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Adobe® Captivate™ is a rapid content creation development tool that has quickly grown in use and popularity in the eLearning market. This powerful tool offers many productivity benefits to its users that allow for a rapidly-enriched learning experience. Some of the benefits of this SCORM- and AICC-compliant tool are its time-saving features that support great screen recording capabilities, branching functionality for added interactivity, it is easy to reskin/customize the interface using Flash, offers more flexibility in development than other rapid tools, integrates with Twitter and offers a reviewing tool where a user can post notes/comments on pages they are viewing for easy feedback dissemination to developers. Also, it offers localization support with XML export and import functionality; export captions to a text or XLIFF file to then import the translations into the original project file. How would this work for you? This webinar will show you how these features and benefits support interactive, effective and quicker-to-market online learning.

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Captivate Your Audience

September 9, 2010

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Your Presenters

• Julie Brink, viaLearning– Director of eLearning

• Erhan Ergenekan– Development Director

• Moderator: Scott Herber

– Executive Vice President

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Today’s Agenda

Today you'll walk away with:

How Adobe Captivate can shorten your eLearning course development cycle

Customization techniques to "Captivate" your audience

Comparisons between Captivate and Articulate

Q&A

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What is Captivate?

Captivate allows you to rapidly create, deliver and maintain your SCORM- and AICC-compliant eLearning content with…

Software demonstrationsInteractive simulationsBranching scenariosQuizzes

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Poll

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Introduction to Health Literacy

Captivate 5 can shorten your course development

cycle. 

How? With enhanced development flexibility and

online review tools.

Shorter, Faster

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Shorter Development

• No need for custom Flash animations for software simulations

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Shorter Development

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Shorter Development

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Shorter Development

• More efficient workflow between multiple products– Alerted when source PPT is updated– Audio editor improved

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Shorter Development

• More efficient workflow between multiple products– Alerted when source PPT is updated– Audio editor improved

• Animation presets saves time

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Animation Presets Saves Time

Easy-to-use animation menu eliminates need for coding.

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Shorter Development

• More efficient workflow between multiple products– Alerted when source PPT is updated– Audio editor improved

• Animation presets saves time• Interface is similar to Flash/CS5• Fewer steps to get to where you

need to go (dialog boxes)

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Flash Interface

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Captivate Interface

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Enhanced Flexibility

• Branching development– See all screens at a glance

• Screen recording

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Screen recording

Screen Recording

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Enhanced Flexibility

• Built-in quiz making tools– Don’t need a separate program– Customize looks of quizzes more

easily

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Quiz making

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Quiz making

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Enhanced Flexibility

• Master slides– More easily created and managed

• Master objects (like callouts, speech bubbles) styles can easily be defined

Both of these features are an advantage over a traditional Flash shell.

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Creating Master Slides

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Online Review Tools

Adobe Captivate Reviewer– Reviewer can make notes on actual

course screens for developer– Others can make comments to same

note– Users only need the free reviewer to

use this feature

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Review Tool In Action

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Introduction to Health LiteracyCaptivate Them!

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Interface Design

• Captivate shell is easier to reskin than Articulate

• Move buttons around• If you have Flash knowledge you

can import cool Flash widgets into Captivate.– This opens up functionality and

interaction

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Customization Techniques

• Course shell– Customize look with Flash elements

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Reskin Captivate UI in FLASH

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The Twitter Widget

• Increases social aspect• User posts questions• Lets learner know it's been answered• Chain of messages and comments

appears

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The Twitter Widget

• How is this a benefit? – The learner gets more out of the course

because of the interactive component. It helps the learner stay engaged.

– The ability to interact with other students by posting questions and seeing other student’s questions.

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Twitter Widget in Action

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Custom Animation Filtering• Easily create blurs,

dropshadows through a standard set of pre-created effects

• No code or bitmaps necessary

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Filter Examples

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Localization

• Easily exports on-screen text into an XML file for localization.

• Expanding text boxes in captivate is easier than Flash.

• Review tool allows linguists to comment easily.

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XML Conversion

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Branching

• The path learners take through the course based on their responses to questions

• Captivate files can adapt themselves to react to a learner’s responses. For example:– If they fail a quiz, brings them back to

more info on that topic– Retake that quiz later

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Introduction to Health Literacy

The Captivate Comparison

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Weighing the Benefits

Captivate• Interface similar to Adobe’s

creative suite• Open multiple files• Better PPT roundtripping• Track user scores without

an LMS• Quizzes inserted at once• Better “apply to all”

functionality than v4• Twitter• Branching

Articulate• Drag and drop functionality• PowerPoint interface• No software

simulation/screen capturing

• Branching is very limited and not user-friendly

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Summary

• Captivate offers…– Shorter course development cycle – Customization features, including

• Branching• Customizable interface• Twitter

• Captivate and Articulate comparison

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Q&A

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Thank you for attending!

For more information please contact us:

[email protected] • www.vialearning.com • twitter.com/vialearning • http://vialearning.com/blog/