MY LEARNING LOG WEEK 9: First Time with Adobe Captivate

 

WEEK 9

First Time with Adobe Captivate

               To create CAI, we use a program name ‘Adobe Captivate’. Adobe Captivate is an authoring tool that is used for creating eLearning content such as software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes in Shockwave Flash and HTML5 formats. (Wikipedia)

Adobe Captivate is a program for creating interactive learning materials similar to Autoware combined with Flash, but has been simplified by creating interactive learning materials. Slides to design and have a Timeline to run the story. In addition, scripts can be inserted to enable interaction, just like Flash programs.

The First Screen of Adobe Captivate 9

First screen component when opening Adobe Captivate 9 program, there will be a format of the project we can use in order to be able to create jobs as needed more quickly like the follow picture.

Adobe Captivate 9 Window and Workspace

1. Menu Bar

- File: It is for creating/opening new files, saving, printing, exporting the file.

- Edit: It is for copying, pasting images, text or slideshows as well as the configuration of the program.

- View: It is the view of the screen or adjusting the screen of various sizes, locking, slide hidden.

- Insert: It is for importing objects such as adding slides, adding quizzes, animation slides, symbols, math formulas, and buttons.

- Modify: It is for changing the size of the display or setting the position of the objects on the screen.

- Project: It is for changing the appearance variable creation.

- Quiz: It is for creating various types of exam and the configuration of the exam.

- Audio: It is for handling audio such as audio importing and editing.

- Video: It is for video manipulation such as importing video files and editing video files.

- Themes: It is for managing slide layouts such as saving themes.

- Window: It is for enabling or disabling various panels on the screen such as Timeline Filmstrip Effects and Properties.

2. Object

- Slides: For adding slides

- Themes: Foe selecting themes in various styles

- Text: For adding text in various formats

- Shapes: For adding various drawings that the program has provided

- Object: For adding commands

- Interactions: For adding Interactions

- Media: For adding a variety of media, audio, video clips, pictures, animations, symbols, etc.

- Record: For recording your own voice and editing it

- Save: For saving data files.

- Preview: For testing the display in various formats such as show the entire project or show the current slide

- Publish: For publishing, exporting to use in various formats

 

3. Panel Groups

- Properties is the configuration of objects such as text, image, animation, sound, video, link button, etc. The menu will change according to the currently selected object. Which the program will automatically show the result of the adjustment

- Library is a bar that combines various objects. That is on the screen here When we put images, audio, or video on the work area. The program will automatically put it in the Library if you want. It is possible to bring objects in the Library to the working area and set new properties, thus saving because there is no need to import new objects.

- Timing: For setting the display of slides and objects, such as timing the playing time, and adding effect.