Overview
What is Adobe Captivate?
Adobe Captivate is an elearning authoring and course design tool (or LCMS). It supports mobile HTML5 content. Captivate’s users are commonly midsized businesses to enterprises. Adobe Captivate includes some prebuilt assets as well as customizable workflows.
Fast Implementation & Roll-Out
Review of Adobe Captivate
ESL
Using video photos and audio and test knowledge
Adobe Captivate Review
Captivate - a solid performer in need of a refresh
Great product for knowledgeable user.
Captivate review
Great experience with Adobe Captivate
Awesome elearning
Captivate is great at simulations!
Adobe Captivate - A Powerful Multimedia Tool
Captivate is AWESOME!
Don't you dare purchase Captivate
What Captivates me...
Wide range of tools
Awards
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Popular Features
- Course authoring (29)10.0100%
- Progress tracking & certifications (25)10.0100%
- Learning content (23)9.090%
- Player/Portal (23)8.080%
Pricing
Subscription
$33.99
Student & Teacher Edition
$399
Upgrade
$499
Entry-level set up fee?
- No setup fee
Offerings
- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Product Demos
Adobe Captivate - Software Simulations and Video Demos
Create your first video demo with Adobe Captivate (2017 Release)
Adobe Captivate Animated Text - brief how to and samples
Adobe Captivate Tutorial - Pan, Zoom, Picture-in-Picture - Captivate Training in Los Angeles
HOW TO Record Video Demo with Adobe Captivate
Demo PowerPoint to Captivate Demo
Features
Learning Management
Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.
- 10Course authoring(29) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 9Course catalog or library(18) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 8Player/Portal(23) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 9Learning content(23) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 10Progress tracking & certifications(25) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 9Learning reporting & analytics(18) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
- 10Social learning(14) Ratings
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
- 9Gamification(1) Ratings
Presents course material in a game-like format to increase engagement and enjoyment.
Product Details
- About
- Tech Details
- FAQs
What is Adobe Captivate?
Adobe Captivate Video
Adobe Captivate Technical Details
Deployment Types | On-premise |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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Reviews
(1-25 of 127)Amazing Software for Training and Learning!
- Excellent Multi Tenanting configuration
- can easily navigate
- Difficulty using the function of setting up a menu
- The pricing is expensive
- Adobe Captivate Should give more than 30 days of trial
Fast Implementation & Roll-Out
- Publishes training and courses to all employees
- Creation of test questions
- Need to improve on the user interface and more user friendly
- Import project, copy slide sometimes may cause slide resolution not aligned
Review of Adobe Captivate
ESL
Using video photos and audio and test knowledge
- organize media
- text knowledge
- ease of using
- better use of multiple videos
- graphics editing
- speech to text
Adobe Captivate Review
- 360 View
- Video insertions
- Take-home license option
- The top issue is with Adobe Captivate vaporware - several years of Adobe promises of updates. Adobe Captivate is still called "2019". I've reviewed the prototype on several occasions over the course of 2 years, yet nothing is coming to market.
- Since Adobe dropped 360 view support in Photoshop, how are we supposed to edit 360 photos in Captivate? I feel this is very disappointing since Adobe Captivate's 360 feature is amazing. We've had to use non-Adobe products like Affinity to support the 360 feature.
- Adobe Captivate courses frequently lock up in SumTotal LMS (SCORM 2004 v3), while other products like Articulate work flawlessly.
- PowerPoint import is a big problem for us. In my experience, Adobe Captivate maintains hooks into the original PPT file, causing many problems and fails if the referenced PPT is updated or moved.
- No easy way to darken previous bullets after they have passed to the next bullet unless we use complicated scripting.
- Adobe Captivate is not part of Creative Suite, even though it depends on Creative Suite for many editing tools (imaging editing, video editing, etc.). It also makes licensing a challenge for the company.
- In my opinion, the timeline is clunky and buggy, especially when adjusting the end position. Some blocks in the timeline jump around instead of moving and/or truncating with the end-point adjustments.
Captivate - a solid performer in need of a refresh
- Uses industry recognized standards for building eLearning. (SCORM files)
- Is part of the Adobe suite of products and has resources and assets from Adobe.
- Is continuing to evolve with the ever changing world of eLearning development
- Captivate is slightly behind the curve in its development cycle.
- Captivate would benefit from a collaborative workspace.
- Captivate would benefit from cloud saving features.
Great product for knowledgeable user.
- Software simulations.
- 360° Virtual Reality features.
- Create interactive training.
- Accessibility - as a federal contractor required by law Section 508 but few have knowledge as to how to apply outside of simple screens.
- Ease of use for new users - it is not easy to know how to use without any training.
- Tricky settings - not always clear of the meaning.
Less appropriate - new users with no training, complex screens as difficult to make accessible.
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- Multi-state objects, changing states upon triggers helps make otherwise dry content much more dynamic.
- I really appreciate that I can respond to knowledge check questions with visual feedback, audio feedback, or forced review of relevant slide.
- I really, really appreciate that Captivate is very flexible and gives me control over so many aspects. I can be as creative as I want which helps me build more appealing lessons.
- I appreciate that Adobe includes users in the feedback loop for new versions. But I would like for more explanation on new features, how to use, where feature parameters have been moved to, what features have been renamed to, etc.
- Currently bulleted lists are animated as a block. If I want bullet points to animate synchronized with narration, then I have to create separate text blocks for each bullet. The end result is that copying my text from my notes is no more faster than typing. The workflow is either copy one short phrase and paste into a new text block vs typing the phrase. And then do the same thing for each bullet. (Sigh...)
- I've had several situations where I'd like to have something travel on a path. For example, if I have a line graph, it would be nice to draw the line's path, but have it grow over a few seconds, or even haltingly. I once used an AA to show this, but it took quite a while to write it out (especially because writing it out is selecting each action from a drop down list). I had several states of the line graph and in each state I had the line grow another unit with a yellow highlight, proceeding down the line's path. So the AA sequence was delay by 1 second, change state to 2, delay by 1 second, change state to 3, delay... and on and on. The AA was a dozen or so lines long.
- I saw a webinar a while back about lottie files. It seems that they could make a lesson more dynamic. Could Adobe add the ability to incorporate lotties into a lesson?
Great experience with Adobe Captivate
- User friendly.
- Integrate with LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to government cloud.
Awesome elearning
- Incorporates JavaScript.
- Serves as a great platform for building learning games.
- Creates brilliant eLearning.
- It's responsive but not quite responsive.
- There's a lot to remember about how to make it do things.
- The learning curve can be steep.
Captivate is great at simulations!
- Software simulations.
- Videos.
- 360 slides.
- It crashes a lot.
Adobe Captivate - A Powerful Multimedia Tool
- Easily add video to Captivate projects.
- Program interactions without prior coding skills.
- Target mobile devices with responsive layouts.
- Responsive design programing could be expedited with premade widgets.
- More finished templates and interactions.
- Improved interface in line with other Adobe tools.
Captivate is AWESOME!
- Design.
- Interactive features.
- Easy to use.
- More training available online.
Don't you dare purchase Captivate
- Be clunky.
- Take 50 steps to do what Storyline can do in 3.
- Crash often.
- Annoy my employees.
- Captivate seems like an Adobe Money Grab. Nothing more. It's the worst product for course development that has ever existed (even worse than Lectora). Tear it down and start again. Just copy Storyline.
- There are too many settings. No need for all of that. Storyline is way easier, simpler, and robust.
What Captivates me...
- Displays content in simple fashion.
- User Friendly interface.
- Easy to create and display created content.
Wide range of tools
- Create interactions.
- Convert PowerPoints.
- Branching.
- Adding different coding languages aside from Javascript.
- Making advanced interactions more intuitive.
- Editing images to fit project sizes within the application.
Great product!
- Create courses.
- Easy to integrate with current technology.
- Works great.
- More visibility in the marketplace.
Use Captivate happier than sorry
- Traditional eLearning.
- Audio closed captions.
- Basic transition.
- Interaction.
- Video closed caption.
- Multi-language.
- Text to speech quality.
New Captivate User Impressed
- Integration with other Creative Cloud products.
- Customization through advanced actions.
- Stock assets.
- Should always be responsive, like Articulate, without having to build with fluid boxes.
Adobe Captivate - Advanced Tool
- Interactive learning.
- Flexibility with Advanced Actions.
- Access to assets.
- More animation options.
- Better text to voice options.
- Responsive design is challenging to work with.
Captivate has transformed how my company trains employees!
- Create interesting, interactive training.
- Capture high-quality video demos.
- Customize training for the training needs of my learners.
- Modernize the user interface.
- Better QA/review functionality.
- Better Text-to-Speech functionality.
Captivate has propelled our SCORM development to new heights and captivated our team and users!
Captivate enables us to develop a single training tat we can assign out to the company nationwide.
- Click through learning.
- Scenario based training.
- Gamification.
- Interconnection to Creative Cloud i.e. Photoshop, Illustrator.
- Direct connection to Storyline or Microsoft Word for improved captioning.
- Ability to import .srt captions exported from Premier Pro for videos or from Audition.
- Audio syncing could used a little boost so timeline and captions/action/animation can be more accurate.
Captivating eLearning
- Scenario-based learning.
- Software simulations.
- Product knowledge.
- Sales training.
- Simpler one-off presentations vis-à-vis Articulate Rise.
- Incorporating video (i.e. editing).
Less appropriate: marketing presentations.
Adobe Captivate can flow more smoothly
- Move the learner through a lesson.
- Work with Illustrator and Photoshop.
- HTML problems.
- It is not intuitive.
- Hard to move the subjects in PP to Captivate, unless images.
Lovely Product
- Software Simuation
- Software Demo
- PowerPoint uploads
- Software capture during software testing
- Produce/Render screen captures onto word document with keystrokes
- Triggers are not always accurate
- Does not capture all point clicks in a simulation
Overview of Good Development Tool
- Mobile development.
- Exporting to HTML5.
- Advanced Actions.
- The built int JavaScript editor.
It does need some newer templates and the JavaScript window SUCKS. I tend to write the code else where and then paste it into the JS window.