Topic: Hands-on: Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5
Date and time: Thursday, June 9, 2011 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting hands-on session on how to convert the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. Learn how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with the Captivate project and enhance the course by adding animations/interactivity in this session with them.
In this training session, we focused on converting the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects with the help of an example. We also discussed Continue reading…
We have successfully delivered two sessions of Captivate training program where we discussed about the Application Capture Workflow and received overwhelming feedback from the attendees. We are ready for the next session on Thursday, March 10, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pacific Time.
We always talk about converting PowerPoint presentations to Adobe Captivate projects for all the valid reasons of creating rich and engaging experience for the learners, rapid authoring, easy conversion to eLearning courseware, etc.
But what if I want to conduct a classroom/virtual session, where I’ll be predominantly using a PowerPoint presentation and need to show a demonstration for one of the topics/sub-topics to the attendees. I don’t like to go away from my slideshow view and open another application to show them the demo… I want it all on my slideshow!
If you think like me and are looking for an answer to this… You are at the right place! Continue reading…
A reader asked last week, “Can I add video to my Table of Contents and sync that video with a PowerPoint using Adobe Captivate 5?” I have to admit that I hadn’t really thought of that, but of course the answer is yes – and in fact it’s incredibly simple to do. So I’ve recorded this short Continue reading…
I wanted to vlog you guys another video this week since there’s no eSeminar scheduled and I’m out of the office at a conference. This fun little tidbit is in response to one of the more common questions I get from Adobe Captivate users. The question? Now that Presenter (doesn’t matter which Presenter) doesn’t support embedded Adobe Captivate 5 files (because Presenter hasn’t been updated to AS3) how can I embed Captivate Video Captures, Application Captures, Application Simulations etc. onto my PowerPoints? My answer is generally … You know there is an easier way?
This 5 minute video demonstrates the easier Path. A lot of users don’t realize a.) how very simple it is to use PowerPoint files inside Adobe Captivate 5, and b.) how simple it is to embed Continue reading…
This week’s eSeminar, Leveraging Legacy PowerPoint Training with Adobe Captivate 5 for Beginners, is now available for viewing in the Adobe On Demand eSeminars. You will find it via the link below. (Just enter your AdobeID & password at the prompt.)
It was a great session with a lot of good questions, focused mostly on a deep demonstration of the specific processes / features utilized during content migration from Microsoft PowerPoint content to online eLearning using Adobe Captivate 5.
I’ve posted the slide deck on Acrobat.com and embedded it here for your convenience.
I hope you’ll also consider joining one of our upcoming eSeminars;
Comparing Adobe Captivate 4 to Adobe Captivate 5
8/4/2010
11:30AM-12:30 PM US Eastern Time
Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the differences and similarities between Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Captivate 5 during this one hour session intended for people with experience using prior versions of Adobe Captivate.
Advanced Interaction Development for Adobe Captivate 5 for Advanced Users
8/11/2010
11:30AM-12:30 PM US Eastern Time
This one hour session will focus on Advanced Learning Interaction Design, Pedagogical and Development issues for eLearning. It will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist and is intended for Advanced users of Adobe Captivate, eLearning Professionals, Academics, and Training Professionals.
Captivate 5 for University Educators
8/18/2010
11:30AM-12:30 PM US Eastern Time
This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on making the transition to asynchronous and synchronous online education & distance learning for university faculty and instructional design support personnel. The session will examine the specific needs of higher education with regard to online education and will demonstrate solutions using Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2.
Understanding the Adobe eLearning Suite Workflow
8/25/2010
11:30AM-12:30 PM US Eastern Time
Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online e-Seminar for intermediate users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The core issue will be expediting eLearning development with the complete toolset provided in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.
A lot of legacy learning content is in PowerPoint format and it is natural that e-learning course authors want to leverage or re-use this content. The earlier versions of Captivate allowed users to import their PowerPoint content into their Captivate projects. Now Captivate 4 goes much further- Cp4 now supports full round-tripping with the PowerPoint content.
It supports collaborative authoring with the SME’s who use PowerPoint. Detailed below are some key aspects of this powerful feature:
- You can import PowerPoint slides to Captivate, and then enhance these slides by adding audio, animations, video or other Captivate objects to each of the slides. In the meantime your co-author can keep editing the slides using MS PowerPoint. You can synch your Captivate project with the latest version of the PowerPoint slide deck using the ‘update’ feature (Window > Library and select the presentation, right-clik and do “update”) . The Captivate objects which you added earlier on-top of the initial version of the PowerPoint slides remain intact (while Captivate updates to the changes your co-author made using PowerPoint). The workflow becomes even more powerful if you keep this PowerPoint file in a shared location, eliminating the need of sending back the file to Captivate user.
- Note that this feature works for both .ppt and .pptx files. This is being clarified here as I saw many articles describing this as possible only in PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) files. .ppt and .pptx are handled in the same manner in Captivate 4.
Topic: Hands-on: Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5
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