Adobe Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials

by Kevin A. Siegel

This book has been created as a companion to our Adobe Captivate 5: The Essentials book. The goal of the "Essentials" book was to get you up and running using Adobe Captivate 5 as quickly as possible. If you completed that book, which tips the scales at over 200 pages, you should have an excellent grasp of how to both record and produce eLearning lessons using Adobe Captivate 5. However, there is a ton of information that just didn't fit into that book. "Adobe Captivate 5: Beyond the Essentials" picks up where the "Essentials" book left off. You will quickly learn Captivate's higher-end functionality while improving your production skills via project templates, object styles, master slides and advanced actions. You will learn to collaborate with team members via Captivates' powerful commenting features and Acrobat.com. You'll enhance the learners experience via variables that will make it seem like each eLearning lesson you produce has been customized for and is talking directly to your customer. Using this step-by-step workbook, you will learn ~ Recording a Custom Simulation
~ Editing a Text Capture Template
~ Collaborating with MS PowerPoint
~ Rescaling Projects
~ Creating Custom Object Styles
~ Combining Projects
~ Branching
~ Aggregating Projects
~ Working with Question Pools and Random Question Slides
~ Creating Projects that Are Accessible (Section 508 Compliant)
~ Creating and Working with Variables
~ Sending a Project for Shared Review
~ Add Comments to a Review File
~ Reviewing and Replying to Comments
~ Create a Image Mask
~ Editing a Slide Background
~ Working with Photoshop Layers
~ Working With Photoshop Layers
~ Creating and Applying Master Slides
~ Creating and Using Project Templates
~ Uploading Content to an LMS
~ Working With and Creating Advanced Actions

218 pages, Spiral-bound

First published July 15, 2010

About the author

evin A. Siegel is the founder and president of IconLogic, Inc. He has written more than 100 step-by-step computer training books, including Camtasia Studio 6: The Essentials, Adobe Captivate 5: The Essentials, Adobe Captivate 4: The Essentials, Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials, Essentials of Macromedia Captivate, Essentials of RoboDemo 5, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 8, Essentials of Adobe RoboHelp 7, Essentials of Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, QuarkXPress 8: The Basics and Essentials of Adobe InDesign CS3.

Kevin spent five years in the U.S. Coast Guard as an award-winning photojournalist and has more than two decades experience as a print publisher, technical writer, instructional designer and eLearning developer. He is a certified technical trainer, has been a classroom instructor for more than 17 years and is a frequent speaker at trade shows and conventions. Kevin holds multiple certifications from companies such as Adobe and the CompTIA.