Hi – Any suggestions on which tutorials in which order to do for me as a total beginner? I did the first one, but the other five or so look very topically based vs a logical flow for a beginner to learn, eg “Quiz” etc
Thanks in advance for any suggestions,
Kelly
Hi Kelly, I realize this isn’t a recent post but I’ll share what has worked for me. I personally like the LinkedIn Learning courses as well (with the tutorial files). I also like the Mastering Adobe Captivate books and the e-Learning Uncovered books. Mastering Adobe Captivate is the most thorough Captivate book I’ve seen. The eLearning Uncovered books don’t get as advanced but they have lots of screenshots and step-by-step instructions which I think make them really good for people who are new to the software. I don’t learn as well from instructor led training. I like to work at my own pace and veer off into other directions to see how things work so these two methods work well for me.
Lynda/ LinkedIn Learning has some good tutorials for beginners. It would be a good place to start. It’s completely worth the subscription cost for a couple of months.
Sorry to disagree somehow…. Those tutorials clearly avoid the stumbling blocks I told about. Their advantage is that they are curated, contrary to the YouTube tutorials where there is good and bad. But my impression is that they are only step-by-step workflows, without explaining reasons, limitations or alternatives. As long as you keep to that workflow and don’t try to do something little bit different, you are OK. I have been using Lynda.com, now LinkedIn learning a lot for Adobe applications, but only when I was looking for a a specific workflow. The Captivate training is pretty low-level, not to be compared with some excellent tutorials for Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator….
Lynda.com offers a good intro on how to do what is need to get started. On the getting started page of Captivate there is Create Your First Project. https://elearning.adobe.com/2018/04/create-first-captivate-project/
I found this to be the best thing to get my hands involved in Captivate.
Lynda.com doesn’t explain the Timeline at all…am sure you’ll have issues with that soon. Do you know that the pausing point on a quiz slide will never pause slide audio? That animations cannot be paused but effect can?
You have already seen my blog about the stumbling blocks.
Some will probably answer with a list of tutorials, but I am always very cautious. At this moment I only provide personalized training, for several reasons. Not every CP developer needs exactly the same sequence of tutorials (my opinion, have decades of software training experience). What is your goal, which type of courses do you plan to develop? How will they be deployed? What is your background, what are your previous skills with training, with software applications,…. Those are the questions I discuss in a meeting with any trainee.
I will not talk about learning styles, that is a myth which has been invented by theoretical pedagogues, and often are far away from practical training. In my trainer’s mind I never see a trainee as a dummy, everyone had learning experiences (probably without knowing it,). This is not a totally new learning path, it is just another tool.
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