].

A visual guide on how to use Adobe Captivate 6 for developing e-Learning modules. Step-by-step guide with screen shots and clear guidelines how accomplish various tasks quickly in Captivate 6. Topics include: * The new features in Captivate 6* Setting project preferences and quiz settings* Using Themes, Templates, Master Slides and Object Styles* Recording* Adding Text Captions* Adding Visuals * Adding Interactivity * Adding Emphasis and Attracting Attention* Adding Audio & Configuring Closed Captions* Using the Text-to-Speech Feature* Adding video* Keeping it Organized Synchronized & Standardized* Working with PowerPoint Projects* Working with a Table of Contents & Skins* Creating Quizzes* Creating LMS-Ready Files* Publishing for a Learning Management System* Publishing for an Autorun CD* Publishing for iPad Users

"This video tutorial series is for educators, corporate training professionals, and training specialists with limited programming capabilities who want to create product demos, application simulations, and soft skill and compliance training. In order to participate in the practical portion of this course, it is highly recommended that you download Adobe Captivate 6 before beginning the course. You can download a free trial version here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=captivate&loc=en_us. Packt video courses are designed to cover the breadth of the topic in short, hands-on, task-based videos. Each course is divided into short manageable sections, so you can watch the whole thing or jump to the bit you need. The focus is on practical instructions and screencasts showing you how to get the job done. Fast Track to Adobe Captivate 6 is aimed at helping new users wrap their head around the basics of using Adobe Captivate 6. Discover how to use Adobe Captivate 6 to create interactive online learning content using realistic demonstrations and practical materials to develop a course from start to finish."--Resource description page.