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fjdurbin
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March 3, 2010
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Choosing the right tools...

  • March 3, 2010
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I'm involved in training and creating training materials.  I'm also trying to document our business processes.

Tell me if you think this is a good idea or not. I want to use PowerPoint so I can demo the steps involved in doing a process. With PowerPoint I can animate a flow chart and then along the way insert swf (flash) files when I want to show how to do something. I’ve embedded some Wink swf files in some slides and was unhappy with the screen resolution. I tried embedding the Microsoft browser and it works much better with better resolution but I’m not sure that is the way to go.  It seems like Captivate is what I want but in an Adobe chat session I was encouraged to instead consider Acrobat Pro 9 Extended.

If it were you and you wanted:

1. To show a visio like model of a business process (accounts payable procedures for example or flow chart) and demonstrate the steps involved in performing the task/process/activity

2. Create high quality flash files that demonstrate who it is performed (how the software is used)
3. To show video clips (avi, mov, mpeg, or flash) with good resolution (usually this will be a demo of step by step actions using software)
4. To avoid the user having to jump through hoops to see the training

5. Get feedback from the users of the training

What would you do?

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    Anonymous
    March 4, 2010

    Hello,

    The main purpose (in my opinion) of Captviate is to provide an application for those that have no background in working with animations or programming. For the most part, it accomplishes that purpose.

    For what you are looking to do:

    1. To show a visio like model of a business process (accounts payable procedures for example or flow chart) and demonstrate the steps involved in performing the task/process/activity

    You could use Captivate for this - fade the images in, talk about them, click continue to move on for example...

    2. Create high quality flash files that demonstrate who it is performed (how the software is used)

    Show how the software is used? Captivate all the way.

    3. To show video clips (avi, mov, mpeg, or flash) with good resolution (usually this will be a demo of step by step actions using software)

    Not sure about all the file formats, but FLV (Flash) is easily doable.

    4. To avoid the user having to jump through hoops to see the training

    You can use branching in Captivate.

    5. Get feedback from the users of the training

    This could be a little challenging depending on the work environment, but you could create a survey in Captivate and use the email functionality to get the results.

    I think Captivate could accomplish all of the above.

    Someone may have something different to say, but that's my .02

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