Adobe Captivate Quick Tips
34mIntermediate2020-02-24
Authors

Anastasia McCune
Developing interactive projects and elearning since 1998
Course details
Get 25 tips to make elearning creation quicker and more efficient in Adobe Captivate. In this course, Anastasia McCune—Adobe Certified Trainer and long-time elearning creator—introduces time-saving techniques for working smarter in Adobe Captivate. These intermediate-level tips can help you work more efficiently in Captivate by standardizing content, updating and managing project assets and closed captions quickly, and utilizing tools you may not know about. Plus, learn how to finesse your end user’s experience by adding pauses in audio, building a slide counter, and affecting the opening slide.
Topics include:
- Controlling object appearance with object styles
- Exporting images and audio
- Utilizing an external library
- Merging slide elements with the background
- Keeping track of quiz points in one place
- Saving time with shortcuts and advanced actions
Topics include:
- Controlling object appearance with object styles
- Exporting images and audio
- Utilizing an external library
- Merging slide elements with the background
- Keeping track of quiz points in one place
- Saving time with shortcuts and advanced actions
Skills covered
CaptivateE-Learning SoftwareQuick TipsTraining and EducationAdobe
Concepts
Introduction
- Boosting efficiency in Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate Quick Tips
- Copy and paste smart shape appearance
- Controlling object appearance with object styles
- Duplicating objects and slides
- Aligning objects
- Finding and exporting images and audio
- Updating images in situ (in place)
- Standardizing the mouse
- Standardizing closed captions
- Change the opening image
- Opening an external library
- Grouping
- Inserting silence
- Adding a slide counter
- Master slide objects on top
- Keeping track of points with the Advanced Interaction panel
- Lock versus lock
- Importing images in VR
- Merge with background
- Spelling, search, and replace
- Zoom shortcuts
- Advanced actions usage
- Publishing for offline viewing
- Publishing for offline review
- Editing project captions and closed captions
- Smart shape states