Powerpoint imported slides editing

I forgot a couple of things.

1- Make a few e-learning modules just to learn the software hands on. You can pick your current module as the subject, but as you'll most likely be learning and making mistakes, don't go overboard with details and expect to throw away the first 2 or 3 drafts as you're getting the hang of the software.

2- Once you've understood the basics of the software and are ready to create your template for real, my recommendation would be to begin with a template you like, and then adjust the colours for your branding if you want to. You can and probably should also adjust the Content Master Slides to fit your needs.

A note about colour and fonts: the proper way to adjust the colours to your branding is by editing the default fonts, colours and appearance of the standard items inside the Object Manager (see image below to access it). This serves the same purpose as editing Styles in Microsoft Word, but it can be a tad long to use, and maybe a bit hard for some users, but if you master that, you will be able to control exactly what your slides will look like by default, instead of changing those settings item per item. Of course, keeping the default template colours will alleviate that problem entirely if you don't care about branding.

3- When you want to do something and you do not find a way, first Google the expression "Captivate WHAT_I_WANT_TO_DO", and, if you don't find a satisfactory answer, ask the forum. We'll try to help.

PPT import in Captivate is what I never will recommend. If you only want to convert a ppt to HTML5, use a PPT plugin.

If you import PPT-slides into Captivate, they will always use the Blank master slide of any theme. It doenst matter which theme you use just for PPT. Each PPT-slide will be converted to sort of a movie slide that reproduces the animations from PPT. You'll not be able to edit the individual objects, because they don't appear separaely.

You can import all the assets from the PPT into the Library of a cptx-file in Captivate, and start putting them on slides. At the end this will sae you time, although it doesn't at first look like that.

You already got a link to one of my blog posts, where I summarized my experiences since I am following this forum (about 8 years now, almost daily). Not all tutorials around are really helping, lot of them never explain the reasons for work flows. Most readers of my blog appreciate the fact that I try to explain workflows in depth, instead of providing just step-by-step recies.

Hello!

My first tip would be: Do not import PowerPoint files into Captivate. Learn Captivate and rebuild from scratch. It'll take time at first, but it will go significantly better in the mid and long run.

If you want to create a somewhat more interactive e-learning module using PowerPoint itself, you would probably be better off using an add-on like iSpring which does just that. It will not give you as much functionality as Adobe Captivate, mind you, but it could do the trick.

After you saw some tutorials, the best starting point for me was Lieve Weymeis' blog, starting from this post: Three skills to acquire (Captivate newbies) | eLearning  Expect to have to do some reading before you are fully at ease, but you will end up being able to do some things that can be quite spectacular.

I personally built my templates from scratch after getting the software because I wanted it branded to my employer, but if you wish to have something premade to make it easier on you, I would suggest going with one of the free templates from Elearnning Brothers. For this, you click on the Assets button on the top bar:

Then you click on "Get Free eLearning Assets" at the top of the pop-up window that appeared, and then click on the yellow "New Templates" button in the webpage showing up. Choose whichever template fits your tastes and need better.

Now, if you want more help, please explain why you want to change the PowerPoint file into an e-learning module, and especially what you want the e-learning module to do. Do you want to build a quiz, gather attendance data, create immersive, interactive experiences or simply make the contents of the PowerPoint file available for viewing at any time?

Have a nice day!