Essentials Adobe Captivate Beginners Course UK Wide

Beginners Adobe Captivate Training Course Introduction

This introduction to Adobe Captivate training course provides the foundational knowledge required to start producing your own interactive Computer-Based Training or eLearning courses for workplace learning.

It is an on-site training course delivered at your workplace or as live virtual classroom for small groups of up to 10 delegates and comes as a two-day event for the Captivate Classic version and as a one-day course for the 'New' version of Captivate).

During our Beginners Adobe Captivate course your staff will learn how to harness the potential of Adobe's excellent eLearning authoring tool to create striking and effective resources for "standalone" training materials or for your LMS.

The course introduces techniques for creating bite-sized training resources, best-practice tutorials, software demos, interactive simulations, quizzes and branching scenarios easily and quickly. For the Captivate Classic this requires a two-day course to harness its powerful and function-rich features. Or, if you have a Captivate New subscription you can learn to produce learning resources in a single day, taking advantage of its more user-friendly, intuitive features.

We have specialist Adobe trainers available to deliver come and deliver Captivate courses at your organisation across most of mainland UK including popular locations such as Leicester, Leeds, Bradford, Sheffield, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Bristol, Nottingham, Swindon, Manchester and more.

For the Classic version of Captivate, this course can be combined with the Advanced Adobe Captivate training course to create a three-day training programme. Alternatively, you can also blend the training with other Adobe applications. Also see our two-day Adobe Captivate for Multimedia publishing training course.

Captivate eLearning Design and Development (Computer Based Training Solutions)

If you don't want to undertake the project yourselves, we can also design and build complete eLearning and Computer Based Training packages for you. Please contact us to discuss your requirements and specifications.

Captivate Beginners Training Course Prerequisites

No previous knowledge of Adobe Captivate is required to attend this essentials course.

On-site Adobe Captivate Beginners Courses in the United Kingdom

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for Adobe Captivate are delivered as private events and afford more flexibility than off-the-shelf courses with opportunities to tailor content to fit your particular learning needs. Your trainer will discuss your requirements with you prior to the course date.

These Adobe Captivate training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups (either as face-to face or virtual classroom instructor-led training) and you should aim to book at least one month in advance. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for Adobe Captivate training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

The course is available on any version of Adobe Captivate.

For other eLearning authoring DTP courses see also our Articulate 360 and TechSmith Camtasia courses.

Virtual Classroom Adobe Captivate Beginners Training - UK & Beyond

If you'd rather that your team learns remotely, these small-group Adobe Captivate courses are also available as live virtual, interactive sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we've all become used to Online learning (and live virtual meetings) it is clear that virtual classroom delivery has some advantages over traditional face-to-face learning.

If you're looking for local training, then you can't get closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning Captivate courses cater for classes of up to 10 and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with the trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is enriched by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

We come to you: Our regional, mobile Adobe Captivate trainers cover most locations of mainland UK for on-site visits including the English regions of the West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, most of the North West, most of Greater London, parts of the South West (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol area, Gloucestershire), parts of the East of England (Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire) and the western and northerly parts of the South East (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire). Virtual classroom courses are available from anywhere via live video conferencing.

Our Adobe Captivate trainers are:

Inspirational subject experts with a wealth of experience, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Our Closed Adobe Captivate Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

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Why Choose Our Adobe Captivate Courses?

Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Adobe Captivate training provided in-person with engaging step-by-step demos, lessons and hands-on exercises.
Q&A Courses: Dynamic and interactive Adobe Captivate courses with ample time for questions and answers.
The Personal Touch: Expert tuition, tailored to your team's knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe Captivate software functions, design features and techniques that your trainees need most.
Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Adobe Captivate software training with a limit of 10 participants to ensure personalised attention.
Flexible Courses: Can be run as one or more courses, or as a training rollout bringing entire departments and organisations up to the benchmark of Adobe Captivate software knowledge that you require.

Essentials Adobe Captivate training Classic Version - Two-Day Course Outline

What is eLearning?
- The pros and cons of e-Learning
- Researching and planning your project
- Types of eLearning
- Examples of eLearning
Workflow Types
- Soft skill projects
- Software demo projects
Introducing Adobe Captivate
- Adobe Captivate Overview
- Running Captivate in Admin Mode
- Document management and file types
- Exploring the interface
- Setting Captivate preferences
Working on a Project
- Creating a new project
- Configuring project defaults and preferences
Captivate Slides
- Creating slides
- Working with slides
- Configuring slide properties
- Creating slide groups
- Previewing your slides
Working with Slide Content
- HTML5 compatibility overview
- Adding slide objects
- Using the Timeline
- Setting slide object properties
Slide Object Types
- Text Captions
- Images
- Characters
- Smart Shapes
- Highlight boxes
- Zoom areas
Working with Slide Objects
- Arranging slide content
- Working with styles
- Adding effects
Navigation and branching
- Buttons and basic actions for branching
- Branching view
Working with Multimedia
- Encoding video
- Adding video
- Editing video
- Recording audio
- Editing audio
- Importing audio
- Slide notes and the script
- Using Text to Speech
Recording a Software Simulation
- Choosing a recording mode
- Setting up the computer before recording
- Starting a recording and setting recording options
- Recording a new project
- Recording using a template
- Post recording slide editing
- Working with the mouse path
- Recording a video demo
Adobe Captivate Quizzes
- Adding Question Slides
- Types of Question
- Setting quiz preferences slides
The Captivate Player
- Customising the player skin
- Working with the Table of Contents
Publishing your Captivate Project
- Publish settings
- Publishing to an LMS
- Publishing to HTML 5
- Other output options

Essentials Adobe Captivate training New Version - One-Day Course Outline

Adobe Captivate Overview
- Introducing Adobe Captivate
- A tour of the Captivate interface
- Previewing
Starting your Project
- Creating and saving projects
- Project preferences
- Project properties
- Table of Contents and the Playbar
- Using and customising themes
Working with Slides
- Creating slides
- Slide properties
Working with Slide Content
- What are text blocks and components?
- Text blocks
- Text block properties
- Text block components
- Text block component properties
- Animating slide objects
- Media blocks
- Interactive component blocks
- Timing and the Timeline
- Widgets
Working with Audio
- Working on the script
- Recording and editing audio
- Importing audio
- Synchronising audio with objects
- Text to speech features
- Closed captions and accessibility
Recording a Software Simulation
- Preparing to record
- Setting the recording area dimensions
- Recording options
- The recording process
- What gets added during the recording process?
Adding Quizzes
- Creating a quiz
- Graded question slides
- Result Slides
Adding Interactive Features
- Buttons
- The Interaction panel
- Triggers and Actions
- States
Publishing your Captivate Project
- Reporting and Tracking
- Output for an LMS
Reviewing your Captivate Project
- Creating and working with reviews

Desktop Publishing & Adobe Software Training Reviews from our UK Clients

Just wanted to put on record how pleased we were with the standard of training we received last week. The trainer is a credit to your organisation and we will certainly not hesitate in organising training through yourself again as required in the future.
M Roberts, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (PhotoShop beginners training Chester, Cheshire)

Great training with a real sense of achievement at the end of the day.
J Baxter, Leeds College of Music (Adobe InDesign training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

The training was great, by the way, really good and the trainer was lovely.
A Emm, Leftlion (Beginners to Advanced Adobe InDesign training Nottinghamshire)

Very Enjoyable! Lovely tutor and very interesting course
A Hemingway, Wakefield City Council (Adobe Acrobat training Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

I've been meaning to email you regarding the training and how impressed we all were with the trainer; the feedback from the team was that she was not only incredibly knowledgeable about all the subjects but was also very approachable and excelled in her training manner. I just wanted you to know that we all thought she was excellent, so thank you very much for organising her and the courses.
T Jenkins, Interdirect (Beginners to advanced Illustrator, PhotoShop and InDesign training Milton Keynes)

Excellent
L Bhardwaj (PhotoShop training Blaby Leicestershire)

The instructions made learning the software so much easier than I had imagined, and the trainer is an absolute delight to be with. Making learning fun is a talent. She is a rare gem. Thank you for sending her to me. She has changed my working life in three days flat!
P. Scott (Beginners PhotoShop, InDesign and Illustrator Training Winchester, Hampshire)

A fantastic tutor, made the whole experience very enjoyable.
R Sharma-Slessor, Depuy Spine (a Jonson & Jonson Company) (Adobe Photoshop and Indesign Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Really enjoyable and worthwhile.
L Maycock, Trutex Ltd (QuarkXpress Beginners Training Clitheroe Lancashire)

A comprehensive course, no need for improvements.
A Alvey, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (Advanced Illustrator Training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

[The trainer] has been great to work with. I really enjoyed the training.
K. Clarke, HSBC (Indesign training Birmingham, West Midlands)

Very first time I have used Captivate and it was a great start.
A. Kaczmarczyk, Learn Direct (Adobe Captivate training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

The training was great and the trainer was marvellous.
S. Hart, Chester Grosvenor Hotel (Adobe InDesign training Chester, Cheshire)

The course was a great success here.
L. Palmer, Dextra Group PLC (Adobe InDesign training Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7)

An exceptional trainer. I found her manner warm, easy going professional and interested. Her skills with the Adobe Cloud were vast, her knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets, Convert to Paths, and Clipping Handles exceptional. She will always be somebody who shall forever remain in our hearts.
D. Cook, CML2 Ltd (Adobe Creative Cloud Master Class training Ipswich, Suffolk)