Adobe Captivate: Free Course

About this course

Build interactive learning material with this free Learn Skills Daily Adobe Captivate course. All four beginner, intermediate, advanced and expert-labelled classes are retained, providing a structured route through the recorded authoring workflow.

Course at a glance

What you’ll learn

• Connect a learning objective with a suitable sequence of content and interaction.
• Follow the demonstrations for slides, media and software-simulation authoring.
• Use the course’s quizzing and learner-experience topics to review an instructional activity.
• Understand how branching, variables, actions and states can support more demanding learning interactions.

Skills you’ll gain

• Captivate authoring
• E-learning design
• Interactive content
• Quiz design
• Branching concepts
• Learner-experience review

Course Overview

The publisher describes a progression from e-learning concepts and navigation to slides, images, audio and software simulations. Quizzing, accessibility and learner experience then lead into more advanced topics such as branching, variables, actions and states. Follow the stages while keeping a learning objective visible: an interaction should help the learner understand, practise or demonstrate something. The demonstrations use the Captivate interface available at their recording date, which may differ from newer releases. Free viewing does not include an Adobe license or a packaged e-learning qualification.

How to study the course

• Begin with the introductory class and a small learning objective before adding media or interactivity. Keep the learner’s next action understandable.
• Progress through the later classes and check how an interaction responds to different inputs. Use a compatible practice version and note any interface differences.

Use the searchable classroom lesson list to revisit a specific explanation. Pause after a useful demonstration, reproduce a small example and explain the result in your own words. Keep a short note of what worked, what changed and what you still need to understand before moving on.

Who is this for?

This course is for instructional designers, training professionals and learners creating interactive educational material. It suits users who want to connect authoring features with the purpose and experience of a learning activity.

Before you start

Basic computer and presentation skills are helpful. Practice needs a suitable Captivate environment, and recent releases may differ from the recordings. Adobe licenses and separate provider resources are not included.

Put the lessons into practice

Design a short learning activity explaining one simple office process. State the objective and the evidence that would show understanding. Create a small sequence of screens with one purposeful interaction and a practice question. Test an expected response and an incorrect response, then review whether the feedback helps the learner continue. Consider readability and accessibility as part of the design. If your software version differs from the recording, document the adaptation rather than assuming that an identical menu is required.

This optional activity is provided by WikiFree for independent practice. It is not a graded assignment from the instructor. Keep your working notes, check the result against the task you defined and return to the relevant lesson when an assumption or technique is unclear.

Certificate / Assessment

Watching the public videos and using WikiFree progress tracking does not award a certificate, exam voucher, academic credit or instructor assessment.

Use your practice output to review what you can now explain and repeat independently. Completion tracking records your study progress; it does not replace an assessed qualification or professional experience.

Frequently asked questions

Provider: Learn Skills Daily. Videos play from the Learn Skills Daily channel on YouTube.