Which courses or workshops do you recommend for Captivate 2019?
Which courses or workshops do you recommend for Captivate 2019?
I am looking for both basic and advanced training.
Paul Wilson has a great YouTube Channel that has taught me a lot.
Personally, I have not taken a workshop, as of yet. I have read a lot on the community, asked a lot of questions on the community and I have tried to review some tips, article, videos and blogs from recommendations I have found on the community.
There are definitely some quicker, simpler things you can learn online, some videos you can learn from that can get you started and teach you some things. There are also some more involved videos (some that are above my weight class at the moment) and other blogs that can get you into the more complicated/richer features of the software. A couple of the posters on this chat discussion fit into all of these descriptions I have mentioned.
There are courses from Adobe that Paul mentions. I can’t speak to those, but it is something on my radar. As someone that stills considers themselves a newbie, I would suggest checking out Pauls YouTube channel and I would suggest reading what Lieve has written on this community, finding her blog and reading up on what she can share from her many years (can’t remember how many off the top of my head, but something around the 15 year number rings in my head for some reason) and see what else you can learn from others on this forum.
After that, personally, I will probably check out the programs that Adobe has to offer on this software. I plan to eventually and then maybe see what else it out there. I know there is a lot.
In my own experience with the software, which has really only been about 4 months, I have learned a lot. Do I have more to learn? My answer will always be yes, I could learn more.
Hopefully that provides some additional perspective.
Thanks for your kind words. FYI I use Captivate since version 1 (still Macromedia) which was about 20 years ago, but am involved more closely with the application since it was acquired by Adobe, which is 13-14 years ago.
Captivate often reminds me of a treasure hunt game. Even now I still find regularly small gems, new workflows which I never used in the past. Learning never stops, but that also means it will never be boring…
There are many courses or certifications that might be appropriate for you. The official Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe Captivate is a good option for many individuals. It’s a blended program that combines a series of videos and exercise files with an optional virtual session. The virtual session will give you an opportunity to ask questions of the facilitators (I’m one of about four or five in North America). It isn’t an exhaustive course in that some topics are not covered but I would recommend this to someone who is just getting started with Adobe Captivate. Once you complete this certification you can move on to other more specific training.
https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/captivate/certificate.html
My YouTube channel has many mini tutorials but the purpose of my videos on YouTube is to answer questions about a singular topic for those who are self-initiated. I do answer questions in the comments of my videos but their purpose is to promote that I offer one-on-one virtual training. Many students from the Adobe Certification reach out to me after the fact for more specific needs.
Just search YouTube. There are loads.
Good passive videos and crap as well. No one curates.
You may have seen that I always write that I am incapable of post such recommendations, because any training (basic or advanced) in my view needs to start from the existing skills of the trainees. Yesterday I read an article which confirms this view and shows the ‘term’ used for that type of training: ‘Accelerated learning’. Not the first time I discover there is a theoretical term for what I mean (like flipped class which I used long time before I found the word).
Canned training ‘fit for all’ is like a shoe which doesn’t fit anyone perfectly. Especially for training for a tool like Captivate it will leave most attendees frustrated in a way because the workshop/training didn’t help them reach their goal and/or was too low- or to high-level. May I refer to the presentation I delivered in the Adobe conference June 2020? With a topic title ‘Deep dive into Captivate: Shared and Advanced actions’ and the start poll telling me that the big majority of the attendees were new to both types of actions, and a small minority were ‘experts’? I had several workflows in mind, tried to offer a basic insight in the differences because of the majority. Of course the ‘experts’ were disappointed… This is a typical situation with any training and workshop.
For the aforementioned view on training, I always have a pretty long interview (without commitment) with the future trainees and we decide in collaboration about the topics and learning methods. Or we decide as friends not to collaborate for a training…
I have example training schedules for basic training. Not for advanced training because that is simply impossible. It should start with an assessment of existing skills in some way. In my past trainings I never used the same course content for advanced training, but they were always based on and working with projects of the trainee, not with my canned examples.
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