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Silke Fleischer

Silke Fleischer

Adobe

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Tom Person

Adobe

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Creating Adobe Captivate content for use with Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server
  3. Publishing to Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise
  4. Tracking scoring data withAdobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server and Adobe Acrobat Connect Training
Created:
5 May 2005
Modified:
7 February 2007
User Level:
Intermediate
Products:
Captivate

Rapid e-learning – Part 1: Using Adobe Captivate 2 content with Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server

Adobe Captivate 2 allows anyone to rapidly develop engaging e-learning content. Download and install it, and you are ready to capture your onscreen actions. Depending on your recording mode, you may end up with an interactive simulation where the learner must follow onscreen prompts to complete a task, a demonstration that the learner can watch, or a scenario simulation. Demonstrations are great for online help systems or user support. Simulations are most effective for training users on specific tasks, since they require the learner’s input, and/or tracking and Scenario simulations are best suited for role-playing, sales and management training.

After you create your first interactive simulation, you may wonder: What’s the easiest way to distribute it to an audience?

Using a combination of Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server and Adobe Captivate 2 provides an entire rapid e-learning solution for you. By simply publishing to the Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server, you instantly give access to your simulation to selected users or the whole world. If you do not have a Learning Management System (LMS), you can take advantage of the reporting functionality in Adobe Acrobat Connect Training and see which learners have completed the simulation and which interactions or quiz questions caused learners to struggle.

In this article, you’ll learn about considerations and specifications that will help you publish your interactive Adobe Captivate 2 content to your audience through Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server, Adobe Presenter, and Adobe Acrobat Connect Training.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Adobe Acrobat Connect Enterprise Server

Adobe Captivate 2

Prerequisites:

  • If you're not already familiar with Adobe Presenter, you can view the primer on building content in Adobe Presenter.

    Breeze presentationView Presentation Primer: Building Content in Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional (15:20 minutes)

  • If you're not already familiar with Adobe Captivate 2, download and install it. When you open Adobe Captivate 2 for the first time, the the program will display the Adobe Captivate 2 start page. You can complete the tutorials on for a quick introduction to Adobe Captivate 2.
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About the authors

Silke Fleischer is a senior product marketing manager for Adobe Captivate and is responsible for product marketing. She works closely with customers and key figures in the e-learning industry to communicate their needs and ideas to the Adobe Captivate research and development team. A member of the eLearning Guild, ASTD, Silke has been a featured speaker at several national and international conferences, including MAX, STC, eLearning Guild, SALT, and Tekom—as well as numerous regional events and chapter meetings.

Tom Person, a 20 year veteran of interactive multimedia development, has been with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) since 2000 as an evangelist.  As the Adobe eLearning Evangelist, he travels the globe speaking, teaching, training and demonstrating Adobe products across every market. Specializing in e-learning Tom has traveled and spoken internationally on the benefits and virtues of Adobe products in the area of on-line learning, training and content development (CBT, CD and wireless) and content integration with various LMS/LCMS (Learning Management Systems) and making that content Accessible within W3C and 508 (U.S.) guidelines.  A “Jack-of-all-tools” at Adobe he is uniquely qualified across the Adobe product line especially in their use as “tool-of-mass-instruction” and is the Adobe representative at standards meetings.