Adobe Captivate vs Canvas

• Easy learning curve. Captivate makes it easy for a new user to pick it up and understand where to begin. Adobe, in general, does this very well and Captivate is no exception. When you begin using Captivate, many of the tasks to create a video come naturally as things are laid out in a way that makes sense.
• Embedding with LMS (Learning Management Systems). Adobe has made it very easy to deploy your produced video to any of the popular LMS's available. Captivate also gives you a very easy way of including a SCORM score for any quizzes that must be passed at the end of the video in order to proceed to the next video.
• Capturing Audio has never been easier. With Captivate you can easily add voice-over audio that you can record directly inside of Captivate, or import a pre-recorded audio clip. You can import sounds from other sources for effects in the video and Captivate already includes all of the commonly used sounds for mouse-clicks, error sounds, etc.

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• Intuitive Design
• Modern in-line engagement functionality, 3 click video recording
• Tier 1 Support is phenomenal
• Cloud based, enabling frequent and continuous updates for product evolution
• High performance (no system slowdown) and solid uptime
• Undelete functionality, (if instructors delete content it can be undone)
• Strong course calendar system
• Canvas support guides and documentation are extremely helpful
• Mobile apps perform well, Speed Grader is a faculty favorite
• Linking to content is easy within courses

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• Captivate can stagnate and is less user-friendly when it comes to adding animations and certain transitions on your presentation.
• I found that Captivate wasn't always so user-friendly when it came to using the Demo presentation feature. There were times when I'd have to re-record my steps because for some reason it wasn't accepting certain clicks and/or it would capture things I didn't want it to capture.
• I found myself getting frustrated a lot when using Captivate because some of the things that I was used to clicking/creating on a different software tool (that was more user-friendly) and the results I was looking for caused me to take extra steps when using Captivate.

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• Glitches -- even after four years of using Canvas, I still experience glitches in the system. Most recently, the Media Comment tool was not fully reliable when I was recording feedback to students.
• Missed opportunities -- there are some functions that are not fully realized in functionality. For example, an instructor can assign badges to students via the Attendance tool; however, the instructor is the only one who can view the badges tally! The effectiveness of badges hinges on students' intrinsic motivation -- how can they find motivation if they cannot see the badges that they've earned in a course?
• Poor reporting / poor extraction of data -- the Attendance reports that are downloaded from the system are simply horrible to decipher and read. If an instructor must produce a conversation from the Inbox to an administrator/supervisor, there is no easy way to extract these messages from Canvas. The best one can do is take screen shots of the conversation!
• Inbox -- the whole Conversations experiment that Canvas has been performing must end. The Inbox tool acts nothing like conventional email. Professors see the word "Inbox" and expect a traditional email tool. Instead, there is a "bait-and-switch" quality to Conversations. In my four years of training faculty to use Canvas, I regularly received complaints about the Inbox and the challenge of storing, sorting, and managing messages.

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• One negative aspect of ROI is Adobe Captivate has a steep learning curve.
• Another negative impact on ROI is Adobe Captivate isn't the least expensive tool on the market.
• On the positive side, Adobe Captivate has freed up our trainers from tedious classroom tasks.
• Another positive is that our implementation of Adobe Captivate has resulted in dozens of time-saving training modules, building a library of content used throughout the firm.

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• Students enjoy the constant feedback and visibility that canvas provides them
• Creating new courses is a fairly straight forward process that reduces the size of the learning curve.
• At times, Canvas has gone "down" placing a strain on faculty

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