Workshops on Captivate By Interactive Measurement Group at The University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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Reference: Interactive Measurement Group. (2015). Workshops on Captivate. Retrieved from http://img.faculty.unlv.edu/workshops/ Lesson 1: Creating a Plan for a Captivate Video

Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to create a plan of what you want to simulate in a movie in Captivate. For this workshop, we will be learning how to use the Solver Add-in feature of Microsoft Excel and creating a plan for this feature.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Introduction to Excel from the Workshops on Microsoft Excel, before attempting this lesson.

Part 1: Creating a Plan

Solver Add-in Feature Before creating a Captivate simulation, you first will need to know of what you would like to simulate (i.e., what program and what specific feature). You must create a plan of what you wish to show in your simulation, as this will influence the content of your simulation and specifically the information in your text captions. For this workshop, we will be creating a simulation of the Solver Add-in feature, a feature often used for equation solving and optimization purposes, in Microsoft Excel through the implementation of a summation formula. For future reference, we recommend that you become familiar with whatever program feature you want to simulate before using Adobe Captivate to demonstrate that feature. This entire lesson will be conducted solely in Microsoft Excel. 1. Open Microsoft Excel. It may be listed as the following from the Start menu: Start / Programs / Microsoft Office / Microsoft Excel 2007. 2. Access the Solver Add-in through the following: File/Excel Options/Add-ins category. 3. At the bottom of the pop-up, look for Manage: Excel Add-ins then click Go. 4. Add-ins window pops up, there will be a list entitled “Add-ins available.” Highlight the option Solver Add-in and click OK. To check to see if your option has been added, click on the Data tab and see if the option “Solver…” is under the analysis section. 5. Add five numbers in the first five vertical cells under column A. We used and recommend that you use the following for this workshop: 1 (A1), 2 (A2), 3 (A3), 4 (A4), 5 (A5). 6. Insert the following formula into the cell A7: =SUM(A1:A5), with A1:A5 being the range of five numbers that we just typed. Press the “Enter” button. This formula uses the summation formula function and adds up all of the numbers in a given range. 7. Access the Solver Add-in feature through the following: Data tab / Solver… The window entitled “Solver Parameters” should appear. We will use the Solver Add-in to set constraints and specifications to reach or achieve a certain solution. 8. For the “Set Objective” option, select the cell A7, which should show up as the following: $A$7 (with a dollar sign [$] in between each character). Instead of selecting the cell, you may also type it directly in the option box as the following: $A$7 (with the dollar signs included). This is the cell that contains the formula for which we will be setting constraints and specifications. 9. For the “To” option, select “Value of,” and type the number 50. This will modify the data so that the sum equals 50. 10. Under the “By Changing Variable Cells” option, select the 5 cells containing the five numbers you typed (A1:A5). It should show up as the following: $A$1:$A$5 11. Under the “Subject to the Constraints” option is where you will add the constraints and specifications that you want the Solver Add-in to obey. For this workshop, we will want our data to be integers (whole numbers) and have no individual datum be smaller than 1 or larger than 20. a. To add your first constraint, click Add. A window entitled “Add Constraint” will appear. Under the “Cell Reference” option, select the cells that you wish to modify: A1 through A5. It should show up as the following: $A$1:$A$5 b. Next to the “Cell Reference” option is a small drop-down menu. Select the int option from the drop-down menu. Click Add. This will ensure that all of our data are strictly integers. c. Select cells A1 to A5 again for the option “Cell Reference,” select the >= operation, and type the number 1 under the “Constraint” option. Click Add. This will ensure that none of our data is smaller than 1. d. Select cells A1 to A5 again for the option “Cell Reference,” select the <= operation, and type the number 20 under the “Constraint” option. This will ensure that none of our data is larger than 20. e. Since this is our last constraint and we do not want to add any more, click OK. 12. All of your constraints should be listed under the “Subject to the Constraints” option in the “Solver Parameters” window. Once all of your specifications have been set, click on Solve. 13. A new window entitled “Solver Results” should appear. If the process was successful, the following will be listed: “Solver found a solution. All constraints and optimality conditions are satisfied.” 14. If you look at your data (cells A1 through A5 and A7), they should have changed to conform to your constraints and specifications. The numbers in cells A1 through A5 should all be integers and not be smaller than 1 or larger than 20. Cell A7 should also have the number 50, which is the sum that you specified for your Solver Add-in. For instance, we received the following: 8 (A1), 9 (A2), 10 (A3), 11 (A4), 12 (A5), 50 (A7). 15. Select the option “Keep Solver Solution” and click OK. This will allow you to keep your results yielded from the Solver Add-in. If you wish to keep your original numbers, you would select the option “Restore Original Values” and click OK.

Lesson 2: Creating your Captivate Video

Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to use Macromedia Captivate by creating a simulation tutorial of the Solver Add-in feature in Microsoft Excel.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan from the Workshops on Captivate, before attempting this lesson.

Example To see an example of what your final simulation may resemble, view the accompanying movie: Workshops on Captivate Simulation Solver Add-in Example Final 1.. This will help you review the Solver Add-in feature in Microsoft Excel and show you many of the features that your simulation may have.

Part 1: Introduction to Captivate

Opening Captivate and Excel 1. Open the program Abode Captivate. The program may be accessible as a desktop icon shortcut or listed under the Start menu. If it listed in the Start Menu, it may be listed as the following: Start / Programs / Adobe / Adobe Captivate. Pick Captivate 5.5 2. Create a new spreadsheet document in Microsoft Excel. You will use this new document to repeat the process of the Solver Add-in Feature for your simulation.

Part 2: Captivate Basics

Recording/Creating a New Movie Project 1. Upon opening Captivate, click on the File Menu, and select “Record New Project”, and click Application. Alternatively, if the default window appeared when you opened Captivate, you can click on the link “Software Simulation” under the centered section “Create Project”. 2. In the “New Project” window, under “Select Application”, you need to select the window you want to record. All of your currently opened programs, excluding the Captivate program you are currently using, will be listed in this drop-down menu. Select the new Excel workbook you created above. 3. Under “Snap to:” select the “Custom size” option. 4. In the drop-down menu select 640x480 Full Screen, and then click Record. 5. Your Excel window will appear, with a large red rectangular outline. The red outline is the recording window; anything inside this bordered area will be recorded in your movie. In the top left hand corner of this window, there will be a gray menu bar. The gray menu bar allows you to access the recording options. Hover your mouse over each of the five buttons on the gray menu, so you can see what each one will do.

Adjusting the Recording Movie Options 1. Before clicking Record, under “Recording Type:” click “Automatic”. 2. Make sure that No Panning and No Narration are selected. Make sure the Demonstration Mode is selected. Click Settings. 3. Click on the word “Settings”. 4. On the left Category, it will now list “Recording” you can change. Turn off all Narration. Select Keystrokes, but turn off “Hear keyboard tap sounds”. We do not want any sound recorded in the movie. Make sure the remaining four options are selected: “Move new windows inside recording area”, “Camera Shots”, “Drag and drop options” and “Mouse wheel actions”. 5. While at the Recording category. Under “Others”, make sure that the option “Move new windows inside recording area” is selected. 6. On the left, select “Keys”. Pay special attention to these options, because you will use these keys later during the recording process. Make sure that the default options are selected. For “To stop recording,” it should say “End”. For “To capture a screenshot”, it should say “Print Screen”. For “To start full motion”, it should say “F9”. For “To stop full motion”, it should say “F10”. If any of these keys are incorrect, click the “Restore defaults” button. a. Capturing a screenshot is a valuable feature of Captivate. During the recording process, if you want to take a screenshot, press “Print Screen”. b. Press “F9” before typing in cells, and press “F10” when you are finished typing in cells. Pressing these buttons enable the Full Motion Recording feature of Captivate. In some situations, Captivate will not record certain motions or movement that it deems unnecessary (such as typing in numbers). In order to force Captivate to record a specific motion or movement that you want to include in your movie, start the Full Motion Recording (by pressing “F9”) and stop it (by pressing “F10”) when you are finished with that specific motion or movement. If you do not do this, the typing process will not show up in your movie. 7. On the left, select “Mode(s)” in the section entitled “Recording”. Make sure it lists the Mode as “Demonstration”, and that the option to “Add text captions” is selected. Select both of the Mouse options: “Show mouse location and movement” and “Add highlight boxes on click”. 8. On the left, “select “Defaults” in the section entitled “Recording”. Make the Text Caption “Default Capture Caption Style”. 9. We have now set all the Recording Options we need. Click OK.

Recording the Simulation 1. To record your simulation, you will start by clicking the “Record” button. This is the first gray button. When you are done, press the End key (on your keyboard). Here are some tips to make the recording go smoothly: a. If necessary, reread the previous Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan lesson in order to refresh your memory on what you will need to do for your simulation. b. Before starting the recording process, close any unnecessary windows that you will not be using while recording. This minimizes difficulty and confusion during the recording process. c. When you are recording, simply act as you would if you were not recording. In Demonstration mode, the trail of the mouse will automatically be recorded as animation. Also, be aware that when you use scrollbars or highlight many things, animation will occur. d. When you are recording, do not forget to use the Full Motion Recording feature whenever you are typing something. Because this video starts with typing, you will click the record button, then press F9, and type the numbers. Press F10 when you have finished typing. We are using the Demonstration Mode, during which Captivate inserts helpful textboxes that describe a lot of what we do during the simulation. If you do not press F10 when you have finished typing, Captivate will not insert these textboxes. e. When you are recording, do not be alarmed if the computer monitor and/or cursor starts to flicker or function at a slower pace. This is normal; the computer is adjusting to the recording process. f. When you are recording, take your time. Recording a simulation is a difficult process, and it is perfectly fine if you make mistakes and need or want to restart the recording process. 2. When you have finished recording, press the End key (on your keyboard). The “Save Project Files” window will appear. In the “Project Name” box, type your name, followed by the words “workshop”. For example, the name might be “Allisa workshop”. Browse to the desktop. Click OK. 3. The material that you recorded will be converted into a Captivate movie project and then presented in slide format.

Part 3: Editing the Movie Project

Previewing Movie 1. Preview your movie by selecting the following: File / Preview / Project.

Captivate Views 1. There are three ways you can view your project: Storyboard View, Edit View, and Branching View. We will use the Edit View. To navigate between the three views, press Control+Tab. The Edit View is the one that shows the Filmstrip on the left hand side. 2. To select a slide for editing, left-click on it. 3. At the bottom of the screen, there is a horizontal window called “Timeline”. This is the window that holds all of the individual components that make up your slides.

Turning On/Off Mouse Clicking When you are creating a movie or simulation that depicts mouse clicks, the sound of the mouse clicking (in addition to the path of your mouse cursor) is automatically inserted into your movie. We can turn this clicking on or off for each slide. Locate the slides that involve mouse movements (and which might have mouse clicks). On the Filmstrip, these slides have a mouse icon in the lower right-hand corner. For EACH of these slides, 1. Select the slide by left-clicking on it. 2. Click on the Slide menu (on the top toolbar), and then select Mouse / Properties. 3. A window entitled “Mouse properties” should appear. Click on the “Options” tab. Turn on the mouse clicking sounds, by selecting “Mouse click sound”. Next, change the sound of the mouse click, by selecting “Double click” from the drop-down menu next to “Mouse click sound”. If you wanted to use a sound that was not already listed in the drop-down menu, you would select the Browse option from the drop-down menu, and then select the desired sound file from the appropriate file directory. 4. Once you are finished modifying the mouse options, click OK.

Moving a Slide 1. If you wanted to change the order of your movie by moving a slide, you would select the slide, drag it to its new position on the film strip, and release the mouse. You can determine the position of each slide by its order number, which is displayed in the left-hand corner of the slide screenshot in the film strip layout. Try this now. Move the last slide to the front, and then move it back to the end.

Moving a Slide Object 1. Most slides contain several objects. You can edit those objects and move them around within the slide. To rearrange the order of objects in a specific slide, first select the slide. 2. In the bottom “Timeline” window, select the object bar you wish to move. Drag it to its new position in the timeline and then release the mouse to apply the change. For the movie you just made about the Excel Solver Add-in, your slides may only have one or two objects, and you might not be able to move things around very much. But you can still change when they occur by dragging them left or right. Do this now: move one of your elements either earlier or later in the slide.

Adjust the Timing of a Slide 1. To adjust the timing of a particular slide (by either shortening or lengthening it), select your slide. 2. Under the “Timeline” window, select the last bar in the window, which should be labeled as “Slide(# of secs)” (the # depending upon the current position of the slide). The end of the bar should have a dotted line that vertically extends to the top, and which signifies that the current maximum time period in the slide (e.g. 4 seconds). 3. To shorten or lengthen the slide, move the mouse to the very end of the bar that is labeled “Slide secs.” Hover your mouse over the dotted line. Your mouse cursor should transform from a white arrow to a double-sided black arrow. To adjust the timing, hold the left mouse button down and move your cursor to the left (to shorten the timing) or to the right (to lengthen the timing). Do this now, make one of your slides longer than it currently is. 4. You can also shorten or lengthen the timing of other components on the slide (such as a text caption or audio clip). To do this, hover your mouse over the beginning or end of the object bar, and then drag it to the left or right. Do this now: make one of your objects longer or shorter than it used to be.

Adding a Text Caption Text captions are often necessary. Because you used the “Demonstration” option to record your movie, you will find that Captivate automatically generated several text captions throughout your movie. This often makes the job of creating a simulation easier, because many of the simple instructions that you wish the user to follow (such as clicking on certain toolbars) have already been created by Captivate. However, the captions generated by the Captivate are often not sufficient. You may need to add more captions to explain the steps to the user. 1. To add a text caption, go to the following: Insert / Standard Objects / Text Caption. A window entitled “New Text Caption” will appear. 2. Select the “Text Caption” tab. This window includes formatting tools. Play with the formatting tools, such as the font, size, and color options in the first row. For now, do not change any of the options in the second row. 3. Below the second horizontal row of tools, there is a large centered text entry box that has the following highlighted sentence: Type Caption Text Here. Type your text in this box. 4. Near the bottom of the window, select the check-box option entitled “Apply to all”. Then, click the Settings menu next to this, and under the section “Which slides?” select “Apply to all”. If you wish to have uniform captions throughout the simulation, click this box, and the formatting properties that you have selected for this caption will automatically be applied to all text captions. 5. Once you have completed your text caption, click OK. 6. Your text caption should then appear on your centered slide canvas. To move the caption, select it and drag it to the desired location. If you wish to increase the size of the caption box, hover the mouse cursor over one of the eight small silver boxes that compose the border of the caption and drag it across the screen until it becomes the desired size. 7. To edit a text caption after you have created it, right click on the text caption. On the menu that appears, select “Properties”. You may want to change some of the formatting options that are given on the second row, such as the shape of the outside border. When you have finished editing, click OK. 8. Add text captions throughout your movie project wherever they would be appropriate, in order to adequately explain your plan and instructions to the user. If you want, you can edit the text captions that were automatically generated by Captivate, instead of adding new text captions.

Adding a Title Slide Adding a title slide is an important part of any simulation. For this workshop, we will also add a text animation to our title slide to enhance the appearance of the simulation. You could also use a text caption in place of a text animation. However, we will be using a text animation for this workshop. Creating a text animation is similar to creating a text caption. 1. To add a title slide, go to the following: Insert / Blank Slide. If necessary, move this slide to the beginning of the movie. Because it is the title slide (the first slide of the movie), it should be labeled with the order number 1. 2. To add a text animation, go to the following: Insert / Text Animation. A window entitled “Text Animation Properties” should appear. 3. The Preview Box should appear on the right side of the window. The “Preview Box” is the large white box containing the following centered text: Sample Text. This box shows you what your animation is going to look like, before you insert it into your movie. 4. The right Properties window should include the following options: Effect, Transparency, and Shadow. The middle Text Animation Properties window should include: Text, Font, Size and Delay. a. The “Effect” option provides you with a drop-down menu of different animation options. Select the one you wish to apply. b. The “Text” option provides you with a small white box with the words “Sample Text” inside of it. Type the title of your simulation in this box. Depending on the simulation, you may need to include more information, such as the name of the author and the institution where the author words. Make sure that the text for the title slide is large (22 to 72 point size) and centered. If you would like to change the font, style, size, color, click on “Change font…” and select your options. c. The “Delay (frames)” option enables you to apply a delay to your text animation, which makes it slower, according to a certain number of animation frames. For this workshop, we will leave the default option, which is 1. 5. Once you have completed your text animation, click OK. 6. To edit a text animation after you have created it, double click on the text and the Text Animation window will appear, and you can modify the options accordingly.

Deleting a Slide 1. In order to delete a slide from your movie, select the slide and press the “Delete” key on your keyboard.

Deleting a Slide Object 1. In order to delete a specific object on a slide, first select the slide. 2. Select the object bar you wish to delete from the “Timeline” horizontal bar window and press the “Delete” key on your keyboard.

Saving a Movie Project 1. Save your current movie project through the File menu: File / Save as (or Save). Find the proper directory in which you wish to save it. Click OK.

Closing and Opening a Movie Project 1. Close your current movie project through the File menu: File / Close. 2. Open your movie project (the one you just closed) through the File menu: File / Open. Find the movie file by searching through the proper directory. Once you select it, click OK.

Part 4: Publishing the Movie Project

Publishing a Movie File Once you have completed your editing, it is time to save your project as an actual movie file to watch. 1. Select the following: File / Publish. A new window entitled “Publish” will appear. 2. The left hand side of the window gives several different options for publishing. Select the default option “Flash (SWF)”, which is the first option listed. 3. In the section “Flash (.swf) options,” there are two boxes: Project Title and Folder. Under “Project Title,” type the title of your movie. Under “Folder,” click Browse to find and select the folder in which you want to save your movie. 4. In the section “Output Options”, make sure that only the “Export HTML” option is selected. This option will allow your movie to be viewed in a webpage browser. 5. Click the “Publish” button. 6. A pop-up window will appear, if this is the first time you have published this project. It asks if you want to create a directory for this project. Click Yes. 7. A window entitled “Publish progress” should appear. Once the publication process is finished, the word “Completed” will appear next to a green checkmark under the “Progress” category. 8. To view your movie, click on the “View output” button.

Getting rid of security warning about a potentially unsafe operation: 1. Publish your Captivate video as an .swf file 2. Open .swf file 3. Right click anywhere in your video 4. Go to Global Settings 5. Click on Advanced Tab 6. Scroll down to Trusted Location Settings 7. Click this tab 8. Click add 9. Click add folder 10. Add desktop and click OK 11. Repeat steps 8 and 9, this time add X:\ This will make it so any Captivate videos created in the Front Room of the Lab will no longer see the security warning message when the .swf file is open. Also, when you publish your video on a network or the internet others should not see this error message.

Part 5: Introduction to Advanced Captivate Topics

Importing/Exporting In order to enhance a movie, many individuals use the features of importing and exporting. Importing is the process of bringing in copies of outside slides or objects from other movies or programs and applying them to your current movie. Exporting is the process of taking out copies of slides or objects from your current movie and creating different applications with them, such as creating an editable Macromedia Flash file. For this part, you will not import or export anything in Macromedia Captivate; you will simply be reading over this section to learn about the options available in Captivate. 1. In order to import, go to the following: File / Import/Export. You will see that you have eight import options. 2. In order to export, go to the following: File / Import/Export. You will see that you have six export options:. Lesson 3: Adding Audio to Captivate Projects

Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to add audio voice-overs, for example narration, to Macromedia Captivate projects by using an external microphone.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan, and Lesson 2: Learning about Captivate, from the Workshops on Captivate, before attempting this lesson.

Part 1: Introduction

It is easy to add sound to Adobe Captivate projects using an external microphone. This is useful for giving the viewer spoken step-by-step instructions, narrating slides, or giving extra emphasis to critical directions the viewer must follow. This lesson will give instructions on how to add narration to an individual slide in an Adobe Captivate project. These steps may be repeated for every individual slide to which the project creator wishes to add sound, or you may experiment with the other options available: “Project” to record audio to the entire project and “Slides Range” to record audio to a range of slides. This will be explained in greater detail below.

Part 2: Recording tips

1. To record narration to an existing Adobe Captivate project, you must have an external microphone which can be plugged into the computer's “microphone-in” jack. The computer must also have a functional sound card (If the computer has speakers already attached to it, it is safe to assume it has a functioning sound card.) and working speakers or headphones to listen to what you have recorded. 2. Remember to try to record your narration in a quiet place, if possible. All extraneous sounds, such as cell phones ringing, people talking, even traffic, might be picked up by a sensitive microphone and mistakenly included in your audio recording. 3. For best results place the external microphone approximately 4-6 inches away from your mouth and slightly to the left or right. It is better if the microphone is somewhat above the level of your lips and pointing down, rather than at-or-below mouth level where you will likely speak downwards into the microphone. This downward-speaking approach can sometimes emphasize P and B sounds, giving the audio a sudden POP when certain words are spoken. 4. Remember to speak naturally. It is normal for the first-time narrator to sound either wooden or rushed. Speak slowly and normally. Be sure you are familiar with your script before starting audio recording, since pauses in speaking will also be recorded.

Part 3: How to Record Audio for an Existing Adobe Captivate Project or Individual Slide

1. Open the existing Adobe Captivate project you want to add sound to. a. This can be easily done by navigating to its location on your hard drive or server and double- clicking the icon “filename.cpt”; where “filename” is the name of your project and .cpt is the file extension. This will automatically launch Adobe Captivate. 2. The file will open in Adobe Captivate and you will see the default Storyboard View of your project where all the slides are laid out in numerical order. 3. At the top of the screen you will find the menu which lists, from left to right, the choices: File, Edit, View, Insert, Slide, Audio, etc. a. Click Audio/ Record (click Audio and then find Record in the pop-up menu and click Record) 4. The Record Audio dialogue box will appear. This is the box where you will decide what you want to attach your new narration to. a. In the bottom, left corner of the dialogue box you will see a pop-up menu with two choices in the project you can record your audio to. The three choices are: Which properties? Which slides? Select “This Slide” from the drop-down menu 5. Click the Record Audio button. It looks like a red circle. a. Make sure the input is set to “Microphone.” b. The first time this is done in each project, Captivate will prompt you to test microphone audio levels. Click “Yes” when prompted and follow the on-screen instructions to optimize the audio levels. When the levels have been set, click OK 6. Captivate will now start recording your audio. Remember to speak naturally and when you have completed the segment, click the Stop Audio button. 7. To check the new sound file you have just created, click the triangle Play Audio button.

Lesson 4: Adding Computer Voiced Audio to A Captivate Project Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to add computer speaking audio to your Captivate video. There will not always be a microphone available to add audio to you Captivate project, so this will be helpful.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan, Lesson 2: Learning about Captivate, and Lesson 3: Adding Audio to Captivate Projects.

Part 1: Introduction It’s fairly simple to add computer speaking audio to your Captivate project. This is useful for giving the viewer spoken step-by-step instructions, narrating slides, or giving extra emphasis to critical directions the viewer must follow. This lesson will give instructions on how to add narration to an individual slide in an Adobe Captivate project. These steps may be repeated for every individual slide to which the project creator wishes to add sound.

Part 2: Adding Computer Voiced Audio

1. Choose the option Audio on the top options bar in the Captivate program. 2. A list of selections will appear underneath the audio option when clicked. Select the Speech Management option. 3. Next you will select the slide you wish to add audio to. After you select that slide press the “+” symbol. It will then allow you to enter the text you wish the voice to say. If you are giving a list of numbers or letters make sure to place commas. This tells the audio it is a new letter or number. 4. You may want more than one string of audio on the same slide. This is simple, just select the slide again and press the “+” symbol. 5. Once you have entered the text in the slides you wish too, press Generate Audio. 6. Finally you will select save and it will be converted into your video. 7. You can move the string of audio anywhere in your Captivate slide to place it in the appropriate spot to speak. 8. Play your slide to make sure it fits and you’re good to continue onto the next lesson.

Lesson 5: High-lighting Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to add highlighting to emphasize important aspects/information of your Captivate project.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan, Lesson 2: Learning about Captivate, Lesson 3: Adding Audio to Captivate Projects, and Lesson 4: Adding Computer Voiced Audio to A Captivate Project.

Part 1: Introduction

It is easy to add highlighting to your Captivate simulation. Adding high-lights to important words, numbers, and pictures to your project can make your work more clear and precise to the viewer. These steps can be repeated in every individual slide the project creator wishes to add emphasis on.

Part 2: Steps to High-lighting words, numbers, and pictures

1. Click the insert option at the top options bar of the Captivate program. 2. A list of selections will appear underneath the insert option when clicked. Next, hover over Drawing Objects. Here there will be a few options of shapes you can choose from to high-light and bring emphasis to your Captivate project information. These options will include line, circle, rectangle, and polygon. 3. When you choose the shape you can begin high-lighting certain areas of your Captivate project. You may want to change the color and thickness of your high-lighting objects. To do this, a. right-click the high-lighted area and choose Properties. b. Once in the Properties you can change the high-lighting to your liking. Stroke color will be the boarder color which can be a solid line, dotted line, etc. You can change these options to what fits best for your project. You can also play with the transparency, and change the color of the inside of the shape that is emphasizing areas of your video. You can mess with these options till you are happy with the results.

Lesson 6: Publishing Your Captivate as an File

Purpose In this lesson, you will learn how to publish your Captivate Project as an Adobe Flash file.

Prerequisites You should have successfully completed Lesson 1: Creating a Captivate Plan, Lesson 2: Learning about Captivate, Lesson 3: Adding Audio to Captivate Projects, and Lesson 4: High-lighting in Captivate from the Workshops on Captivate, before attempting this lesson.

Part 1: Introduction

It is simple to publish your Captivate project so that it can be viewed on any computer with installed. This is important because you may wish to present your Captivate project on computers without Adobe Captivate installed.

Part 2: Publishing your Captivate Project

1. In order to publish your Captivate project, go to the following: File / Publish. A dialog box entitled “Publish” will appear. 2. Make sure that “Flash (SWF)” is selected on the left side of the dialog box. 3. In the “Flash (.swf) options” a. The “Project Title:” box is where you decide what your project will be called. b. The “Folder:” box is where you input your save location. 4. In the “Output Options” a. Select pertinent publishing options. b. The default options consist of having “Export HTML” checked and the “Flash Player Version:” set to “Flash Player 8.” i. This creates both .html and .swf files. 1. The .swf has the actual Captivate project contained within it. 2. The .html file has the .swf embedded within it. 5. Click on the “Publish” button on the bottom-right of the dialog box. a. A new dialog box called “Publish progress,” containing progress bars, will appear. b. Finally, the “Publish progress” dialog box will say that the publishing process is complete. i. Click “View Output” to view your published Captivate project.

Lesson 6: Creating a Quiz

1. Before adding Quiz Question slides, make sure you’re on the slide you want to have a question slide after. 2. Then, where it says “Quiz” at the top of the Captivate screen, select it, then choose “Question Slide.” 3. You can choose the question type as either “Multiple Choice,” “True/False,” etc. For this exercise, just choose Multiple Choice. 4. Beside the term “Multiple Choice” is a textbox asking for the number of questions. Type 3 in the textbox and then choose “Graded” beside the textbox. Click OK. 5. Once you have clicked OK, a question slide will appear. On this slide, type in the question text where it says “Type in the Question Text” and type in the answers where it says “type the answer here.” 6. Beside each answer is a bullet point. Click on the bullet point for the answer that is the correct answer to your question. 7. Preview your question slide to see if it functions properly by first clicking on the right answer and clicking the “Submit” button. If a green box shows up, this means you chose the correct answer. Afterwards, you will be taken to either the next question slide or your quiz results. If a red box shows up saying you chose the incorrect answer, the Captivate video will also move on to the next question slide or to your quiz results.

Lesson 7: When Captivate Video Does Not Work on a Website

Part 1: The Problem

If you happen by chance try to convert a Captivate 4 to a Captivate 5.5 file, then run the Captivate 5.5 swf file on a website, the video progress bar may stop to 98% when it tries to load on the website. In order to play the video, you would have to left click the video screen and click play. After it starts to play, the progress bar remains superimposed on the screen throughout the video’s running time. The progress bar becomes a nuisance when it obscures the video content.

Part 2: Solution to the Problem

The following steps should be used to solve the problem:

1) Open the Captivate 4 file in Captivate 5.5, and save the Captivate 4 file as a Captivate 5.5 file. 2) Then, create a folder within the computer’s C drive. The file name does not have to be anything specific, but make sure to name it a file name that is either appropriate or related to the file’s contents. 3) Publish the Captivate 5.5 file you have just created to the C drive as a swf file within the same folder that you saved your Captivate 5.5 file in. 4) Upload the entire folder with all its contents that you created onto the website. 5) After uploading the folder to the website, you must go to the Adobe Global Security Task Manager on the internet. Here is the URL address: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.htm In the circumstances, the above URL address does not take you to the Task Manager, then you must search for Adobe Global Security Task Manager on Google. Go to the site listed on Google that has the Adobe Global Security Task Manager. 6) Upload your Captivate 5.5 swf file that you have just created to the Adobe Global Security Task Manager. Before uploading, first click on the radio button next to the Green checkmark with “Always allow” beside it. Then you can upload. To upload, click on the “Edit Locations” drop down button, and click on “Add Location.” Browse your computer’s files for the Captivate 5.5 swf file that you published to the C drive. After you chose your file, click “Confirm.” Your Captivate 5.5 swf file should now be added to the list of files approved by the Task Manager. 7) To test if your upload worked, open the Captivate 5.5 swf file that you just created and if no error message comes up, then you have successfully completed steps 1-6. If an error message appears, you must review steps 1-6 to see what you did wrong. 8) If your swf file is working fine, then check the website that you added the Captivate 5.5 swf file that you just created. If the video functions perfectly on the website, then you have successfully resolved the problem. Lesson 8: Personal Video

Now it’s time to apply what you have learned to a real-world project. For this lesson, you will produce a Captivate video that contains at least 5-10 slides. This video must contain at least one example of each of the following video elements: a. A title screen b. Keystrokes entry c. Mouse movements d. Audio/ Voice recording e. A photo (Maybe of yourself!)

Be sure to make your Captivate project something interesting to you; something you might like to upload to your personal campus website.

Unlike the other lessons, this lesson must be done individually, so that every student gets to be creative. Feel free to consult with each other, though.

Remember: Captivate is a robust program that is only limited by your imagination. To become an expert with this useful software, there is no substitute for actually using it to create videos. Be patient and have fun.

Once you have completed the homework, save your .cpt file and your .swf file in a new subfolder within the folder S:\BarchardsLab\Workshops\Captivate\Personal Captivate videos Then email Kim and your mentor on the Captivate workshop for feedback.

Once you have incorporated their feedback, send it to them again. Finally, email the lab manager to confirm you have completed this workshop.

Lesson 9: Project

Purpose In this project, you will learn to problem-solve while creating a larger Captivate project.

Prerequisites You must have completed lessons 1 – 8 before attempting this project.

Resources Use the Additional Resources, listed at the end of this workshop.

Part 1: Create video clips

Create five short video clips in which a person shows an emotion.

Part 2: Creating a Captivate study

Create a Captivate study. It should start with a consent form, ask some questions, and then end with a debriefing page. For the questions, ask viewers to identify the emotions present in the five video clips you created earlier. Determine whether the viewer got each question right, and present feedback at the end of the study. This feedback should tell the viewer if they got each question right and should present a overall score for the test.

Additional Resources

Adobe Captivate video tutorials can be located at the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/designcenter/captivate/videos/

These video tutorials start with the Captivate basics and run through some of the more advanced possibilities.

ALL lab members can spend up to 1 hour looking through these additional resources, and count that as lab hours.

Dr. Barchard will ask some lab members to spend considerable time learning Captivate with the help of these additional resources.

• Adding interactions to projects • Adobe Captivate workspace • Adobe Captivate and Microsoft PowerPoint • Aggregator • Audio • Creating quizzes in Adobe Captivate • Designing templates • Drawing • Editing Adobe Captivate projects • Importing PSD files into Adobe Captivate • Publishing Adobe Captivate projects • Recording Adobe Captivate projects • Reviewing Adobe Captivate projects • Rollover slidelets • Table of contents • Text to speech • Variables and advanced actions • Widgets • Working with project templates