Adobe Captivate 9: The Essentials

by Kevin A. Siegel

“Adobe Captivate 9: The Essentials” is a self-paced workbook that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content. You will follow step-by-step instructions and learn how to create a soft-skills lesson from scratch. You will learn to record and produce software demonstrations and interactive training simulations. By the time you finish working through this fast-paced book, you will know how to add such standard objects to a slide as text captions, images, characters, assets from the eLearning Brothers, and more. You will record, import, and edit audio. You will also further enhance the learner experience by adding interactivity via click boxes, buttons, and text entry boxes. Have you already created content using Microsoft PowerPoint? Don’t throw that presentation away. You will learn how to import existing PowerPoint content into Captivate. Last, but not least, you will publish a Captivate project as SWF and HTML5 so that your content can be used on virtually any device including desktop computers, laptops, iPads, iPhones, and other mobile devices. This book ~Captivate projects, images, audio files, and other assets to get started ~Dozens of step-by-step, hands-on activities Confidence Checks to challenge your new skills ~Hundreds of supporting screen shots

260 pages, Paperback

Published June 8, 2015

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.

Reviews

[Jim Duncan]

Well done book on how best to start using a complex piece of software

[Jim]

Detailed description of many Captivate activities. The "skills and drills" style is a good teaching tool for new users or a good resource to remind more experienced users how to do specific tasks.