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meghansince1985
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November 4, 2010
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Is Captivate Right for Me?

  • November 4, 2010
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Can anyone lend me their expertise?

I have just been brought on to help with company marketing. No background in marketing, just creative and good with computers. And at a small company, you work with what you got.

I need to take a class on one of the Adobe products so I can help develop a looping presentation that will be displayed at our booth at an upcoming trade show/conference and may one day be uploaded onto our website. Basically, I will be taking a power point presentation and enriching it with videos, animation, voice overs, etc. Generally classing it up. A lot.

I don't have any coding experience. I am good with computers and a fast learner, but only have 6 months to pull this off.

Someone recommended Captivate? Sounds legit but all the information about it keeps saying it is for eLearning...?

I just need to pull together a professional, dynamic, multimedia presentation from an existing power point. Any thoughts?

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    November 4, 2010

    Hello,

    Captivate is indeed a rapid eLearning tool, but it has a nice roundtripping feature with Powerpoint (and with Soundbooth for audio editing). If you only want a plugin for Powerpoint, you could also go for Adobe Presenter, but Captivate has more possibilities besides converting a presentation to Flash-output: software simulations, soft skills trainings, assessments. It is up to you.

    Lilybiri

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    meghansince1985Author
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    November 4, 2010

    Thanks for your help, Lilybiri! But I don't currently speak Adobe. Could you explain what you mean by "plug-in", "soft skills", or "assessments"?

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    November 4, 2010

    Hello,

    Sorry, this is not a typical Adobe language. Adobe Presenter, when installed, shows up in the Powerpoint menu, that is what I mean by a plug-in. It is not an independent application if that is the right terminology (I'm not a native English speaker). But you can add audio, video, animations, add a Table of Contents and arrange for publishing. You do publish normally to a zipped file that uses the Flash player to be distributed.

    An assessment is sort of a test to check if the user has understood the training. It can be scored and eventually report to a Learning Managment system or a webserver. In Captivate this can be done by an assessment simulation (for p.e. software training) eventually in combination with Quiz slides. You can add Quiz slides in Presenter too.

    Soft skills is the term used to describe skills that are not purely technical: examples are the human skills needed for a helpdesk, for the reception desk, for safety attitudes etc.

    Lilybiri

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