Adobe Captivate Training – Yorkshire
Well Huddersfield in the heart of West Yorkshire to be precise.
Having been cooped up for months due to Covid on 24 August we were over the moon to be out and about delivering training again.
So carrying on from the previous post a little about this weeks Captivate Course.
Adobe Captivate Course Yorkshire Venue
It would be unfair not to mention Huddersfield Train Station as a venue because it is really is a beautiful building which houses Sir Harold Wilson’s statue in the forecourt. Harold Wilson being one of Huddersfield most famous sons.
It is also quite an historic station and for anyone interested you can find out a little more here at Huddersfield Railway
So after wandering off-post slightly we will return to the main theme which was — – Adobe Captivate Training.
Online Captivate Training
Lots of people are still working from home so this course can also be delivered as an Online Captivate Training Course with live instructor led training. It is extremely flexible training and can be delivered as a one to one session or to a group of people. Because it is virtual online training it can be delivered literally at any time of the day at your convenience. We can provide online training in the evenings or at the weekends.
Adobe Captivate Course
We spent two days on an Adobe Captivate Course for the TransPennine Express team based at Huddersfield Train station and had a great couple of days with them. It was an Introduction to Captivate Course but as with most of our training courses the content was tailored to the client. In this instance they were particularly interested in software simulations, responsive projects and working with SCORM compliance and LMS’s.
The great thing about software simulations is the way that Captivate can record systems faithfully. They can be recorded in one or more modes including Dmo for demonstration, Assessment to test user knowledge of procedures & Training to guide the user through the procedure. Once the projects had been set up quizzes were then incorporated after the software and everything was then published as a responsive design project.
What is a Captivate Responsive Project?
Responsive is a project which is aimed at being used on multiple devices such as smartphones (both Android & iPhones) and retain the look and feel of the original design. These projects do not support Flash and are published in HTML 5 format only. You can run the HTML checker in Captivate to make sure everything is compliant for a Captivate Responsive Project.
On this Adobe Captivate Course we looked at the basics and functionality of the software on day one whilst day two was spent ironing out a small project focusing on specifics. During the responsive design time we looked at fluid boxes (as shown above),
Responsive Projects and Positioning Objects
When an image is imported into Captivate its width is measured as a screen size percent whilst the height is set to Auto so maintaining aspect ratio. As you change from desktop view to a device view the height doesn’t reach the entire screen due to the reduction in screen size, it shrinks down.
The solution to this is to work with the Position Panel and manually adjust the settings as shown below. During the course we covered the best way to ‘fit’ a background image and to also position forward and back buttons in the project.
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