Editing the Captured Topic

Now that the outline is approved, and you have the screen captures, it's time to do the editing.

Most of the formatting is done by the template; however you will need to check everything.

Sample slide in the template

  1. Change the name in the Topic Title box at left of example slide.

  2. Import the title graphic and position it at the top of the screen, under the top border.  (Set title graphic to "transparent" and background color to white.)

  3. Verify that music has been applied to opening and closing slides.

  4. Delete the sample text in main text box in left column.

  5. Select the logo, title box, text box (now empty), top border and course title graphic.

  6. Copy the selected objects to all slides except opening/closing slides and Best Practice slides. (You may need to do this twice–sometimes the "paste" doesn't take with all selected slides.)

  7. In each slide, select all items in the slide timeline (Ctrl-A ), right-click, and set to “rest of slide.”

  8. Review all slides and capture more frames if necessary.

  9. Name all slides  according to the step taken, e.g. "TableButton" (no spaces). 

  10. Name corresponding components–[slidename] + "bg" (for background), e.g. "TableButton bg."  

  11. Add any keystroke equivalents ("Select keys" button in Click Box dialog box.)  

    Be careful!  Keystrokes that work in the Preview may not work in a browser. Examples are the F1 key and Ctrl+N . They act on the browser instead of on the simulated application - F1 brings up the Help file for the browser, and Ctrl+N opens a new browser window.

  12. Captivate doesn't have an "insertion point" function, but they can be created by inserting a small text entry box and turning off all options to "show text box frame," etc.  It should be used only when it is absolutely necessary. Usually the static insertion point captured in the screenshot is enough.

  13. Failure captions:  Each user action (click box, etc.) must be set as seen here: