IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | Hi, and welcome to Up and Running
with Captivate 6. I am David Rivers.
| | 00:08 | This course is designed to get you
acquainted with Version 6 of Adobe Captivate,
| | 00:13 | from creating a project from scratch,
to adding various types of assets,
| | 00:18 | creating quizzes, and
publishing your finished project.
| | 00:22 | You'll learn about
changes to the user interface.
| | 00:24 | We will explore how themes can save you
time, and get you up and running quickly
| | 00:28 | with the design, look, and feel of your project.
| | 00:31 | We will work with Smart Shapes,
and new hyperlinking capabilities.
| | 00:35 | We will be using the new characters you
now have at your disposal in Captivate 6.
| | 00:41 | There's lots to cover, so let's get started.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you are a Premium subscriber with
lynda.com, you will have access to the
| | 00:04 | exercise files, and the exercise files
allow you to follow along with me step by step.
| | 00:09 | If you do plan on using them, I highly
recommend placing them in a convenient
| | 00:12 | location, such as your Desktop.
Double-clicking this folder will reveal
| | 00:16 | subfolders for each of
the chapters in this title.
| | 00:20 | Double-click one of those folders, and you'll
find the files we will be using in that chapter.
| | 00:24 | Now, if you don't have access to
the exercise files, not to worry;
| | 00:28 | you can still learn lots by following
along with your own files, or simply sit
| | 00:33 | back, relax, and watch.
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| Viewing the finished project| 00:00 | Before we get into what Captivate is,
what it can do, and start using it to
| | 00:05 | develop our only eLearning projects, let's
take a look where we are headed in this course.
| | 00:09 | If you have the exercise files, double-
click the folder, where you'll find the
| | 00:13 | completed project named
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA_final.
| | 00:17 | We will double-click that file, which
launches Captivate 6, and opens up the
| | 00:21 | projects simultaneously. We will be
discussing the user interface in detail,
| | 00:27 | but before we get there, just take a
look at the left-hand side of the screen,
| | 00:30 | where we have what's called the filmstrip.
| | 00:33 | Here you'll find thumbnail representations
of the various slides in the project.
| | 00:37 | The selected thumbnail is displayed on
the stage off to the right, and here's an
| | 00:42 | example of a slide that is a
question slide, and allows for branching.
| | 00:45 | In other words, depending on what the
user answers, they will be taken to a
| | 00:50 | different location in the project.
| | 00:51 | Answering Yes takes them directly to
the end, where they can take the quiz.
| | 00:55 | Answering No takes them to the next
slide, where they can review information
| | 00:58 | before taking the quiz.
| | 01:00 | The next slide, you can see, has a
speaker icon where audio has been embedded.
| | 01:04 | Slide 3, if we click that thumbnail,
displays a list of hyperlinks; something
| | 01:09 | new to Captivate 6. Hyperlinks to take
users to other locations in the project,
| | 01:15 | and a hyperlink to take
them outside the project.
| | 01:19 | Next, we have a number of slides that are
actually imported slides from PowerPoint.
| | 01:23 | If you already have them in a PowerPoint
presentation, you can import them into Captivate.
| | 01:30 | As we scroll even further down, you'll
find the software simulation, and in this
| | 01:34 | case, you'll see a number of slides
representing a single simulation; that is,
| | 01:39 | mouse movements with narration.
| | 01:43 | As we scroll past that, we get into
some special effects, and embedded video, and
| | 01:49 | then we see our quiz.
| | 01:50 | Quizzes can use buttons like this to
take the quiz, and then we'll see different
| | 01:54 | types of questions, like multiple choice,
true and false, we have fill in the
| | 01:59 | blank questions, we have Short Answer
questions, even matching questions, where
| | 02:04 | you have to match up items
in one column with another.
| | 02:07 | We will be creating all of this as we
move through the chapters in this course.
| | 02:11 | Eventually, we will see the quiz results,
and then finally, the end of the project.
| | 02:16 | Now, to really understand what this looks like,
and how it's going to work, we can preview it.
| | 02:21 | Now, there is a Preview button if you
wanted to preview it, but I actually
| | 02:24 | published this already, and have
it up and running in my browser.
| | 02:27 | So I am going to flip to the browser,
where you see the very first slide, and
| | 02:32 | there is our first question.
| | 02:33 | Have you taken this training already?
| | 02:34 | Answering Yes, and then clicking Submit,
takes us directly to that first quiz
| | 02:40 | slide, where we can take the quiz.
| | 02:42 | I am just going to refresh this to go
back to the very beginning, and I am going
| | 02:48 | to adjust my view here; clicking the
View menu, I am going to Zoom Out slightly,
| | 02:52 | so I can see more of the slide. There we go.
| | 02:54 | Now, if we answer No this time by
clicking the radio button, and submitting, there
| | 02:58 | we go; a little bit of audio, some
welcome applause, and here we have a couple of
| | 03:06 | buttons again to continue, or go
directly to the quiz, if we do realize all of a
| | 03:11 | sudden that, yeah, we have
actually taken this training already.
| | 03:13 | So let's go to the quiz.
| | 03:16 | When we click Take the Quiz Now, you'll
see the first type of question, which has
| | 03:20 | radio buttons; it's a multiple choice.
| | 03:22 | We select our answer, click
Submit, and we get some feedback.
| | 03:26 | In this case, we are correct, and we can click
anywhere to continue, or press Y on the keyboard.
| | 03:31 | Here we see a multiple choice.
| | 03:33 | I am going to choose True, and Submit,
that one is correct as well; click
| | 03:38 | anywhere to continue.
| | 03:39 | Here is a fill in the blank.
| | 03:40 | Let's type in a wrong answer, CEO, and look
at the feedback this time shows up in red.
| | 03:46 | Now, these are all options we will be setting up
as we create our quiz later on in this course.
| | 03:51 | You can use numbers as well.
| | 03:55 | What's interesting about the quizzes now: you
can actually have more than one right answer.
| | 03:59 | Here is an example where we
only need one of the right answers.
| | 04:02 | I am going to type in answer the
phone, and sure enough, that's correct,
| | 04:08 | but there are some other
responsibilities that we could have typed in, and
| | 04:12 | been correct as well.
| | 04:13 | You can also assign partial scoring, so
if you get part of an answer right, you
| | 04:17 | get some of the points.
| | 04:19 | You can also take away
points for incorrect answers.
| | 04:24 | Here we have what we call a matching
type question, where we need to match up
| | 04:28 | names on the left with titles on the right.
| | 04:31 | So Francine, for example; I
believe she's Public Relations.
| | 04:35 | Philip, I think he's the Museum Curator,
that's A, which would mean Jane, is
| | 04:41 | our Executive Director.
| | 04:42 | Clicking Submit shows me
that I am indeed correct.
| | 04:46 | Here is an example of multiple choice,
but notice they are not radio buttons;
| | 04:49 | they are actually checkboxes, meaning
there can be more than one right answer,
| | 04:53 | so I can select any of the behaviors.
| | 04:55 | In this case, I am going to choose
dress neatly, and show up to work on time.
| | 05:00 | Now, I could get partial
marks if I've missed one,
| | 05:04 | but I am going to click Submit, and
see that I'm correct, and Continue on. And
| | 05:08 | there's my results; they are displayed.
| | 05:10 | I passed the quiz. Excellent!
| | 05:12 | I can review the quiz if I want to,
to see where I answered correctly, and
| | 05:16 | where I went wrong. And that's just an example
of a simple quiz as part of a larger project.
| | 05:21 | We will flip back now to Captivate.
| | 05:25 | So now that you have an idea
where we're headed, it's time to start
| | 05:28 | using Captivate.
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1. Getting StartedWhat is Captivate 6?| 00:00 | Before we start using Captivate 6
to author interactive eLearning, and
| | 00:05 | HTML-based mLearning content, let's get a
good handle on what Captivate really is.
| | 00:10 | If you're an experienced user of
previous versions of Captivate, you can
| | 00:14 | probably skip this movie.
| | 00:15 | Well, Captivate 6 is the latest version
of Adobe's eLearning Authoring Software.
| | 00:21 | It's loaded with tools to help authors
of eLearning content create things like
| | 00:26 | product demonstrations, to show
learners how a product is supposed to work, or
| | 00:31 | software simulations to show the
software, or a specific feature of that
| | 00:35 | software in action.
| | 00:37 | About branched scenarios to allow
learners to focus on relevant content, based
| | 00:42 | on the selections they make, and even
soft skills, and compliance training to
| | 00:46 | ensure learners keep their skills sharp, and
comply with various policies and procedures.
| | 00:52 | You can also use it for quizzes to
test a learner's comprehension of the
| | 00:56 | content they just digested.
| | 00:59 | So who would actually use a
program like Adobe Captivate 6?
| | 01:03 | By far, the largest group of
Adobe Captivate users come from a
| | 01:06 | training background.
| | 01:08 | These folks have been using Captivate
for years to author content, and publish
| | 01:12 | it to their learners, and they
include corporate trainers, who might use
| | 01:17 | Captivate to author software or product
demos, simulations, and soft skill, and
| | 01:22 | compliance training.
| | 01:24 | Also educators, and eLearning and
development personnel with limited programming
| | 01:29 | capabilities who use Captivate
for many of the same reasons.
| | 01:33 | Also, sales and sales support people
have been known to use Captivate as well
| | 01:38 | to create compelling product demos, and
simulations for the products they sell.
| | 01:43 | Now that we have a better
understanding of what Captivate is, and we know who
| | 01:47 | is using Captivate to create
eLearning content, we should really understand
| | 01:52 | the basics of eLearning before we dive into
Captivate 6 to start authoring our own content.
| | 01:58 | That is coming up next.
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| eLearning basics| 00:00 | Because we use Captivate to create
eLearning content, and now mLearning content,
| | 00:05 | the mobile version of eLearning, we
should understand the basics of eLearning.
| | 00:10 | This will help us to understand the
ultimate goal of what we are creating.
| | 00:14 | So let's start with
defining what eLearning really is.
| | 00:18 | Now, there are many definitions out
there, but they all share the same general
| | 00:22 | description, and that is that eLearning
activities are delivered in electronic
| | 00:27 | format, typically using a computer
with a connection to the Internet.
| | 00:32 | eLearning is often called by other
names too, like distance learning, distance
| | 00:36 | education, or Web-based training,
online learning, and others.
| | 00:41 | And with the recent influx of mobile
devices, we now begin to hear of mobile
| | 00:45 | learning, or mLearning, and Captivate 6
will allow you to create both eLearning
| | 00:50 | and mLearning content.
| | 00:52 | Now, eLearning can be used to educate
learners on just about anything that you
| | 00:57 | can imagine, but there are three
major types of eLearning to consider.
| | 01:01 | First, we have informal eLearning.
| | 01:04 | When surfing Web sites, many will now
offer eLearning material at no cost.
| | 01:10 | Informal eLearning, such as studying
software materials, can help you improve
| | 01:14 | your knowledge, and polish your skills.
| | 01:16 | Then we have something
known as corporate eLearning.
| | 01:20 | Many businesses out there will
train their employees through eLearning
| | 01:23 | programs to prepare professional staff
for success in their industry, and keep
| | 01:28 | their knowledge current.
| | 01:30 | And then there's academic eLearning.
Students can often earn an accredited
| | 01:35 | degree, for example, through the Internet,
| | 01:37 | thanks to hundreds of
eLearning degree programs now offered.
| | 01:41 | Captivate 6 can be used to create
any of these types of eLearning.
| | 01:46 | When we create eLearning courses, and
content, it's important to understand the
| | 01:50 | various components of an affective
eLearning course if we want our learners to
| | 01:54 | benefit from our efforts.
| | 01:56 | First, by making your eLearning content
interactive, people become engaged, and
| | 02:01 | they are more willing to make the most
of their online learning environment.
| | 02:05 | It also allows you, the author, to
include more sophisticated materials, without
| | 02:10 | scaring learners off who
might be new to the information.
| | 02:13 | We will be using Captivate 6 to create
interactivity in our eLearning projects.
| | 02:20 | By approaching each topic in your
eLearning project with creativity in how you
| | 02:24 | convey the information, you can really help
to increase the effectiveness of your
| | 02:29 | training, and make it stick.
| | 02:31 | You need your learners to remember
what they've learned, and Captivate 6 has a
| | 02:35 | number of features and functions
that help make your eLearning project
| | 02:39 | interesting and memorable.
| | 02:41 | Your eLearning project should take into
account various levels of learners, and
| | 02:45 | abilities, as well as changing content;
making it simple for people to progress
| | 02:50 | and track their progress, they can easily
return to a place where they have left off.
| | 02:55 | Also be prepared to accommodate
changes in your eLearning content as
| | 02:59 | products evolve over time.
| | 03:01 | If content in your eLearning project
becomes incorrect or outdated, its lifespan
| | 03:05 | becomes drastically reduced.
| | 03:08 | It's also important to make
your eLearning tool helpful.
| | 03:12 | People may need instructions or
tips for completing modules, as well as
| | 03:16 | resources for accessing definitions
and terms, or even who to contact in case
| | 03:22 | of technical issues.
| | 03:23 | Consider adding a Help button that is
clearly visible, and a Glossary perhaps.
| | 03:28 | Of course, this is easily done with Captivate 6.
| | 03:31 | Now, busy schedules often make it
challenging to accommodate time for eLearning
| | 03:35 | tools, so by making tools accessible
from the Internet, you give people the
| | 03:40 | option of taking advantage of them
from outside of a work environment.
| | 03:44 | You might also consider creating a
CD-ROM based version of your training for
| | 03:48 | low bandwidth scenarios, for users to take
home, or on the road to have on hand when needed.
| | 03:55 | The incremental cost of including a
CD-ROM version of the training can be
| | 03:59 | minimal compared to the
extended reach of that training.
| | 04:02 | With Captivate 6, there are number
of publishing options to make your
| | 04:06 | eLearning tool accessible.
| | 04:08 | So these are some very basic principles
of eLearning to consider once you start
| | 04:12 | the creation process.
| | 04:14 | Captivate 6 includes tools, features,
and functions to help you author content
| | 04:19 | that takes into consideration each of
these components, including some very
| | 04:22 | useful new features that we will explore next.
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| What's new in Captivate 6?| 00:00 | With Captivate 6, you get a number of
new and improved tools, features, and
| | 00:04 | functions not found in
previous versions of Captivate.
| | 00:08 | Let's discuss a number of them here
before we use them later on in this course.
| | 00:12 | My personal favorite is HTML5 publishing.
| | 00:16 | By having the ability to publish your
eLearning content to this HTML5 format,
| | 00:21 | you'll be able to deliver
your eLearning on the go,
| | 00:24 | meaning your courses can be
accessed on mobile devices.
| | 00:28 | In fact, when you go to
publish your eLearning content,
| | 00:31 | it can be published to both Flash
and HTML5 formats simultaneously.
| | 00:36 | With this hybrid format, your
courses become even more accessible.
| | 00:39 | Let's say a user is
accessing your content on their iPad.
| | 00:43 | When they launch the course,
it looks for a Flash player.
| | 00:46 | If it doesn't find one, it automatically
flips to HTML5, and plays on the iPad.
| | 00:53 | You can rest easy knowing that your
scoring data will integrate smoothly with
| | 00:57 | your Learning Management System, or LMS.
| | 01:00 | In Captivate 6, you can publish your
courses with ease to the most popular LMSs
| | 01:04 | out there, like Saba, Moodle,
Plato, Blackboard, and SumTotal.
| | 01:12 | Also new in Captivate is
high-def screencasting.
| | 01:15 | With the capture as a video workflow
functionality, you can now create high
| | 01:20 | quality product demos with great ease.
| | 01:23 | It's like having Camtasia or
Snapz Pro built into Captivate.
| | 01:27 | You can even do things like insert a
talking head, or maybe another video using a
| | 01:32 | picture-in-picture format, publish it to
YouTube with a single click, and you can
| | 01:37 | edit the video, add transitions,
use smart shapes, audio, and captions.
| | 01:42 | I really like the new themes in
Captivate 6, similar to the themes you'd find in
| | 01:46 | Word and PowerPoint.
| | 01:48 | They can really help you get
going with a new project's appearance.
| | 01:51 | You will get an attractive and
consistent look and feel with all your layouts,
| | 01:55 | background, styles, and fonts selected
for you, creating a professional looking
| | 01:59 | project out of the start gates.
| | 02:01 | Of course, you can edit these themes,
and even create your own if you have the
| | 02:05 | time, or need to do so.
| | 02:07 | You now get smart shapes in Captivate 6.
| | 02:10 | You can add a wide range of shapes,
including circles, rectangles, triangles,
| | 02:13 | callouts, arrows, lines, and banners,
and when you add them to your eLearning
| | 02:18 | content, you can even customize
them, and convert them into buttons.
| | 02:22 | Smart shapes automatically adjust to fit
properly on your page, and they look attractive.
| | 02:28 | Now, this is a biggie for many
eLearning for many eLearning authors:
| | 02:31 | you can now insert text hyperlinks to
direct learners to other sections of the
| | 02:36 | course, or external sources for more
information. Simple, but long-overdue.
| | 02:42 | When it comes to creating your quizzes,
there are number of new features here
| | 02:46 | you're going to like, beginning with
pre-test and branch-aware quizzing.
| | 02:51 | You can use pre-test to assess the
knowledge, skill level, or training needs of
| | 02:55 | individual learners.
| | 02:57 | Based on the results, you then direct
learners to the appropriate section, and
| | 03:01 | quiz them at the end to
gauge what they've learned.
| | 03:04 | You also have the ability now to
create partial and negative scoring.
| | 03:07 | This means you can assign a score to
each correct option when a question has
| | 03:13 | more than one correct answer.
| | 03:15 | You can also discourage guesswork by
penalizing learners for wrong answers.
| | 03:21 | Thanks to remediation, you can now
make eLearning content even more effective,
| | 03:25 | and improve the percentage of successful
outcomes by using the all new remedial workflow.
| | 03:31 | When answering a quiz question
incorrectly, you can have learners revisit the
| | 03:35 | relevant section, grasp the concept
correctly, and then retry the question.
| | 03:41 | Also there's actors, or what we call
ready to use character images. They are
| | 03:46 | included in Captivate 6.
| | 03:47 | You can choose different personas,
like a business executive, or a medical
| | 03:52 | practitioner to add to your Captivate projects.
| | 03:55 | Now, there are number of
categories and characters to choose from.
| | 03:58 | These are just some of the new features
and functions you'll find in Captivate
| | 04:03 | 6 that will help you create visually
stunning, interactive, and professional
| | 04:08 | eLearning projects.
| | 04:09 | We will make use of them as we move
through the various chapters in this course.
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| Touring the interface| 00:00 | Well, before we start using
Captivate to create our eLearning project, we
| | 00:04 | should get familiar with the user interface,
which has changed slightly from previous versions,
| | 00:10 | and if you're brand new to
Captivate, you will definitely want to get
| | 00:13 | comfortable in your
surroundings before you start working.
| | 00:16 | When you launch Captivate, the very
first thing you're going to see is this
| | 00:19 | welcome screen, by default.
| | 00:21 | And on the welcome screen, you have
an opportunity to quickly access recent
| | 00:25 | projects that you've worked on;
| | 00:27 | you can open existing
projects from here as well.
| | 00:30 | And you'll notice over here on the right-hand
side, you get a head start creating
| | 00:33 | new projects as well;
| | 00:35 | could be a blank project from scratch.
| | 00:37 | But if you're creating video demos,
or software simulations, you get a nice
| | 00:41 | head start by selecting from
this list on the right-hand side.
| | 00:45 | You can choose From Template, or even create
your own project templates from here as well.
| | 00:50 | There is some help down at
the bottom left-hand corner;
| | 00:53 | there are Tutorials, New Features are
covered, as well as a Getting Started section.
| | 00:57 | If you don't like this welcome screen,
you can turn it off from here by clicking
| | 01:01 | the checkbox; Don't Show Again.
| | 01:03 | And if you happen to want it back,
you can do so through the Adobe
| | 01:06 | Captivate Preferences.
| | 01:08 | I am going to leave it unchecked.
| | 01:10 | So for our purposes, getting
comfortable in our UI surroundings, let's
| | 01:14 | choose Blank Project.
| | 01:15 | And as for the size, you will notice
that we have an opportunity to select from
| | 01:20 | some resolutions here, including a
whole slew of new ones that you would never
| | 01:24 | have seen in previous versions of Captivate.
| | 01:27 | I am going to go to the highest one here at
1280 by 720; that's 16 by 9 ratio, and click OK.
| | 01:35 | So it just takes a moment then to create
our new blank project, and in the past,
| | 01:39 | creating a blank project, you
really did start from scratch,
| | 01:42 | but there are some new features here
that will help you get started, and right
| | 01:46 | away, if you're familiar with previous
versions of Captivate, you're noticing
| | 01:49 | some changes here on the UI.
| | 01:52 | First of all, there's a little
bit of color here now; it's not just
| | 01:55 | strictly black and white.
| | 01:56 | Well, let's start up at the very top.
| | 01:58 | I'm running Captivate on a Mac,
| | 02:00 | so what I'm going to see up here at the
very top is my Menu bar, and then what
| | 02:04 | we call right below that here in
Captivate, our Application bar.
| | 02:08 | In Windows, your Application bar
contains all of your menu items as well, so
| | 02:12 | they're kind of combined in Windows,
whereas here on the Mac, they're separated.
| | 02:17 | Part of the Application bar is
what we would call context-sensitive.
| | 02:21 | So what you see here will change
depending on what you're doing.
| | 02:24 | Right now, we're looking at a new
blank project, so we see some things like
| | 02:28 | some navigation buttons here for moving from
slide to slide. We can also change our View.
| | 02:33 | You can see 100 is the current
selection, so we're looking at actual size,
| | 02:38 | but if we want to change our project
size to best fit our stage, for example,
| | 02:42 | choosing Best Fit, you can see,
changes the size of our first slide here.
| | 02:47 | Also on the Application bar over here
on the right-hand side is what we call
| | 02:50 | our Workspace Picker.
| | 02:52 | So just to make sure you're seeing
what I'm seeing, make sure Classic is
| | 02:56 | selected; this is the Classic workspace.
| | 02:58 | And of course, you can rearrange your
panels, your toolbars, etcetera, depending
| | 03:03 | on the type of work you're doing.
There are some presets here as well.
| | 03:06 | We'll be talking about workspaces
in the next lesson in greater detail.
| | 03:10 | But with Classic selected, you
should be seeing what I see here.
| | 03:14 | Let's move down now to the next row.
| | 03:16 | Here is what we call our Control Panel.
| | 03:19 | Now, the Control Panel most people often
call a toolbar, contains shortcuts that
| | 03:24 | you would find up in the various menu headings.
| | 03:27 | For example, if you wanted to save
your project, it's a good idea as you're
| | 03:31 | making changes along the way to hit Save often;
| | 03:34 | you would find Save under the File menu.
| | 03:36 | Let's go to the left-hand side now,
where it looks like we have some additional
| | 03:40 | tools, and we call this the Object toolbar,
| | 03:43 | and basically you are working with a
number of different objects that can be
| | 03:47 | placed into a project here.
| | 03:48 | For example, as we hover over
these, you can see we can insert Text
| | 03:51 | Captions; how about images?
| | 03:54 | As we go a little further down, you'll
see other options like Highlight Boxes,
| | 03:58 | and Rollover Slidelets, and so on.
| | 04:00 | And you may not be seeing all of the
tools here, and there's a little button
| | 04:04 | here on the very top left-hand corner that will
allow you to expand that, so it's double width.
| | 04:08 | Now you can see all of the tools that
appear by default in the Object toolbar.
| | 04:13 | If you want to bring that back,
| | 04:14 | you can collapse it, clicking
the same button, and there we go.
| | 04:18 | Next to that is our Filmstrip.
| | 04:19 | This is where we will see the
individual slides in our project.
| | 04:23 | Right now, with a new blank project,
we have one single slide up here.
| | 04:27 | But eventually, as we start adding
content, we'll see them listed down the
| | 04:31 | Filmstrip here on the
left-hand side of our screen.
| | 04:34 | Now let's move over to the right a little bit.
| | 04:36 | And right at the top, you're going
to see our new blank project is called
| | 04:40 | untitled 1, and you can see the extension
is CPTX; that is the extension for the
| | 04:46 | default format here in Captivate.
| | 04:49 | Now, you will see multiple tabs if you're
working on multiple projects at a time.
| | 04:54 | Down below with the selected tab is
where you're going to see what we call our
| | 04:59 | Document Window, so the documents
display down below according to what document
| | 05:04 | tab is selected at the top.
| | 05:06 | But there's something kind of
in the way here, and this is new.
| | 05:09 | This is what we call our Themes
pane or panel.
| | 05:13 | And as we move across, we can
actually get started by choosing a theme.
| | 05:17 | By default, we're looking at this one
that's checked off called White, and it
| | 05:22 | is the default selection in here, as
we start a blank new project, so what
| | 05:26 | we're seeing in behind is that theme.
| | 05:29 | So a theme is being used, and we can
scroll through the various themes here; you
| | 05:33 | will notice navigation buttons.
| | 05:34 | So this will actually help you get
started with the formatting of your project
| | 05:38 | before you even start adding any content.
| | 05:41 | Let's just leave White selected.
| | 05:43 | You can click it again, and you'll
see a little message pops up that all
| | 05:47 | overrides to object styles and
properties are lost when you select a theme.
| | 05:51 | So if you've added any of your own
properties already, you would lose those.
| | 05:54 | We haven't, so that's okay.
| | 05:56 | In fact, we can choose not to be asked
this ever again by clicking the checkbox.
| | 06:00 | I am going to leave it unchecked.
| | 06:02 | And to the question, do I want to continue,
| | 06:04 | I am going to click Yes, and now I'm
really starting my new blank project
| | 06:09 | using the White theme.
| | 06:10 | Now, if you don't like this Theme bar in
the way, you can go up to the very top,
| | 06:15 | in the right-hand corner;
click that little button.
| | 06:18 | You can see All is selected here,
| | 06:20 | but you can choose Recently Used themes,
| | 06:22 | you can Browse for other themes,
| | 06:24 | and when you're done with this, just click
anywhere in your document area, and it disappears.
| | 06:29 | So we're ready to continue now working
on our new blank project, but there are
| | 06:33 | more pieces to this user interface.
| | 06:35 | For example, as we move over to the
right now, you're going to see a number of
| | 06:39 | tabs across the top representing
various panels with the Properties panel
| | 06:42 | displayed by default.
| | 06:44 | And depending on what is selected on
your slide in your project, you will see
| | 06:49 | the Properties show up for that object,
and here's where we go to make changes
| | 06:53 | to those properties.
| | 06:54 | And there are a number of different
panels that you can select the tabs for.
| | 06:58 | If you're working on quizzes,
you can go to Quiz Properties.
| | 07:01 | If you haven't started a quiz,
obviously there's nothing to see here.
| | 07:04 | Project Info is displayed
in the Project Info tab.
| | 07:06 | Let's go back to Properties.
| | 07:08 | Now let's go over here to the top
right, where you will see the double arrows
| | 07:12 | again, where we can collapse this down
to icons, and it's a great way to give
| | 07:16 | yourself more real estate
to work on your project.
| | 07:18 | Need a little extra space, collapse
that down; we still have access to them.
| | 07:21 | So, we can click Properties; you can
see it just pops out/ Click Properties
| | 07:25 | again, and it closes up.
| | 07:26 | If you prefer the old-fashioned view, go
ahead and click that same button to expand it.
| | 07:31 | Down below, we also have some
information here on what we call our Timeline.
| | 07:36 | So Timeline will affect the various
slides in your project, as well as the
| | 07:40 | objects on those slides;
| | 07:41 | how long they appear, the timing of your
entire project is controlled from the timeline.
| | 07:47 | We'll be working in this area quite
extensively as we move through the
| | 07:50 | chapters in this title.
| | 07:52 | And lastly, down at the very bottom
is what we would call our Status bar,
| | 07:56 | showing the name of the project you're
working on, also the View that you're in
| | 08:00 | over here, you can see we're in
Filmstrip View, and you can see the resolution
| | 08:04 | or size of our project;
| | 08:06 | 1280 by 720 in my case.
| | 08:09 | So that's a quick look at the
user interface here in Captivate 6.
| | 08:13 | You should now be feeling a little
more comfortable in your surroundings, and
| | 08:16 | ready to continue on.
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| Choosing an appropriate workspace| 00:00 | In Adobe Captivate, the way your panels,
toolbars, windows, and other elements
| | 00:05 | are arranged on your screen
is also known as a Workspace.
| | 00:10 | And depending on what you're doing,
what your focus is in your project, you may
| | 00:13 | want those elements rearranged.
| | 00:16 | Well, we can choose from preset
workspaces here in Captivate 6, and you can
| | 00:21 | customize your own to suit your needs.
| | 00:23 | That's what we're going to do right now as
we continue to work with a new blank project.
| | 00:28 | Let's go to the top right corner on the
Application bar, where we should see the
| | 00:32 | default and currently
selected workspace, Classic.
| | 00:36 | Click this dropdown;
| | 00:37 | you'll see some presets to choose from.
| | 00:38 | For example, if you're working on how
your project is going to be navigated, you
| | 00:44 | might choose a Navigation workspace.
| | 00:46 | Click that, and you'll see certain
things happen; a new window opens up.
| | 00:50 | Here we can see a Branching tab, for example.
| | 00:52 | So if you want to work on how your
different slides appear, and what order,
| | 00:57 | and depending on branching that is selected,
you can do all of that in one convenient area.
| | 01:02 | Now, if you want to go back up to the
Workspace switcher and choose something
| | 01:06 | else, maybe you're going
to start working on quizzes.
| | 01:08 | Choosing Quizzing will open up over here
on the left-hand side your Quiz Properties.
| | 01:13 | Notice that the Document window itself
is shrunk down a little bit, it's less
| | 01:17 | important, and the Quiz
Properties become the focus.
| | 01:21 | Let's go back to the switcher, we'll give it
a click, and try one more. How about Effects?
| | 01:25 | Maybe you're going to be focused on
applying effects to your various slides and
| | 01:29 | content in your project.
| | 01:31 | Well, in this case, we get a new
panel here, the Effects panel, and here's
| | 01:35 | where we would focus on the various visual
effects that we would be adding to our content.
| | 01:40 | Now, at any time, we can
rearrange what's given to us as well.
| | 01:44 | Let's go back to the
switcher, and choose Classic.
| | 01:47 | Maybe this is the view you're
going to be using most often, your
| | 01:50 | favorite workspace,
| | 01:51 | and there are some things
that you want to adjust.
| | 01:54 | For example, over here in the left-hand
side you want to be able to see all of
| | 01:57 | the object toolbars, so we
expand it with the double arrow.
| | 01:59 | Now that squeezes out our
Document window a little bit.
| | 02:03 | So over here on the right-hand side,
if we wanted to go over to this panel
| | 02:07 | where we're looking at our properties,
maybe we want to collapse that to
| | 02:11 | create some extra space.
| | 02:13 | And down below with the Timeline, we
can go in between the Timeline and our
| | 02:17 | Document window, and when we see that
double arrow, click and drag to create more
| | 02:21 | of a Timeline area, or less.
That's up to you.
| | 02:25 | Same thing goes for any of these.
| | 02:26 | If we go over to the right-hand side,
and click and drag with the double arrow;
| | 02:29 | create a little extra space there.
| | 02:32 | All the while, we're
customizing our Classic workspace.
| | 02:36 | Now, in this case, you have some
options when you go back to the switcher.
| | 02:39 | Let's click the dropdown.
| | 02:40 | If you wanted to, you could create a new
workspace out of this, and call it your
| | 02:44 | own, or if you just simply want to go
back to the default Classic, you can click
| | 02:49 | Reset Classic, and everything
goes right back to where we started.
| | 02:53 | So just keep in mind that as you
continue to work on your projects here in
| | 02:56 | Captivate 6, you can customize the
workspace using presets, and your own
| | 03:01 | customizations as well.
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| Setting up global preferences| 00:00 | As you continue to work with
Captivate 6, you are going to notice certain
| | 00:04 | behaviors as you use certain
features, and perform certain functions.
| | 00:08 | These are based on global preferences,
as well as project specific preferences.
| | 00:13 | We're going to focus on some of
the global preferences right now,
| | 00:16 | and we're going to do this, first, by
closing up any projects we might have open.
| | 00:20 | Go up to the File menu,
and choose Close All.
| | 00:24 | And no need to save anything here; you
can decide if you need to save any of
| | 00:28 | your projects that might be open.
| | 00:30 | Now, this does take us back to one of those
global preferences called the welcome screen.
| | 00:36 | By default, every time you launch
Captivate, you're going to see this welcome
| | 00:40 | screen, and it does give you an
opportunity to access recent items, open other
| | 00:46 | projects you may have been working on,
| | 00:48 | create new projects, and you will
notice a number of different types of new
| | 00:52 | projects that can be created.
| | 00:53 | Also notice down on the bottom left-hand
corner, if this is something you never use,
| | 00:58 | you have the option to not show it again.
| | 01:01 | By clicking the checkbox,
you're actually changing one of the
| | 01:03 | global preferences.
| | 01:05 | So with that checked off,
it will never show up again.
| | 01:08 | How do you get it back?
| | 01:10 | Well, then you would need to go in to
those global preferences, which we're
| | 01:13 | going to do right now.
| | 01:14 | Here on the Mac, I go to the Adobe
Captivate menu. On a Windows machine,
| | 01:19 | you would go to the Edit menu,
and from there, select Preferences.
| | 01:23 | Now, with no projects open, what we're
going to see here in the Preferences
| | 01:27 | window under Category are General
Settings, Defaults, and the only other
| | 01:32 | category is Recording.
| | 01:33 | Now, if you do have a project open --
depends on the type of project -- you'll see
| | 01:37 | other categories down below.
| | 01:39 | But we're going to focus on the
General Settings which is highlighted or
| | 01:42 | selected by default, as well as the
Defaults under our Global Preferences.
| | 01:48 | With General Settings selected, though,
notice there is no checkmark next to Show
| | 01:52 | Welcome Screen, because we just turned that off.
| | 01:54 | Here's where we go to turn it back on.
| | 01:57 | If it's something you like,
make sure it's checked off.
| | 01:59 | One that I like is
Rescaling Imported or Pasted Slides.
| | 02:03 | If you're going to be borrowing
slides from another project, and maybe that
| | 02:07 | project uses different dimensions,
you can automatically have any slides
| | 02:11 | that you take from that project
resized or rescaled to match the slides in
| | 02:16 | your current project.
| | 02:17 | So by clicking that checkbox, you'll
know that your content isn't going to be
| | 02:21 | falling off the stage, or maybe not
filling the entire stage properly.
| | 02:26 | You can also Generate
Project Backups if you so choose.
| | 02:29 | And then down below, you'll see Default
Locations for where your projects will be published.
| | 02:34 | You can change that
location using the Browse button.
| | 02:38 | Same thing for your Project Cache,
where things will be stored to help you
| | 02:41 | work more efficiently.
| | 02:43 | It will, by default, use up space on
your hard drive, so you may want to use
| | 02:47 | the Browse button, and select
something like a thumb drive perhaps, if you're
| | 02:51 | using one of those.
| | 02:53 | At any time, though, you can free up
space on your hard drive by clicking Clear
| | 02:56 | Cache, and then clicking Yes.
| | 02:59 | The other thing that we're going to
look at here is the Spelling Preferences.
| | 03:02 | By clicking this button, you'll see a
separate window open up with a number of
| | 03:06 | Spelling Preferences all checked off by default.
| | 03:10 | Now for me, I've already turned one off,
Case-sensitive, but you can go in here
| | 03:14 | and pick the ones you want to turn off
or on by selecting their checkboxes.
| | 03:19 | The other thing that happens by default
is a Dictionary Language is selected for
| | 03:24 | you, based on your installation;
it's localized.
| | 03:27 | For me, mine is Canadian;
I see English (Canada).
| | 03:31 | I might want to use Spelling
Options related to United States English.
| | 03:36 | Maybe most the work I do
is for people in the States.
| | 03:40 | So I want to make sure that the
Spelling Corrections are using the proper
| | 03:44 | English for my audience.
| | 03:46 | We'll click OK, if you make
any changes, to save those changes.
| | 03:49 | Confirmation Messages will appear every now and
then as you continue to work on your projects.
| | 03:54 | When we click that button, notice
that there are a number of Confirmation
| | 03:57 | Messages that are all checked off by default.
| | 04:00 | The only one I don't have as
selectable he is a Startup message in Microsoft
| | 04:05 | Windows Vista, or Windows 7,
and that's because I'm on a Mac.
| | 04:09 | Now, if you go to delete an object, or
delete a slide, you'll see one of those
| | 04:13 | little messages pop up saying,
are you sure?
| | 04:16 | If you get tired of those, you can turn
them off from the actual message itself;
| | 04:20 | it will have a checkbox like our
welcome screen did, or you can come in here to
| | 04:24 | turn them off as well.
| | 04:26 | You probably won't do this in the very
beginning if you're new to Captivate, but
| | 04:30 | once you feel more proficient and
confident with the program, you might start to
| | 04:34 | turn some of these off.
| | 04:35 | I am going to leave all of them turned on, so
we see them during our training. We'll click OK.
| | 04:42 | Now let's take a look at some of the defaults.
| | 04:44 | When we go to Defaults, you will
see Slide Defaults right at the top.
| | 04:48 | Every time you add a slide to your
project, the default duration for that slide
| | 04:52 | in the Timeline is 3 seconds.
| | 04:54 | Now, of course, we can change timings for
any of our slides in the project itself;
| | 04:59 | one slide could be 10 seconds, the other one 5,
| | 05:01 | but by default, they'll be created with a
Duration of 3 seconds, unless you change that.
| | 05:06 | I am going to make this
a little bit longer at 5.
| | 05:09 | You can also change the
Background color of the slides you add, the
| | 05:13 | default being white.
| | 05:14 | Clicking this dropdown allows you
to go down and select from a list of
| | 05:17 | Web-friendly colors, because most of our
eLearning will be viewed via the Web browser.
| | 05:23 | I am going to leave mine at white.
| | 05:25 | We also have some options up here from
Solid Colors, to Gradients, and Textures as well.
| | 05:31 | Let's just click anywhere
outside that to leave it at White.
| | 05:35 | When you Preview your project, by
default, you'll be previewing 5 slides.
| | 05:39 | And as we move down a little bit
further, you can see there are some
| | 05:42 | object defaults as well;
| | 05:45 | different objects that appear in
your projects are on this dropdown.
| | 05:48 | If we click it, for example, let's say
every time we work with buttons -- we'll go
| | 05:52 | down to Button and Select it.
| | 05:54 | We'll see a sample button down below.
| | 05:57 | You can see it's displayed for a specific time.
| | 05:59 | Maybe when we put buttons in our
projects, we want them to show up for the
| | 06:03 | duration of the slide.
| | 06:04 | So we'll click the dropdown here,
and change it to Rest of Slide;
| | 06:07 | doesn't use seconds that way.
| | 06:09 | You can see the Default Button Style
can also be changed if we wanted to here.
| | 06:14 | Now if we go back, and make a change to
Rollover Captions, and change the style,
| | 06:19 | for example, and then down below
click OK. We can go through all of these
| | 06:25 | objects making changes, and at any time, we
can set them back to their original default.
| | 06:31 | We do that by going to it.
| | 06:33 | For example, if we go down to Button,
and Restore Selected -- that's what we
| | 06:38 | just selected; Button --
| | 06:39 | you can see it goes right back to its default.
| | 06:41 | Now, if you've made many changes to many
objects in that dropdown, you can also
| | 06:45 | choose to restore them all, and they
will all go back to their default settings.
| | 06:50 | And lastly, we have some checkboxes.
| | 06:52 | When you create things like Buttons and
Captions, by default, you can have them
| | 06:57 | automatically resize to fit your content.
| | 07:00 | So if you're typing in lots of content
into a button, it will stretch, or it will
| | 07:05 | shrink down to fit smaller captions.
| | 07:08 | So we can do that by clicking
those checkbox; that's up to you.
| | 07:12 | We'll leave them turned off to see what
happens, and decide later if we need to
| | 07:15 | change this setting.
| | 07:17 | And the last one is Calculate Caption Timing;
| | 07:19 | longer captions should appear longer
on the slides than shorter captions.
| | 07:24 | So by default, if we click this
checkbox, Captivate will decide how long a
| | 07:28 | caption should appear.
| | 07:29 | I am going to deselect that one as well,
and click OK to close up our Preferences.
| | 07:34 | That's just a look at some of the
Global Default Settings and Preferences
| | 07:40 | here in Captivate 6.
| | 07:41 | There are many other preferences that
will appear next to specific objects and
| | 07:46 | content in our projects, and we'll take
a look at those as we move through the
| | 07:50 | various chapters in this title.
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2. Building a PresentationCreating a project from scratch| 00:00 | When it's time to create your
Captivate project, one of the options is to
| | 00:04 | create it from scratch.
| | 00:06 | And if you close up any projects you
might be working on, you will be presented
| | 00:09 | with the welcome screen;
| | 00:10 | same thing you'll see when you launch Captivate.
| | 00:13 | And over here in the Create New
column, there are a number of options to
| | 00:16 | help you get started,
| | 00:17 | but there is one called the Blank Project.
| | 00:19 | We'll look at the other
options a little later on.
| | 00:21 | Right now, we're going to create
a new blank project from scratch.
| | 00:25 | So we'll give that a click.
| | 00:26 | Next, we'll choose the dimensions,
and you can see I have 1280 by 720.
| | 00:31 | Just click the dropdown to make a selection.
| | 00:33 | 1280 by 720 is a 16 by 9 resolution.
| | 00:37 | I am going to keep that setting,
and click OK.
| | 00:40 | Now it does take a moment to create
your new blank project, and here in
| | 00:43 | Captivate 6, you actually get some new
tools to help you get started with the
| | 00:48 | look and feel, or the
formatting of your new project.
| | 00:50 | You'll see across the top here a number
of different themes to choose from, and
| | 00:54 | you can scroll through those.
| | 00:56 | We'll get back to those later on in
this chapter/ Right now we're just going to
| | 01:00 | click anywhere in the new
blank slide that was created.
| | 01:03 | When you do that, the themes disappear
from across the top, and you're left with
| | 01:07 | your first new blank slide
here in your new blank project.
| | 01:12 | Now, we don't see the full
stage here at this zoom level.
| | 01:14 | Let's go up to the Application bar.
| | 01:16 | We'll click the dropdown next to 100,
that's what I see, and choose Best Fit.
| | 01:21 | Now we can see the entire stage. We have a
feel for our very first slide in our project.
| | 01:26 | Now, there are a number of different
slide layouts to choose from when we go
| | 01:30 | to insert new slides.
| | 01:32 | This is going to be our new project.
| | 01:33 | You can see there are text
areas here for our title.
| | 01:36 | So if we click inside the title, for
example, you will see that selection around
| | 01:40 | the outside, and let's just double-click
now to actually change the text.
| | 01:45 | We'll type in a title,
like Volunteer Orientation.
| | 01:50 | Now we'll double-click to add a subtitle.
| | 01:53 | And here, we might want to put in
the year; let's just put in 2012.
| | 01:57 | And now we'll click anywhere outside that
selected box to see the end result. Very plain,
| | 02:02 | and of course, we can do a lot
with this slide, and we will later on.
| | 02:06 | Right now, though, we're ready to insert
a new slide, so we go up to the Insert
| | 02:10 | menu, and when you click Insert, you're
going to see a number of different slide
| | 02:13 | options when we go to New Slide.
| | 02:15 | Notice there is also New Slide from.
| | 02:17 | New Slide is just going to create
another new slide like we have, but New Slide
| | 02:21 | from gives us those
options for different layouts.
| | 02:24 | A Blank slide, so there will be no
placeholders, and we can just kind of treat it
| | 02:28 | as a blank canvas, and add what we want.
| | 02:31 | There is a Caption, Caption & Content, and
you can see a layout in behind in the thumbnail.
| | 02:36 | Now, as you move down to the bottom,
there is a little arrow here that allows us
| | 02:39 | to scroll through many, many
different types of layouts.
| | 02:43 | So for example, if we wanted an
Image Collage, something that's new to
| | 02:47 | Captivates 6, we could select it.
| | 02:49 | We have our new slide, you can see
the thumbnail over here in the Filmstrip,
| | 02:52 | and you can see we have placeholders for a
number of different images we might want to add.
| | 02:57 | Let's go back to Insert, down to New
Slide from, and we'll choose something
| | 03:02 | different; this time Two Content.
| | 03:05 | And in this case, you can see we have
areas for sample text, we also have the
| | 03:09 | wheel that we're going to
be talking about later on;
| | 03:11 | two spots for that, as well as an area
for a title, a subtitle, and any caption
| | 03:16 | text we might want to add.
| | 03:17 | Now, these are all elements we could add
to a blank slide, but the layout is set
| | 03:21 | up for us to give us a
little bit of a head start.
| | 03:24 | When we're ready to save our project,
we can go right to the Save button, click
| | 03:29 | Save Project, and then choose a location.
| | 03:32 | I am going to go to the Desktop, and I'm
going to change the name from untitled --
| | 03:36 | and you'll see untitled and a
number with the extension CPTX.
| | 03:40 | Let's just give this a name;
| | 03:42 | we'll call it the VolOrientation.
| | 03:45 | Click the Save button, and
you've saved your project.
| | 03:48 | So you're well on your way now to
creating your first project here in Captivate 6.
| | 03:53 | Now, when we want to change the look
and feel of the formatting, well, that's
| | 03:56 | when we get into themes, and
we're going to talk about those next.
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| Creating visual interest with themes| 00:00 | Here in Captivate 6, there's something
new called Themes that will allow you to
| | 00:03 | choose a look and feel, and formatting
for your project, and give you a nice head
| | 00:08 | start, saving you a lot of time, and
allowing you to work more efficiently.
| | 00:12 | We're still working with our Volunteer
Orientation project that we started in
| | 00:16 | the previous lesson.
| | 00:17 | If you're skipping to this lesson, you
can go to the Chapter2 folder of your
| | 00:21 | Exercise Files, and find the VolOrientation.
You can see the extension, CPTX.
| | 00:25 | We're going to come back to this
momentarily, and we're going to start by
| | 00:29 | creating another new project.
| | 00:31 | To do that, we'll go to the File menu,
down to New Project, and we'll see
| | 00:35 | some options similar to what we saw on
the Welcome screen when we created our
| | 00:39 | blank project last time.
| | 00:40 | So there are some options here
including Blank Project at the top, which
| | 00:44 | we're going to select.
| | 00:45 | So here are the
dimensions, and I'm going to keep
| | 00:47 | 1280 by 720, that's my 6 by 9
dimension. I am going to click OK,
| | 00:52 | and it creates a brand new blank project,
but we're going to see the themes up
| | 00:57 | here across the top, with
White selected by default.
| | 01:01 | Now we can scroll through the various
themes, which will give us a nice head
| | 01:04 | start in the formatting of
the slides in our project.
| | 01:08 | And in fact, it doesn't really matter
what the layout is; we're going to have a
| | 01:11 | nice looking, consistent
feel throughout our project.
| | 01:15 | Let's try this one here. As we
hover over them, we see the names.
| | 01:18 | We'll go with Green.
| | 01:20 | Select that. You will see the message
that all overrides to any object styles
| | 01:24 | and properties that we've already
added to our project will be lost.
| | 01:27 | We haven't done that, so
it's okay; we can click Yes.
| | 01:30 | Now, it just takes a moment to apply the
theme to our existing slide; our one and
| | 01:34 | only blank title slide here.
| | 01:36 | If we were to add new slides, let's
go up to the Insert menu, and from here
| | 01:41 | we're going to go down to New Slide
from, and you will see that the actual
| | 01:46 | thumbnails we can choose from
have the theme already applied to it.
| | 01:50 | So we'll go to Caption & Content - Right,
select it, we have our brand new
| | 01:55 | thumbnail over here in the Filmstrip,
| | 01:57 | we can see the content, the fonts that
are being used, the font sizes go well
| | 02:02 | with each other, the colors, the
background, it all makes sense, and we didn't
| | 02:07 | have to worry about any
of it, thanks to themes!
| | 02:10 | Now, that's creating a brand new blank
project, selecting the theme at the beginning.
| | 02:14 | We can also apply it to existing
projects by going back to the Document tabs
| | 02:19 | here at the top, and choosing our
Volunteer Orientation, which we started with
| | 02:23 | pretty much a blank, or what
we would call the White theme.
| | 02:27 | Let's try applying themes to this now.
| | 02:29 | We'll go up to our Control Panel, and
there is a button here for showing and
| | 02:33 | hiding that Themes panel,
where we can make our selections.
| | 02:36 | We'll give it a click,
| | 02:37 | it's displayed again across the top,
| | 02:39 | and again, we can move through these,
looking at the different options we have.
| | 02:43 | Let's try the Green one
again. We'll click Green.
| | 02:46 | There's that same message. We'll click
Yes, override anything we've already done
| | 02:51 | in the background, which we haven't,
| | 02:52 | and it will be applied to our
existing slides, no matter the layout.
| | 02:56 | You can see here in the Filmstrip, each
of the slides in our project has the new
| | 03:00 | Green theme applied to it, and we can
click those to move from one, to the other,
| | 03:05 | to the other to see the end result.
| | 03:07 | So what a nice timesaver here in Captivate 6;
| | 03:11 | Themes, which can be accessed from the
Control Panel, or when you create new
| | 03:14 | projects, is going to save you a lot of
time when it comes to the look, and feel,
| | 03:19 | and formatting of your project.
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| Creating a project from PowerPoint| 00:00 | One very common scenario out there for
eLearning, one that I've lived through, is
| | 00:04 | to use a PowerPoint presentation
to relay information and content.
| | 00:09 | Of course, you're missing the power of
a true eLearning program like Captivate,
| | 00:13 | but if you have a
presentation already, it's a great start.
| | 00:17 | You can bring it into Captivate. In
fact, you can start a brand new project
| | 00:21 | based on that presentation.
| | 00:22 | That's exactly what we're going to do right now.
| | 00:25 | Really doesn't matter what's open
on your screen; we're going to start
| | 00:28 | a brand new project.
| | 00:29 | We can do that by clicking File, and at
the top, move to New Project, and over on
| | 00:34 | the right, you'll see an option,
which is Project From MS PowerPoint.
| | 00:38 | Now, when we select this, what you're
going to see is a navigation dialog that
| | 00:43 | will allow you to find the
file that you want to use.
| | 00:47 | Notice that it's allowing us to locate
PowerPoint files with the extension PPT,
| | 00:52 | PowerPoint Shows, PPS, the new format
of PTTX, and the new show format of PPSX.
| | 01:01 | So really, you can use older
files, you can use newer ones,
| | 01:04 | but watch what happens when we select a
newer format, our Volunteer_orientation
| | 01:09 | here, with the PPTX extension in the
Chapter2 folder of your Exercise Files.
| | 01:14 | Now, I'm on a Mac, and the steps I'd
follow will be the same on a Windows
| | 01:19 | computer, but the order will differ.
| | 01:20 | So Windows users, you might want to
watch what happens here on the Mac.
| | 01:24 | Pause the video, and complete the
steps on your PC to stay caught up.
| | 01:28 | With that selected, click Open, and
what's actually going to happen is it will
| | 01:32 | be converted to the older PPT format first.
| | 01:35 | So what you're going to see here is
PowerPoint open up in the background.
| | 01:39 | You're gong to see your slides and
thumbnails just temporarily, and then they
| | 01:44 | will be imported into
your new Captivate project.
| | 01:48 | So you can see here that each
of the slides is being converted.
| | 01:51 | There are only 6 slides,
so it won't take too long.
| | 01:53 | And then we're going to see a
Project Properties dialog here.
| | 01:56 | Now, we can keep the same name as our
PowerPoint presentation; we'll do that.
| | 02:00 | We can also choose a Width, and Height,
and an aspect ratio; we can choose from
| | 02:04 | those preset sizes as well.
| | 02:07 | I like the 1280 by 720.
| | 02:09 | This is a great option if you're going to be
showing high-def YouTube video for example.
| | 02:15 | And then down below, you'll notice all of
the slides are checked off to be included.
| | 02:19 | So if for some reason there was a slide
in this presentation you didn't need to
| | 02:23 | include in your new project, you could
deselect it by clicking the checkbox.
| | 02:27 | We'll keep all of them selected.
| | 02:28 | Also, you'll see how slides are advanced.
| | 02:31 | On mouse click is the default;
| | 02:32 | if we click the dropdown, you can see
Automatically is an option, and with
| | 02:37 | Automatically selected, we'll
then be able to adjust the timings.
| | 02:40 | Let's go to mouse click, and
leave it at On mouse click.
| | 02:44 | When we click OK, you'll see this
warning message, perhaps, that the height and
| | 02:49 | width of your PowerPoint presentation
doesn't match the Captivate project,
| | 02:52 | and that's okay, because what will
probably happen is, during the publishing
| | 02:57 | phase, we'll be able to regain that quality.
| | 03:00 | So we'll click Yes here to continue,
and then it just takes a moment to have all
| | 03:04 | of the slides from our PowerPoint presentation
added to our brand new Adobe Captivate project.
| | 03:10 | And what we'll be left with is a
Filmstrip with each of the slides from our
| | 03:14 | presentation showing up as thumbnails
down the left-hand side here, and you'll
| | 03:19 | notice we can click those to
see them over here to the right.
| | 03:23 | Now, if you're not seeing all of the
stage, that's okay; we'll change our
| | 03:26 | zoom level here to Best Fit, so we can
see the entire slide, and you can see
| | 03:31 | that's not too bad.
| | 03:33 | Now, as you move through the various
thumbnails by clicking them in the
| | 03:36 | Filmstrip, you'll notice something.
| | 03:38 | Each of them has this little click box.
| | 03:40 | If we click anywhere on the slide,
you'll notice that the click box is the
| | 03:44 | entire size of the slide.
| | 03:46 | Now, the slides themselves that come from
PowerPoint are really just pictures of those slides.
| | 03:51 | So for example, if we go to the third one,
| | 03:54 | each of the boxes in the organizational
chart that we see here are not really
| | 03:59 | clickable; it's just a picture of that slide.
| | 04:02 | But there is a click box
on every one of these slides,
| | 04:05 | and as we look over to the right in
the Properties, you can see what happens
| | 04:08 | when we click a Click Box; it's
going to take us to the next slide.
| | 04:12 | So in other words, we could click
anywhere on this slide when we're actually
| | 04:16 | running the project, and it
will take us to the next slide.
| | 04:20 | This is all adjustable, of course, and
we'll be doing these kinds of things as we
| | 04:24 | move through the chapters in this title,
| | 04:26 | but that's how you get started with
a brand new project using an existing
| | 04:30 | PowerPoint presentation.
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| Adding text| 00:00 | Most often you'll be relaying
information in your Captivate projects via text,
| | 00:06 | so let's talk about the various
ways to add text to your project now.
| | 00:10 | One option is to simply insert new slides
that already have text placeholders in them.
| | 00:15 | We will start there.
| | 00:17 | Still working with our Volunteer
Orientation project here, if you have been
| | 00:21 | following along, we are going to move to the
very last slide in our project, and select it.
| | 00:25 | Now, if you're jumping to this lesson,
you can get all caught up by going to the
| | 00:28 | Chapter2 folder of your
Exercise Files, and opening up
| | 00:31 | Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA4.
| | 00:34 | With that last slide selected in our
Filmstrip, we can now insert a new slide,
| | 00:39 | and know that it will go
right after the selected slide;
| | 00:42 | in other words,
at the very end of our project.
| | 00:44 | We will go to the Insert menu, move
down to New Slide from, and here we see the
| | 00:49 | different layouts, many of them with
text placeholders, like the Introduction,
| | 00:54 | the Caption also has text placeholders,
and many others have text alongside
| | 00:59 | other types of objects that can be
inserted into the various layouts.
| | 01:03 | Let's go up to Introduction, and select it.
| | 01:06 | So this adds the new slide, you can see,
using the default template, or theme,
| | 01:11 | and in the background here, we have two
text placeholders: one for a title, the
| | 01:16 | other for a subtitle.
| | 01:18 | Let's double-click where it says Double click
to add title, and we will type in some text.
| | 01:23 | We will just type in the word Quiz.
| | 01:25 | I want you to see what's
happening over here in the Properties.
| | 01:28 | First of all, if we move down to
Character, you're going to see the font Family
| | 01:32 | that's being used; by default, Myriad Pro.
| | 01:35 | You can see the Style that's being used;
| | 01:37 | it's a Semibold style. You can
see the default Size for a title
| | 01:41 | placeholder, and you can see there
are Format buttons, and Color buttons to
| | 01:45 | change any of these as well.
| | 01:47 | So if you're happy with it, you
really don't need to make any changes; just
| | 01:51 | notice what's been used
here by default in a title.
| | 01:55 | Notice, also, the Name here
under Title is Title_AutoShape3.
| | 01:59 | That's what's being used.
| | 02:00 | If we go to Double click to add a
subtitle, you will notice some different
| | 02:05 | options are being used here
for a subtitle placeholder.
| | 02:08 | It's the same font Family, but the Style
is Regular; the size a little bit smaller.
| | 02:13 | So let's add some text here for our subtitle.
| | 02:15 | We will simply type in Take the SAMOCA Quiz now.
| | 02:22 | If we want make changes to the
appearance of this text, all we have to do is
| | 02:26 | select it by clicking and dragging
over the text itself, and now we'll go over to
| | 02:30 | the Properties here on the right. And
let's say we want to change, for example,
| | 02:33 | the Style, which is defaulted at Regular.
| | 02:36 | Click the dropdown, and let's select Semibold.
| | 02:39 | You can see what happens.
| | 02:41 | It actually takes up a little more space.
| | 02:43 | It's a little bit heavier.
| | 02:45 | So we might want to size it down, for example.
| | 02:47 | Let's go to the Size, which
is currently defaulted at 33.
| | 02:50 | We will click right on the
number itself, and type over that.
| | 02:54 | We will type in 30, and when we press
Enter or Return on the keyboard, we see the
| | 02:59 | change; that's a pretty good looking fit.
| | 03:01 | Let's click anywhere on the slide now
outside the text box to deselect it.
| | 03:06 | That looks pretty good.
| | 03:08 | But what if we want to
add text to existing slides?
| | 03:11 | Let's scroll all the way back up to the
very top, and click on the first slide,
| | 03:16 | our Volunteer Orientation main slide.
| | 03:19 | Now, here we do have some text
already, and this came from our
| | 03:22 | PowerPoint presentation.
| | 03:23 | We have this empty space here, where it
might be nice to add the word welcome.
| | 03:28 | If we go over to our Object toolbar
here, and expand it, you'll notice a
| | 03:33 | couple text options here.
| | 03:34 | One is a Text Caption. The other is a Rollover.
| | 03:38 | Now, we don't really need anything to
happen when we move our mouse over this text,
| | 03:42 | so we will save the Rollover for later,
| | 03:44 | but there is another option further
down, and you'll see here that text icon or
| | 03:49 | button is to insert a Text Animation;
something we'll talk about a little later as well.
| | 03:55 | Right now, we are going to
stick with Insert Text Caption.
| | 03:58 | Now when we click this, you can see
there is actually a tiny little box here
| | 04:02 | that's been added, and it says Type the caption
text here, and that's what we are going to do.
| | 04:08 | We are just simply going
to type in the word welcome, in all caps.
| | 04:13 | Now obviously, this is too small, it's
in the wrong place, and we probably need
| | 04:19 | to change the appearance as well.
| | 04:21 | So let's start by moving it.
| | 04:23 | All we have to do is hit Escape on the
keyboard, and we are no longer entering or
| | 04:27 | editing text, but now you can see the
box itself is highlighted or selected with
| | 04:32 | handles all around the outside.
| | 04:34 | Now we can go inside there, just grab
it by clicking your mouse button down and
| | 04:37 | holding it, and moving it to a
location near where you want it to go.
| | 04:43 | To get inside we will double-click,
and now we select the text by
| | 04:47 | clicking and dragging over it, or you
could double-click the text as well, and
| | 04:50 | will start to manipulate that text.
| | 04:53 | Let's go over to the Character
section here of our Properties panel.
| | 04:57 | Again, we are using the
same font Family; that's good.
| | 05:00 | The Style is Regular.
| | 05:01 | I am going to change it to Bold.
| | 05:04 | Let's change that Size now.
| | 05:06 | So we'll click where it says 20, and
that is the default for a text caption.
| | 05:10 | We are going to make it very big here;
let's go up to 72, and we will hit
| | 05:14 | Enter or Return on your keyboard.
| | 05:16 | Obviously, it doesn't fit
inside the box any longer,
| | 05:19 | so let's press Escape on the
keyboard, and adjust the size of our box.
| | 05:24 | All we have to do is go to handles,
we will click and drag the right handle
| | 05:28 | in the middle to stretch it out, we
will go to the bottom handle in the
| | 05:32 | center, drag it down until we can see
the whole word welcome. And now we will
| | 05:37 | double-click to get inside, highlight our
text, and make a couple of more changes to it.
| | 05:43 | First of all, the alignment under the
Format section here; let's change it to Center.
| | 05:47 | We will click the Center button, and we
will go up into the Character section
| | 05:51 | now, click the Color icon, and we will
change the color to match our background here.
| | 05:57 | Let's go to one of these turquoise type
colors, select it, and now we will just
| | 06:03 | click anywhere on the slide outside
that text box to see the end result.
| | 06:07 | Now, if we want to fiddle around with
that, no problem. We just select it by
| | 06:10 | clicking; move it around.
| | 06:12 | If you want to make sure it's centered
in a certain area, one nice thing to do
| | 06:16 | is just move the box over, and stretch
it out. Because we have it selected as
| | 06:20 | center alignment, we know that when
we click and drag, it's going to remain
| | 06:24 | centered inside that box.
| | 06:26 | That looks pretty good.
| | 06:27 | We will deselect by clicking anywhere
outside, go to the pasteboard, nothing
| | 06:31 | will be selected, and that's
a good look at our end result.
| | 06:34 | So there is a couple of different
ways to add text to your content.
| | 06:39 | This is an option that you're probably
going to use quite often as you try to
| | 06:44 | relay information in your projects
using various types of text boxes.
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| Editing the master slide| 00:00 | On occasion, you will want content to
appear on every single slide in your
| | 00:04 | project, and in that case, you'll be
editing the Master slide; something we are
| | 00:08 | going to do right now.
| | 00:10 | We're still working with our
Volunteer Orientation project from previous
| | 00:13 | lessons. We will go to the very top, and
make sure our first slide is selected.
| | 00:19 | Next, we don't want to just add text
to this one slide; we want to add it
| | 00:23 | to every single slide.
| | 00:25 | So in this case, we are going to
change our view, which currently displays on
| | 00:28 | the Status bar as Filmstrip View. We
are going to change it to our Master Slide
| | 00:32 | View by clicking the Master
Slide tab here just below the stage.
| | 00:36 | Notice it does appear to
change to the Master Slide View.
| | 00:40 | That's confirmed by looking down
here to the bottom right-hand corner.
| | 00:44 | Anything we add to this Master slide
will appear on every slide in our project.
| | 00:49 | If you only wanted to add content to
certain layouts, each individual layout has
| | 00:54 | its own Master, and you can see that
down here: Introduction slides, which are
| | 00:59 | laid out with a title and a subtitle.
| | 01:01 | We could add content to only that
type of slide, if we wanted to, just by
| | 01:06 | selecting it, and making our changes now.
| | 01:08 | Same thing for the other types, and
you can see there's a scrollbar to
| | 01:11 | access all of them.
| | 01:13 | They are all there, and we can access
any one of them, but to make changes to
| | 01:17 | every single slide, we will go back to
the very first slide here on the left-hand
| | 01:22 | side, representing everything in our project.
| | 01:25 | Let's say we want to add copyright
information in the bottom left-hand corner of
| | 01:28 | every slide. Well, all we do now is
go to the Object toolbar, and click our
| | 01:33 | Insert Text Caption button, and
there it is; it's right in the middle.
| | 01:37 | Of course, we are going to change its
location, we are going to change the text
| | 01:41 | inside, as well as its appearance.
| | 01:44 | So let's just start by
double-clicking to get inside.
| | 01:47 | Now we will type in the words Copyright 2012.
| | 01:50 | We will leave a space, a Dash,
and a space, and we will just put in
| | 01:56 | the acronym SAMOCA in all caps. Perfect!
| | 02:00 | Press Escape; that gets you out of
text editing, and the handles appear.
| | 02:04 | Now we can click and drag from
anywhere inside the box down to the bottom
| | 02:08 | left-hand corner of our slide.
| | 02:11 | If we want to make changes to the look
and feel, let's just zoom in by going up
| | 02:14 | to the Application bar, and going to 100%.
| | 02:18 | You can see what looks like; not bad,
| | 02:20 | but it might be a little bit too big.
| | 02:22 | It doesn't need to be that obvious.
| | 02:24 | As we go over to the Properties here,
you can see the current Size is 20.
| | 02:28 | So let's just double-click to
get inside, and select everything by
| | 02:31 | clicking and dragging right from left
of the C in Copyright all the way over to
| | 02:36 | the right-hand side.
| | 02:38 | Let's click the 20 in the Character
section of our Properties panel, and let's
| | 02:42 | make it 12, how about?
| | 02:45 | Type in 12, press Enter or Return, and you
can see now our box is too big for our content.
| | 02:50 | That's okay; we can press Escape on
the keyboard, it brings back those
| | 02:53 | handles, and we can just size it down a little
bit, so that it's the right size for our content.
| | 03:00 | And of course, we can make any other
additional changes we might want, like
| | 03:03 | Color, Style, etcetera, but I
think it's good just like that.
| | 03:07 | So let's just click anywhere in the
background here to deselect that box, and we
| | 03:12 | will change our Zoom level back to Best Fit.
| | 03:16 | There it is, down in the bottom left
corner of our Master slide. What happens
| | 03:19 | now when we change our
view back to the Filmstrip?
| | 03:23 | Well, just click any one of the
thumbnails over here in the Filmstrip itself.
| | 03:27 | That changes it to that view, and you can
see our Copyright information is in the
| | 03:31 | bottom left-hand corner of
every single slide in our project.
| | 03:36 | And that's how you edit the Master to
add content to every single slide in
| | 03:42 | your project.
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| Adding shapes| 00:00 | Although Captivate 6 is not a drawing
program per se, you do have the ability
| | 00:05 | to draw certain objects, and that's
what we are going to do with our Volunteer
| | 00:10 | Orientation project here that we've been
working on, if you have been following along.
| | 00:13 | We are going to click slide number 1
here at the very top of our Filmstrip.
| | 00:17 | Let's say we wanted to add some
pizzazz here to the slide; maybe put the word
| | 00:21 | welcome inside a banner.
| | 00:23 | Well, if we move over to the Object
toolbar, you won't find an actual button for
| | 00:27 | drawing anything from scratch,
although at the very top, there is a button
| | 00:32 | labeled Insert Smart Shape.
| | 00:34 | Give that a click, and what you'll see
are a number of different groups, including
| | 00:38 | the Basic group, you will also see
different types of arrows in the Arrows
| | 00:43 | group, buttons that will perform some
type of action when clicked, Banners, and
| | 00:48 | there's our Math symbols at the very bottom.
| | 00:50 | Maybe a banner would look
nice on this opening slide.
| | 00:52 | So let's go over the Banners. As we
hover over them, we see the names. There is
| | 00:56 | Wave, and Scrolls, Ribbons;
| | 00:59 | let's go to that second one labeled Wave,
give it a click, and now all we have to
| | 01:03 | do is click and drag on the slide
where we want the banner to appear.
| | 01:06 | I am going to go under the word welcome
off to the left, click and drag across,
| | 01:11 | and down until I get a
nice sized banner, and release.
| | 01:17 | Now, when you release the mouse button,
certain default properties appear.
| | 01:20 | You can see there is a gradient
shading on the inside, kind of a gray
| | 01:24 | stroke around the outside, all of which can
be adjusted, and we are going to do that now.
| | 01:29 | Let's move over to the right-hand
side here in our Properties section.
| | 01:33 | You'll notice this is a Smart Shape, and
it's automatically named SmartShape_1.
| | 01:36 | It is the first smart shape we've added.
| | 01:40 | If you were to add additional,
they would be SmartShape 2, 3, and 4.
| | 01:43 | Sometimes difficult to distinguish, so it's
a good idea to come in here and name them.
| | 01:48 | We'll click and drag over SmartShape_1,
and type in Welcome, leave a space, and
| | 01:53 | type in Banner, and when you
hit Enter, look what happens;
| | 01:56 | an underscore is added for you, so
you could put that in yourself, or let
| | 02:00 | Captivate take care of it for you.
| | 02:02 | Now, you can see it is checked
off as Visible in the output.
| | 02:05 | When we publish this, you
will be able to see that.
| | 02:08 | Notice also, it could also be used as a
button; any shape you draw can act like a
| | 02:12 | button, and you would assign the action.
| | 02:14 | We will get to that momentarily.
| | 02:15 | Right now, though, let's change the
appearance by going to the Fill and Stroke
| | 02:19 | section, and we are going to start with the Fill.
| | 02:22 | When we click this button, you'll
notice that across the top we have Solid
| | 02:26 | Colors, Gradient, which
is selected, and Texture.
| | 02:30 | With Gradient selected, you can see the
current selection is this, light at the
| | 02:33 | top, and darker at the bottom option.
| | 02:36 | So we have different colors we could
choose from if we wanted to, or if you
| | 02:39 | prefer, go to a Solid Color.
| | 02:42 | Clicking there opens up a dialog.
| | 02:44 | Now, you may lose it if your mouse
pointer is not inside. That's okay.
| | 02:48 | Just go back to it.
| | 02:50 | Go back inside, and let's
change it to white right at the top.
| | 02:54 | It seems boring right now, and that
is because we have that gray, thin
| | 02:57 | stroke along the outside.
| | 02:59 | We will change that too by going back to the
Properties, and clicking the Stroke dropdown.
| | 03:03 | In this case, we're going to choose a
similar color to our background for some
| | 03:09 | of our text, and the word welcome.
| | 03:11 | And when we select that, you can see
it now appears around the outside.
| | 03:14 | Let's adjust the thickness, or Width;
click the slider, and drag it to the right.
| | 03:18 | You can see a live preview of what's happening.
| | 03:21 | Let's go back to the left.
| | 03:23 | I'm thinking maybe 5 or 6
would be a good setting.
| | 03:25 | 5; right there. Perfect.
| | 03:27 | And you could type that in
as well if you wanted to.
| | 03:31 | We can also adjust the
transparency; I think it's okay at 80.
| | 03:34 | Now all we have to do is
get the word welcome inside.
| | 03:37 | Well, double-clicking any Smart
Shape allows you to start typing.
| | 03:40 | That's why it's called a Smart Shape,
but if you already have the text, why
| | 03:43 | not cut it, and copy it? Let's do that.
| | 03:46 | We will double-click welcome, and we
will click and drag over to select it,
| | 03:49 | and now we'll cut it.
| | 03:50 | You could go to the Edit menu, and
choose Cut. On the keyboard, you could use the
| | 03:54 | keyboard shortcut Command+X on the Mac;
Control+X on your Windows keyboard cuts
| | 04:00 | it, keeps it in the clipboard
temporarily, until we're ready to paste it, which
| | 04:04 | will be inside the banner.
| | 04:06 | So let's double-click there.
| | 04:08 | Now, you can see there is a tiny cursor
there waiting for you to start typing
| | 04:12 | text, or you could paste,
which is what we are going to do.
| | 04:15 | Let's use the keyboard shortcut again.
This time it's Command+V on the Mac, or
| | 04:19 | Control+V on your Windows PC.
| | 04:22 | Press Escape on the keyboard, so
you're no longer editing text.
| | 04:25 | Instead, we can now work with the
entire shape as a whole. Click and drag it
| | 04:29 | up, and into position.
| | 04:31 | Let's click in the background to
deselect to see the end result. Pretty good.
| | 04:35 | All right, I like that.
| | 04:37 | We might want to tweak it a little more
later on, but we will leave it as it is for now.
| | 04:42 | Instead, what we are going to do is add
another shape, but it's going to be a
| | 04:46 | button that will take us directly to the quiz.
| | 04:48 | As we scroll down our Filmstrip, the
very last slide looks like where we're
| | 04:52 | going to start our quiz.
| | 04:53 | Notice it is titled Quiz, but if we go
over to the Properties, the name of this
| | 04:58 | slide has been left blank.
| | 05:00 | So it's really just slide number 7.
| | 05:02 | Let's click inside the Name
field, and type in the word Quiz.
| | 05:06 | This way we know exactly what the
slide is, and where it is when we need it.
| | 05:10 | Press Enter or Return, and it's locked in.
| | 05:14 | Back we go up to the very first slide.
Scroll right up to the top, click in the
| | 05:18 | Filmstrip, and let's add a button
underneath the picture that will take us
| | 05:22 | directly to the Quiz.
| | 05:23 | So we'll go back to that same button
in the Object toolbar, Insert Smart
| | 05:27 | Shape, and when we click it, we might
be thinking let's choose a button, but
| | 05:31 | these already have actions assigned to them:
Return, Forward, Play a movie, Mute, Go Home.
| | 05:40 | None of these really apply to taking us
to our Quiz, so we are going to create
| | 05:44 | our own by going to our Basic shapes.
| | 05:46 | Let's select a Rectangle.
| | 05:47 | We will go underneath the image here.
Click and drag across and down, just like
| | 05:51 | we did with the banner to create the
button, and now we will zoom in, so we can
| | 05:55 | see what we are doing.
| | 05:56 | Let's go to the Application bar.
From Best Fit, let's go to 100.
| | 06:02 | So here's our button,
or what will be our button.
| | 06:05 | Right now it's just a
rectangle with the default properties.
| | 06:08 | Let's double-click inside.
| | 06:10 | That allows us to type; Go To Quiz,
and we can resize this if we need to.
| | 06:17 | Mine looks pretty good as is.
| | 06:19 | The only thing is, it's not really a button yet.
| | 06:22 | So press Escape on the keyboard,
so you're not editing text anymore.
| | 06:25 | Instead, we are going to be
working with the button itself.
| | 06:28 | Notice up here it's a Smart
Shape; there is SmartShape_2.
| | 06:31 | Let's rename it.
We'll call it Quiz Button.
| | 06:35 | I am going to leave a space, and let
Captivate put in the underscore for me.
| | 06:39 | I'm also going to use it as a button,
so clicking the checkbox turns it into
| | 06:43 | a button, which means now we can assign an
action in the Action section of our Properties.
| | 06:47 | By default it's going to go to the
next slide, but we are going to click the
| | 06:52 | dropdown here, and look at some other options.
| | 06:54 | Go to the slide last
visited, no, previous, next;
| | 06:58 | lots of different options,
including Jump to slide.
| | 07:01 | I like that. Give it a click, and now
we get to choose which slide we are
| | 07:06 | going to be jumping to.
| | 07:07 | Click the dropdown, and choose Quiz.
Because we named it, we can select it as Quiz,
| | 07:14 | and now this button will take us
directly to that slide if we prefer to skip
| | 07:19 | all of the information and take the Quiz.
| | 07:21 | Time to test this out.
| | 07:23 | Let's change our zoom back to Best Fit.
| | 07:27 | You might want to save
your changes at this point.
| | 07:29 | Keep in mind, too, that because we brought
all of these slides in from PowerPoint,
| | 07:34 | the entire slide is covered with an
object known as a Click Box, which will take
| | 07:38 | us to the next slide.
| | 07:39 | So if we click that, you can see how
it's selected, but go to the Quiz button,
| | 07:44 | give it a click, and you will notice,
because we created it last, it's on top.
| | 07:48 | So clicking anywhere in the slide will
take us to the next slide, but clicking
| | 07:52 | the button will take us directly to our Quiz.
| | 07:54 | We want to test it out.
| | 07:56 | We will go to the Preview button,
we will go down to Project; F4 is
| | 08:00 | your keyboard shortcut.
| | 08:02 | Once it's generated, we will be
looking at slide number one in our project,
| | 08:06 | similar to the way we would see it in a browser.
| | 08:09 | So, depending on your resolution, you may
need to scroll down, like me, to see the
| | 08:13 | Go To Quiz button. There it is.
| | 08:15 | If we click it, there we go; right directly to
the Quiz, skipping over all the other content.
| | 08:21 | To close the Preview, click the little
Close button to end it, and we return
| | 08:25 | back to our project.
| | 08:28 | So we'll click in the
background. Nothing is selected.
| | 08:30 | That is the end result.
| | 08:32 | Now you know how to insert certain
types of shapes, even assign actions to them,
| | 08:36 | creating buttons out of any shape you create.
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| Adding images| 00:00 | Well, they say a picture is worth a
thousand words, and I don't know about you,
| | 00:04 | but I'd rather look at a nice picture
than read a thousand words, especially in
| | 00:08 | a Captivate project.
| | 00:09 | So we are going to talk about ways
to get imagery into your project now.
| | 00:13 | For example, you might want to add an
image to a single slide, or to every slide
| | 00:19 | using a certain layout.
| | 00:20 | Let's cover both scenarios as we
continue to work with our Volunteer
| | 00:24 | Orientation project.
| | 00:26 | Let's just scroll all the way down to
the bottom here, so that we're looking at
| | 00:30 | the last slide, which is our Quiz slide.
| | 00:32 | We will select it, and right now,
you can see it's quite bland.
| | 00:36 | This one uses the Introduction layout,
and if we wanted to add an image to this
| | 00:40 | slide, we'd simply go to
the Insert menu, and find it.
| | 00:43 | But if we wanted to add the image to
every slide of this layout, then we would
| | 00:47 | make the changes to the Master.
| | 00:49 | That's what we are going to do.
| | 00:51 | With Master Slide selected down here,
we are going to go to the Introduction
| | 00:55 | slide Master, and select it.
| | 00:59 | That way, any changes we make will
only affect slides using this layout;
| | 01:03 | not every single slide.
| | 01:05 | So now we're seeing placeholder text
instead of our actual text, and we are
| | 01:09 | going to insert our image.
| | 01:10 | Let's go to the Insert menu, we'll
go down to Image, and select it there.
| | 01:14 | Now, you can browse to the Chapter2
folder of your Exercise Files, where
| | 01:18 | you'll find a couple of images are
selectable here from our list of files,
| | 01:23 | and these are image files.
| | 01:25 | Looking down below, you can see it's
actually going to allow us to find many
| | 01:28 | different formats for image files,
like JPEGs, GIFs, BMP, or bitmap;
| | 01:34 | you can see the WMF format,
and there's PNG, and PIC.
| | 01:37 | If we click this dropdown, we
could search for a specific file format
| | 01:42 | by selecting it here,
| | 01:43 | but with all of them selected, we will
see every different type of image file,
| | 01:48 | regardless of its format.
| | 01:49 | Let's go for the SAMOCA_logo.
| | 01:51 | It's a PNG file; we'll click Open.
| | 01:55 | What we get is the original image file,
in its original size, placed right in the
| | 02:01 | middle of our slide.
| | 02:02 | Now it's time to make a few adjustments.
| | 02:04 | First of all, let's resize it.
| | 02:06 | We will go to the bottom left-hand
corner handle, and when you see the double
| | 02:10 | diagonal arrow, it means you can start
clicking and dragging. But wait a sec;
| | 02:13 | if you want to maintain aspect ratio --
that is the dimensions of your logo -- hold
| | 02:19 | down the Shift key first,
then start clicking and dragging.
| | 02:21 | It will always be proportional;
| | 02:24 | just a different size.
| | 02:26 | We will bring it down a little bit,
and release the mouse button first,
| | 02:29 | then your Shift key.
| | 02:31 | Now let's place it by going right into
the middle, clicking, and dragging it up
| | 02:35 | to the top right corner.
| | 02:36 | Now, you'll notice that in behind, our
actual placeholder text could run into the
| | 02:41 | logo if we were to type
something that long in there.
| | 02:45 | So let's click the actual placeholder for
our title, and it's now selected with handles.
| | 02:50 | We will go to the right-hand side
in the middle with the double-arrow;
| | 02:53 | click and drag that in, so
it's not touching our logo.
| | 02:57 | Same thing for our subtitle;
| | 02:59 | we'll click it, go to the right-hand
side, and drag that middle handle over, so
| | 03:04 | it doesn't interfere with our logo.
| | 03:06 | Now, this is going to affect every
single slide that currently exists in our
| | 03:10 | project using the Introduction
layout, as well as any future slides.
| | 03:14 | It looks pretty good.
| | 03:15 | So let's go back to the bottom here of
the Filmstrip, and click our Quiz slide,
| | 03:19 | where we will see those
updated changes. That looks better.
| | 03:23 | Now of course, if we wanted to add something
to an individual slide, we can do that as well.
| | 03:28 | Let's add a new slide first.
| | 03:30 | Let's go up to the Insert menu.
| | 03:33 | Next, we'll go down to Insert Slide
from, over, and across, and select Blank.
| | 03:39 | So the Blank slide; we can now insert
an image on this individual slide without
| | 03:44 | affecting all of our blank slides by
simply going to the Insert menu, going to
| | 03:49 | Image, and clicking there.
| | 03:52 | And this time, we'll put in the
one labeled SAMOCA_logo_lines.
| | 03:56 | Select it, click Open,
and the same thing happens.
| | 03:59 | We are going to see the original size image.
| | 04:01 | It's a little bit too big for our stage.
| | 04:03 | You can see the handles just barely.
| | 04:05 | Let's just click in the middle here,
and drag it over to the left a little bit,
| | 04:09 | so we can see those
handles, and let's resize it.
| | 04:12 | I am going to go to the top
right corner with the double diagonal.
| | 04:15 | Again, I want to maintain aspect ratio,
| | 04:17 | so I am going to hold down the Shift key,
and then just click in, and down a little bit.
| | 04:22 | So I think I am pretty
close to the size I want here.
| | 04:25 | I am going to now go into the middle,
and just click and drag this upwards.
| | 04:29 | Let's bring it up, and you can
see it still doesn't quite fit.
| | 04:32 | I am going to go almost to the top of that
dark gray shading at the top, and let go.
| | 04:37 | I still need to bring it in.
| | 04:39 | I am going to go the bottom right-hand
corner this time, with the double diagonal,
| | 04:42 | holding the Shift key again.
| | 04:44 | I am going to click and drag inwards
until it fits nicely on our slide right there.
| | 04:48 | And release the mouse button first, then
your Shift key, and then click anywhere
| | 04:51 | in the background to see the end result.
| | 04:54 | So that's only on that one individual slide.
| | 04:57 | If we wanted all of our blank slides to have
this, we would simply add it to the Master.
| | 05:02 | But just keep in mind, with our
particular project, all of the slides that we
| | 05:06 | brought in from PowerPoint
automatically use the blank slide.
| | 05:09 | And as you can see, if we go to one of
those slides, it already has that logo at
| | 05:14 | the top with the line,
| | 05:15 | so we wouldn't want to duplicate that.
| | 05:18 | So that's why we choose whether or
not we're going to insert something on a
| | 05:21 | Master, or something on an individual slide.
| | 05:24 | Once we have done that, there are
some adjustments that can be made.
| | 05:28 | So let's go to our
Introduction Master, and select it.
| | 05:32 | Select the image, and take
a look at the Properties.
| | 05:36 | There are lots that can be done.
| | 05:38 | For example, if there's a color
here in the logo that we want to make
| | 05:41 | transparent -- and in fact, the white would be
good, in case something did go in behind it --
| | 05:46 | we could, right here in the Image
section, select the color that's going to be
| | 05:51 | transparent, and all we have to do is
click the dropdown to select a color, or
| | 05:56 | if you're not sure of the shade of
color, go to the little eyedropper, or pick
| | 06:00 | Color tool, and then just click on the color
in the image that you want to make transparent.
| | 06:05 | Now you will be able to see through
it if anything goes in behind there.
| | 06:09 | Other things we can do, and it doesn't
really apply to an image like this, but
| | 06:13 | look at the brightness,
sharpness, contrast, etcetera.
| | 06:15 | If you're working with images, for example,
that are photos, these are great tools to have.
| | 06:20 | You can do editing right from within
Captivate, and get that image to look
| | 06:24 | exactly how you need it.
| | 06:26 | You can turn it into a
black and white, or grayscale.
| | 06:28 | We will deselect that.
| | 06:30 | You can flip them horizontally and
vertically from here, even rotate, and crop;
| | 06:34 | all the tools you need at your fingertips.
| | 06:37 | Let's go back to our Filmstrip.
| | 06:39 | That's how we get images into our
slides and slide masters here in Captivate.
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| Using hyperlinks| 00:00 | One way to give control to the viewers
of your project is to add hyperlinks;
| | 00:06 | links that will take them to other
places in the project, could take them to
| | 00:10 | external sites, or perform a number
of different other actions that we are
| | 00:14 | going to explore right now as we continue
work with our Volunteer_orientation project here.
| | 00:19 | We're going to select the very first
slide in our Filmstrip, and we are going to
| | 00:23 | insert a new slide right after it.
| | 00:25 | That's why it's selected.
| | 00:26 | So we'll go to Insert > New Slide from, and
let's insert an Introduction Layout slide.
| | 00:32 | That has our logo in the
background, and a couple of placeholders.
| | 00:36 | We will double-click for the title,
and type in a question actually: Where
| | 00:41 | would you like to start?
| | 00:44 | In the subtitle area, we will give
a little bit of instruction here:
| | 00:48 | Click a link, or the continue button...
| | 00:57 | And that means we need to add a
button, which in a way, is a hyperlink.
| | 01:01 | It's going to allow people to perform an action.
| | 01:04 | So let's start there.
| | 01:05 | We have our slide, it's blank,
but we need that button to continue.
| | 01:09 | So we will insert a button from the
Object toolbar, and you'll see here down
| | 01:14 | towards the bottom section,
Insert button; give it a click,
| | 01:18 | and automatically we get the default button.
| | 01:20 | We are going to rename it.
| | 01:22 | You'll see button, and a
number, like 1, 2; I have 3.
| | 01:25 | I'm going to type right over that; Continue,
so I know exactly what this object does.
| | 01:30 | A little further down, you can
see we have different button types.
| | 01:33 | We can add a button caption,
| | 01:34 | so if we wanted it to say continue,
we could change that there, or we could
| | 01:38 | change the button type, because if we
go to Image button, we already have one
| | 01:42 | labeled Continue, and it's
formatted nicely with a cool look for us.
| | 01:46 | So we will select that, which means we
might need to resize our button, so we can
| | 01:50 | read the word Continue with the arrow.
| | 01:53 | That looks good there.
| | 01:54 | If you need to zoom in, go ahead and do that.
| | 01:57 | I am going to go up to
about 75%. That looks good.
| | 02:00 | And I am going to move this button
right up next to my ellipses there.
| | 02:04 | Now, what does this do?
| | 02:05 | Well, as we scroll down our Properties
over here on the right-hand side, you can
| | 02:09 | see by default, it actually takes us
to the next slide. That's perfect.
| | 02:12 | It's already set up for us.
| | 02:14 | We are done with our button.
| | 02:15 | I am going to change my view back to Best Fit.
| | 02:18 | Now it's time to create those hyperlinks,
and we are going to do it from text.
| | 02:22 | So to do that, we'll
insert some caption text here.
| | 02:25 | We'll go back to our Object toolbar on
the left, Insert Text Caption; select that.
| | 02:30 | You can see the size is not exactly
what we need, but that can be adjusted.
| | 02:34 | So we'll just click anywhere in
behind it, type the caption text here,
| | 02:38 | we will click it again;
| | 02:40 | now the entire box is selected,
| | 02:41 | so we can move it over.
| | 02:43 | I am going to go to the left-hand side;
try and align it with my subtitle.
| | 02:47 | I am going go to the bottom right
corner here, and I am going to click and drag
| | 02:51 | it out, and down, so I have lots of
space here for many items to choose from.
| | 02:56 | So all we have to do now is
change the properties of our box.
| | 03:00 | We will go over here to the
Name, Text Caption, and the number.
| | 03:04 | I am going to double-click there to
select it, and type right over that.
| | 03:08 | I'm going to type in Hyperlinks, and then
that's all we need to do with the box itself.
| | 03:14 | It's the contents now that we need to adjust.
| | 03:16 | So we will double-click to get
inside there, and start typing things.
| | 03:20 | Before we do, though, let's change the
size of what we're typing to something
| | 03:23 | that's a little more readable.
| | 03:26 | So again, we are going to go over here
to our Properties, and if we scroll up, so
| | 03:30 | we can see Character, you can
see the default Size is 20 points.
| | 03:33 | I'd like to bump that up to about 28, and hit
Enter. There; that will be easier to read.
| | 03:40 | Type the caption text here;
I'm just putting a dash for now.
| | 03:43 | We will talk about bullets later, perhaps,
but right now, we'll just use dashes.
| | 03:47 | And we will actually use
the names of our slides.
| | 03:50 | I am going to type in History, and Purpose.
| | 03:55 | I can see from the
Filmstrip that's my next slide.
| | 03:57 | I am going to hit Enter, put in
another dash here, and we will continue with
| | 04:02 | the rest of the slides.
| | 04:03 | So get the rest of them in there.
| | 04:06 | That's all we need right now.
| | 04:07 | Now it's time to create the
hyperlink from the existing text.
| | 04:10 | So we will highlight it first.
| | 04:12 | Let's start with the quiz down at the bottom.
| | 04:14 | We will just highlight the word Quiz.
| | 04:15 | We will leave the dash out of it.
| | 04:18 | Now, with this selected, we are going
to go back to our Properties, because
| | 04:21 | here's where we are actually going
to be able to create a hyperlink from
| | 04:24 | that selected text.
| | 04:25 | As you scroll down to the Format section,
make sure that it's opened up; if you
| | 04:29 | need to, click the triangle to open it up.
| | 04:32 | You'll see an option here
for creating a hyperlink;
| | 04:34 | it kind of looks like a chain-link.
| | 04:36 | When you click it, you now have the
ability to link to, there it is, a Web page.
| | 04:42 | You can click the dropdown, and look
at all of the other things you can do.
| | 04:46 | Open a file by clicking it, send an
e-mail, go to a slide; that's the one we
| | 04:50 | want. Look at all the other options.
| | 04:53 | These are all actions that
can be applied to a hyperlink.
| | 04:56 | But we are going to select Slide,
which means now we can choose next slide,
| | 05:00 | previous, last visited, or select
a specific slide we want to go to.
| | 05:04 | And we will click the dropdown.
| | 05:06 | Here's why it's important
to label our slides properly.
| | 05:08 | We'll go down to Quiz, and select it.
| | 05:12 | When we click OK, we've created our hyperlink.
| | 05:15 | Let's just click anywhere in the
background here to deselect that, so you can
| | 05:19 | see how it's formatted with the blue,
and the underlining, and now it's up to
| | 05:22 | you to select the rest of these, and
perform the same action, hyperlinking to
| | 05:27 | the appropriate slide.
| | 05:29 | One other thing that we'll do is add
another option, and that is to hyperlink to
| | 05:34 | an existing Web page.
| | 05:37 | So let's insert another text caption.
| | 05:39 | We'll select the same icon over here in
the left-hand side in our Object toolbar.
| | 05:44 | It's already highlighted.
| | 05:45 | So let's type in Go to SAMOCA Web site.
| | 05:51 | Now, we can move this around if we
want; just deselect, and reselect it.
| | 05:57 | And let's just drag it down underneath
our list of options here, and again, this
| | 06:03 | is something we want to create a hyperlink from.
| | 06:04 | So we are going to double-click to get inside,
| | 06:07 | we'll select the entire text, and we'll
go to that same icon on the right here in
| | 06:12 | our Properties tab; click Insert Hyperlink.
| | 06:15 | This time we are going to go to a Web page,
| | 06:17 | but it's not the Adobe
Web page we're going to go to.
| | 06:19 | So we will select it all, and type
in samoca-art.com, and click OK.
| | 06:28 | So that's a Web site now that people
can go to directly by clicking the
| | 06:31 | hyperlink we created.
| | 06:33 | Again, go back to these other options,
and finish them up. Create hyperlinks
| | 06:37 | that will take you
directly to those specific slides.
| | 06:40 | And that's some of the things we can
do with hyperlinking here in Captivate.
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| Testing and editing hyperlinks| 00:00 | In Captivate 6, there are a number of
different ways in which you can preview
| | 00:04 | your project, and that's particularly
important after inserting hyperlinks, like
| | 00:08 | we did in the previous lesson.
| | 00:10 | You want to make sure they actually
work, and do what they're supposed to do.
| | 00:14 | So in this lesson, we will preview our
project, and we might need to make some
| | 00:18 | changes to our
hyperlinks to make sure they work.
| | 00:20 | We are on slide number 2,
which actually isn't labeled yet,
| | 00:23 | so let's give it a name.
| | 00:24 | That will be our first edit.
| | 00:26 | Since it's kind of acting like a
table of contents, we could call it that.
| | 00:29 | Table of Contents, press Enter or Return on
your keyboard, and that's our first change.
| | 00:35 | Now we want to see if our hyperlinks work.
| | 00:37 | So we are going to preview the project
by going to the Preview button up here on
| | 00:41 | the Application bar.
| | 00:42 | When you select it, you will
see a number of different options.
| | 00:46 | We could just simply play this slide.
| | 00:47 | Well, there is not much going on the
slide, and we want to test the hyperlinks,
| | 00:51 | so that's not actually usable to us at
this point, but we could preview the project.
| | 00:55 | That would be a nice test of our hyperlinks.
| | 00:58 | Or if you think you're going to be
viewing this on the Web, this is a eLearning
| | 01:03 | project that will be delivered via the
Web, you can also look at it in your Web
| | 01:07 | browser the way it's going to
appear when people go to use it.
| | 01:10 | Let's do that one: In Web Browser.
| | 01:13 | So we will generate your slides, and it's going
to launch your default browser; mine is Safari.
| | 01:18 | You'll notice we are
looking at the very first slide.
| | 01:21 | Now, because these were imported from
PowerPoint, there is automatically what we
| | 01:25 | call a click box
appearing over the entire slide.
| | 01:27 | That means we can click anywhere on
the slide to go to the next slide.
| | 01:31 | There's the one we just
added with our hyperlinks.
| | 01:33 | So we can try these out.
| | 01:35 | For example, if we click Quiz,
does it take us to the Quiz slide?
| | 01:39 | Sure enough, it does.
| | 01:41 | If you're viewing the preview in a
browser, you can scroll down, where you'll
| | 01:44 | find navigation buttons, including Back, and
Forward buttons, etcetera, but also a Rewind button.
| | 01:51 | Let's click Rewind, and now we'll click
anywhere on the slide to go to the next slide again.
| | 01:56 | And this time we are going to test out the
hyperlink that takes us to another Web site.
| | 02:00 | I am a little bit leery of this
one, just the way we typed it in,
| | 02:04 | so let's click the link.
| | 02:05 | You can see it opens up a
new tab for me in Safari.
| | 02:09 | If you are in Internet Explorer, you
might be seeing something like Failed to Open,
| | 02:13 | or it just simply Can't find the site.
| | 02:15 | So we do have an issue there, and we
are going to need to make a change.
| | 02:19 | So let's go back to Captivate,
| | 02:22 | and from here, we are going to make an
edit to our hyperlink that takes us to
| | 02:26 | the SAMOCA Web site.
| | 02:28 | So we will double-click to get
inside, double-click again, and you can
| | 02:33 | click and drag over the
entire text that is a hyperlink.
| | 02:36 | And over here in the Properties on the
right-hand side, notice now instead of
| | 02:40 | just a hyperlink button for inserting
a hyperlink, we have Modify, and Delete.
| | 02:46 | What we want to do is actually modify,
| | 02:48 | so we will give it a click.
| | 02:50 | It's supposed to take us
to a Web page, samoca-art.com.
| | 02:52 | I see what's wrong. We need the www.
| | 02:56 | in this case.
| | 02:57 | So we'll add that, click OK, and
now if you want, you can save it up,
| | 03:02 | and preview it again.
| | 03:03 | Let's go back to Preview > In Web Browser.
| | 03:06 | It's going to regenerate
our slides, and there we are.
| | 03:11 | We are looking at our Welcome page.
| | 03:14 | So we can click anywhere, we know, on
this slide, and it'll take us to the next
| | 03:18 | one, and now the big test.
| | 03:19 | Go to SAMOCA Web site; when
we click it, there we are.
| | 03:23 | It actually worked this time.
| | 03:24 | Even though it doesn't show it up here
in the address bar, that's where we are.
| | 03:28 | So this time our hyperlink worked.
| | 03:30 | So by being able to preview it, and make
those adjustments, we can be rest assured
| | 03:36 | that our hyperlinks are going to work
when our learners go to view our project.
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3. Using Assets and ElementsImporting from PowerPoint presentations| 00:00 | If you've been following along with me
from the very beginning, you know you can
| | 00:03 | create a brand new Captivate project
from an existing PowerPoint presentation.
| | 00:09 | It's automatically going to take
all of the slides in your PowerPoint
| | 00:12 | presentation, and create
new slides here in Captivate.
| | 00:16 | But another option is to pick and
choose existing slides in an existing
| | 00:20 | PowerPoint presentation, and bring
them into your current project, and
| | 00:24 | that's what we're going to do with
our Volunteer Orientation project that
| | 00:27 | we've been working on.
| | 00:28 | If you need to get caught up with me, go
to the Chapter3 folder of the Exercise
| | 00:33 | Files, and open up
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA10.
| | 00:35 | You'll see what I see here on screen.
| | 00:38 | Now, we can move around through our actual
project here, and select the slide, where
| | 00:42 | we want the new slides to go,
or we can do it on the fly.
| | 00:46 | Let's just go to the Insert
menu, and select PowerPoint Slide.
| | 00:50 | Now, at this point, we can choose
where we want the new slides to go.
| | 00:54 | Notice, they will be inserted after
whatever slide we select here on the list.
| | 01:00 | So as we scroll down, again, you can see
why it's important to name your slides.
| | 01:04 | We're going to go to the slide
labeled Slide 7 Rules of Conduct.
| | 01:09 | We want our new slides from the
PowerPoint presentation to appear after this
| | 01:12 | one, but before our quiz.
| | 01:14 | So we'll click OK, and now it's just a
matter of finding the presentation. There it is.
| | 01:19 | It can't be open in
PowerPoint, or you'll find an error.
| | 01:23 | So make sure it's closed up in
PowerPoint, and accessible, like you see here in
| | 01:27 | Chapter3 SAMOCA_exhibits.
| | 01:29 | Notice it's a PPTX extension, the new
format for PowerPoint presentations.
| | 01:34 | We can double-click it, or
one click and choose Open.
| | 01:38 | And what it's going to do now is actually
convert the new format slides, PPTX, to PPT slides.
| | 01:45 | And you can see PowerPoint is opened up
in the background, then it flashes; it's
| | 01:49 | parsing the project now.
| | 01:51 | And eventually, we'll be able to go and
find the two slides, there they are, in
| | 01:55 | this existing presentation,
and include all of them,
| | 01:58 | you can see they are checked off by default,
or we can choose to include just one of them.
| | 02:03 | I think both of them
belong in this actual project.
| | 02:06 | So as we look down below, you can see, how
do we advance from one slide to another?
| | 02:11 | On mouse click; that's what
creates the click box on our slide.
| | 02:15 | The other option is just Automatically,
and we would have no click box in that case.
| | 02:20 | You can turn off any one that
you don't want. I want both.
| | 02:24 | I'm going to click OK. And you'll
notice that probably the height and width of
| | 02:27 | your PowerPoint presentation isn't
going to be exactly the same as your
| | 02:31 | project here in Captivate,
| | 02:33 | and it might affect the resolution,
but don't worry about it, because we can
| | 02:36 | regain that resolution when
we go to publish this later.
| | 02:40 | Do we want to continue?
The answer is Yes.
| | 02:43 | When you hit Yes, notice the two
slides are added, and you can see where
| | 02:48 | they're added; right after the
selected slide, slide 7, we now have two new
| | 02:52 | ones, and they are actually named
based on the PowerPoint slide names that we
| | 02:57 | just imported from. So there were go!
| | 03:00 | We have got our two new
slides. We can select them.
| | 03:03 | You'll notice click box; there is an
invisible box that takes up the same size
| | 03:08 | as the entire slide.
| | 03:09 | So that means we can click the slide
when we're actually viewing the project
| | 03:13 | to move from one to the next, and that's
because of that option that we left selected;
| | 03:18 | On mouse click.
| | 03:20 | So that's how you get individual
slides into an existing project here in
| | 03:24 | Captive 6.
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| Importing Photoshop files| 00:00 | In a previous lesson, when importing
images into our Captivate project, we
| | 00:04 | found there were a number of
different formats to choose from.
| | 00:08 | One format missing from that list,
though, was Photoshop file, and to import a
| | 00:12 | Photoshop file into your Captivate
project requires a different procedure.
| | 00:17 | Let's review bringing in
an image, so we can compare.
| | 00:20 | Using our Volunteer Orientation
project, we will go to Slide 8, Upcoming
| | 00:25 | Exhibitions, and we're missing an image here.
| | 00:27 | So to insert an image here in
Captivate, it meant going to the Insert
| | 00:32 | menu, and as we move down to Image, and
select it, we just simply navigate, and
| | 00:37 | there are a number of different formats,
none of which are PSD files, or Photoshop files.
| | 00:42 | So let's bring in Swatch.jpeg
here, and with it selected, click Open.
| | 00:48 | It shows up in its original size. It's
way too big for our stage. Luckily, there
| | 00:53 | is a button over here in the Image
Edit Properties to Fit to Stage, and now we
| | 00:58 | can just resize it to something that's
going to be close to what we're working
| | 01:02 | with here on our Slide,
so it matches the others.
| | 01:06 | We will move into position,
and there you go.
| | 01:08 | It's a flat file; there are no
layers to it. We do have some image
| | 01:12 | editing options to work with, but
really it's not like a Photoshop file,
| | 01:17 | made up of several layers.
| | 01:19 | Let's go to the next slide
now, Slide number 9, Our Vision.
| | 01:23 | Here's an example of an image that
might have been created in Photoshop, in
| | 01:27 | fact, I know that it was, and it's
made up of several layers. But remember,
| | 01:31 | we brought this in from PowerPoint,
so the entire slide is a flat image, and
| | 01:35 | we can't really make adjustments to it,
unless we remove it, and start with
| | 01:40 | the Photoshop file.
| | 01:42 | So let's go over to our Filmstrip here on
the left, right-click, and choose Delete.
| | 01:46 | You could also use your Backspace key.
Click OK to confirm you don't want it, and
| | 01:52 | now we are going to insert a blank slide.
| | 01:54 | So we'll just go back to Slide number 8,
because we want our new slide after
| | 01:58 | this one, and we'll go up to the Insert
menu, and go right to Blank Slide from here.
| | 02:03 | So there is our blank slide, nothing on
it, and we're ready to import our file.
| | 02:09 | It's not on the Insert menu, we have
to actually go to the File menu to find
| | 02:13 | Import, there it is. We could have
imported our PowerPoint slides from here,
| | 02:18 | but Photoshop file does appear at the top
the list, and that's where we're going to click.
| | 02:22 | Now it's just a matter of finding it,
and you can we do have a PSD file here in
| | 02:27 | the Chapter3 folder of your Exercise
Files, SAMOCA_vision. You can double-click
| | 02:31 | it, or one click, and Open, and this is a
little bit different than our flat file
| | 02:35 | or JPEG that we just brought in.
| | 02:38 | Notice that there might be Layer comps,
and if we click Multiple, we see, not in
| | 02:43 | this file; we'll leave single selected.
| | 02:46 | We can also Scale it according to the
stage size, so we don't have to run into
| | 02:51 | that problem of resizing it to fit.
| | 02:53 | We also have each of the Layers, some
selected, some not, that are going to be
| | 02:57 | brought in, and we can expand those
sections to see what's in them; all of the
| | 03:02 | different Objects on those different layers.
| | 03:05 | Let's leave everything as is. We do
want to Import as Layers, so we can make
| | 03:09 | adjustments to them.
| | 03:11 | We do have an option though here to
flatten the image, so it'd be just like our
| | 03:14 | JPEG, but let's leave the
Layers selected, and click OK.
| | 03:17 | And you can see what's happening; it's
importing the PSD images. You can see it
| | 03:21 | flashing in the background.
| | 03:22 | Something happened there; in behind
this, there is that background, and we
| | 03:27 | can't see it, because this is solid.
| | 03:30 | So all we have to do is make a
minor adjustment, and these are separate
| | 03:34 | objects that we can adjust.
| | 03:36 | You can click them, size them, and adjust them.
| | 03:39 | Let's go back to this white
background here, and make it transparent.
| | 03:44 | With the object selected, we go over
to the Image section of our Properties,
| | 03:49 | click the dropdown here for the Transparency.
| | 03:51 | I am going to use the eyedropper
called the Pick Color tool, and click on the
| | 03:55 | White, it becomes transparent, and
look at that; that looks beautiful.
| | 03:59 | Now remember, all of these objects are
individual objects that can be edited.
| | 04:05 | So for example, if we want to remove
this text, we just select it, hit the
| | 04:08 | Delete key on your keyboard, and click OK.
| | 04:11 | Now we can put in our own, for example;
maybe all of that information no longer
| | 04:16 | applied, it wasn't really new,
| | 04:17 | so if we wanted to, we could just type
the word Vision in there. How do we do that?
| | 04:21 | We can bring in text
using the Insert Text Caption.
| | 04:24 | Now, it does appear here, ready for us to type.
| | 04:28 | I am going to type vision in
uppercase. Hard to see, but if we go to the
| | 04:33 | Zoom dropdown, and choose say 100 -- it's
still kind of small, and it's not the right color.
| | 04:39 | I am going to double-click to get
inside, select the word vision, still very
| | 04:44 | difficult to se,e and I am going to
change the Size here from 20, let's go to 36,
| | 04:50 | and hit Enter. It's much
bigger, but not big enough.
| | 04:53 | Let's change the Color.
| | 04:54 | Right now it's a dark color;
| | 04:56 | we're going to go to white.
| | 04:58 | It's still selected, so it doesn't look
white, but let's just click outside; see
| | 05:03 | that it is indeed white.
| | 05:04 | Now I'll click once on the word,
and drag it into this area where it's
| | 05:08 | actually going to reside.
| | 05:09 | I am going to zoom back out to
Best Fit, see what that looks like;
| | 05:14 | you see it's off to the left.
| | 05:15 | We can still go bigger, and we want to
make the Size of this text caption box much
| | 05:20 | bigger to accommodate what I'm about to
do here, and that is to change the Size
| | 05:24 | once again, from 36, let's try 54,
and press Enter. That looks better.
| | 05:31 | And we might want to change
the alignment a little bit.
| | 05:33 | I am going to go to the left border, and
because of the layers that we were able
| | 05:38 | to bring in, we could remove the old
text, and put in our own, and play with the
| | 05:42 | file, like we are right now.
| | 05:44 | So we'll just deselect by clicking off
in the background, and that's bringing in
| | 05:48 | a Photoshop file into your Captivate project.
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| Inserting animations| 00:00 | One cool way to add some visual
interest to your content here in Captivate is
| | 00:04 | to include animations.
| | 00:06 | Animations could be existing animated
files, like Flash files, or animated Gifs,
| | 00:13 | or you can actually create animations
out of text here in Captivate. We're
| | 00:17 | going to look at that now using
our Volunteer Orientation project.
| | 00:20 | If you've been following along, we're on
Slide number 9, which is yet to be named;
| | 00:24 | we'll name it momentarily.
| | 00:26 | If you're getting caught up with us,
go to your Chapter3 folder of the
| | 00:29 | Exercise Files, and open up
Volunteer Orientation SAMOCA12.
| | 00:33 | So here with Slide 9, which is where
we imported a Photoshop file, we need
| | 00:38 | to give this a name.
| | 00:39 | So let's go to the Name Field over
here under Properties, and type in Vision.
| | 00:45 | When you press Enter or Return on your
keyboard, it's now named, and we see that
| | 00:49 | over here in the Filmstrip.
| | 00:51 | Next, we want to add an animation, so
one option would be to go to the Insert
| | 00:56 | menu, and from the Insert menu, you can
go right down to Animation. Notice there
| | 01:00 | is Text Animation below it.
| | 01:02 | But Animation, when you select this,
will allow you to go searching for existing
| | 01:07 | Shockwave, or Flash files, if you
have them, or animated GIF files.
| | 01:12 | If you don't have any, just click Cancel.
| | 01:15 | It's a simple matter of selecting it,
inserting it, and adjusting its size, and
| | 01:18 | location, and then its timing as well.
| | 01:22 | But we can also do that with text. In
fact, we're creating our own animated Gif
| | 01:26 | out of text, right from within
Captivate. So let's do that.
| | 01:31 | Here we have our Photoshop file, and
if we go down to the bottom, and click
| | 01:35 | Timeline, I want you to see something.
| | 01:37 | Because we brought layers in, each of
these looks like a separate object, so you
| | 01:41 | see can the Text, Vision, 3 seconds.
Everything is 3 seconds her; all of the
| | 01:46 | different images, dots, background, etcetera.
| | 01:49 | Meanwhile, the Slide is 5 seconds,
so if we were to preview this, we'd see
| | 01:54 | all of this for 3 seconds, and then 2.0 seconds of
blank space before moving on to the next slide.
| | 02:00 | So we're going to keep that in mind
when we animate the text, which means first
| | 02:04 | getting rid of the existing text.
| | 02:07 | We can't animate something that's
already there, which is really just one of the
| | 02:11 | layers of the Photoshop file.
| | 02:13 | So we'll select it, and we'll hit Delete.
| | 02:16 | If you added, for example, caption text,
you can't go back and animate it either.
| | 02:21 | This is another example of our word
vision here, where we have to delete it, and
| | 02:25 | insert animated text instead.
| | 02:28 | In this case, we go to our
Object toolbar, but not Caption Text;
| | 02:31 | We go all the way down towards the
bottom, where we find Insert Text Animation,
| | 02:36 | and when we click there, we get
a different type of dialog box.
| | 02:40 | We are going to see Sample Text, and
we're also going to see over here on the
| | 02:44 | right-hand side an example of the selected
Effect, and that depends on what you used last.
| | 02:50 | If you have better done this before,
you're probably seeing an aquarium here, and
| | 02:53 | some fishies kind of
floating around your Sample Text.
| | 02:57 | First thing we need to do is change
it from Sample Text to real text, so click
| | 03:01 | and drag over that, and
we'll type in all caps, vision.
| | 03:06 | Let's leave it at Arial, but choose a
version of Arial, Arial Black, which is a
| | 03:11 | much thicker option.
| | 03:14 | And as you can see, the Size, I used 72
points last time; you might see 20, or
| | 03:19 | something else. Click and drag over the
existing number, and type 72, or use
| | 03:24 | your up and down arrows to get to 72.
| | 03:26 | 72 is actually the largest.
| | 03:28 | Now, we're not going to bold or
italicize this, so we don't need those.
| | 03:32 | Let's leave the Delay of 1 second in
there, but change the color from black
| | 03:36 | here by clicking the swatch to the
lightest color we have, white, in the very
| | 03:42 | bottom right corner.
| | 03:44 | When we click OK, these are the properties
of our new animated text, and you'll
| | 03:50 | see, again, another example of what's going
to happen with the selected Effect.
| | 03:55 | But before we get there, let's change
the name of this from Text_Animation_2, or
| | 03:59 | 1, or whatever number you
see, to Vision_Animation,
| | 04:04 | so we know what it is
when we look at the Timeline.
| | 04:07 | You can press Enter or Return on your
keyboard; again, you'll see a preview of
| | 04:11 | the Effect, which we're going
to browse through right now.
| | 04:14 | Let's go down to the Effect dropdown,
and you'll see there's quite a long list.
| | 04:18 | There is Aquarium at the top, and as we
scroll down, you'll see the one that's
| | 04:22 | currently selected with the checkmark.
| | 04:25 | So let's try something
like Raindrops, for example.
| | 04:27 | We'll see a preview over here. Not too
bad; there might be something better.
| | 04:32 | We can scroll through the list, we're
going to try Meltaway; interesting, but
| | 04:39 | distracting, and I don't
like that looping effect.
| | 04:41 | So let's scroll down, and
try something different.
| | 04:43 | I am looking for some kind of a
starburst maybe. There it is, Starburst.
| | 04:50 | Click that; that's a very subtle one.
| | 04:53 | You may not have seen it, but you can
reselect it if you want to check it out.
| | 04:58 | I think we'll keep it at that,
and we'll preview this in a moment.
| | 05:01 | Right now, let's get our text into
position, somewhere right in that area;
| | 05:05 | that looks good there.
| | 05:06 | Again, when we move it, we see a quick
preview of what our Starburst is going to look like.
| | 05:11 | Again, if you need to go back to the
Properties, there is a Properties button.
| | 05:15 | These are the Properties we set up
initially, so if there is something you don't
| | 05:18 | like about what you selected earlier,
go ahead and change it here, but I like
| | 05:22 | what we've got so far, so
I am going to click Cancel.
| | 05:26 | Look at the timing here in the Timeline tab.
| | 05:28 | Notice that by default, it's not even 3
seconds, like the rest of the items
| | 05:33 | that appear on this page.
| | 05:35 | So let's go over here to the
right-hand side, and increase the timing.
| | 05:39 | In fact, I'd like it to go all
the way to the end of the slide.
| | 05:43 | Now, there's no actual click button,
or click box on this particular slide,
| | 05:47 | so it's automatically going to go through
the 5 seconds, then move on to the next slide.
| | 05:53 | So we can adjust all of these items
if we wanted to, and I think we should.
| | 05:56 | So we'll click the first one, hold
down Shift, and click the last one.
| | 06:01 | Everything is selected now, and let's
drag it all the way over to 5 seconds,
| | 06:05 | right to the end of the slide,
so it matches up.
| | 06:08 | Let's preview that; see what that looks like.
| | 06:10 | Go to our Preview button. We don't
need to see the entire project; just
| | 06:13 | everything from this slide on.
| | 06:15 | So we'll click From this slide.
| | 06:17 | It takes a moment to generate your
slides before the preview appears. There's
| | 06:22 | that nice Starburst Effect. Very subtle,
but a nice little effect, and then it's
| | 06:27 | on to the next slide.
| | 06:29 | You can press Escape, or click the End
button up here to go back to your project.
| | 06:34 | We'll just click in the background to
deselect everything, and that's an idea of
| | 06:38 | what you can do with
animation, here in Captivate 6.
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| Using widgets| 00:00 | Another type of animation you might want
to add to your Captivate project is a widget.
| | 00:06 | There are a number of widgets that come
with Captivate 6, and very similar to a
| | 00:10 | Flash file animation,
| | 00:12 | these are configurable, so we're
going to take a look at Widgets now.
| | 00:16 | Still working with our Volunteer
Orientation project here, we're actually going
| | 00:21 | to move to a different slide.
| | 00:22 | Now, if are getting caught up, you can go
to the Exercise Files in Chapter3, and
| | 00:27 | open up Volunteer_Orientation_SAMOCA13.
| | 00:31 | We're going to the Rules of Conduct
slide, and maybe this is something people
| | 00:35 | would like to print.
| | 00:37 | Adding our widget that allows
them to do that might be an option.
| | 00:41 | Let's take a look at our widgets
| | 00:43 | a couple of different ways.
| | 00:45 | One option is to open up the panel;
| | 00:47 | we do that from the Window menu,
clicking Window, and then going down to Widget.
| | 00:52 | Now, this opens up a Widget panel over
here on the right-hand side. You'll see
| | 00:57 | what you were working with last.
| | 00:59 | And in this case, it's very difficult
to see the list, so you might want to
| | 01:02 | actually detach this. Just go anywhere
in its title bar, drag it over here, and
| | 01:07 | up towards the top, and let's
leave it there, and resize it.
| | 01:11 | We can drag it down from the corner,
and that allows us to scroll through
| | 01:15 | the different widgets.
| | 01:17 | We could do an entire chapter,
maybe even whole course on widgets.
| | 01:21 | There are so many to choose from,
and they do so many different things.
| | 01:24 | And of course, because you can
configure them, the possibilities are endless.
| | 01:29 | So that's the panel.
| | 01:30 | Let's close it up by clicking the Close
button, and look at another option, and
| | 01:34 | that is to use the Insert menu.
| | 01:36 | Click Insert, and from here, you'll
see Widget is an option down below.
| | 01:42 | When we click Widget, now we actually
have to navigate to the location of our
| | 01:46 | widgets, and here on the Mac, you'll
actually go to the Applications, and as you
| | 01:52 | can see, as I scroll down, there is a
Widgets folder, which is a subfolder of
| | 01:57 | our Gallery, which is a subfolder, as
we move up, of Adobe Captivate 6.
| | 02:02 | If you're on a Windows computer, it's
a little bit different for you; it's
| | 02:05 | Program Files > Adobe > Adobe
Captivate 6, and then Gallery, and Widgets.
| | 02:10 | And once you get there, you'll see them
listed alphabetically, and there are even
| | 02:14 | some subfolders for
Buttons, and Captions, for example.
| | 02:18 | And as we scroll a little further down,
we will see one for printing. Notice the
| | 02:22 | extension shockwave flash, SWF file,
but it is configurable; a little bit
| | 02:27 | different than a simple animation.
| | 02:29 | So we'll select it, and click Open. Now,
this is what adds it to our slide, but
| | 02:35 | before we actually add it, we
have some properties to deal with.
| | 02:39 | First of all, what's the Label going to say?
It says Print by default, and that make sense.
| | 02:44 | We can leave it at Print.
| | 02:45 | We can resize it if we needed to, we
can adjust the Font, and the Style that
| | 02:51 | appears on the button itself.
| | 02:53 | We can go back to this later if we don't
like what we see in the default settings.
| | 02:57 | Let's just click OK to see what this looks like.
| | 02:59 | So it does update those properties, and
it will take a moment for it to appear
| | 03:04 | right in the center of our slide.
| | 03:06 | Let's zoom in, so we can see what are
working with here; let's go to 100%.
| | 03:11 | So it is a widget; you can see it
say Print underneath, and there's an icon
| | 03:15 | of a printer there, and as we move
over to the right, you see we can actually
| | 03:19 | name our widget in the Properties panel.
| | 03:21 | Let's do that. Instead of Widget 1, we
should probably call this something like
| | 03:25 | Print, or Print_Button.
| | 03:27 | When you press Enter, if you didn't
put in the underscore, it's added for you.
| | 03:31 | A little further down, let's add
a Reflection; that might be cool.
| | 03:35 | Click the checkbox, I am going go with
the first one; there is the reflection.
| | 03:40 | As for the timing, may be this should be
on the slide for the entire slide itself,
| | 03:44 | so let's choose rest of slide.
| | 03:46 | Now, there is a click box
on this particular slide.
| | 03:50 | That means that because we brought it in
from PowerPoint, a click box that covers
| | 03:54 | the entire surface of our slide exists,
| | 03:57 | meaning it's not just going to flip
by this slide after a few seconds; it's
| | 04:01 | going to stop and wait for a click, or someone
to press the Enter Return key on the keyboard.
| | 04:06 | This will be available for the
entire duration of this slide.
| | 04:10 | We can add transitions;
| | 04:11 | we could make a sound if we
wanted to, by adding audio.
| | 04:14 | If you click Add Audio, all you have to
do now is import something you already
| | 04:19 | have, or if you wanted to,
you could use the Library.
| | 04:22 | Again, it's going to take
you close to the Widgets;
| | 04:24 | a little further up you'll the
find SoundEffects, for example.
| | 04:26 | I am going to go with a KeyClick
here, and click Open, and that gets added.
| | 04:31 | We have to save this before closing up
our Object Audio dialogue, and now we
| | 04:37 | have some audio. And there are few other
properties, like Transformations if we wanted to;
| | 04:41 | we could flip it around.
| | 04:43 | Right now, though, we're going to zoom
back out to the Best Fit, so we can place
| | 04:47 | it in the right spot here on our slide.
| | 04:50 | I am going to go to
bottom right-hand corner here,
| | 04:52 | so it's out of the way of the actual
information, and if people decide this is
| | 04:56 | the information they would like to
have a hard copy, they can print it, and
| | 05:00 | that's because of the widget we just added.
| | 05:02 | To really see if this works, we will go to
work Preview button, and Preview From this Slide.
| | 05:08 | So it just takes a moment, and it will
display our slide in a preview, the way
| | 05:12 | people would see it if
they were taking this course.
| | 05:15 | And now we can scroll down a little bit
to see that, indeed, we have our button
| | 05:19 | down in the bottom right-hand corner,
it says Print, and if we click this
| | 05:23 | button, it should do something.
| | 05:26 | Sure enough, here in the Mac, you can
see I get a Page Setup window, where I can
| | 05:30 | setup my Page Attributes, choose my
Printer if I wanted to, the Paper Size, and
| | 05:35 | you can see the scaling as well.
| | 05:38 | All I have to do is click OK to print this.
| | 05:40 | I'm going to click Cancel; I don't need to
print it right now, and on it goes to the next slide.
| | 05:45 | All right, let's close this up. We
can hit Escape on the keyboard, or click the
| | 05:49 | End button to come back. And like I said,
there are many, many widgets to choose from here,
| | 05:54 | so you might want to spend some time
exploring the different widgets you have at
| | 05:58 | your disposal, but there is an example
of a simple widget that we can add to our
| | 06:01 | slide here in Captivate.
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| Inserting interactive elements| 00:00 | For those of you who've ever used
PowerPoint to relay information to learners,
| | 00:04 | know that the big difference between
PowerPoint and Captivate is the ability to
| | 00:09 | create interaction, so your learners
actually participate, and have control over
| | 00:14 | what they are learning
and seeing on the screen.
| | 00:16 | We've already seen some of the
interactions, including buttons;
| | 00:20 | we added a widget in the
last lesson for printing.
| | 00:23 | Now we're going to look at some other
interactions here as we continue to work
| | 00:26 | with our Volunteer Orientation project.
| | 00:28 | Now, if you need to get caught up with me,
go ahead to the Chapter3 folder of the
| | 00:33 | Exercise Files, and open up
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA14.
| | 00:38 | We're going to go to slide
number 9, which is our Vision slide.
| | 00:42 | This is an imported Photoshop file.
It looks great; we altered it slightly.
| | 00:47 | Now, if we were to preview this by
clicking the Preview button, and choose From
| | 00:50 | this Slide, there is a slight timing
on this slide, so eventually this slide
| | 00:56 | disappears, and we move on to the next
slide, where our quiz is going to begin.
| | 01:01 | So let's press Escape on the keyboard.
| | 01:03 | Maybe we want this slide to just stop
right there until the user decides to move
| | 01:08 | on to the next slide.
| | 01:10 | In that case, we want some interaction,
and we're going to insert one right now.
| | 01:15 | Let's go over to the Object toolbar,
where we see a section here for inserting
| | 01:18 | a Click Box, a Button, we can even
insert Text Entry, where we gather
| | 01:24 | information from our learner. That will
be important later on when we get into
| | 01:28 | quizzes, for example.
| | 01:30 | Right now, we're going to add a click
box. This is going to pause to the slide
| | 01:34 | automatically, and wait for some input
from our user to move on to the next one.
| | 01:39 | So we'll click it, and you can see a
click box appears right in the center.
| | 01:44 | Now, you may recall when we
imported PowerPoint slides, a click box was
| | 01:47 | automatically created right on top of
the slide, and it covered the entire stage.
| | 01:52 | We can do that here, so no matter where
they click, it will do whatever we want
| | 01:56 | it to do, which is to move onto the next slide.
| | 01:59 | So I'll just click and drag it to cover the
entire stage, like so. It's still selected,
| | 02:04 | so let's go over to the right-hand
side here, where we'll see the name, by
| | 02:07 | default, is Click Box, and then there
will be a number after; it depends how many
| | 02:11 | click boxes you've added.
| | 02:13 | Mine says 11. You might have a different number.
| | 02:15 | It really doesn't matter. We're going to
select it by clicking and dragging, and
| | 02:19 | we're going to type in a name, which
is Go to Next Slide. I left spaces.
| | 02:27 | Watch what happens when I press Enter;
little underscores are inserted for me, so
| | 02:31 | you can do that if you want
yourself, or like Captivate take care of it.
| | 02:35 | Now, there are a number of other
properties, and you can see by default, when
| | 02:40 | people click it, that's what On Success
means; it will automatically go to the
| | 02:44 | next slide. And there are number of different
options, and you can see them all listed here.
| | 02:49 | Go to the next slide is exactly what we need.
| | 02:52 | What about a Shortcut?
| | 02:53 | May be hitting Enter on the keyboard
would be a nice shortcut, so I'll click
| | 02:57 | inside the Shortcut field, and hit Enter or
Return on your keyboard, and look at that; it's in.
| | 03:02 | A little further down, some other
options: Success, Failure, Hint.
| | 03:07 | Now, if by default you saw those,
and as I scroll over here, you can see
| | 03:12 | what they look like;
| | 03:13 | sometimes -- it depends what you did last
with your click box -- you see these options.
| | 03:17 | And in this case, it really doesn't
suit our purpose of moving on to the next
| | 03:22 | slide, but you can have certain
things happen when they complete something
| | 03:27 | successfully, like clicking this box, or
when they fail to do it, or give them a hint.
| | 03:31 | And this, again, is something
that's more useful in other types of
| | 03:35 | interactions, including quizzes,
| | 03:37 | so we're going to leave those deselected.
| | 03:38 | A little further down, you can see there are
some other options; maybe when they hover over
| | 03:44 | it, you want to see the hand
cursor. That's an option.
| | 03:47 | You might want to allow them to right-click --
not necessary here -- or double-click.
| | 03:51 | There is also a click sound that
happens, and if you want to disable it, you can
| | 03:55 | do that by clicking the checkbox.
| | 03:57 | The specific time for the slide, as
you can see from our timing here on the
| | 04:02 | Timeline, is only 3 seconds, and
there is the Pause symbol; it's going to
| | 04:07 | pause there, and wait for that click.
| | 04:08 | So that's what's going to stop the
slide, but it should really show up there
| | 04:12 | for the duration of the slide, so let's
change it from specific time to rest of slide.
| | 04:17 | You can see now we didn't have to drag
it all the way over to the end; it's done
| | 04:22 | for us when we choose rest of slide.
| | 04:24 | Now, there are some other options,
including audio, and transformations;
| | 04:28 | we can flip it around if we wanted to.
| | 04:30 | It's going to be kind of invisible
anyway as it is, so all we need to do is test
| | 04:34 | it out to see if it works.
| | 04:36 | Let's go to our Preview
button, and preview From this Slide.
| | 04:42 | So last time we previewed this, it stayed
there for a few seconds, and then disappeared.
| | 04:47 | Look at the slider up here for the timing.
All of a sudden, it just stops right there.
| | 04:51 | And as you notice when we're hovering over
this, we have that hand symbol that we selected,
| | 04:56 | meaning now we can click, and that's a
good hint to your users that they need to
| | 05:00 | click, and on it goes to the next slide.
| | 05:04 | We can press Escape.
| | 05:06 | So that's an interaction called a click
box. When we click off to the edge here,
| | 05:10 | off the stage, it's deselected.
| | 05:12 | It looks just like it did when we
started, but over the top, now we've created a
| | 05:17 | click box that covers the entire stage.
| | 05:19 | Now, there are other options.
| | 05:21 | Of course, we could have gone to a
button; something we did in a previous
| | 05:25 | lesson, so if you want to go back and
review that, inserting a button, we can
| | 05:29 | apply certain actions, like
moving to the next slide as well.
| | 05:32 | It'll do the same thing as a click box;
| | 05:34 | it'll pause your slide, waiting for a
click to move on. It's just another option,
| | 05:38 | and another way you can create interactivity
in your projects here in Captivate.
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| Using built-in actors| 00:00 | Here's a new feature in Captivate 6
you might like: the ability to import
| | 00:05 | characters, or what we would call actors.
| | 00:07 | These are various personalities in
different poses that we can add to our slides
| | 00:12 | to create some visual interest.
| | 00:15 | We're going to do that with our
Volunteer Orientation project here on slide 9.
| | 00:19 | Now, if you need to get caught up with me,
go to the Chapter3 folder, and open up
| | 00:24 | Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA15.
| | 00:26 | When we go up to the Insert menu,
you'll notice something down near
| | 00:30 | the bottom: Characters.
| | 00:32 | A lot of people will see this and
think keyboard characters, special
| | 00:36 | characters, like symbols, and so on, but really
if we click this, you'll see it's real characters.
| | 00:42 | There are different categories to choose
from, Business being the default. Now, if
| | 00:46 | you haven't installed these
yet, you'll be prompted to do so.
| | 00:50 | So you'll want to pause this movie, go
through the installation process to get
| | 00:54 | these assets added. Depending on your
installation options when you install
| | 00:59 | Captivate 6, you may need to do this,
or they may already be there like mine.
| | 01:03 | Let's choose a category dropdown, and
look at the casual ones. Well there is
| | 01:07 | only one character here dressed a little more
casually, in various poses as we scroll down.
| | 01:13 | There's one for Illustrated.
| | 01:15 | These are not real life looking characters,
but rather cartoon characters in similar poses.
| | 01:21 | Even one for Medicine, and when we
go here, you can see the two different
| | 01:25 | characters: lab coat, or scrubs.
| | 01:29 | Let's go back to Business. That applies
to our slide, and look at the different
| | 01:33 | characters we can choose from here.
| | 01:35 | We have different genders,
| | 01:37 | we have different age
categories, different poses;
| | 01:40 | let's go back to our first guy here, and
scroll down the list, and find one that
| | 01:45 | will help illustrate our
vision graphic on this slide.
| | 01:49 | I'm thinking this guy down here;
| | 01:51 | I'll select that, and click OK.
| | 01:55 | So there he is in his original size. I'm
thinking this guy needs to be over here,
| | 02:01 | and facing the other direction, and we
might want to size him down a little bit.
| | 02:04 | I'm going to do that from the top
right corner, but I'm going to hold down the
| | 02:08 | Shift key, so I keep the same aspect ratio.
| | 02:10 | I don't want to make him too wide, or
too skinny. That's about right; maybe a
| | 02:15 | little smaller, because
I'm going to move him up.
| | 02:18 | And of course, he is facing the wrong
direction, so we need to flip him, and
| | 02:22 | that's where the properties come in.
| | 02:24 | The image Name; you can see it's just
Image, and then a number. Your number may be
| | 02:28 | different than mine;
it really doesn't matter.
| | 02:29 | We're going to highlight that,
and we're going to type in Actor.
| | 02:33 | Other options include things like
grayscale, if you want to go black and white;
| | 02:38 | if your content's black and
white, you can make it match.
| | 02:41 | This is the one that we really
need here, and that's to flip the
| | 02:43 | image horizontally.
| | 02:45 | And when we do that, now he's
pointing down at our vision.
| | 02:49 | If we wanted to, we could do other
things, like crop it, and you'll notice that
| | 02:53 | when we move him over our graphic,
there is already a transparency here, so we
| | 02:58 | don't need to actually do that.
| | 03:00 | We'll just position him in the right spot,
maybe down a little bit, and there we go.
| | 03:06 | We can add a shadow, make him three-
dimensional, there are different shadow
| | 03:10 | options to choose from. You can see a
bit of a shadow around the outside; really
| | 03:14 | doesn't work well, so
I'm going to turn that off.
| | 03:18 | There are reflections as well, as if
he's standing on water; there we go.
| | 03:22 | Really not applicable,
so we can turn that off.
| | 03:25 | Now, as far as the timing, you can see
here our actor is right at the top of our
| | 03:30 | list, and that's where we want him.
| | 03:31 | The Click Box should be on top, so let's
move this down, so the Click Box is on top.
| | 03:37 | Perfect!
| | 03:38 | As for the timing, he should be
there for the entire slide, I think.
| | 03:42 | Let's go over to the Timing section,
change it from specific time, where you can
| | 03:47 | see the default of 3 seconds, to
rest of slide, and now it's just as long as
| | 03:52 | the rest of the graphics, and
items that appear on this slide.
| | 03:55 | All right, there are some other options,
or properties that can be adjusted; if we
| | 04:00 | wanted to add audio, for example.
| | 04:03 | Let's just leave everything
as is, and preview this now.
| | 04:05 | I'll go up to our Preview button, and
preview From this Slide to see what it looks like.
| | 04:11 | So it just takes a moment. We're going
to see the special effect on our vision,
| | 04:14 | our character's pointing directly to it,
and now we have a click box here to
| | 04:19 | move on to the next slide. There we go.
| | 04:22 | We'll press Escape to return, and
that's how we insert characters here
| | 04:27 | in Captivate 6.
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4. Working with MediaAdding background audio| 00:00 | If you need to make your project even more
interesting, one option might be to add some audio.
| | 00:06 | There is a number of different things
we can do with audio, like adding sound
| | 00:09 | effects to slides, or to actual
objects on a slide, even play sound in the
| | 00:15 | background if we wanted to, and we're
going to look at those scenarios now using
| | 00:19 | our Volunteer Orientation project.
| | 00:21 | Clicking on slide 1,
| | 00:23 | this is where we're going to start.
| | 00:24 | If you need to get caught up, go to the
Chapter4 folder of your Exercise Files where
| | 00:28 | you'll find Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA16.
| | 00:33 | Let's say we want to add
some audio to this slide.
| | 00:35 | As soon as it appears, we hear a sound
effect. That means not selecting any
| | 00:40 | object on the slide; instead, just going
over here to the Properties, the Slide
| | 00:44 | Properties, and then moving down to
the Audio section, and clicking Add Audio.
| | 00:49 | That's one way to get audio into our slide.
| | 00:53 | Now, from here we are looking at the
Slide Audio dialog, and here's where we go
| | 00:57 | to add or replace audio.
| | 00:59 | Where do we get it from?
| | 01:00 | Well, if you have sound files -- they can
be MP3 or WAV files -- you can go to the
| | 01:04 | Import button, and just navigate to
their location, or you can use a Library.
| | 01:10 | I'm going to go here.
| | 01:12 | The Library is actually going to keep
track of sound effects that you're already
| | 01:16 | using, so you can access them quickly
from here, but if you don't see what
| | 01:20 | you're looking for, notice
there is an Import button here as well.
| | 01:24 | Anything you import will
then show up in your Library.
| | 01:27 | So let's go to Import. We'll
navigate to the location of our sound files.
| | 01:31 | Here in the Mac, you're going to go
to the Applications folder, then Adobe
| | 01:35 | Captivate 6, then the Gallery, and in
the Gallery folder is where you'll find a
| | 01:40 | Sound folder, and a SoundEffects folder.
| | 01:43 | On a Windows PC, you're going to Program
Files, then Adobe, then Adobe Captivate
| | 01:47 | 6, then the Gallery, and then we'll
expand the Sound folder from there.
| | 01:53 | There it is right at the top;
Applause. That might be good for our welcome
| | 01:56 | slide. We'll select it, and click Open.
| | 01:59 | If we want to hear what that sounds
like before we actually save it, we'll
| | 02:02 | click the Play button.
| | 02:03 | (audio playing)
| | 02:08 | Okay, that will work with this slide.
| | 02:10 | Seems like it's a little bit longer
than the actual display time of our slide
| | 02:13 | itself, but that's okay; let's
see what happens when we click Save.
| | 02:16 | Do you want to extend the display time
to 4.3 seconds to match this new audio?
| | 02:23 | Automatically Captivate, by clicking
Yes, will extend the duration of our
| | 02:27 | slide, and our objects on the slide to match
the length of this particular sound effect.
| | 02:32 | All we have to do now is
click Close, and test it out.
| | 02:36 | We'll click the Preview button, and
just preview From this Slide. It takes a
| | 02:40 | moment to generate the slides, and
then we'll hear our slide as it appears.
| | 02:44 | (audio playing)
| | 02:50 | Well, let's press Escape, and
that's adding audio to a slide.
| | 02:54 | How about to an object?
| | 02:55 | That's a little bit different.
| | 02:57 | Let's scroll down in our project until
we get to our Vision slide, slide #9.
| | 03:03 | Now, in this case, we have a special
effect already with the word vision. We can
| | 03:07 | select that object if we try, and it
might be in behind our click box, so that
| | 03:12 | means going down to the Timeline here, and
finding our text animation; there it is.
| | 03:18 | Now, if we try to go down here and add
audio, we might run into difficulties in
| | 03:23 | adding audio to the actual slide.
| | 03:25 | If you really want to be sure, and you
have to have the object selected, go up to
| | 03:30 | Audio on the Menu bar, and from there
go to Import to, and you'll notice we can
| | 03:36 | import it to the selected Object, to
the Slide, or to the Background, which will
| | 03:41 | get too momentarily. Right
now we are going to Object.
| | 03:44 | Again, we're going to browse to the
location of the sound file we want. Let's
| | 03:48 | scroll a little further down, and try
one of these whoosh sounds. I think Whoosh
| | 03:53 | 3 might be a good one.
| | 03:54 | Notice it is an MP3 file; we can also use
WAV files. We'll click Open, and play this.
| | 04:00 | (audio playing)
| | 04:03 | Interesting! So when the word vision appears using
that fancy animation, we'll also hear a sound effect.
| | 04:09 | I like it. We'll click
Close, and we'll test it out.
| | 04:13 | Let's go to the Preview
button, and play From this Slide.
| | 04:17 | Again, it'll take a moment to
generate, and then off we go.
| | 04:20 | (audio playing)
| | 04:24 | Press Escape, and that works perfectly.
| | 04:27 | Now, how about some background music?
| | 04:29 | That might be interesting if we had
something going on in the background.
| | 04:33 | Let's go back to slide 1 here.
| | 04:36 | It really doesn't matter what slide we're
looking at; we're going back up to the
| | 04:38 | Audio menu, Import to, and this
time we'll select Background.
| | 04:44 | What I'd like you do is
go to your Exercise Files;
| | 04:47 | I have one that's going to work nicely here.
| | 04:49 | We'll go to the Desktop, and in the
Chapter4 folder of your Exercise Files
| | 04:55 | there's one here called the
roux_theme_music. It's an MP3 file.
| | 04:58 | We'll select it, and click Open.
| | 05:01 | Now, this is a very large audio file,
and it's going to play throughout the
| | 05:06 | duration of our project by putting it
in the background, so we'll just let it
| | 05:11 | import, and once it's done, we'll test it out.
| | 05:14 | Click the Play button.
| | 05:15 | (audio playing)
| | 05:21 | Click Pause, and you can see
it's going be over two minutes long.
| | 05:25 | We also have some options down below.
| | 05:27 | We can loop this audio, so if our
project gets longer and longer, we can have it
| | 05:31 | looped. That is selected by default.
| | 05:34 | Stop the audio at the end of
the project is also a default.
| | 05:37 | Of course, we want that to happen, and
we can also adjust the background audio
| | 05:41 | volume if we wanted to.
| | 05:43 | So if we want it to be a little quieter, maybe
we'll bring it down to about 34%, and click Save.
| | 05:50 | Once it's saved, we can click Close
knowing that we have background audio now.
| | 05:54 | So let's test that out.
| | 05:56 | Again, we'll go up to our Preview button.
From here we'll play From this Slide;
| | 06:01 | give it a moment to generate.
| | 06:02 | We'll hear our applause, but we'll
also hear some background music.
| | 06:05 | (audio playing)
| | 06:25 | And we'll just press the Escape to come out.
| | 06:27 | So there it is, playing in the
background along with other sound effects. What a
| | 06:31 | nice way to add some interest to your project.
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| Using voice-overs| 00:00 | Another way to add audio to content
in your Captivate projects is to record
| | 00:05 | the audio yourself.
| | 00:06 | It's called voiceover, and that's
what we're going to do right now with our
| | 00:10 | Volunteer Orientation project.
| | 00:11 | If you're getting caught up with me,
go to the Chapter4 folder of your
| | 00:14 | Exercise Files where you'll find
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA17, and we are on
| | 00:20 | slide 9; our VISION slide.
| | 00:22 | We want to attach our voice to our
actor here, which means first selecting him.
| | 00:27 | And if you try to click on him right
here from the slide itself, you'll notice
| | 00:30 | you're just getting the click
box that covers our entire stage.
| | 00:34 | So go down to the Timeline, find
the actor there, and click to select.
| | 00:39 | Now whatever we record will be object
audio attached to this object, so when he
| | 00:44 | appears, so does his audio.
| | 00:46 | Where does that audio come from?
| | 00:48 | We will record it by going to the
Microphone icon in the Toolbar up here,
| | 00:53 | and click Record Audio.
| | 00:55 | This opens up the Object Audio dialog.
There's our Record button, but before we
| | 00:59 | record, we want to make sure it's going to
sound right, and it's actually going to work.
| | 01:04 | First of all, I know for a fact
that this Soundflower device is not my
| | 01:08 | input device for my mic.
| | 01:10 | If you have a mic plugged in, you'll
want to choose the right device as well. So
| | 01:14 | clicking this opens up the Audio Settings.
| | 01:17 | Here we can select our input device.
Mine is through the Built-in Line Input.
| | 01:22 | That's what I'm selecting;
| | 01:23 | you can select your appropriate device.
| | 01:26 | We have some Bitrate options here for
the quality of our sound. That's up to you.
| | 01:31 | I'm going to leave it Near CD Bitrate.
| | 01:33 | And we can also calibrate to
make sure it's going to sound right.
| | 01:36 | Click Calibrate Input, and
you'll notice an Auto calibrate.
| | 01:39 | All you have to do is click
this button, and start talking.
| | 01:43 | I'm going to read what's up
here while I Auto calibrate.
| | 01:45 | It tells me also that when Input Level OK
appears over here, then I'll be ready to go.
| | 01:53 | So clicking Auto calibrate, here we go.
| | 01:56 | When Auto calibration is successful,
Input Level OK appears up, and there it is.
| | 02:01 | It's already been calibrated;
| | 02:02 | you can see the Pre-amp
value has been adjusted to 0.5.
| | 02:06 | I can redo that by clicking Record if
I wanted to, but everything looks good,
| | 02:10 | so I'll click OK. I'll click OK again
for the Audio Settings, and everything is
| | 02:15 | ready for me to actually record;
| | 02:17 | I just need to know what it is I'm going to say.
| | 02:19 | Well, because our character actor here
is pointing to vision, I'm simply going
| | 02:24 | to say, we have vision.
| | 02:27 | We'll click the Record button.
We have vision.
| | 02:33 | I'll click the Stop button.
There it is right there;
| | 02:35 | I can play it back.
| | 02:36 | (audio: We have vision!)
| | 02:41 | Sounds good to me; I'll click
Save, which saves it to my object.
| | 02:46 | You'll notice here in the Timeline a
little speaker icon appears next to the
| | 02:50 | name of my character.
| | 02:52 | So I can click Close, and now I know when I
play this slide, that audio will also play.
| | 02:59 | I do have other audio going on in here.
| | 03:02 | First of all, for our vision, our text
animation, there is a special effect.
| | 03:07 | And as we scroll, down we might have
some other audio. Yes we do; playing in the
| | 03:11 | background, remember that.
| | 03:14 | So you'll have to keep that in mind if
we want be able to hear what's being said.
| | 03:19 | We can also try to synchronize things, so that
maybe he appears after vision. Let's do that.
| | 03:25 | Our actor here, you can see, appears for
the entire duration of the slide, but we
| | 03:29 | can go to the left side, and just drag
him in toward, say, 2 seconds. So
| | 03:35 | after two seconds, he will appear, and
then will actually have something to say.
| | 03:40 | And we can extend this out if we
need to, but for now, the slide is okay.
| | 03:44 | We'll test it out by going to our
Preview button, and playing From this Slide.
| | 03:50 | It'll generate, and off it goes.
| | 03:51 | (audio: We have vision!)
| | 04:01 | There we go. Press Escape, or
Close, and that sounds pretty good.
| | 04:05 | Maybe the volume could be
adjusted, and that is an option.
| | 04:08 | So when we go into our Audio for our
object, we can adjust things like the audio.
| | 04:14 | So over here where it says Edit Audio
on the right-hand side in our Properties
| | 04:17 | panel, clicking Edit Audio, we can
adjust the volume if we wanted to bump it up
| | 04:22 | just a little bit, let's say.
| | 04:24 | I'm going to go to 1 decibel; click OK.
| | 04:26 | I'm pretty sure that's
going to work. I'll click Save.
| | 04:29 | Do I want to extend the display time
to 3.6 seconds to match the new audio?
| | 04:34 | I'm going to click Yes.
| | 04:35 | It's just going to extend my entire
playtime here, so I don't get cut off.
| | 04:39 | Clicking Close means everything is
ready to go, and I now have audio attached to
| | 04:45 | my character, which is a voiceover.
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| Adding video to a slide| 00:00 | If a picture is worth a
thousand words, what's a video worth?
| | 00:03 | Well yes, here in Captivate 6, you
can import video into your projects, and
| | 00:08 | there's a couple of different ways to do it.
| | 00:10 | One option is to bring it in as an
object that sits on your slide, giving your
| | 00:14 | users full control over that video object.
| | 00:18 | Another option is to make it part of
your slide, and synchronize it with other
| | 00:21 | items that might show up on the slide.
| | 00:24 | We'll talk about that in the next lesson.
Right now, let's focused on bringing in
| | 00:27 | some video as an object on a slide.
| | 00:30 | We're going to continue working here
with our Volunteer Orientation project, and
| | 00:34 | if you need to get caught up, you're
jumping to this lesson; go to the Chapter4
| | 00:38 | folder of your Exercise Files, and
open up Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA18.
| | 00:43 | We'll click over here in the Filmstrip
on slide number 9, or Vision, because we want
| | 00:48 | our new slide to go right after this.
| | 00:50 | When we go to insert a new slide, we're
going to look at a new way to get content.
| | 00:55 | Go to Insert > New Slide from, and we'll
go over to our layouts here, and choose
| | 00:59 | one that includes content.
| | 01:02 | And in this way, we have the
layout already set up for us;
| | 01:05 | it's just a matter of choosing the right type
of content, which in our case will be a video.
| | 01:10 | So here we have some with captions, and the
content on the left, or the content on the right.
| | 01:15 | How about content right
in the middle, or center?
| | 01:18 | Let's choose Content - Center, and
there's our new slide with our placeholders.
| | 01:24 | Let's double-click to add a title;
| | 01:26 | we'll begin there by typing in the name
of the person we're going to see in this
| | 01:29 | video. His name is Jim Sugar.
| | 01:33 | Next, we have double-click to add subtitle.
Put in a subtitle by double-clicking,
| | 01:38 | and type in Photographer.
| | 01:41 | Now it's a matter of getting the content,
which could be text, or it could be content
| | 01:45 | from this content wheel.
| | 01:46 | Let's zoom in to see what that looks like.
| | 01:49 | We'll go to our dropdown to
choose a zoom level of 100.
| | 01:54 | As we scroll over, we're not going to
be adding text here; we're going to use
| | 01:58 | the Content Wheel, and on the Content Wheel,
there's a number of different types of content.
| | 02:02 | If we go to this first little section here,
we can Insert Animations, or Text Captions.
| | 02:08 | How about Text Animations, Images,
and there it is: Insert Video Object.
| | 02:15 | The Flash logo is kind of
important; I'll tell you why in a second.
| | 02:18 | Let's just click Video Object first.
| | 02:21 | This opens up a new window, Import
Video, which could reside on your computer, or
| | 02:26 | it could already be deployed to a Web
server, and if you know the exact location --
| | 02:30 | it does have to be an FLV
file; a Flash Video file --
| | 02:34 | if it's using the HTTP protocol, you
would enter that URL in the URL field.
| | 02:40 | If it's streaming video, using RTMP
protocol, you need to know the exact folder
| | 02:45 | name, and you would enter that here as well.
| | 02:47 | But for our purposes, I have something
for you on the computer in your Exercise
| | 02:52 | Files, so we'll choose On your Computer.
| | 02:54 | The File Path; we could
type it in, or use Browse.
| | 02:59 | Here in the Chapter4 folder, there it is;
jim sugar short bio, and notice it is an
| | 03:04 | FLV file. That's a Flash video.
| | 03:07 | Look down below at the supported video formats.
| | 03:10 | Here we have FLV, F4V,
also Flash; we also have MP4.
| | 03:16 | If you were to choose something like
MP4, let's say we did have that format,
| | 03:19 | there is an Adobe Media Encoder that
automatically launches, and converts it to
| | 03:24 | an FLV file that's compatible.
| | 03:27 | But in our case, we don't have to go
through that. We'll just select jim sugar
| | 03:31 | short bio, and click Open.
| | 03:33 | Now what you're going to see is a full
path, and if you were to scroll over to
| | 03:38 | the right, the name of our file.
we're ready to go; click OK.
| | 03:42 | That just takes a moment, and you can see
it's inserted right on the slide; there
| | 03:46 | it is, and there are some
important options to consider.
| | 03:49 | The length of our slide, for
example, is about four or five seconds.
| | 03:53 | The length of this video is much longer.
| | 03:55 | So let's take a look over here with our
Video Object selected. Over here in the
| | 04:00 | Properties, let's rename it, first of
all, from Video_Object_1 to Jim Sugar.
| | 04:06 | You can leave a space, and when you
hit Enter, you'll get the underscore
| | 04:09 | character entered for you. And we'll
scroll up to see all of our properties,
| | 04:14 | including the General properties.
| | 04:16 | Notice we have an option here to
automatically play it. I like that, so we don't
| | 04:20 | have to hit a Play button.
| | 04:22 | It can automatically be rewound at
the end if you like; I do like that one.
| | 04:27 | There is a skin that we'll see
momentarily when we preview this.
| | 04:30 | Some other options, like
adding shadow and reflection.
| | 04:33 | There is Timing; notice, it's
displayed for the rest of the slide.
| | 04:37 | I like this down here: pause the
slide till the end of the video.
| | 04:42 | So it really doesn't matter how long
the slide appears; it's going to be paused
| | 04:46 | until the end of the video, and then
it will move on to the next slide.
| | 04:50 | So let's scroll down a little further.
We can add transitions, transformations;
| | 04:55 | everything looks good, so we don't
really need to make any adjustments.
| | 04:59 | Let's just zoom back out to Best Fit
from our dropdown up here at the top on the
| | 05:02 | Application bar; choose Best Fit.
| | 05:05 | And you can see that using the Skin
that's selected by default, there are some
| | 05:09 | control buttons here.
| | 05:11 | You'll also see a Mute button
over here on the right-hand side.
| | 05:15 | But let's see what it
looks like using the default.
| | 05:17 | We'll go up to our Preview
button, and we'll play From this Slide.
| | 05:21 | We'll let it generate, and see what happens.
| | 05:24 | (video playing)
| | 05:36 | Pressing Pause, we can see we have some
issues here with the actual proportion of
| | 05:40 | our content, and that's based
on the layout of our slide.
| | 05:43 | So let's press Escape to go back.
| | 05:46 | Now we can start making adjustments
to our content here; our video object.
| | 05:50 | For example, let's go down to the
bottom right-hand corner, when we see the
| | 05:54 | double diagonal arrow, we'll click and
drag it across and down. That might be
| | 05:59 | a better proportion.
| | 06:01 | We can move this around, just like any
other object, and this is because of the
| | 06:04 | way we imported our video.
| | 06:06 | Let's go to the right here as well, and look
at the Properties, and try a different skin.
| | 06:11 | When we click the dropdown for our Skins,
which is what we see around the outside
| | 06:16 | of our video, and the control
buttons, try something like haloSkin3.
| | 06:20 | You can see there's actually more controls here.
| | 06:24 | Let's give that a shot;
| | 06:26 | again, we'll preview it From this Slide.
| | 06:28 | It will regenerate the
slides, and let's see what happens.
| | 06:31 | (video playing)
| | 06:46 | All right! Let's press Escape, and you can
tell by the quality of the video that we want to
| | 06:51 | keep it a size that was workable.
| | 06:54 | We might want to just reduce the size
of our object even further, move it more
| | 06:59 | into the center, and we'll leave it like that.
| | 07:04 | Now, automatically at the end of this
video, we'll move to the next slide, and
| | 07:08 | that's because the slide is paused
until the end of the video, where our timings
| | 07:12 | in the Timeline will continue.
| | 07:15 | So that's one way of getting video into
your project as an object on the slide.
| | 07:19 | Another option is to make it part of
the slide; even have it shown across
| | 07:24 | multiple slides, which gives you, then,
the opportunity to add other objects, and
| | 07:29 | synchronize those objects with your
video. We'll talk about that next.
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| Synchronizing video| 00:00 | Another way to get video into your
Captivate projects is to bring it in as
| | 00:05 | multi-slide synchronized video.
| | 00:08 | In this way, you can have your
video play across multiple slides,
| | 00:11 | meaning you can synchronize your video
with transitions from one slide to the
| | 00:17 | next at appropriate points
in your video, for example.
| | 00:20 | You can also synchronize it with
other objects you might add to the stage
| | 00:23 | along with your video.
| | 00:25 | So that's what we're going to do
right now as we continue working with our
| | 00:28 | Volunteer Orientation project.
| | 00:30 | If you're jumping to this lesson, and
you need to get caught up with me, go to
| | 00:34 | the Chapter4 folder of your
Exercise Files. You'll open up
| | 00:37 | Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA19, and
we're going to go to slide 10 here in the
| | 00:43 | Filmsrtip, where we just entered some
video into a slide that already exists,
| | 00:49 | using it as an event, or an object.
| | 00:51 | Well in that case, it's just an
object, like any of our other objects, and we
| | 00:55 | need to remove this slide
to try the other method.
| | 00:58 | We don't need both.
| | 01:00 | So we'll right-click slide 10 here in the
Filmstrip, and choose from the menu Delete.
| | 01:06 | We'll confirm that by clicking OK,
which removes our current video.
| | 01:11 | Now we can replace it with some synchronized
video that will play over multiple slides.
| | 01:16 | Let's insert those multiple
slides after our Vision slide.
| | 01:21 | So we click Slide 9 in the Filmstrip.
| | 01:24 | Let's right-click it now, and from this little
pop-up menu, we can choose to insert Slides;
| | 01:29 | how about a Blank Slide?
| | 01:32 | Let's duplicate that by right-clicking
it, and choosing Duplicate.
| | 01:35 | Now we have two blank slides;
| | 01:38 | they are 10, 11. And notice our
slides go all the way to 13,
| | 01:42 | but we only want the video to go from 10 to
11, and we want it to break up in the right spot.
| | 01:47 | I happen to know, for example, if we go
back to Slide 10 that the video we're
| | 01:52 | bringing in, the Jim Sugar bio, has a
nice transition from one part of the video
| | 01:57 | to another at about the 56 second mark.
| | 02:00 | So let's make this slide 56 seconds long. By
default, it was given a duration of 5 seconds.
| | 02:07 | We're going to change that by
going over to the Slide Properties.
| | 02:10 | First, we'll name it.
| | 02:11 | Let's call it Jim Sugar 1.
| | 02:15 | A little further down where we see the
time at 5 seconds, we'll click there, and
| | 02:19 | type in 56, and press Enter
or Return on your keyboard.
| | 02:24 | If we go to Slide 11, we're going to
rename it Jim Sugar 2, and we'll leave the
| | 02:30 | time at 5 seconds, and see what
happens when we go to import our video.
| | 02:35 | Let's go back to Slide 10, and
it's time to go get that video.
| | 02:39 | We'll do it from the Video menu;
| | 02:41 | click Video > Insert Video.
| | 02:43 | And notice that our options are Event
Video, like we did in the previous lesson,
| | 02:47 | or a Multi-Slide Synchronized video.
| | 02:51 | We'll leave it selected,
and browse to our file.
| | 02:54 | Notice the formats we can choose from.
| | 02:57 | There is FLV, and F4V.
| | 02:58 | Notice, there is also AVIs, MP4s,
MOV, and 3GP formats down here,
| | 03:05 | not that they're compatible with
Captivate, but if you do have video in those
| | 03:08 | formats, you can use them. It's just
that the Adobe media encoder will kick
| | 03:13 | in, and automatically encode them, and convert
them to FLV files, so they'll be compatible.
| | 03:19 | We can skip all of that if we already
have the FLV version, which we do; Jim
| | 03:22 | Sugar short bio in the Chapter4
folder of the Exercise Files.
| | 03:26 | We'll select it, and click Open.
| | 03:29 | So it now fills in the File Path field.
| | 03:31 | You can see it's a progressive download.
| | 03:34 | If we wanted to, we could go to
a URL to find an existing video.
| | 03:38 | Notice also what's selected by
default down below; it's going to be
| | 03:41 | distributed across slides.
| | 03:44 | Now remember, the length of
our entire project is 13 Slides.
| | 03:48 | Captivate knows that, and wants to distribute
our video from slide 10 all the way to 13.
| | 03:53 | We only want it to go to slide 11.
| | 03:55 | We can click 13, and type 11, or you
can click it, and just drag your mouse a
| | 04:01 | little bit to the left until you see 11.
| | 04:03 | At 11, you will let go, and click OK.
| | 04:06 | So it's going to bring in our video now.
| | 04:10 | It's going to place it in its original
size, right in the middle of our slide,
| | 04:14 | and in fact, if you look at slide 11, the
rest of it appears down there. Or does it?
| | 04:20 | We have a 56 second portion here on slide 10.
| | 04:23 | If we go to slide 11, sure enough,
it's no longer 5 seconds long; it's
| | 04:27 | actually 176.2 seconds long.
| | 04:30 | That is the rest of our video.
| | 04:33 | Let's go to slide 10 here, Jim Sugar 1.
| | 04:37 | This is where our video begins.
| | 04:38 | The size you're looking at is the
original size, and if you really wanted it
| | 04:42 | to look good, you'd probably have it
fill the entire stage, and you'd have it
| | 04:46 | encoded at the same dimensions as
your stage in your Captivate project.
| | 04:51 | Now, that would mean a very large video file
in your Exercise Files if we were to do that,
| | 04:56 | so in this case, we're going
to work with a smaller file.
| | 04:58 | It doesn't look great, it's kind of
tiny in the middle of our stage, but just
| | 05:02 | keep that in mind, that it's
for the sake of file size.
| | 05:06 | If we were to preview this, let's just
go up to the Preview button, choose From
| | 05:11 | this Slide, and we'll see the slides get
generated here, and we'll see the first
| | 05:15 | part of our video on slide 10.
| | 05:16 | (video playing)
| | 05:31 | Clicking Pause at this point,
| | 05:33 | you can see we're at slide 10 of 13,
| | 05:36 | and as we move the slider across the top,
eventually we'll switch over to slide
| | 05:40 | 11, and you can see where
that transition happens.
| | 05:44 | So one thing we could do if we
wanted to is create a nice special effect
| | 05:47 | transition from one slide to the next,
and we would see it when it moves over to
| | 05:52 | this picture here in the airport hangar.
| | 05:54 | Another thing we can do is add objects.
| | 05:56 | So let's close up our Preview.
| | 05:58 | We're still looking at slide 10.
| | 06:01 | Let's say, for example, I think it was
12 seconds, Jim mentioned the New York Times.
| | 06:07 | So we might want to add the New York Times,
a caption, at 12 seconds. So let's do that.
| | 06:12 | We'll insert some caption text, and
you can see it appears right in the
| | 06:16 | middle of our video.
| | 06:18 | We'll just triple-click inside
there to type in New York Times.
| | 06:21 | I am going to click outside of it, and click
on it again, so we can drag it off to the side.
| | 06:29 | There's New York Times.
| | 06:31 | And where do we want this to show up at?
| | 06:32 | About the 12 second mark.
| | 06:34 | So we'll just drag it across here in
our Timeline down below to the 12 second
| | 06:39 | mark. Again, you have to be
paying attention to the times when certain
| | 06:43 | things are mentioned if
you want to synchronize them.
| | 06:46 | We'll go to 12 seconds, and we'll leave it
showing for 3 seconds, and then it will disappear.
| | 06:51 | Other things we can do with this if we
wanted to, this text caption, you can see
| | 06:56 | some of the formatting, for
example, maybe a little bit bigger.
| | 06:59 | I'm going to go to 24, press Enter;
looks good.
| | 07:03 | I'll keep the same font, same color,
| | 07:06 | you can see the timing is 3 seconds.
| | 07:09 | If I wanted to, I could create a transition too;
| | 07:12 | let's do a fade in and fade
out at about half a second each.
| | 07:17 | Let's go back to our Preview
now, and preview From the Slide.
| | 07:21 | Again, it's going to regenerate the
slides, and start playing the video.
| | 07:24 | (video playing)
| | 07:42 | Perfect! And that's video
synchronization here in Captivate 6.
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| Creating closed captions| 00:00 | Any time we add video to a Captivate
project, we have to keep in mind there may be
| | 00:05 | some people who simply cannot hear what
they're seeing in the video, and in that
| | 00:10 | scenario, we want to add closed captioning.
| | 00:11 | That's what we are going to do with
our Volunteer_orientation project here.
| | 00:15 | If you've been following along
with me, we are on slide number 10.
| | 00:18 | If you need to get caught up with me,
you can go to the Exercise Files in the
| | 00:21 | Chapter4 folder, and open up
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA20.
| | 00:24 | So here on slide 10 is where our video starts,
and we may want to add some closed captioning.
| | 00:31 | It could be a hardware issue that
people can't hear what they're seeing.
| | 00:34 | It could be an accessibility issue as well.
| | 00:37 | So it really doesn't matter
the scenario; the process is the same.
| | 00:41 | We select the video;
| | 00:43 | over here in the Properties panel, we go to
the Video section, and click Edit Video Timing,
| | 00:48 | and here's where we'll find
the Closed Captioning tab.
| | 00:52 | So we do have a Timeline, we can
preview this; click the Play button to listen.
| | 00:58 | (Male speaker: Photography was something that,
from an early age, it felt right to me.)
| | 01:03 | Okay, so that's the first clip, and we
could simply type that in to our closed
| | 01:06 | captioning by going to
the Closed Captioning tab.
| | 01:10 | We want to make sure that our
Timeline is at 0, so that we are starting the
| | 01:14 | caption at the beginning of the actual audio.
| | 01:16 | So we are going to click
Play here, and then Stop.
| | 01:19 | (Male speaker: More importantly, it made me happy.)
| | 01:21 | When we hit Stop, notice
the timeline goes back to 0.
| | 01:25 | Now we can click the plus
sign to add our first row of text.
| | 01:29 | So if you remember what was said,
you could simply type it in here.
| | 01:33 | Ideally, though, you would have an
actual transcript of what's being said, and
| | 01:37 | then you could copy and paste.
| | 01:39 | Well, lucky for you, in your
Exercise Files, there is a file;
| | 01:42 | it's called jim_sugar_script.
| | 01:44 | It's an RTF file; Rich Text Format.
| | 01:46 | And we are going to select the first
row here, photography was something that,
| | 01:51 | from an early age, it felt right to me.
| | 01:53 | With that selected, we can copy it by
right-clicking, and choosing copy, or you
| | 01:57 | can use your keyboard shortcut if you prefer;
| | 01:59 | Command+C on the Mac,
Control+C on your Windows PC,
| | 02:03 | and now we are going to switch
back to our Captivate project.
| | 02:08 | All we need to do is make sure that we
have our first row here where it says
| | 02:12 | Enter the Closed Caption Text,
| | 02:14 | and that's because we hit the plus sign.
| | 02:17 | We can click in there.
| | 02:18 | Notice everything is highlighted,
| | 02:19 | so we can paste right over it.
| | 02:21 | I am going to use a keyboard
shortcut this time; on the Mac,
| | 02:24 | Command+V. If you are on a Windows
PC, Control+V pops it right in there.
| | 02:28 | Now, at this time, we
probably want to start a new row,
| | 02:31 | but we want the new row, the new
clip, to start at the end of this one.
| | 02:37 | So let's click Play.
| | 02:37 | (Male speaker: Photography was something that,
from an early age, it felt right to me.)
| | 02:42 | So we hit the Pause button, you can see
we are just about 6 seconds, and that's
| | 02:47 | where we want to add the next caption.
| | 02:50 | So we click with the plus sign.
| | 02:51 | It's automatically going to start at
5.8 seconds, and you can see now the end
| | 02:57 | time for our first row here actually changed
to 5.8 seconds, and we are ready to continue.
| | 03:04 | We can switch over to our text file,
grab the next clip, Command+C to copy, or
| | 03:10 | Control+C. We'll switch back.
| | 03:13 | where it says Enter the Closed Caption Text,
we are going to paste it, just like that.
| | 03:19 | So we'll click Play until
the end of that sentence.
| | 03:22 | (Male speaker: More importantly, it made me happy.)
| | 03:24 | When we hit Pause, that's the spot
where we want the next line to go,
| | 03:28 | so we'll click the plus sign.
| | 03:30 | That's about 7.8 seconds,
and we continue this process.
| | 03:34 | Now, the next one is a little bit longer,
and it may take up more than one row.
| | 03:38 | We'll have to see what
happens when we preview this.
| | 03:41 | But we will select the entire two rows
of text and copy it, and we'll paste it
| | 03:42 | (New York Times Sunday book review, and The Times
paid me the princely sum of $25,)
| | 03:46 | in that third row by
clicking, and pasting.
| | 03:48 | I'm using Command+V. And now we are
going to have hit Play, and Pause at the end
| | 03:53 | of the word fortune.
| | 03:54 | (Male speaker: And one of the very, very
earliest pictures I shot got published in The)
| | 03:59 | (New York Times Sunday book review, and The Times
paid me the princely sum of $25,)
| | 04:05 | (which at that time was a fortune.)
| | 04:07 | That's almost at 20
seconds, or maybe a little bit past.
| | 04:11 | I did notice there was a word missing; one
of the very earliest pictures that I shot.
| | 04:16 | So we can actually edit that here.
There we go.
| | 04:19 | We are going to add a new row.
| | 04:23 | And if we wanted to, we could go and
get that last piece of text. There it is:
| | 04:28 | and that was a great experience.
| | 04:29 | Let's copy it, switch back, paste it.
| | 04:32 | Now, the next thing we are going to do is
actually add a new row at the end of this sentence.
| | 04:38 | So we will hit Play.
| | 04:39 | (Male speaker: And that was a great experience.)
| | 04:42 | So we'll click the plus
sign to add the new row. Why?
| | 04:45 | We are going to actually delete it.
| | 04:47 | Otherwise, that's going to
show up for the rest of our video.
| | 04:48 | (which at that time was a fortune,
and that was a great experience.)
| | 04:50 | We are going to stop right there, just
leave that blank row, and that way we
| | 04:54 | won't be looking at the last caption
for the remainder of our video if that's
| | 04:58 | where we are going to stop for now.
| | 05:00 | So we have our captions in there, but
what we don't have are the settings, and
| | 05:04 | there is a button for Closed
Captioned Project Settings
| | 05:06 | from here. We can also get to it from the
skin that we are going to look at momentarily.
| | 05:11 | So let's click CC Project Settings.
| | 05:14 | It opens up this little dialog.
| | 05:15 | First of all, you can see that we
will be able to view up to three lines of
| | 05:20 | text in our caption.
| | 05:21 | If you want to change that, you can click and
slide down to 1, or as high as 20. I am thinking 2.
| | 05:27 | I am just going to type in a 2.
| | 05:29 | Now we can also choose the
background, and the font color.
| | 05:32 | So for example, if we wanted the
background to be black, we would select black,
| | 05:37 | and then the color of our
font, we would choose White.
| | 05:40 | That's a nice contrast.
| | 05:42 | We can also change the font.
| | 05:44 | I'm thinking something that is sans
serif, like Verdana, and the size can
| | 05:49 | be adjusted as well.
| | 05:51 | With those settings, we will click OK.
| | 05:52 | We'll click OK again here in our Edit
Video Timing window, which takes us back,
| | 05:58 | and now we're ready to preview this.
| | 06:00 | I'm guessing there is going to be an
issue with our copyright on the Master,
| | 06:04 | which can be adjusted.
| | 06:05 | Let's go to our Preview.
| | 06:07 | Preview From this Slide,
and have a listen, and a look.
| | 06:11 | (Male speaker: Photography was something that,
from an early age, it felt right to me.)
| | 06:19 | First of all, there is no closed
captioning, and as we scroll down and look at
| | 06:24 | the control buttons, there
was no option to turn it on.
| | 06:27 | And that's because the default
setting here in Captivate is that closed
| | 06:30 | captioning is turned off.
| | 06:32 | So our next step is to turn it on.
| | 06:34 | Where do we do that?
| | 06:35 | It's actually from the Project menu.
| | 06:37 | So we'll click Project.
| | 06:39 | Then we will go down to Skin Editor,
and it's from here -- keeping in mind
| | 06:44 | that every video has a skin, or a
look and feel around it, including the
| | 06:48 | Playbar, as it's called --
| | 06:49 | a little further down, you'll see
Closed Captioning has a checkbox, and sure
| | 06:53 | enough, it's turned off. So we turn it on.
| | 06:56 | We can also go back to the
settings from here if we needed to.
| | 06:59 | Everything is there, just like we left it.
| | 07:00 | We will click Cancel.
| | 07:02 | The other thing we can do is position our bar.
| | 07:05 | I think the bar should go across the bottom.
| | 07:07 | You can see a preview here
right now, and it's stretched.
| | 07:10 | But I am thinking down at the bottom,
and centered, because our video does not take
| | 07:14 | up the entire slide.
| | 07:15 | So let's go to Bottom Centre.
| | 07:18 | That doesn't mean our closed captioning
won't appear over here in the left-hand
| | 07:22 | side, across the bottom of our screen.
| | 07:24 | I am a little bit worried about our
copyright that appears in the bottom left
| | 07:28 | corner of every single slide.
| | 07:30 | So all we are going to do now is close up
our Skin Editor, and go to our Master slide.
| | 07:35 | We will make sure it's selected,
and you can see down at the bottom our
| | 07:39 | copyright text there.
| | 07:40 | I think we should probably move it
to the opposite corner, and release.
| | 07:44 | We'll go back to our Timeline,
and we are going to preview this.
| | 07:49 | Now when we preview it, we are not
going to have much time to turn closed
| | 07:53 | captioning on from the playbar,
| | 07:54 | but we're going to pause our
video, turn it on, and then continue.
| | 07:57 | We are going to go to slide 10,
and then preview From this Slide.
| | 08:02 | As soon as it starts to play, we
will pause it at the top. There we go.
| | 08:08 | That's because as we scroll down and
look at the bottom, there is our copyright
| | 08:11 | information down in the
bottom right-hand corner. Perfect.
| | 08:14 | And notice there is a Closed Caption
button here that we can turn on now, and
| | 08:19 | that's because we enabled it.
| | 08:20 | And as you can see, it does stretch
across the bottom here, starting at the
| | 08:24 | left-hand side, and now when we
continue to play, we will see the captions
| | 08:27 | appear at the right times in our video.
| | 08:30 | (Male speaker: Photography was something that,
from an early age, it felt right to me.)
| | 08:35 | (More importantly, it made me happy.)
| | 08:38 | (Male speaker: And one of the very, very
earliest pictures I shot got published in The)
| | 08:52 | Pressing Pause, you can see that's as far
as we've gotten with our closed captioning.
| | 08:57 | We can close up the preview, and now
you have an idea what it takes to get
| | 09:01 | closed captioning into the
videos in your Captivate projects.
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| Preparing a software simulation| 00:00 | If part of your project here in Captivate 6
is going to be instructing users on
| | 00:05 | how to use a specific piece of software,
maybe a feature within that software,
| | 00:10 | you can record software stimulation,
and unlike recording software that's out
| | 00:15 | there, you're actually creating a simulation
where you're going to see the mouse tracking,
| | 00:19 | you are going to have interactions
showing up, entering text into fields,
| | 00:24 | selecting menus, etcetera.
| | 00:26 | And that's what we're going to do
right now. We're going to do it actually
| | 00:29 | right inside of our existing project, the
Volunteer_Orientation project we've been working on.
| | 00:34 | If you haven't been following along
with me, and you need to get caught up, go
| | 00:38 | to the Chapter4 folder of
your Exercise Files, and open up
| | 00:40 | Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA21. And now we want
to show people how to contact us via our Web site.
| | 00:48 | So to do that, we will actually record
a simulation using the Web site, and the
| | 00:52 | first thing we need to do is prep it by,
first of all, switching to our browser.
| | 00:58 | Now, for me, that's Safari.
| | 01:00 | This Web page is for demonstration
purposes only, and is always changing, so you
| | 01:05 | don't need to follow along with me here.
| | 01:07 | But currently, if I go to Contact Us,
there's a form that I can fill out, and
| | 01:11 | submit to get information.
| | 01:13 | You might see something different, but
this is what we want to show our users.
| | 01:16 | We will click the SAMOCA
logo to go back to the homepage.
| | 01:20 | So we're ready to actually start
recording this. We have to consider a few things.
| | 01:25 | First of all, do we want to be
speaking? Do we want to record our voice
| | 01:29 | as we're instructing people?
| | 01:31 | And there are some other things
that we need to do to get ready.
| | 01:33 | First of all, we need to ensure that
the microphone is going to work if we are
| | 01:37 | going to be using voiceover.
| | 01:39 | So let's Alt+Tab or
Command+Tab back to Captivate.
| | 01:44 | Now, from here, we're going to
go to the recording section.
| | 01:47 | We'll go to the Adobe Captivate menu
here on the Mac; you can go to the Edit
| | 01:51 | menu if you're on a Windows PC, and
select Preferences, and as that opens up, you
| | 01:57 | can see the Recording section
includes Settings right at the top.
| | 02:01 | With that selected, you can see there
are Audio Options over here, including
| | 02:06 | Narration, and in this case, we do want
to make sure that our Audio Settings are
| | 02:11 | set up for Narration.
| | 02:12 | So let's click Audio Settings;
opens up the Audio Settings dialog.
| | 02:17 | We want to make sure that our
microphone is selected. For me it's the
| | 02:20 | Built-in Line Input;
| | 02:22 | you could be using
Digital Input, or something else.
| | 02:25 | Make sure it's the right one, and then
choose the Constant Bitrate that's going
| | 02:30 | to be used in your recording.
| | 02:31 | For me, Near CD; it's not quite as clear,
and as large a file as a CD Bitrate, but
| | 02:40 | it is going to be a good sound, and
it's going to be a smaller file size.
| | 02:44 | You can calibrate your microphone,
like we did when we talked about doing
| | 02:47 | voiceovers, if you need to, to
make sure it's going to sound right.
| | 02:51 | Once you're ready, you can click OK.
| | 02:53 | So let's click Narration,
so that's turned on.
| | 02:55 | Our Audio Settings are ready for us.
| | 02:57 | We will click OK,
and we are back to our project.
| | 03:02 | We're actually ready now to start recording.
| | 03:04 | Other things you might want to do in
preparation is make sure that you're in a
| | 03:08 | quiet place, if you're going to
be recording audio, like we are.
| | 03:12 | You want to make sure that you've
rehearsed what you're going to do.
| | 03:15 | So take a look at the Web site, go through
the motions; you might even want to be
| | 03:19 | speaking while you're
going through those motions.
| | 03:21 | And when you feel confident, and ready
to begin, you'll start the recording.
| | 03:26 | That's exactly what we're going to do next.
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| Recording a software simulation| 00:00 | Once you've prepared for your software
simulation, it's time to do the recording.
| | 00:05 | In the previous lesson, we set up our
software in the background. We can flip to
| | 00:09 | it to see it. There it is;
the homepage of SAMOCA art.
| | 00:12 | I will flip back to Captivate.
| | 00:14 | Our microphone is plugged
in and working; ready to go.
| | 00:17 | We have a quiet space.
| | 00:19 | We know we are not going to be interrupted.
| | 00:21 | It's time to record, and the recorded
slides will appear here in our Volunteer
| | 00:25 | Orientation project that we've been working on.
| | 00:28 | If you've skipped to this lesson, and you
need to get caught up, go to the Chapter4
| | 00:32 | folder of your Exercise files, and
open a Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA_21.
| | 00:35 | It doesn't matter what slide is
selected right now, because we'll have an
| | 00:40 | opportunity to choose the location
for our new recorded slides momentarily.
| | 00:45 | To begin the recording, we can go to the
Record button on the Control Panel, or we
| | 00:49 | can go to the Insert menu, where
you'll see Recording Slide as an option.
| | 00:54 | Either way, whatever you select, when
you click, you'll see the same thing here;
| | 00:58 | an opportunity to choose where the
recorded slides will be inserted.
| | 01:03 | As we go through our slides, we will
select a slide, knowing that the recorded
| | 01:07 | slides will appear after it.
| | 01:08 | It makes sense that after Upcoming
Exhibitions we might want to insert some
| | 01:13 | instruction on how to get in
touch with our set SAMOCA art.
| | 01:16 | So we will click Slide 8, and then
click OK, and watch what happens.
| | 01:20 | Away it goes, Captivate just disappeared
into the background, and the window
| | 01:24 | we select to be recorded is our software here,
which is really just a browser, and a Web page.
| | 01:31 | We do have some options to
select before we get to the recording.
| | 01:35 | For example, which window are we going to
record? It just so happens to be this one.
| | 01:40 | Notice the title Home at the top.
| | 01:42 | I'm using Safari; you might
be using a different browser.
| | 01:45 | But when we go to the dropdown to
select the window to record, you'll see
| | 01:48 | everything that's open and
running on your computer.
| | 01:51 | For me, the only other thing is Safari, and
there it is, Home; that's the name of this page.
| | 01:57 | So I am going to select that.
| | 01:59 | You can do the same, and now we know
the right window is going to be recorded.
| | 02:04 | Down below for the recording
type, you can see Automatic.
| | 02:07 | This is going to be the most
popular, and most often used option.
| | 02:11 | Video Demo actually records video of
your mouse movements, and everything you do.
| | 02:16 | The problem is, it is a video,
and you miss out on some things.
| | 02:20 | Manual is another option, where you
get even more customized preferences and
| | 02:25 | options in your recording, but Automatic is
the one you're going to be using most often.
| | 02:31 | Next we have three dropdowns.
| | 02:33 | The mode; as you can see,
Demo is the default.
| | 02:35 | If we click the dropdown, there
are some other options here as well.
| | 02:39 | If you wanted to do Training, for
example, with Training you are going to see
| | 02:43 | things like mouse movements, clicks,
but you're also going to see lots of hints
| | 02:47 | popping up, and instruction
on top of what you're doing.
| | 02:50 | Demo does some of that.
| | 02:52 | You're going to see some little pop-ups
instructing people where to go next.
| | 02:56 | And then Assessment;
| | 02:57 | you don't see any of those hints.
| | 02:59 | It's actually up to the user to select the
right options in the right order to pass the test.
| | 03:04 | So we are going to leave it at Demo.
| | 03:07 | Panning is something that
can be selected as well.
| | 03:09 | We are looking at an entire window,
so if you wanted to pan to the area
| | 03:13 | where you're clicking, and moving your mouse,
you can choose Automatic, or Manual Panning.
| | 03:19 | Let's leave it at No Panning.
| | 03:20 | We will just look at the entire window.
And our audio, which we already set up in
| | 03:24 | the previous lesson, should appear here for me.
| | 03:26 | My mic is at the Built-in Line Input.
| | 03:29 | So we are ready to record.
| | 03:31 | You should have your script in front of
you if you're ready, or if you have it
| | 03:35 | memorized and rehearsed,
| | 03:36 | it's time to hit the Record button.
| | 03:39 | Remember, the Web site I'm using here
is for demonstration purposes only, and
| | 03:43 | might work differently for you, but
the recording process will be the same.
| | 03:48 | So we click Record, there will be a
countdown, and then when we are ready to stop
| | 03:53 | recording, we will just go back to Captivate.
| | 03:55 | If you'd like to contact us for more
information, go to our Web page, click
| | 04:01 | Contact Us, and from here,
you can fill out the form.
| | 04:06 | Enter your name, your e-mail address,
and information you would like from us
| | 04:16 | in the Message field.
| | 04:19 | Click the Submit button when you're ready to
submit, and wait for a response from our team.
| | 04:24 | So let's go back to Captivate.
| | 04:28 | You can see what's happened
over here in our Filmstrip.
| | 04:31 | A number of slides have been added,
and you're going to see things on those
| | 04:35 | slides, like mouse movements.
| | 04:38 | So let's go the first one, Slide 9.
| | 04:40 | We will go appear to make sure Best
Fit is selected, and here you can see the
| | 04:45 | first click, and there is also a
hint here; Click the Contact Us label.
| | 04:50 | Okay, interesting.
And the mouse moves down.
| | 04:55 | As we move through the slides, you
can see it switches over to the form.
| | 05:00 | As we scroll down the actual Filmstrip,
we can see all of these movements,
| | 05:04 | clicks, typing, etcetera.
| | 05:06 | So to really see what this looks like, and if
it works, we should probably just preview it.
| | 05:12 | Let's go back to Slide 9 in the Filmstrip.
| | 05:14 | We will go up to the Preview
button, and preview From this Slide.
| | 05:18 | It takes a moment to generate
all the new slides, and off it goes.
| | 05:23 | We should also hear our own voice.
| | 05:26 | Notice it is a shockwave flash file.
| | 05:28 | (voiceover: If you'd like to contact us
for more information, go to our web page,)
| | 05:33 | (click on Contact Us, and from here, you can fill
out the form. Enter your name, your email address,)
| | 05:47 | (and information you would like from us, in
the Message field. Click the Submit button
| | 05:55 | (when you're ready to submit and
wait for a response from our team.)
| | 06:02 | So I am going to close up that preview.
| | 06:04 | You have the idea, and that is,
again, Demo mode.
| | 06:08 | Now, if you wanted your users to follow
along with you, you would have selected
| | 06:11 | Training, where they'd able to follow
along, and do the clicks along with you.
| | 06:15 | Of course, they don't have to have a Web
browser open, and be at the SAMOCA art page;
| | 06:21 | that's the whole idea
behind a software simulation.
| | 06:24 | So now you should have a good
understanding about how to record a software
| | 06:28 | simulation here in Captivate 6. Go
ahead and experiment with some of the
| | 06:32 | different modes, and some of the
different settings until you see exactly
| | 06:36 | what you need.
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5. Assessing eLearningeLearning assessment basics| 00:00 | To measure the effectiveness of your
eLearning project, you'll want to assess
| | 00:04 | whether your learners have understood and
retained the knowledge you are trying to pass on.
| | 00:08 | In Captivate, this is typically done
through quizzing, and in Captivate 6, you'll
| | 00:13 | find a number of new and improved
features to ensure your quizzes are
| | 00:16 | accomplishing their intended goals.
| | 00:18 | In this chapter, we'll be creating a
quiz that will help us to determine if our
| | 00:22 | learners truly comprehend what
they've learned, but before we tackle the
| | 00:25 | creation phase, let's get some basic
understanding about quizzes first.
| | 00:30 | Now, a quiz is basically a series of
questions, and Captivate 6 offers a number of
| | 00:34 | different question types to consider,
like true or false, and multiple-choice.
| | 00:39 | There's fill in the blank, and short
answer, as well as matching, sequence,
| | 00:43 | rating scale, and random questions.
| | 00:45 | We'll be exploring these different question
types in greater detail later in this chapter,
| | 00:49 | but it's important to know, Captivate is
very flexible in how you get your answers.
| | 00:53 | Now, to help your learners with areas
where they might be experiencing some
| | 00:56 | difficulty, you may also want to
incorporate remediation in your quizzes. This
| | 01:02 | is optional, but it allows learners to
revisit relevant content when they answer
| | 01:06 | a quiz question incorrectly.
| | 01:09 | Now, we can do this in Captivate 6, and
we'll cover this topic in more detail
| | 01:13 | later in this chapter.
| | 01:14 | Scoring is another important part of
eLearning assessment, and Captivate 6
| | 01:18 | includes a number of scoring options,
including some new features, like partial
| | 01:22 | and negative scoring.
| | 01:24 | If you have questions with more
than one right answer, you might want to
| | 01:28 | use partial scoring.
| | 01:29 | And if you want to take points
away from a learner who might be using
| | 01:32 | guesswork, and chooses the wrong answer,
you might want to incorporate negative
| | 01:36 | scoring in your quiz.
| | 01:38 | We'll explore these options
as well later in the chapter.
| | 01:41 | Of course, the results of a quiz
will let us know whether a learner has
| | 01:44 | understood and retained what was presented.
| | 01:47 | This is the reporting phase, and
analyzing results is another important part of
| | 01:52 | eLearning assessment.
| | 01:53 | Captivate 6 allows us to connect to a
variety of learning management systems to
| | 01:58 | help with this phase, and we'll examine
this important aspect at the end of this
| | 02:02 | course when we get into
publishing your eLearning projects.
| | 02:06 | So now that you have a better
understanding of the basics of eLearning
| | 02:09 | assessment, it's time to set up
our first quiz. We'll do that next.
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| Setting up a quiz| 00:00 | One of the greatest features of Captivate is
the ability to add quiz slides to your project.
| | 00:07 | In this way, you can test your users
to ensure they understand and comprehend
| | 00:11 | what they've learned in the previous slides.
| | 00:14 | Before we actually start inserting
questions on slides, we need to make
| | 00:18 | sure that our project is set up the way
we wanted for a quiz, and that's what
| | 00:22 | we're going to do first.
| | 00:23 | It really doesn't matter what
slide we're on; we're going to get this
| | 00:27 | project ready for a quiz, and as we
scroll down towards the end, and look at
| | 00:31 | the very last slide, you'll notice it's
just a blank slide that we really don't need.
| | 00:35 | So we'll clean that up by right-clicking
the slide, scrolling down the list,
| | 00:39 | and clicking Delete.
| | 00:40 | You could also use your Delete key on
the keyboard, click OK, and it's gone.
| | 00:45 | Now our last slide is actually a quiz
slide, which is an intro to our quiz, so
| | 00:51 | Take the SAMOCA Quiz now. We probably need a
button that will take them to the next slide.
| | 00:56 | So let's do that.
| | 00:57 | We'll insert a Button from our Object
toolbar, give it a click, it shows up
| | 01:01 | right in the center; let's
resize it, so it's nice and big.
| | 01:05 | And now over here in the
Properties, we'll decide what it does.
| | 01:08 | For the name itself, we'll click and
drag over Button, and the number that
| | 01:12 | appears there, and just type in Start
Quiz. That's what it's going to do.
| | 01:18 | Let's scroll a little further down.
| | 01:20 | You can see this is a Text Button, and
the Caption is simply Button, and this is
| | 01:24 | what's going to appear on our button.
| | 01:26 | So let's type in Take the Quiz Now.
| | 01:30 | A little further down, the only other
thing we really need to worry about -- and
| | 01:34 | we'll accept the rest of the defaults --
is what happens when they click this
| | 01:37 | button. Well, it's going go to the next
slide, which will be our first question
| | 01:41 | slide in the quiz. That's
already there. We are ready to go.
| | 01:44 | Let's just deselect that by clicking
out in the background off of our stage to
| | 01:49 | see what it's going to look like for our users.
| | 01:51 | We could pretty that up if we wanted
to, but we're basically ready to go.
| | 01:55 | It's time now to look at the
Quiz Preferences for this project.
| | 01:59 | To do that, we'll go to the Quiz
menu, and down to Quiz Preferences.
| | 02:03 | Now from here, you can see it's
just the Captivate Preferences, but
| | 02:06 | we're looking at the Quiz Category
now, with the first option selected,
| | 02:10 | which is Reporting.
| | 02:12 | Here is where we go to enable Reporting
for this project. So if we're going to
| | 02:16 | be, for example, connecting up with an LMS,
a learning management system, we would
| | 02:20 | want to turn this on.
| | 02:21 | We're going to leave it off for
now, and talk about this later on.
| | 02:25 | So let's go to the next
subcategory, which is Settings.
| | 02:28 | Here you are going to see the default
Name for our Quiz is Quiz, and that could
| | 02:32 | be fine, except it could be confusing
as well. If, for example, you have multiple
| | 02:36 | quizzes, you need to
distinguish one from the other.
| | 02:39 | So in this case, I am going to leave
the word Quiz, click right before the word,
| | 02:43 | and type in Volunteer Orientation.
| | 02:50 | Right below that, are the options whether
or not this is going to be a Required quiz.
| | 02:54 | When we click the dropdown, you can see there
are four choices, and Optional is the default.
| | 03:00 | So the user could skip this quiz,
if we left the default selected.
| | 03:04 | Do we want to make sure they have to take it?
| | 03:06 | We would then choose Required.
| | 03:08 | Do we want to keep score, and make
sure they have to pass it before they can
| | 03:11 | continue on? We would choose Pass
Required. And do we want to ensure they have to
| | 03:16 | answer every single question in our
quiz? Answer All would be the choice there.
| | 03:20 | Let's just go to Required, to make
sure they actually have to take that quiz.
| | 03:25 | Next is an Objective ID, and again,
this is important for those of you
| | 03:28 | connecting up with an LMS.
| | 03:31 | You could get an Objective ID from
your LMS administrator, or on occasion, you
| | 03:36 | may be able type in your own Objective ID.
| | 03:39 | So let's just type in a short form for
Volunteer Orientation: VolOrientation.
| | 03:46 | We could also use that for an Interaction
ID Prefix; look at the note down below.
| | 03:51 | When publishing for pool sharing; in
other words, if we're going to aggregate
| | 03:55 | this quiz and all of its questions
with other quizzes and their questions, we
| | 03:58 | want to be able to distinguish the
questions that came from this Volunteer
| | 04:02 | Orientation Quiz by adding a prefix.
| | 04:05 | I'm going to use the same thing,
VolOrientation, and you can do the same.
| | 04:08 | Here is a neat setting; Shuffle Answers.
| | 04:10 | If you're concerned about cheating,
Shuffle Answers is a good option.
| | 04:14 | What it's going to do for questions like
multiple choice questions is shuffle them up.
| | 04:19 | You'll have your questions, but
it'll be different for every user.
| | 04:22 | So it's going to be
difficult to pass on the answers.
| | 04:25 | I am going to turn that one on.
| | 04:28 | You do see a message asking if you want
to turn shuffling on for all applicable
| | 04:33 | question types, and we'll choose Yes; not
just multiple choice, for example. Maybe
| | 04:37 | true and false questions as well.
| | 04:40 | Submit All; it's going to
submit all of the answers.
| | 04:43 | If you select this check box, you can
check out the default messages, for example
| | 04:47 | here; the first one is You have
answered all of the questions.
| | 04:51 | What do you want to do next?
| | 04:52 | There will be a series of buttons and
interactions on each of the slides that
| | 04:57 | you'll see momentarily.
| | 04:59 | What if they haven't completed all
of the questions? They will see a
| | 05:02 | message saying that one or more is incomplete,
and you need to answer them all to continue.
| | 05:07 | And there is also a message here for
submitting incomplete quizzes, which is
| | 05:11 | an option. It's required, but we didn't select
that they had to answer every single question.
| | 05:16 | So we'll just leave the
defaults as is, and click OK.
| | 05:19 | One thing you can do in
Captivate 6 is branch off.
| | 05:23 | If someone answers a question one way,
you may go to a different question
| | 05:26 | than if they answered another way, and by
turning on Branch Aware, we'll have that ability.
| | 05:31 | Do we want to show their progress
as they continue answering questions?
| | 05:35 | Do we want to show them that they've
answered X number of questions, or that
| | 05:38 | they are a certain percentage of the
way through the quiz? That would be
| | 05:41 | Relative; the other is Absolute.
| | 05:44 | Let's leave Relative selected.
| | 05:46 | Do we want them to see their
score at the end of the quiz?
| | 05:49 | If we select this check box, a new
slide is going to be created at the end of
| | 05:54 | our quiz, showing them their results.
And if we wanted to, we could allow them
| | 05:57 | to review those questions and answers
by keeping this one selected: Allow User
| | 06:01 | to Review the Quiz.
| | 06:04 | So those are the actual Quiz settings.
| | 06:07 | Let's go on to what
happens if they pass or fail.
| | 06:09 | We'll choose that subcategory here
in the left-hand side. You can see the
| | 06:14 | default is 80%; that's pretty high.
| | 06:15 | I am going to bring it down to 75.
You can type in whatever you need here
| | 06:20 | as a passing grade.
| | 06:21 | The other option is to require a number
of points. So in this case, the number of
| | 06:26 | questions that need to be
answered, with points assigned.
| | 06:30 | So, what happens if they pass?
| | 06:32 | Well, there are Action options similar
to what we would see for our buttons when
| | 06:35 | we create them: continue, go to the
next slide would be a good one, but there's
| | 06:40 | a lot of different things that can
happen when they pass, like sending out
| | 06:43 | e-mails, playing audio, for example,
applying effects, even no action at all.
| | 06:49 | We do want them to go onto another
slide we're going to create, which is just a
| | 06:53 | summary, thanking them for taking the
quiz, so we'll leave continue selected, and
| | 06:57 | continue down to what happens if they fail.
| | 07:01 | Well, do we want them to reattempt the quiz?
| | 07:04 | You can see the default is 1 attempt.
| | 07:06 | I think because it's a volunteer
orientation, we are not so concerned about them
| | 07:11 | passing or failing, but
understanding everything.
| | 07:13 | So we want them to have as many attempts as
needed to really understand the information.
| | 07:19 | In that case, we want the Retake Button
to appear, and we'll click that checkbox.
| | 07:24 | There are some Default Labels.
| | 07:26 | These are going to show up
all over your quiz slides.
| | 07:28 | I just want you to see them, and
understand that you can go in and customize them.
| | 07:33 | So later on, when we start creating
our questions, you'll see these on the
| | 07:36 | slide. Just know that you can come in
here if you want to make any changes.
| | 07:40 | When we click OK, watch what happens;
it takes a moment to take in all of
| | 07:45 | our information, and you can see a new
slide has been created here, it becomes
| | 07:49 | slide number 2 for me, and you can see
these are the quiz results, because we
| | 07:54 | want to show the scoring.
| | 07:55 | It really doesn't belong up there, so
we're going to click, and we're just going
| | 07:59 | to drag it down the Filmstrip, until
we get to the very end of our Filmstrip,
| | 08:03 | which is going to be making it the last slide.
| | 08:06 | We will insert questions before this, and
we're going to be doing that in the next lesson.
| | 08:11 | So once we get it down towards the very
end; just drag it down to the bottom. It
| | 08:16 | will become, as we release
at the bottom, slide 26.
| | 08:20 | Let's go to the Properties.
| | 08:22 | We should name this slide, click in
the Name field, and I'll just type in Quiz
| | 08:27 | Results, so we understand, looking at
the Filmstrip, exactly what this slide is.
| | 08:33 | We'll press Return or Enter, and now
we're ready to start creating our questions.
| | 08:38 | We should save our changes at this
point, and continue on into the next lesson,
| | 08:43 | where we start creating the slides that
will contain the questions for our quiz.
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| Using different question types| 00:00 | Now that our project is set up for a
quiz, it's time for the fun part, and that
| | 00:04 | is entering the questions.
| | 00:06 | We're on slide 26, and as we start to
insert the question slides, they would
| | 00:10 | naturally appear after this
slide. That doesn't make sense.
| | 00:14 | Let's select slide 25;
our quiz intro slide.
| | 00:18 | Now we can start to insert the
questions, and we can do that from the Quiz menu.
| | 00:22 | Click Quiz at the top, and
then select Question Slide.
| | 00:26 | From here, we can actually insert all of
the question slides we're going to need,
| | 00:30 | all from one screen, and you'll
see the different question types.
| | 00:34 | There are many to choose from.
| | 00:36 | We're going to look at some of the more popular
ones, like Multiple Choice. We'll select that.
| | 00:40 | We'll only have one of those questions,
but we can have multiple of these just
| | 00:44 | by changing the number.
| | 00:46 | And then we can also
choose whether they're Graded,
| | 00:49 | whether there will actually
be a score assigned and points,
| | 00:52 | a Survey question, which simply gathers
information and doesn't actually score;
| | 00:56 | there's no right or wrong answer,
| | 00:58 | and there's a new one here in Captivate
6 called Pretest, and we'll talk about
| | 01:03 | those a little bit later on.
| | 01:04 | So we'll leave Graded
selected, and go on to True/False.
| | 01:08 | We'll have one of those as well that's Graded.
| | 01:11 | How about a Fill-in-The Blank?
| | 01:12 | Yeah, I think we should have two of
those, so we'll change the 1 to a 2. Leave
| | 01:17 | it as Graded as well.
| | 01:18 | A Short Answer; that's a popular one.
| | 01:21 | And Matching is gaining in popularity as well.
| | 01:24 | So there we have it. It looks
like we have 6 questions altogether.
| | 01:27 | We'll click OK, and those
get inserted into our project.
| | 01:32 | They get inserted right after the
slide we had selected, our quiz intro
| | 01:36 | slide, and you can see slide 26 now, which is
our first question, is selected in the Filmstrip.
| | 01:44 | So it's time now to start
filling in our questions and answers.
| | 01:47 | This one is Multiple
Choice; it appears at the top.
| | 01:50 | We can leave that as is if we wanted to,
so people know the type of question,
| | 01:54 | but the question itself needs to be
entered. So we'll just double-click to get
| | 01:58 | inside the Type the question here
field, select that by clicking and dragging,
| | 02:01 | and type in our actual question.
| | 02:04 | We'll type in, In what year
did the SAMOCA Art Museum open?
| | 02:11 | And now for the answers, and you can
see by default, there are two answers here.
| | 02:15 | We can have more multiple choice options.
| | 02:17 | When we go down to those, notice
that each one is its own field.
| | 02:21 | And here's something I really like
about this classic workspace we've been
| | 02:25 | working in for the entire title here so far:
| | 02:28 | there is a Quiz Properties
tab over here on the right.
| | 02:31 | We don't actually have to
change our workspace.
| | 02:33 | We could if we wanted to by going to
the Workspace dropdown, and choosing
| | 02:37 | Quizzing, but from here, we have
quick access to the Quiz Properties.
| | 02:41 | And here you can see the
Answers is defaulted to 2.
| | 02:44 | We can change that.
| | 02:45 | Let's type in 4 there.
| | 02:46 | Shuffle Answers is selected based on
our preferences from the previous lesson.
| | 02:51 | By default, 10 Points for this one;
| | 02:53 | I am going to leave it at 10.
| | 02:55 | No Penalty if they get it wrong, but
you can assign a penalty, and actually
| | 02:59 | remove points if people get this wrong.
| | 03:01 | We can have multiple correct answers,
and we can even have partial scoring if
| | 03:05 | there are multiple
answers, and they only get some.
| | 03:08 | So that's something we'll
talk about a little bit later on.
| | 03:11 | Right now we need to hit Enter.
| | 03:14 | So we have our four choices.
| | 03:16 | Now we need to put in the answers,
so we'll just double-click, and then
| | 03:19 | triple-click inside, if you need
to, to put in the first answer.
| | 03:23 | I am going to put in a wrong one,
which is 1972.
| | 03:26 | Now we'll go to B, double-click there,
triple-click to select everything, type
| | 03:31 | in 1973, and we'll do 1974,
and 1975 down below.
| | 03:37 | Now we need to select the correct answer.
| | 03:39 | The correct answer is 1973.
| | 03:40 | So we'll click that radio button
to make sure it's selected. That way
| | 03:44 | Captivate knows which one is right. The rest
are wrong, and that will be used in our scoring.
| | 03:49 | On we go to the next slide, Slide 27,
which is our True/False question.
| | 03:55 | And just like the multiple choice, we'll
double-click to get inside the question
| | 03:58 | area, click and drag over that to
select everything, and type in our question.
| | 04:02 | We'll type in, Volunteers make up 44%
of the total labor force at SAMOCA.
| | 04:11 | So that's a statement rather than a question.
| | 04:13 | Down below we have True, and False.
| | 04:15 | The answer is True,
so we'll leave it selected.
| | 04:18 | Just so you know, you can go in here
and change these if you wanted Yes, or No;
| | 04:22 | you could do that by double-clicking,
and changing the actual text, but we'll
| | 04:25 | leave it as True and False.
| | 04:27 | On we go to the next slide.
| | 04:29 | In this casem we have a Fill-in-The-Blank.
| | 04:31 | And you can see here we have the
question area; Complete the sentence below by
| | 04:35 | filling in the blanks.
| | 04:36 | We can leave that as is
if you like that wording.
| | 04:39 | Down below we'll type in the actual sentence.
| | 04:42 | So let's double-click in there, click
and drag over what's already typed in, and
| | 04:47 | type in our own question.
| | 04:50 | So in this case we'll type in, The
assistant curator assists in the selection
| | 05:00 | and presentation of art. So that's the
entire sentence. Now it's time to choose
| | 05:07 | what the blank will be.
| | 05:08 | So if we go over two our Quiz
Properties, in this case, you can see there's
| | 05:12 | a Mark Blank button.
| | 05:13 | And in that case, it just means we need
to click and drag over the words, and now
| | 05:18 | click the Mark Blank button.
| | 05:21 | You can see it's underlined here,
indicating that's going to appear as a blank
| | 05:24 | to our users and they'll need
to fill in that information.
| | 05:28 | On we go to the next question.
| | 05:30 | Next question type; another Fill-in-The-
Blank, and in this case, we're going to
| | 05:34 | type in our question,
just like we did before.
| | 05:37 | We'll leave the Complete
the sentence below as is.
| | 05:40 | We'll double-click here, where it
says Type the blank phrase, and then
| | 05:43 | we'll type in a short one here: Smoking is
not permitted within 20 feet of the building.
| | 05:54 | Now in this case, it's going to be 20.
| | 05:57 | We'll double-click it, go to or Quiz
Properties over here on the right-hand side,
| | 06:01 | and mark that as the blank.
| | 06:04 | And maybe this one is worth fewer points;
| | 06:06 | let's change it from 10 to 5.
| | 06:09 | We'll move on now to the next question.
| | 06:11 | As we scroll down, we only have a couple more.
| | 06:14 | Next one is a Short Answer,
where we can type in the question.
| | 06:18 | So let's do that; we'll double-click,
get inside, select all of that text.
| | 06:22 | Let's say our question for the
Short Answer is, Name 1 duty that is the
| | 06:31 | responsibility of the admin assistant.
| | 06:37 | Now, in this case, you can see down
below where the short answer goes; when we
| | 06:40 | click, we get a Correct Entries dialog.
| | 06:44 | And as we scroll over to the right,
you can see we can add many options.
| | 06:47 | There's a plus sign over there in
the top right corner. So let's do that.
| | 06:52 | We'll just move this over if we can,
and type in the first correct entry;
| | 06:57 | how about Answer the phone.
| | 07:01 | We need another one, so we'll go over to
the right here; click the plus sign.
| | 07:04 | We're actually going to need a couple
more, so we'll click plus twice, and
| | 07:08 | then that way we can go over to the left.
| | 07:11 | We can also make it Case-Sensitive.
| | 07:12 | I'm not going to do that, in case
whoever is typing in the answers doesn't
| | 07:16 | use capital letters.
| | 07:17 | So we've got Answer the phone.
| | 07:19 | We could say Respond to email.
| | 07:23 | We'll click in the third one, Open mail.
| | 07:27 | And the last one, File mail.
| | 07:30 | Notice that doesn't really
matter if I use caps or not.
| | 07:33 | So those are the four options.
| | 07:35 | They can enter any one of
those to get a correct answer.
| | 07:38 | Again, from the Quiz
Properties, you can see the Points.
| | 07:41 | Case-Sensitive is not selected here;
that's exactly the way we wanted.
| | 07:45 | Let's move on to to our last
question, which is a Matching one.
| | 07:48 | And in this case, you can see we have a
column on the left, and a column on the
| | 07:53 | right, and we'll be able to match
up our different items at this point.
| | 07:57 | So let's type the item here.
| | 07:58 | We can leave the title up above.
| | 08:01 | We'll triple-click to select everything.
| | 08:03 | And let's type in names of people.
| | 08:06 | Jane Gregory, and we'll make sure that
this one goes to B, so over here on the
| | 08:13 | right, you can see the line is drawn to B.
| | 08:16 | Let's continue with our names.
| | 08:17 | Type the item in here.
| | 08:18 | Again, we'll double-click to get inside.
| | 08:20 | Select all of that text.
| | 08:22 | We'll type in Phillip Glascow.
| | 08:26 | We'll have him go to A.
| | 08:28 | And the last one here, C; let's make
sure everything is selected, so we can type
| | 08:33 | right over it, one more name.
| | 08:35 | Let's do Francine Rosseau.
| | 08:40 | And that is going to go to C by default.
| | 08:43 | Now notice as we go over to the
Quiz Properties, we have 3 columns.
| | 08:46 | We could have more if we wanted to.
| | 08:49 | Shuffle is turned on for
this type of a question.
| | 08:52 | That means it won't be the same for
every user, and we can continue adding
| | 08:56 | additional names and matches,
but let's just leave it at that.
| | 08:59 | Everything is ready to go;
we just need our answers now.
| | 09:02 | So Jane Gregory is B. Let's double-click
to get inside B. The answer for Jane
| | 09:08 | is Executive Director.
| | 09:13 | The answer for Phillip, if we double-click
answer A, and select everything
| | 09:17 | there, is Museum Curator.
| | 09:22 | And the answer for Francine down at the
bottom, we'll triple-click in there to
| | 09:26 | select everything; for her
we want Public Relations.
| | 09:32 | Numerous different types
of questions all set up.
| | 09:35 | Now, there is one thing that's going
to happen when we go to preview this.
| | 09:39 | You may recall we added some background
music, and it will continue through our quiz.
| | 09:43 | You can choose to leave that on, or if
you decide to turn it off, let's just go
| | 09:47 | up to Audio, go down to
Remove, and choose Background.
| | 09:53 | That way we won't hear the background music.
| | 09:55 | Are we sure we want to remove it?
| | 09:57 | We'll click Yes, Save your changes, and
let's preview this by going back to slide 25.
| | 10:02 | I will go to the Preview > From this Slide.
| | 10:07 | We won't hear that background music any
longer, and we'll continue with our quiz.
| | 10:12 | Notice it takes a little while to
generate the slides, and eventually we're
| | 10:16 | ready to take the quiz.
| | 10:19 | In what year did the SAMOCA Art Museum open?
| | 10:21 | I am pretty sure that
was 1972. I'll click Next.
| | 10:26 | Notice I am not seeing
any results at this point.
| | 10:29 | Volunteers, I think that's True as well.
| | 10:34 | And Next, hmm, I am going to type in
Assistant Curator as I recall; clicking Next.
| | 10:44 | And I do have the ability to go back,
clear my entries; submit all my answers
| | 10:48 | right from here if I wanted to.
| | 10:49 | I think the answer there was 30 feet.
| | 10:52 | Next, Name 1 duty that is the responsibility
of the admin assistant; answer the phone.
| | 11:00 | Next, here we have the matches.
| | 11:02 | Okay, in this case, I have dropdowns.
Jane, I believe, is the Executive Director;
| | 11:09 | Francine, I think, is Museum Curator;
| | 11:12 | Phillip, I am going to choose Public Relations.
| | 11:15 | I know some of these are
wrong. We'll click Next.
| | 11:18 | I've answered all the
questions. what do I want to do next?
| | 11:21 | Well, in this case, I might want to
submit all my answers, or return to the quiz
| | 11:25 | and make some changes.
| | 11:27 | I'll submit them all, and take a look.
| | 11:28 | I scored 30 out of a maximum of 55.
Got 3 right out of 6, based on the points.
| | 11:35 | You can see it's not a bad
score point-wise, but accuracy 55%;
| | 11:39 | I failed, 75% being the actual pass mark.
| | 11:44 | So I can continue from here,
| | 11:46 | I could review my wrong and right
answers, or retake the quiz and start over.
| | 11:52 | I am going to click Continue to continue on.
| | 11:55 | Now in this case, there is no other
slide after this, so that's something
| | 11:59 | that we'll need to do, and that is
to add in another slide after our Quiz
| | 12:03 | Results saying thank you for taking
the quiz, or it could be additional
| | 12:07 | information; something you'll want
to do as we close up our preview here.
| | 12:12 | Move down to the end.
| | 12:14 | We'll probably just insert
a blank slide at the end.
| | 12:17 | You can insert something that says
thank you for taking the quiz, and you'll
| | 12:20 | be done!
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| Using remediation| 00:00 | When it comes to quizzing here in
Captivate 6, one of the coolest new features
| | 00:05 | is called remediation.
| | 00:07 | This allows you to direct your users,
if they answer a question incorrectly, to
| | 00:12 | a slide containing the content which
they can review, and then return to the
| | 00:16 | quiz to hopefully answer it
correctly the second time around.
| | 00:20 | We're going to explore this now with our Volunteer
Orientation project that we've been working on.
| | 00:24 | Now, here on 26 we do see our first
question, and we see the default buttons,
| | 00:30 | including a Submit All button.
| | 00:32 | We have it set up so that the Submit
All button will submit all of the answers
| | 00:36 | simultaneously, as opposed to one at a time.
| | 00:39 | This won't work with remediation,
| | 00:40 | so we need to go up to the Quiz
Properties first, down to Quiz Preferences, and
| | 00:45 | change that by deselecting it in the Settings
section under Quiz here. There it is; Submit All.
| | 00:52 | We'll deselect that, and when we click OK,
| | 00:54 | we'll see some slight changes to our slides.
| | 00:56 | For one, we won't see a
Submit All button anymore.
| | 00:59 | We're going to see a Submit button.
| | 01:01 | We'll also see some captions letting
users know when they answer questions
| | 01:05 | incorrectly, or correctly, and you can
choose to turn those on or off from
| | 01:10 | the Quiz Properties.
| | 01:11 | We'll leave all the defaults as
is, and focus on remediation here.
| | 01:16 | So with our slide selected -- no
particular object on the slide -- let's go to
| | 01:21 | those Quiz Properties.
| | 01:22 | When we click the tab, you'll notice
that we do have, under Options, there's the
| | 01:26 | Correct and Incomplete
captions that will show up.
| | 01:30 | So we could turn those off if we wanted to,
but we're going to focus on action here.
| | 01:35 | When we get a right answer, it's going
to continue on to the next slide. Great.
| | 01:39 | What happens if we get it wrong?
| | 01:41 | Notice, it's also a defaulting to continue.
| | 01:43 | We don't want it to do that.
| | 01:45 | Here's where remediation comes in.
| | 01:47 | We click the dropdown, and then we choose
to go directly back to a specific slide
| | 01:52 | by choosing Jump to Slide. Which slide?
| | 01:56 | Well we can now click the dropdown
for the slide, and it's the History and
| | 02:00 | Purpose slide that we want users to
go back to, to find the right answer.
| | 02:03 | We'll select it, and we are part way there.
| | 02:07 | What happens when they do get back to slide 3?
| | 02:09 | We don't need them to go through all
of the slides to get to the quiz again.
| | 02:13 | So we'll want them to jump back to the
quiz, and the appropriate question, when
| | 02:17 | they're done reviewing.
| | 02:19 | So we have a little bit
of work to do on slide 3.
| | 02:22 | Let's scroll all the way up,
and select slide 3.
| | 02:25 | Here we're going to look at the
properties for this slide, and you'll notice
| | 02:30 | there is a click box covering the
entire slide; a default that happens when we
| | 02:34 | import slides from PowerPoint.
| | 02:36 | This is what we want to customize.
| | 02:38 | So we'll click anywhere on the slide.
| | 02:40 | Notice it's Click Box properties we're
looking at now, and as we go into the
| | 02:45 | Action section, when we click it,
we're going to go to the next slide.
| | 02:49 | But that's only if we're
viewing it the first time.
| | 02:52 | What if we go to the quiz,
and jump back to this slide?
| | 02:55 | Well, in that case, we want to change the
action by clicking the dropdown to Return to Quiz.
| | 03:03 | Now, it looks like that's the
new default; not really so.
| | 03:07 | The first time our users go
through our presentation here,
| | 03:10 | they will automatically go to the next slide.
| | 03:13 | It's only when they start the quiz, and
come back to this slide will clicking the
| | 03:17 | click box take them back to the quiz.
| | 03:21 | So the only way to really see
this in action is to preview it.
| | 03:24 | That's what we're going to do now, but
we need to preview from the beginning for
| | 03:28 | this preview to work.
| | 03:29 | So let's go to slide 1;
we'll go to the preview.
| | 03:32 | Personally, I like to see it in the Web
browser, because I can zoom out a little
| | 03:36 | bit, and have control over what I'm seeing.
| | 03:39 | So I'm going to choose
Web Browser; mine is Safari.
| | 03:42 | It's going to boot up here
with my preview momentarily.
| | 03:45 | Okay, a little sound effect.
| | 03:53 | When we click the View menu,
we can Zoom Out.
| | 03:55 | We can also use the keyboard shortcut.
| | 03:57 | I'm going to do it twice to
zoom out to the appropriate level.
| | 04:02 | There's my Go to Quiz button.
| | 04:04 | Luckily, we have this.
| | 04:05 | We don't have to go through
every slide to get to the quiz.
| | 04:08 | We can go directly to it from here.
| | 04:10 | Now we can click Take the Quiz
Now, and there is our first question.
| | 04:14 | So we know what the right answer is.
| | 04:15 | Let's choose a wrong answer.
| | 04:16 | I'm going to go with C, 1974,
and click Submit.
| | 04:21 | Well, there's a caption saying I'm wrong.
| | 04:24 | I can click anywhere on the screen, or
press the letter Y in the keyboard to continue.
| | 04:30 | When I do, watch what happens.
| | 04:32 | Back we go to slide 3.
| | 04:34 | There's the right answer.
| | 04:35 | Now when I click, I won't go to the next slide.
| | 04:38 | I'll go back to my quiz, where I can
choose the right answer, and click Submit.
| | 04:43 | Now I see a correct answer caption,
and when I click anywhere on my screen
| | 04:48 | to continue, it will take a couple of
seconds before moving on to the next question.
| | 04:53 | So we can close up our browser, or
just simply switch back to Captivate, and
| | 04:59 | that's how remediation
works here in Captivate 6.
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| Exploring partial and negative scoring| 00:00 | When it comes to scoring your quizzes
there are couple of new options here in
| | 00:03 | Captivate 6 you might enjoy.
| | 00:05 | We're going to explore them now as
we continue to work with our Volunteer
| | 00:09 | Orientation project.
| | 00:10 | If you've been following along, we're
going to select slide 31, and insert a
| | 00:14 | new slide after it.
| | 00:16 | If you've jumped to this lesson, you
need to get caught up; go to the Chapter5
| | 00:20 | folder of those Exercise Files, and
open up Volunteer_Orientation_SAMOCA25.
| | 00:24 | Next we'll go up to the Quiz menu, and
choose Question Slide right at the top.
| | 00:29 | We're going to insert a new Multiple
Choice slide, which allows us to do things
| | 00:32 | called partial scoring, and negative scoring.
| | 00:36 | With that selected, we're going
to insert 1 slide, and click OK.
| | 00:40 | If you don't see the OK button,
just move the window up, and click OK.
| | 00:45 | Now, by default, we see an area for our
question, and then the default two options.
| | 00:50 | We'll change that momentarily.
| | 00:52 | Right now, we'll double-click inside
the Type the question here field, select
| | 00:56 | everything, and type in our new
question, which is Select any behaviors deemed
| | 01:02 | appropriate according to
the SAMOCA rules of conduct.
| | 01:05 | Now, down below we'll click in
the answer area, and we'll go to our
| | 01:09 | Quiz Properties here.
| | 01:11 | Clicking that tab shows us the
default set of Answers is 2. We're going to
| | 01:15 | change that to a 4. You can click, and
type 4, and press Enter or Return on your
| | 01:20 | keyboard. We now have four possible answers.
| | 01:23 | So let's type in a couple, starting
with A. We'll just double-click there, and
| | 01:27 | then select type the answer
here, and type right over that.
| | 01:31 | How about Show up for work on time.
| | 01:35 | We'll go to C, double-click
there, and select everything.
| | 01:39 | Now we're going to type over that one.
How about Talk on your cell phone
| | 01:46 | during working hours.
| | 01:49 | We'll add another incorrect one here
for B. Just click, and highlight, and we'll
| | 01:54 | type in Smoke inside the building.
These are very obvious. And then the last one
| | 02:02 | will be a correct answer, so we'll have
correct answers for A and D. So another
| | 02:06 | appropriate behavior: Dress neatly.
| | 02:10 | Okay, so we have our four answers in there,
and two of them are right; two of them are wrong.
| | 02:15 | So we're going to change the scoring
here to allow for multiple correct answers,
| | 02:19 | and partial scoring,
| | 02:20 | by going to the Quiz Properties. Here we
do see our four answers worth 10 Points
| | 02:25 | if we get it correct.
| | 02:27 | But down below, we do have something for
Multiple Answer,s and Partial Score. So
| | 02:32 | we'll choose multiple, and partial scoring.
| | 02:35 | When we choose partial scoring, notice
that the opportunity to change the Points
| | 02:39 | disappears, and we can't penalize here.
| | 02:42 | Without partial scoring, we could leave
the correct answer at 10, and we could
| | 02:46 | take away for wrong answers.
| | 02:48 | So maybe we want to take
away 10 for a wrong answer.
| | 02:52 | But when we go to Partial Score now,
you'll notice that goes to 0, and all we can
| | 02:57 | do is give out partial scores;
a total of 10.
| | 03:00 | So our correct ones are Show up for
work on time, as well as Dress neatly at the
| | 03:05 | bottom, so both of those
should have a checkmark.
| | 03:08 | Now with Dress neatly selected,
since we just clicked there, we can go to
| | 03:11 | the Properties tab now for this particular
question, and change the Points. Let's type in 5.
| | 03:18 | Now we'll go up to the other correct
one, which is Show up for work on time. You
| | 03:22 | can see the default there. We're going to
click there, and type in 5 for that one.
| | 03:26 | Alright, so we've set up partial
scoring, and we've also disabled negative
| | 03:31 | scoring by going to the partial scoring option.
| | 03:34 | But we do have both those options here
now in Captivate 6. So let's preview this
| | 03:38 | from the current slide;
click the Preview button.
| | 03:41 | And that means this will be the only
question in our preview, since it's the last
| | 03:45 | one before we get to the results.
| | 03:47 | Okay, so let's say we choose one of
them that's incorrect, Smoke inside the
| | 03:51 | building, and one that is
correct. We'll click Submit.
| | 03:56 | When we click Submit, it takes a moment
to take us to our results. You'll see
| | 03:59 | that we've scored 5 out of 10.
| | 04:03 | We got 1 question right out of 1,
and of course, that represented 50%, because
| | 04:08 | there was another correct answer.
| | 04:09 | We can review the quiz now by clicking
review, and that just allows us to go back
| | 04:14 | and look at those answers.
| | 04:16 | So we got the first one wrong;
the second one right.
| | 04:19 | You can see that it should have been D.
| | 04:22 | So we'll close up our Preview, and
that's a quick intro to partial scoring, and
| | 04:26 | negative scoring here in Captivate 6.
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| Working with a pretest| 00:00 | It's time to take a look at a new
feature in Captivate 6 that allows you to
| | 00:05 | assess your user's comprehension knowledge
ahead of time. It's called a pretest.
| | 00:10 | And that will determine, based on
their scoring, where they go next.
| | 00:14 | Think about content that maybe contains
basic, intermediate, and advanced training.
| | 00:20 | Based on their pretest score, you can
direct them to any of those locations.
| | 00:25 | So if they get a low score, they go
directly to the basic training. A higher
| | 00:29 | score might take them to
intermediate, or advanced.
| | 00:31 | We're going to use a very simple
example for the sake of time here, using our
| | 00:35 | SAMOCA Volunteer Orientation project.
You can see I'm at slide number 1.
| | 00:40 | If you've been following
along with me, just click there.
| | 00:42 | Alright, we're going to insert our
pretest now by going to the Quiz menu, click
| | 00:47 | Quiz, and there's the new option:
Pretest Question Slide. Select that.
| | 00:52 | And just like we saw when setting up
a quiz, we have access to many of the
| | 00:57 | different question types, and we can
insert multiple questions as well.
| | 01:02 | We're going to do one simple True/False
question. We'll select True/False, leave it at 1.
| | 01:08 | It's a Pretest, it can't be changed;
we click OK.
| | 01:12 | It inserts a new slide after our first slide;
| | 01:14 | I think this should actually be the
first slide, so let's click and drag it up,
| | 01:17 | so it becomes slide number 1.
| | 01:19 | Next we're going to make
some changes onscreen here.
| | 01:22 | We're going to disguise this so it
doesn't look like a true/false question.
| | 01:26 | We'll start with True/False at the top,
double-clicking there, highlighting it,
| | 01:30 | and typing in SAMOCA Volunteer Orientation.
| | 01:36 | Next, where it says Type the
question, we're going to do exactly that.
| | 01:39 | We'll double-click to get inside,
select the text that's already there, and
| | 01:44 | type right over it.
| | 01:45 | Have you taken this training already?
| | 01:50 | The answers by default are true/false.
We can change those too.
| | 01:54 | Let's double-click True, select True,
and type in Yes. And we'll change False to
| | 02:00 | No; double-click, click and drag, type No.
| | 02:05 | Let's just click anywhere off the
slide here to deselect, and there's our
| | 02:09 | question, but we do have some options
now that we want to take care of, first of
| | 02:14 | all, with the slide itself.
| | 02:15 | Let's go to Quiz Properties.
| | 02:17 | Remember, this is our first slide, so we
don't need to see a Back button. We can
| | 02:21 | deselect that from the Options section.
| | 02:24 | Clear; they might want to change their answer,
so we'll leave that, but we don't need Next.
| | 02:29 | Where they go is going to be based on
their score, so that means now going to
| | 02:33 | the individual questions here.
| | 02:35 | Notice that Yes is a correct
question, but really there is no correct
| | 02:39 | question; it's just however they
score, they are going to go to a different
| | 02:44 | part of our training.
| | 02:45 | So let's go in here, and make
some changes to our pretest action.
| | 02:50 | Notice that we do have an Action
section, and Edit Pretest Action is a button
| | 02:54 | that we can click, and it
opens up Advanced Actions.
| | 02:58 | There is one in there
already by default. Notice, it's
| | 03:01 | QuizInfoPretestScorePercentage
greater than 50.
| | 03:04 | If they score greater than
50, they go to the next slide.
| | 03:08 | Well in this case, with a true/false, it's
going to be 0 or 50, so let's change
| | 03:13 | it from is greater than by double-clicking;
gives us a dropdown, and we'll
| | 03:18 | choose greater or equal to,
and we'll leave it at 50.
| | 03:23 | If they get the wrong answer -- which really
isn't wrong at all -- if they choose No,
| | 03:27 | it's going to represent zero.
| | 03:29 | So we need another condition in here.
| | 03:31 | Notice, across the top we have our
first Untitled condition, there is our next
| | 03:35 | one, and if we want to rename this, we
could. Let's just double-click where it
| | 03:38 | says Untitled, let's
highlight that, and call it Yes.
| | 03:43 | Now we'll double-click Untitled, the next
one over, highlight that, and type in No.
| | 03:48 | So what happens if they choose No?
| | 03:50 | Well, there is nothing here for us
already, so we need to double-click in
| | 03:54 | the first row, choose either variable or
literal; again, this is going to be variable.
| | 03:59 | Now we can click the dropdown, and
scroll down to the same variable that we used
| | 04:04 | in the previous condition.
| | 04:06 | So as we scroll all the way down, we
get into the QuizInfo stuff, and we're
| | 04:11 | looking for PretestScorePercentage;
there it is.
| | 04:14 | Again, we'll choose an operator. This
time it's going to be less than, literal, and
| | 04:21 | we're going to type in 50.
| | 04:22 | So if they get less than 50, what happens?
| | 04:24 | Well, the Action row is empty. We need to
double click there, select an Action, and
| | 04:29 | we're going to have them go to a specific slide.
| | 04:34 | We'll choose Jump to Slide, and we'll
select volunteer orientation, slide number 2.
| | 04:39 | Now, if we go back to Yes, we
weren't very clear about the Action.
| | 04:44 | If they do score Yes, in other words, they
have taken this training, what happens?
| | 04:48 | We don't want them to go to the next slide.
Maybe they should go directly to the quiz.
| | 04:52 | So although it says Go to Next Slide,
we can double-click that, and choose Jump
| | 04:56 | to Slide, just like we did, and
this time we're going to choose Quiz.
| | 05:02 | Our Quiz slide is quiz slide number 26.
| | 05:06 | Let's update this, which will update the
actual script. It's being written in the
| | 05:10 | background. Click OK, and then close the up.
| | 05:13 | So it's time to see if this works. We're
going to preview it from this slide, so
| | 05:17 | we'll go to the Preview
button; choose From this Slide.
| | 05:19 | It will take a second to generate
your slides, and now we have what we call
| | 05:24 | branching. Depending on the score, or
the answer selected, our users will branch
| | 05:29 | off into a specific
location that we've prearranged.
| | 05:33 | So, Have you taken this training already?
| | 05:35 | If I choose Yes, let's see what happens when
we click Submit. I go directly to the Quiz.
| | 05:41 | Alright, we'll close up the Preview
and re-preview this again by going to the
| | 05:47 | Preview button, and choosing From this Slide.
| | 05:50 | This time we are going to choose No, we
haven't taken the training, and see what happens.
| | 05:55 | It should take us to the
beginning of our content.
| | 05:58 | So we'll choose No; click Submit. Some
nice welcome applause as we arrive at our
| | 06:07 | Volunteer Orientation, and now we would
just simply click through our training,
| | 06:13 | and eventually arrive at the Quiz.
| | 06:15 | Let's press Escape on the keyboard
to leave, and that's a quick example of
| | 06:19 | pretest, a new feature here in Captivate 6.
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6. Publishing Your ProjectPreparing a project to publish| 00:01 | Once you are at the end of your Captivate
project, and you're thinking now it's
| | 00:04 | time to share it with your users, there
are some considerations before actually
| | 00:09 | publishing that we're
going to look at right now.
| | 00:12 | We're going to work with our Volunteer
Orientation project here, and if you want
| | 00:16 | to see exactly what I see, go to the
Chapter6 folder of the Exercise Files; open
| | 00:20 | up Volunteer_Orientation_SAMOCA27.
| | 00:21 | We've been building this project, and
we're ready to publish it, but let's go to
| | 00:26 | the File menu first,
and select Publish Settings.
| | 00:30 | You're going to see some default
settings here that can be changed under the
| | 00:33 | Project category of our Preferences.
| | 00:36 | First of all, the Frames
Per Second defaulted at 30.
| | 00:40 | That's plenty for smooth
transitions, and smooth animation.
| | 00:43 | So if you do have transitions, animations,
even video in your project, that's a good option.
| | 00:49 | You can lower the file size by lowering
the Frames Per Second, but sometimes some
| | 00:54 | of the motion on your
slides will look a little jagged.
| | 00:57 | So we'll leave it at 30.
| | 00:58 | If you're going to be publishing your
project to Adobe Connect, you might want to
| | 01:02 | consider including the metadata.
| | 01:04 | That's the information that's
kind of stored about your project.
| | 01:08 | We're not going to be publishing
to Adobe Connect, so we don't need to
| | 01:11 | select that checkbox.
| | 01:12 | We'll include the mouse, we'll enable
accessibility, we do have closed captioning
| | 01:16 | in our project, and for the
visually impaired, we might want to ensure
| | 01:20 | accessibility is enabled
for some of those options.
| | 01:23 | We do have audio in our project as
well; we want to make sure it's included.
| | 01:27 | Is it important that
that audio be stereo, though?
| | 01:31 | Well you'll notice the next checkbox
will publish our audio as mono; that's a
| | 01:35 | single speaker, for
example, out of a tablet, or a PC.
| | 01:39 | But if you've background music that's recorded
in stereo, you might want to deselect that.
| | 01:44 | We don't, so we're going to keep it selected.
| | 01:46 | Also, for any of the slides where keys
are being tapped on the keyboard for text
| | 01:53 | entry, for example, do we want to here a
special effect called tap audio? I don't like it;
| | 01:57 | I'm going to turn that one off.
| | 01:59 | Now, there are other resources that can
also be externalized, and by doing that,
| | 02:04 | you give programmers an opportunity to
make adjustments to the published project
| | 02:08 | without having to
open it up in Captivate.
| | 02:10 | So if you keep the skin separate, widgets,
shockwave Flash files, and animations; by
| | 02:16 | having those externalized, again, they
can be adjusted, altered, changed without
| | 02:21 | having to go into Captivate.
| | 02:23 | Let's leave them all
deselected though, and click OK.
| | 02:25 | The last thing we're going to do is
think about who's going to be viewing our
| | 02:30 | project, and where, and on what?
| | 02:32 | For example, will it be on a tablet? Will it be
on a computer screen? On the Web, for example?
| | 02:38 | So let's talk about rescaling our project.
| | 02:41 | When we first setup our project, we
were thinking maybe we should use a
| | 02:45 | resolution ideal for an iPad.
| | 02:47 | But let's go up to Modify,
and choose Rescale project.
| | 02:51 | Maybe the majority of our users will
be viewing this particular project on
| | 02:56 | their own computers; maybe we're going
to be publishing it to our own server,
| | 03:01 | and in this case, you can see the
current settings: User defined, with a Width of
| | 03:05 | 1280, and a Height of 720. That's our
Apple iPad Landscape setting, and you can
| | 03:10 | see it kind of highlighted down below.
| | 03:13 | It's dimmed out, and not selectable
at this time, because User defined is
| | 03:17 | selected, where we can make adjustments to the
Width, the Height, or we could it by percentages.
| | 03:22 | And notice that maintaining the
aspect ratio is selected by default.
| | 03:26 | So if we wanted it to be half the size,
we could click on the 100. If we type 50,
| | 03:31 | and hit enter, you'll notice resizing
the project operation cannot be undone,
| | 03:35 | but 50 is also selected for the Height,
because of the aspect ratio. We'll click Cancel.
| | 03:41 | Another option is just to choose a
Preset size, and when we do that, all of our
| | 03:45 | User defined options are grayed out.
| | 03:47 | We can click the dropdown for Preset size;
| | 03:49 | there is our Apple iPad Landscape,
but maybe the majority of our users will
| | 03:53 | actually be on their own computers,
looking at it using a very popular
| | 03:58 | resolution of 1024 by 768.
| | 04:01 | Notice that this is actually
going to make the project larger.
| | 04:04 | It's going to be smaller in the
Width, but bigger in the Height.
| | 04:08 | So when we select it, look what
happens down below; one of these two sections
| | 04:13 | will be accessible, and in this case,
we're making it a little bit larger. So we
| | 04:18 | can rescale the project to fit the
new size; things will be stretched out
| | 04:21 | including the objects that are on our
slides. Or we could choose to keep the
| | 04:25 | project the same size, and reposition
the objects, for example, in the center.
| | 04:30 | That might mean some extra empty blank
space around the outside, so let's leave
| | 04:35 | it at rescaling to fit the new size.
| | 04:37 | If we were to select something like 640
by 480, notice now we're making it smaller,
| | 04:42 | and the same options apply, but in this
case, we're rescaling the project down to
| | 04:47 | fit the new size, including the
objects. Or the other option is to crop it,
| | 04:51 | meaning we could lose stuff
on the outside of our slides.
| | 04:55 | So let's go back to our dropdown, and go
to 1024 by 768; a very popular resolution.
| | 05:00 | And now when we click Finish, you can
see that message again that this operation
| | 05:05 | cannot be undone. Are you absolutely sure
you want to continue? We will click OK.
| | 05:10 | So it just takes a little bit of time
now to resize the master slides, resize
| | 05:16 | each of the individual slides,
rescaling the entire project.
| | 05:20 | You can see it happening in the
background. Things are being resized and
| | 05:23 | rescaled in the background. Things will
still fit on our slides; they just
| | 05:28 | might look a little bit different
than they did in our previous resolution.
| | 05:31 | So it's just a matter of sitting back,
waiting for this to update, and then we'll
| | 05:36 | be ready to continue on, and actually
publish our project. That's coming up next.
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| Publishing your project| 00:00 | Once you've set up your project to be
published, maybe you've rescaled it, like
| | 00:05 | we did in the previous lesson, it's
time to do the actual publishing, and there
| | 00:08 | are many options when it comes to
publishing your project here in Captivate 6.
| | 00:13 | We're going to look at some of
them now as we continue with our
| | 00:16 | Volunteer Orientation project here.
| | 00:19 | Now, after rescaling, it's not a bad idea
to just flip through the various slides,
| | 00:23 | and make sure everything
looks like it's going to work.
| | 00:26 | Here on slide 3, for example, looks
like our Continue button has kind of
| | 00:30 | shifted over the word button, so we're
going to just move it off to the right,
| | 00:34 | and we would continue
reviewing our slides at that point.
| | 00:37 | We might want to save any
changes, and now let's go to publishing.
| | 00:41 | We'll click File,
go down to Publish Settings.
| | 00:45 | Yes, we're going to look at a couple
other settings before we actually do the
| | 00:49 | publishing, like Information.
| | 00:50 | This is information that's going to be
stored with your project after you publish it.
| | 00:54 | Like who is the Author? Type in
your own name here if you like.
| | 00:58 | The Company; I'm going to type in SAMOCA.
| | 01:01 | You can add an e-mail. I'm going to take
that out, as well as the Web site for the company.
| | 01:07 | We'll just click, and drag, and delete.
| | 01:09 | I will add the year of our Copyright,
2012, and you can see the Project Name is
| | 01:14 | the same as our current project
name, even after it's published.
| | 01:18 | So instead of it looking the way it
does here, I'm going to change it to
| | 01:22 | Volunteer, with a space, Orientation.
Take out that underscore, leave a space,
| | 01:29 | maybe put in it a Dash,
and add Art at the end.
| | 01:33 | We can also add descriptive words.
Content Management Systems will scour through
| | 01:38 | this metadata as it's stored with your
project, looking for descriptive words,
| | 01:43 | authors, project names. So the more
descriptive you are here, the easier it will be
| | 01:48 | to find your project in a
Content Management System.
| | 01:52 | So I'm going to type in New
volunteer orientation for SAMOCA Art.
| | 02:02 | And before we click OK, let's take a
look at a couple of other settings here
| | 02:07 | like the SWF Size and Quality.
| | 02:08 | If we happened to be thinking about
publishing this to the SWF format, we can do
| | 02:13 | things like compress full motion
recording, if it exists in our project.
| | 02:17 | I know for a fact it does in ours; our
software simulation would be considered
| | 02:21 | full motion recording, so let's compress
that to decrease the entire size of our project.
| | 02:27 | Something that's important if you have
many users, for example, downloading it
| | 02:30 | from a server, or maybe via
browser, and bandwidth could be an issue.
| | 02:35 | Also, we have settings here that we can
set using a slider, or if you prefer, have
| | 02:40 | access to the individual
settings by choosing Custom.
| | 02:44 | You'll notice that every
slide has its own quality setting.
| | 02:48 | If we move Preferences out of the
way, you'll notice over here in the
| | 02:51 | background, if Properties are selected,
that each slide uses a certain Quality.
| | 02:55 | In this case, a Low, or 8-bit.
| | 02:58 | But if we want to retain each of
the slide's individual properties, we
| | 03:02 | would leave this check.
| | 03:03 | If we want to override those, so
they're all the same, we can deselect it, and
| | 03:07 | then make a selection.
| | 03:08 | We have two options: 24 bit, or 8 bit.
So the lower, of course, means a lower
| | 03:13 | project size in the end.
| | 03:16 | If quality is important to you,
choose the higher option, 24 bit.
| | 03:20 | Also, when it comes to JPEGs, they can be
compressed if there are any, and there
| | 03:24 | are; 80% is selected, probably based on our
rescaling, so we can change that if we wanted to.
| | 03:30 | Advanced Project Compression is turned
on. Compressing any SWF files that might
| | 03:35 | be inside the project also compressed,
| | 03:38 | again, bringing down the overall
size of our entire project in the end.
| | 03:42 | And one last setting to look at: Start
and End. You'll notice here, for example,
| | 03:47 | Auto Play is turned on. That's a good
one; I like it, so when people access this
| | 03:51 | project, it's automatically going to
start right off at slide 1, and there's
| | 03:55 | nothing they need to do.
| | 03:56 | And in fact, you can add preloaders,
so if your IT department, or system
| | 04:00 | administrators have something that
needs to happen first, a preloader could be
| | 04:04 | browsed for, and added.
| | 04:05 | We don't have one, so we'll deselect it.
| | 04:08 | We can password protect our project as
well, so if anyone wants to access it,
| | 04:12 | they need to know the password.
| | 04:13 | It can expire. If you choose a Project
Expiry Date, all that means is after a
| | 04:19 | certain date, people will not be
able to access this project any longer.
| | 04:23 | I think they should be able to access it at
any time, so we'll make sure it's unselected.
| | 04:28 | But maybe we'll have our first slide
fade in, and our last one fade out, and then
| | 04:32 | what happens at the end of the project?
| | 04:34 | Well if it was in a kiosk, and people were
just viewing it, we might want it to loop.
| | 04:40 | Notice that stop the project is the
default, and it's already selected, but we
| | 04:44 | could close it up, we could be opening
up a Web page, or a file, for example, using
| | 04:50 | the Open URL or File option.
| | 04:52 | Execute JavaScript, another
project, even send e-mail to someone.
| | 04:57 | But Stop project is the default. We're
going to leave it at that, and click OK.
| | 05:01 | So with our settings ready, let's go
up to File one more time, and this time
| | 05:05 | we'll choose Publish.
| | 05:08 | Now, when we select Publish, there is a
dialog box with many options down the
| | 05:12 | left, the most popular option
being publishing to SWF/HTML5.
| | 05:18 | Previous versions of Captivate only showed
SWF up here; that's Shockwave Flash File.
| | 05:24 | But HTML5 is new, it's an option here, and
they are actually combined on the screen.
| | 05:30 | So as we look at the Project Title, we look at
where it's going, if it's going to a folder.
| | 05:36 | Let's say we did want to use this
format. Let's browse to our Desktop.
| | 05:41 | We'll select it, and click Choose.
| | 05:43 | We'll want to make sure that Publish to
Folder is also selected, so a new folder
| | 05:48 | is created on our Desktop
with our project inside.
| | 05:52 | Down below, SWF is selected; HTML5
can also be selected simultaneously.
| | 05:58 | You can do one, or the other, or both at
the same time, which is really cool, and
| | 06:02 | we'll talk more about HTML5 in the next lesson.
| | 06:05 | Right now, we'll just leave it at SWF.
Maybe we also want a PDF exported with
| | 06:10 | this, a PDF version, so we could select that.
| | 06:13 | Other options include ZIP Files; I like
this one, Generate Autorun For CD. If you
| | 06:17 | plan on burning this to a CD or DVD, it will
automatically run when they pop it in the drive.
| | 06:24 | Also you can see the Flash Player
Version, it's defaulting to as 10.
| | 06:28 | We do have the ability to go all the way up to
Flash Player 11, and as low as 9. Let's go to 11.
| | 06:35 | Now, we are ready to publish this.
When we click Publish, you can see it's
| | 06:39 | actually generating the slides. It's
going to go through our entire project, and
| | 06:42 | it's going to publish it to
that folder on our Desktop.
| | 06:45 | Inside that folder, we're going to see
many different types of files, and those
| | 06:50 | files we'll talk about in
a minute when this is done.
| | 06:54 | So a note here; to view generated PDF file,
you have to have Adobe Reader. We click OK.
| | 06:59 | It's completed successfully.
| | 07:01 | Do we want to view the output now?
| | 07:03 | Let's just say no, so we can
browse to the folder on our Desktop.
| | 07:07 | So let's go up to Adobe Captivate here,
and you can minimize it in Windows with
| | 07:11 | the Minimize button in the top right
corner, or from here on the Mac, we can just
| | 07:15 | hide Adobe Captivate, and go to our Desktop.
| | 07:18 | There's the new folder that's
created, based on our project name,
| | 07:21 | Volunteer_orientation.
| | 07:23 | We'll double-click it to see the
files that are contained therein.
| | 07:28 | So, there is a CSS file.
| | 07:30 | The video that's part of our
project shows up here as a separate file.
| | 07:35 | Also, you can see an HTM file. HTM is the
HTML file that we can open up in a Web browser.
| | 07:41 | There is our PDF version of it.
| | 07:43 | We also have the Shockwave Flash File,
and when we go to HTML, this is the file
| | 07:49 | that's going to run.
| | 07:50 | So let's try it. Let's double-click
the HTM file, it's going to launch your
| | 07:55 | default browser, and take
you directly to that site.
| | 07:58 | You might see a pop-up indicating your project
expired, if that option was checked earlier.
| | 08:04 | And you can see it's running now.
| | 08:06 | So, have we taken this
training already? Let's choose No.
| | 08:08 | We scroll down to see the Submit button.
| | 08:11 | (audio playing)
| | 08:16 | There it is. We can go directly to the
Quiz from here, or just click to move on.
| | 08:20 | Go directly to another location with
this table of contents, or click Continue.
| | 08:26 | Let's go to the Quiz; take the quiz now.
| | 08:29 | We can start answering questions, and submitting.
| | 08:34 | That one was correct.
| | 08:36 | Go on to the next one, and so on.
| | 08:39 | So it looks pretty good. We
can close up our browser now.
| | 08:42 | Let's just quit Safari;
you can close it up.
| | 08:44 | If you're using Internet Explorer, just
close that up as well; returns us back to
| | 08:48 | our folder containing each of the files.
| | 08:50 | Notice, we do have that PDF version
as well, if you prefer to send that off
| | 08:54 | to somebody. It's just another way
for your users to access your eLearning
| | 08:58 | project.
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| Publishing eLearning content in HTML5| 00:00 | The term eLearning has been
around for quite some time.
| | 00:03 | A newer term is mLearning, short for
mobile learning, and that is simply creating
| | 00:09 | eLearning for mobile devices.
| | 00:11 | People are using iPads, and may want to
take your eLearning project with them, or
| | 00:16 | maybe even on their mobile
devices, such as their smart phones.
| | 00:20 | Well in that case, there's a new format we
can publish to, HTML5, that will allow us to
| | 00:26 | do things like access a project on an iPad.
| | 00:28 | So we're going to take a look at HTML5
as a format to publish to, but before we
| | 00:34 | do that, it's important to know that
there are certain features and functions in
| | 00:38 | Captivate 6 that are simply
not supported in that format.
| | 00:41 | Luckily for us, there's something
called the HTML tracker that will find those
| | 00:45 | things, so we can fix them up before we publish.
| | 00:48 | We access it by going to the Window
menu, and we are working with our Volunteer
| | 00:52 | Orientation project.
| | 00:54 | If you need to get caught up go
to the Chapter6 folder; open up
| | 00:57 | Volunteer_orientations_SAMOCA29.
| | 01:00 | Then we'll click Window, and then HTML
Tracker. It's going to quickly go through all
| | 01:04 | of your slides, and find the
ones that have issues, like slide number 8.
| | 01:09 | It contains a widget.
| | 01:10 | If you may recall from a previous lesson,
we added a print widget to this slide, if
| | 01:15 | somebody wanted to print out the contents.
| | 01:17 | So if we want to scroll down to slide
number 8, take a look at it, and there it is,
| | 01:24 | Rules of Conduct. Select it in the Filmstrip.
| | 01:27 | You might need to move this HTML
Tracker of the way, and as we move it into the
| | 01:31 | dock here, you can see it
stays docked, and there's the widget.
| | 01:34 | We will click it, hit Delete on the
keyboard, click OK, and look what happens
| | 01:39 | over here in the HTML Tracker.
| | 01:41 | That slide is gone. No issues there.
| | 01:44 | So we would continue on.
| | 01:45 | It looks like slide 23 has an issue, and in
this case, it has to do with the animation.
| | 01:50 | So as we go down to our Vision
slide, we are looking for that issue.
| | 01:54 | There it is, and sure enough, we
have an animation here that is not
| | 01:58 | text-only animation.
| | 02:00 | So as we scroll through our list on the
Timeline, we find that Text Animation.
| | 02:05 | We can delete it, and then we would
have to replace the word Vision with just
| | 02:10 | regular text perhaps,
but that slide is gone now.
| | 02:12 | So there will be some cleaning up.
| | 02:14 | We have fill in the blank answer,
short answer, and matching questions in our
| | 02:17 | quiz that are not acceptable if
we are going to publish to HTML5.
| | 02:21 | So you would have to go through each of
those, and change up the question type, or
| | 02:25 | simply remove those if you don't need them.
| | 02:28 | Now, to save some time, I've
gone ahead and made those changes.
| | 02:32 | So if you open up Volunteer_orientation
_SAMOCA29_b from your Chapter6 folder
| | 02:38 | of the Exercise Files, and run the HTML
Tracker, you'll see there is nothing wrong there.
| | 02:43 | And we can drag that back out here if
we wanted to, and close it up, and we're
| | 02:47 | back to looking at Properties
over here on the right-hand side.
| | 02:51 | So now that we know our project
is ready to be published to HTML5,
| | 02:57 | all we have to this go up to the File
menu, go down to Publish, and here at the
| | 03:02 | very top, we already talked about SWF,
or Shockwave Flash Format, but you'll
| | 03:08 | notice down below, there
is a second option: HTML5.
| | 03:11 | And in fact, if we select it,
you'll notice SWF stays selected.
| | 03:15 | This is going to create kind of a
hybrid output, and I really like this
| | 03:19 | feature in Captivate 6.
| | 03:20 | If I was to play this on my iPad where
there's no Flash player, automatically
| | 03:25 | Captivate knows to play the HTML5 version.
| | 03:28 | If I was to play this on my PC after
it's published, and I do have the Flash
| | 03:32 | player, it would use that version.
| | 03:35 | So it'll use of both versions, depending
on what you're viewing it on, and select
| | 03:40 | the right one for your circumstances.
| | 03:43 | So we can leave them both selected. If
you only wanted to publish to HTML5, you
| | 03:46 | have to have it selected first,
and then deselect SWF.
| | 03:49 | Let's leave them both selected, and as you
can see, the project title is SAMOCA29_b.
| | 03:55 | Perfect!
| | 03:56 | We can have it go to our Desktop, and it
will be published to a folder, and if we
| | 04:01 | already have that folder there, then we
might want to consider removing it, and
| | 04:06 | creating a new spot, or
choosing another location.
| | 04:09 | But we will be okay with this name,
SAMOCA29_b.
| | 04:12 | All we have to do now is click Publish,
and you can see its generating slides.
| | 04:17 | It'll take a few minutes. It'll publish
in that new format, and like I said, when
| | 04:22 | we distributed to our users, depending
on where they are, and what they're
| | 04:26 | planning the project on, the
correct format will kick in.
| | 04:30 | Just a new feature here in Captivate
6 that will include mobile devices, or
| | 04:35 | what we call mLearning.
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| Publishing to YouTube| 00:00 | In previous versions of Captivate, you
did have the ability to publish your
| | 00:05 | projects to YouTube.
| | 00:06 | Of course, they are converted to
video, so you lose any interactivity.
| | 00:11 | Quizzes quite often no
longer apply in a YouTube video.
| | 00:14 | However, we can work with a shortened
version of our volunteer orientation,
| | 00:18 | so if you want to follow along with
me, go to your Exercise Files in the
| | 00:22 | Chapter6 folder, and open up
Volunteer_orientation_SAMOCA30.
| | 00:25 | As you can see, I've removed some
the slides where we had interactive
| | 00:29 | buttons, the quiz is gone,
| | 00:30 | all we have are some informational
slides that will use the timings that are
| | 00:35 | already assigned to move from slide
to slide, but it will be a video in the
| | 00:39 | end, posted to YouTube.
| | 00:41 | What's changed here in Captivates 6 is
there's one button for doing this that's
| | 00:44 | right on your control panel.
| | 00:46 | So if you're following along with me,
click the button Publish to YouTube, and it
| | 00:49 | will generate your slides, just like it
does when publishing to other formats,
| | 00:53 | but what's different now is, as you can
see, the Adobe Captivate Video Publisher
| | 00:58 | launches, and down here the bottom, you
can see it's going to take awhile for our
| | 01:02 | video to be generated.
| | 01:04 | This is for a very small project.
| | 01:06 | Typically, if you have longer
projects, and depending on the content, this
| | 01:10 | could take quite awhile.
| | 01:12 | In fact, you might want to take a
break, let it do its thing, and come back
| | 01:15 | to it at a later time.
| | 01:17 | Now for us, we only have a few seconds
left, and once it's generated, what's really
| | 01:21 | nice about this features is it will
automatically prompt you along to get
| | 01:24 | logged into YouTube, and
upload it in a few easy steps.
| | 01:29 | So here we are, waiting for us to log in.
| | 01:32 | All we need is our Username, and
our Password, and you should read the
| | 01:37 | Adobe Privacy Policy.
| | 01:39 | Once you've read that, you can click the
checkbox that you have, and then Log in.
| | 01:43 | Notice, if you're not a YouTube member, there
is a New user button that will get you a login,
| | 01:48 | or if you forget your password,
you can access it from here as well.
| | 01:52 | But we will click Log In, and now it's
just time to give our project a Title.
| | 01:57 | Up here we will type in
SAMOCA Volunteer Orientation.
| | 02:05 | We can give it a Description.
| | 02:06 | Again, this will help people or
users who are viewing our video understand
| | 02:11 | what they're looking at, especially
when they're searching for things.
| | 02:14 | So I'm going to type in new
volunteer orientation. We can add Tags.
| | 02:21 | Again, this really helps for people who
might be searching for such information.
| | 02:26 | The Category can also be selected from
here; Education is selected automatically,
| | 02:30 | because we're coming from Captivate,
and we'll leave it selected as Education.
| | 02:34 | Is it for everybody?
| | 02:35 | We will use Public.
| | 02:36 | If it's private, you can select Private,
and choose the users you can view this.
| | 02:40 | Also, you should read the Terms and Conditions.
| | 02:43 | These are for YouTube; click that
checkbox, and you're ready to Upload.
| | 02:47 | That's all there is to getting your
project converted to a video, and uploaded
| | 02:53 | to YouTube, all from one button in
the control panel here in Captivate 6.
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| Reporting to a learning management system (LMS)| 00:00 | If you're going to be including a quiz
in your eLearning project, you might want
| | 00:04 | to report the results.
| | 00:06 | Where would you report them to?
| | 00:08 | Well, typically to an LMS, or Learning
Management System, and there are a number
| | 00:12 | of different LSMs out there, and there
are number different options to ensure
| | 00:16 | your project is going to
be compatible with an LMS.
| | 00:19 | We're going to talk about those now as
we continue working with our Volunteer
| | 00:23 | Orientation project here.
| | 00:25 | Now, if you've jumped to this lesson,
and you want to get caught up, go to the
| | 00:28 | Chapter6 folder, open up volunteer_
orientation_SAMOCA31, and you'll have
| | 00:32 | exactly what I have.
| | 00:34 | The first thing we need to do if are
going to be reporting results is turn on that
| | 00:38 | feature on in our Preferences.
| | 00:39 | Here on the Mac, we go to Adobe Captivate,
and select Preferences. On your Windows
| | 00:43 | PC, go to the Edit menu, and
select Preferences from there.
| | 00:48 | Next, we will go to Quiz > Reporting,
and Enable reporting for this project.
| | 00:53 | As soon as we do that, you'll see
there are a number of different options to
| | 00:56 | choose from down below.
| | 00:58 | So first let's talk about what's
going to be included in those results.
| | 01:03 | Status Representation, as you can
see; include Incomplete, Complete, or
| | 01:07 | Incomplete and Passed/Failed.
| | 01:09 | I'd like to note if they passed or failed.
| | 01:12 | Also, down below for Success/Completion
Criteria, you can see there are a number
| | 01:18 | of different options.
| | 01:19 | Did they access our project?
| | 01:21 | That's a very little information.
| | 01:22 | Which slides did they view, the quiz included?
| | 01:25 | You can see if they've passed the quiz.
| | 01:28 | That's checked off by default.
| | 01:29 | I'm going to leave that one checked off.
| | 01:32 | And Data To Report down below; you can
see we can report the actual Percentage,
| | 01:37 | or the Points that they scored on the quiz.
| | 01:39 | If you're not sure what the Points
represent, Percentage is a good option.
| | 01:43 | Also, we can record or report whether
or not they were clicking certain buttons,
| | 01:49 | and any other interactions that might
occur on any of the slides in our project.
| | 01:54 | Now, before we actually click OK, you'll
notice up at the top we have a dropdown
| | 01:58 | here, and by default, we're seeing SCORM 1.2,
and if you're not sure what SCORM is,
| | 02:04 | well, it's really a compliance.
| | 02:06 | It stands for Shareable Content
Object Reference Model, and it's a set of
| | 02:11 | technical standards for eLearning
software products like Captivate.
| | 02:15 | It tells programmers how to write
their code, so it can play well with
| | 02:18 | other eLearning software.
| | 02:20 | So it's what we would call the de
facto industry standard for eLearning
| | 02:24 | interoperability, and specifically SCORM
governs how online learning content and
| | 02:28 | LMSs communicate with each other.
| | 02:31 | That's one of the standards at there.
| | 02:33 | Let's click the dropdown;
you'll see an older version of SCORM.
| | 02:37 | We also have AICC, another type of
compliance that's very popular. Not quite as
| | 02:42 | popular SCROM compliance.
| | 02:44 | We also have Adobe Connect.
| | 02:45 | You could be publishing your results
to Adobe Connect, which is a type of LMS.
| | 02:52 | Acrobat.com gives you even more options.
| | 02:55 | Could even be to an Internal Server,
where you would need to do some programming
| | 02:59 | and coding to make it work.
| | 03:00 | Let's just leave at the default of SCORM.
| | 03:03 | Also, we can select the
Template from here if we wanted to.
| | 03:06 | The Default, you can see,
is selected for us.
| | 03:09 | SendTrackingDataAtEnd is another
option we can customize, but we will
| | 03:13 | leave Default selected.
| | 03:15 | Click the configure button next to
SCORM 1.2, and you get a whole bunch of other
| | 03:20 | options under the Manifest,
and this is kind of important.
| | 03:24 | Typically, you'll be having a conversation
with the administrator of your LMS at this point.
| | 03:29 | For example, you will select a
Course Identifier, and in this case, the
| | 03:34 | administrator will give you a Course ID.
| | 03:36 | Also, the Title needs to go
in there; a searchable Title.
| | 03:40 | Typically, in most LMSs as well,
| | 03:43 | you can search through the
Description to find the course you need.
| | 03:46 | As you update the course over time
you can come in here, and start updating
| | 03:49 | the version as well.
| | 03:50 | So you might have multiple
versions of the same course.
| | 03:53 | You can set durations; add keywords.
| | 03:56 | We're going to click OK, and just
leave those as is, but you should be
| | 03:59 | talking with you are system administrator
for your LMS to get all of this
| | 04:03 | Manifest information.
| | 04:05 | Now when we click OK, and
go to publish our project,
| | 04:09 | we know it's going to be SCROM
compliant, and the results are going to be
| | 04:12 | reported to our Learning Management System.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Congratulations! You've reached the
end of Up and Running with Captivate 6.
| | 00:04 | You should now be feeling confident
enough with Captivate 6 to start authoring
| | 00:08 | and publishing your own eLearning content.
| | 00:10 | Of course, there is so much
more to this powerful software,
| | 00:13 | so stay tuned to lynda.com for more in-depth
Captivate 6 courses to come in the near future.
| | 00:20 | This is David Rivers saying thank you
for watching, and I hope to see you again
| | 00:23 | soon in another title from lynda.com.
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