PE1_Captivate

Adobe Captivate

Hello to all, this is my learning experience with a new program from Adobe called Captivate. I'm familiar with other Adobe products so the interface was not so intimidating. This is a screenshot taken from a tutorial inside of lynda.com. At this point in the tutorial I'm only on chapter 3 beginning of 3rd video. I must say even though I am not intimidated by the interface it was a rough start. I took me about 2 hours to figure out how to link the filmstrip slides with the master slides. I went through the part of the tutorial on lynda that I believed was suppose to explain this process but did not get this process to work. I then turned to adobe tv and found a specific video labeled how to work with master slides. I saw the same thing here as I did on lynda. So then I called adobe help desk. At first I did not know if they were going to charge me there $39.95 on time incident fee but because this is a 30 day free trial of the software I get some free help with it. Anyway After the help guy asked me a bunch of questions we finally got to my problem. The way he explained it to me seems a little different than what is on the tutorials. Nevertheless he helped me figure it out and I was able to move forward.

To make it easy to quickly understand what Adobe Captivate is I took this right of the Adobe Captivate website.

What is Adobe Captivate 5.5?

Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 software is the industry-leading elearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining interactive eLearning content. Import your existing Microsoft PowerPoint content and make it more engaging with rich media, application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes. Easily publish to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems and track key performance metrics.