Trainer was very thorough with the training material. He was punctual and well organised with the content that needs to be covered.
Kiran
16 December 2025
Level 1
Adobe
2 days
Adobe Captivate Essentials Course
Adobe Captivate Essentials at a glance.
- Duration
- 2 days, 9:00am – 4:00pm
- Price
- $1089 per person, ex GST — purchase orders welcome
- Delivery
- In person, or live online with a facilitator
- Where
- Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney — or online
- Prerequisite
- None
- Class size
- Small — everyone practises out loud more than once
- You take away
- A printed workbook, exercise files, and your own notes
- In-house
- Available for teams of four or more, at your office or ours
What you'll learn.
- Projects, slides and themes
- Interactions, buttons and click boxes
- Quizzes and question slides
- Publishing, and SCORM your LMS will accept
Course overview.
Projects, slides, interactions, quizzes and publishing a module your LMS will accept.
The 2 days works through 13 modules and 91 individual topics, from Captivate and eLearning to Publishing your project. Each module is taught then practised — you do the thing rather than watch it done — on our exercise files, and on your own where you are able to bring them.
Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on the keyboard, and the facilitator is in the room the whole time rather than dropping in. You leave with the workbook, the exercise files and notes in your own words.
Full course outline.
Every module we cover, and the topics inside each one. This is the same outline as the downloadable PDF — expand a module to see what sits under it.
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1Captivate and eLearning5 topics
- Planning an eLearning project
- How an eLearning project is developed
- Finding your way around the Captivate workspace
- Setting up and customising workspaces
- Previewing a project and zooming the view
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2Capturing software simulations10 topics
- Choosing project size and resolution
- How a Captivate project takes shape
- Setting up the screen before you record
- Running through an eLearning script
- Adjusting recording settings
- Setting recording preferences
- Capturing a software demonstration
- Capturing a software assessment
- Capturing a training simulation
- Capturing a custom training simulation
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3Captions and styles5 topics
- Adding, resizing and repositioning text captions
- Changing text caption properties
- Keeping captions consistent with styles
- Changing the default caption style
- Restoring an object style
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4The Timeline and timing8 topics
- Displaying and hiding the Timeline
- Adjusting Timeline view settings
- Hiding and locking objects on the Timeline
- Previewing a slide from the Timeline
- Setting how long a slide plays
- Timing when objects appear
- Adjusting mouse properties
- Lining up objects on a slide
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5Adding images and Smart Shapes11 topics
- Adjusting slide background quality
- Adding and removing slides
- Placing an image on a slide
- Setting exact image position and size
- Managing assets in the Project Library
- Clearing out unused project assets
- Cropping an image
- Making an image into a watermark
- Timing images and adding transitions
- Handling stacked images
- Adding and editing Smart Shapes
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6Buttons, pointers and highlight boxes7 topics
- Editing the pointer path and type
- Adding a click effect and sound
- Adding a text button
- Timing buttons and setting their options
- Adding an image button
- Setting what happens when a button is clicked
- Placing and formatting a highlight box
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7Rollover objects and zoom areas6 topics
- Adding a rollover caption
- Adding a rollover image
- Adjusting rollover properties
- Adding a zoom area
- Adding and formatting a rollover slidelet
- Placing a caption and image inside a slidelet
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8Audio and narration8 topics
- Attaching audio files to slide objects
- Adding audio in the background
- Writing a slide note
- Setting up and calibrating a microphone
- Recording your narration
- Bringing in pre-recorded narration
- Editing an audio clip
- Turning text into speech
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9Adding video, animation and effects6 topics
- Adding video files
- Adjusting video properties
- Animating a slide
- Adding animated text
- Giving a text caption a fly-in effect
- Setting a zig zag motion path
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10Making demonstrations interactive5 topics
- How demonstrations differ from simulations
- Finding and replacing phrases
- Adding a click box and setting its options
- Adding a text entry box
- Displaying or hiding the mouse
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11PowerPoint integration4 topics
- Bringing in a PowerPoint presentation
- Editing PowerPoint slides round trip
- Rescaling a project
- Keeping source files in sync
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12First look at question slides6 topics
- Adjusting quiz preferences
- Changing quizzing object styles
- Adding a question slide
- Placing an image on a question slide
- Reusing an existing slide background
- Styling the question title
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13Publishing your project10 topics
- Adding a link to a web page
- Adding a video skin and playbar
- Changing a skin and saving it
- Removing a skin
- Setting up a loading screen
- Building a table of contents
- Publishing as SWF and HTML5
- Producing Word handouts
- Sending captions out for review
- Saving time with round tripping
Who it is for.
Anybody who uses Captivate and has never been shown it properly. No prerequisite and no assumed background beyond ordinary computer confidence.
How it runs.
Two consecutive days, each roughly 9am to 4pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. You get a workstation each with the software installed, in a CBD training room in any of the six capitals, or live online on your own computer.
Dates
Upcoming Dates
The next scheduled Adobe Captivate Essentials dates, soonest first. If none of these work, tell us the city and we will let you know when the next block is released.
| Level | Date | Location | Delivery | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Captivate Essentials | Tue - Wed 8 Sep - 9 Sep 26 | Remote East | Online | $1089 | Book |
| Captivate Essentials | Tue - Wed 8 Sep - 9 Sep 26 | Sydney | In person | $1089 | Book |
| Captivate Essentials | Thu - Fri 15 Oct - 16 Oct 26 | Remote East | Online | $1089 | Book |
| Captivate Essentials | Thu - Fri 15 Oct - 16 Oct 26 | Sydney | In person | $1089 | Book |
By city
Adobe Captivate Essentials in your city
Venue, transport and the dates running there.
Reviews
What people said about Adobe Captivate Essentials
Wizard courses run on the shared Nexacu schedule, so these are reviews of this course from people who sat it. Collected by Nexacu after the course and published as written.
Source: nexacu.com.au, read 27 August 2026. How feedback is collected.
Questions
Questions People Ask About This Course
Anything not answered here, call 1300 886 190 and ask a person.
How long is the Adobe Captivate Essentials course?
It runs for 2 days, 9:00am – 4:00pm, with a facilitator in the room the whole time. Nothing is pre-recorded and there is no platform to log into afterwards.
How much does Adobe Captivate Essentials cost?
$1089 per person, excluding GST. That covers the course, the workbook and exercise files and the room. If four or more people from one organisation need it, an in-house day usually works out cheaper — tell us the numbers and we will price both.
Do I need any experience before this course?
No prerequisite. The day assumes ordinary computer confidence and nothing more.
Can I do Adobe Captivate Essentials online instead of in a classroom?
Yes. Every date marked “Live online” runs over video with the same facilitator and the same practice, in breakout groups rather than a room. You use the software on your own machine, so you leave with it set up the way you actually work.
Which cities do you run Adobe Captivate Essentials in?
Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney, plus live online. Every venue is a CBD training room with a workstation for each person. If your city and date are not paired on the schedule above, ask — dates are released in blocks.
Which Captivate level should I book?
Work from what people already do rather than how long they have used it. The full course outline above shows exactly what this course covers, and the Adobe Captivate page lists every level in order. Still unsure? Call 1300 886 190 and describe a normal Tuesday.
Whole team on the same level? Run it in-house.
Your files, your templates, your workflow — the same course, taught against your own material.