When starting a new eLearning project, you may be tempted to jump right into Captivate and start adding slides to your course. You learned in Chapter 1, Getting Started with Adobe Captivate, that it is important to extensively research the topic and design the pedagogical approach of your course before beginning to work in Adobe Captivate. Starting your course without this preparation can waste a lot of your time later on. We cannot stress this enough. Captivate is a tool for teaching things to people. It helps you with the craft of teaching, but not with the art of teaching.
As this book is designed to teach you how to use Adobe Captivate, we have done all the important research and pre-production work for you. This will allow you to concentrate on the ins and outs of Captivate itself.
When you open Adobe Captivate 2019 for the first time, the following welcome screen appears:
If this is not the first time you're opening Captivate, you will ...
