Key details

Advanced Captivate training course teaching techniques to improve your e-learning content by making full use of the advanced features available.

Because of the different ways that Captivate can be used once you get beyond the basics, we gear Advanced Captivate training towards our clients’ specific requirements and the type of content they’re looking to produce. We arrange for you to have a conversation with one of our Captivate trainers who will make a recommendation of the training that will meet your needs. Topics typically covered include:

• Editable animation effects that smoothly interact with Photoshop and Adobe Animate for enhanced and efficient content development.
• The use of variables to create highly personalised and realistic materials.
• Collaboration with team members via the powerful ‘Reviewer’ software.
• Analysing quiz results.
• Techniques for improving efficiency and production quality.

Course duration

This training can be provided in 1 or 2 days, depending on your specific requirements.

In-class or online

This course is available in-class at eight centres or live online.

Expert trainers

Advanced Captivate courses are hosted by expert trainers, with vast experience of using Captivate professionally for e-learning development.

How will I learn?

Captivate training is hands-on and practical.

Our trainers teach the necessary theory then demonstrate techniques step-by-step. You then practice the techniques taught on a computer running Captivate. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to ask questions.

Windows or Mac

Captivate works almost identically on the Windows and Mac platforms.

Our centres offer both Windows and Mac computers for delegates to use, so you can choose to carry out exercises on the platform you’re familiar with.

Captivate training guide and certificate

Course delegates receive:

• A practical Captivate training guide, to refer to during the course and use as a refresher after. Choose from a printed, bound guide or a PDF – whatever suits you best. If you’re participating online and you choose a printed guide, we’ll post this to you.

• An e-certificate confirming successful course completion. Click here to see an example of the certificate you receive.

After course support

Following Advanced Captivate training, delegates are entitled to 30 days’ email support from their Captivate trainer to help with any post-course issues. For further details, see Support.

Prerequisites

Advanced Captivate training is aimed at delegates who have attended our Introduction to Captivate course, or have equivalent knowledge through other means.

Captivate version

Training can be based on any version of Captivate to suit you.

All Captivate training is suitable for both Windows and Mac users.

General information

Course times

Standard course times are 9.30am–4.30pm.

As we’d be hosting this as a ‘closed course’ for you/your group, there’s usually flexibility to change these times to suit you, e.g. start or end 30 minutes earlier or later.

Payment

Payment for Captivate training can be made by:

• Bank transfer. Please call 01527 834783 for our bank details.
• Card. All major credit and debit cards accepted. Payment can be made securely online or over the phone. Card payments are processed by Stripe. Armada doesn’t record or store your card details.

Purchase orders

We accept purchase orders from UK-registered companies and public sector organisations.

Accommodation

See Accommodation local to our training centres.

Cancellations and postponements

If an on-request Advanced Captivate course booking is cancelled giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a cancellation fee is payable. View cancellation terms.

If an on-request Advanced Captivate course booking is postponed giving less than 20 working days’ notice, a postponement fee is payable. View postponement terms.

Terms and conditions

Expert trainers

Advanced Captivate training courses are hosted by:

• Mark Waterfield
• Lynne Telfer

Mark Waterfield

Mark works as a professional e-Learning developer. He is a recognised expert in all aspects of e-Learning, including hosting and LMS development.

Mark has used Adobe Captivate since it’s inception, and is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) in the application. He also uses Articulate Storyline extensively in his professional work.

Prior to focusing on e-Learning, Mark worked in website development and Flash programming. He is an expert user of Adobe Animate, which he uses to create animations to incorporate into his e-learning tutorials, bringing them to life.

Away from e-Learning, Mark works in the music industry as a programmer, writer, producer and performer. He recently co-wrote a song featured in the Oscar nominated movie ‘Volver’, starring Penelope Cruz.

Lynne Telfer

Lynne Telfer is highly experienced instructor with over 25 years’ experience working as a professional trainer.

In the late nineties, Lynne worked for Adobe as a trainer and consultant, hosting courses in FrameMaker and other applications at all levels for Adobe’s clients. She’s provided training in Adobe’s Technical Communication and Creative applications ever since.

Lynne has expert knowledge of:

• Adobe FrameMaker – both Unstructured and Structured use.
• Adobe RoboHelp.
• Adobe Creative Cloud applications: InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
• Adobe’s e-Learning tools – Captivate and Presenter.
• Microsoft Office suite of applications, covering the mainstream applications Word, Excel and PowerPoint to advanced level.

Lynne has a BA Hons in Educational Practice from Oxford Brookes University.

Course content

Topics typically covered in Advanced Captivate training include:

• Producing editable animation effects that smoothly interact with Photoshop and Flash.
• Using variables to create highly personalised and realistic materials and gather data.
• Collaborating with team members via the powerful ‘Reviewer’ software.
• Improving efficiency and production quality.
• Encoding video files for use in Captivate (using the ‘Adobe Media Encoder’).
• Recording high definition ‘screen casts’.
• Using smart shapes as buttons.
• Using buttons to trigger animation effects and switch object visibility on/off.
• Inserting Photoshop files.
• Inserting widgets and preloaders into the project.
• Creating ‘advanced interactions’.
• Creating ‘multiple interactions’.
• Publishing for Learning Management Systems (LMS) – beyond the basics.
• Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer – the ‘on board’ Captivate LMS alternative.
• Creating and editing Aggregator projects.
• Troubleshooting content in your existing Captivate projects.
• Conditional scripting in Captivate.

Live online training

Online training lets you participate in a live Captivate course from your place of work or home.

We do everything possible to make your online training experience as close as possible to actually being in the classroom. You can:

• See and hear our trainer, and the other delegates participating in the course…
  
• Watch our trainer demonstrate techniques in Captivate.
• Interact by speaking, or using chat.
• Share your screen with our trainer, and allow them to take control to explain something.

Like our in-class courses, online Advanced Captivate courses…

• Are presented by Adobe Certified Instructors.
• Give you plenty of opportunity to carry out assisted, practical exercises using Captivate.
• Offer 30 days’ email support from your trainer.

All you need is an Internet-connected computer with…

• Captivate installed. If you don’t have access to Captivate, we can usually send you a link to fully-functional trial software to download and install.
• A webcam and audio capability. If your computer running Captivate doesn’t have these, you can use a second device, such as another computer or tablet. See Hardware recommendations for live online training for further details.

If there’s anything you’re not sure about we’ll do our best to help you. We won’t, however, be able to assist with your Captivate installation.

We provide everything else…

• Links to download the files, resources, etc. you’ll use in your course.
• A training guide. For most courses, you can choose from a printed copy that we post to you, or a PDF.

In the week before your course, we’ll send you an email containing everything you need to prepare for and participate in the training. Then, a couple of days before your course, we’ll give you a courtesy call to make sure you have everything in place and answer any questions you may have.

Please note that we are not able to record scheduled online courses for privacy reasons.

When you attend live online training, you’re participating in a real course, hosted by a real trainer, in real time