Adobe Captivate,printed version of E-learning course,publish to word,E-Learning
Well yes!.. Printed versions of your e-learning courses prove to be instrumental in re-iterating the learning. They can turn out to be of huge help when you need a reference at future point of time when the e-learning course is no more accessible.
Recently, I took an e-learning course on how to file income tax returns. Boy!! Believe me filing IT returns in India is pretty taxing. When I actually sat down to file my returns I wished I had some kind of hard copy of the e-learning course which could have helped me file my returns.
It then struck me that the e-learning author should have provided us with a printed version of the course so that people like me could refer it at later point of time. Adobe Captivate could have helped here. Adobe Captivate does a great job in converting you re-learning course into MS Word document. Once you have the document you could print it to create the hard copies of the course which can be referenced by the users at later point of time. In my opinion this is a huge advantage which re-iterates the learning.
Let us check out what Adobe Captivate has to offer in this paradigm. Well, with captivate you could publish your file to MS word in following formats:
- Handouts : The ‘Handout’ output converts your Adobe Captivate project into handouts showing all the slides as they would appear in the e-learning project. You also have options to control what objects from your e-learning course get printed to handouts. For e.g. you could eliminate printing of mouse objects, in your e-learning course, in the handouts by simply un-checking a checkbox.
- Lesson : The ‘Lesson’ output converts your Adobe Captivate project into a lesson, complete with your questions and an answer key.
- Step by step: The ‘Step by Step’ output converts your Adobe Captivate project into a short reference guide. This is the best option when you intend to provide a hard copy of a software demo for future reference (say when the user is actually using the software). Btw, this is exactly what I was looking for while browsing through the thousands of controls on IT website in-order to file my IT returns..
- Storyboard : You are a content designer and have been given a set of requirements to create an application for a client. You design the application using Adobe Captivate and want your manager to review it, but your manager doesn't have Adobe Captivate installed locally to review your project. You can select the Publish Your Project as a Storyboard option so that others can review a printed version of the project. The storyboard option outputs two sections:
- A brief summary of the entire project such as the number of slides, duration of each slide, project preferences selected, quiz preferences, hidden slides, background audio, and so forth
- A detailed view of each slide, including each slide's properties, such as transition, navigation, audio, background image and so forth; it also shows the objects within each slide.
You would find above options in the publish dialog:

So you see..How the printed version of the e-learning course could have made my life easy. Do you still think that printed version of an e-learning course is ironical?? Happy publishing to word!!