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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.
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- Learning content (23)9.090%
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Adobe Captivate Tutorial - Pan, Zoom, Picture-in-Picture - Captivate Training in Los Angeles
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What is Adobe Captivate?
Adobe Captivate is an elearning authoring and course design tool (or LCMS). It allows users to rapidly author responsive, interactive learning eLearning content, as well as mobile HTML-5 learning content. Users can test courses with the preview LMS feature, and track the performance of learners as they complete quizzes and other tasks. Adobe Captivate includes some prebuilt templates and learning assets, but users also have the option to custom code their own complex learning workflows. Adobe Captivate integrates with SCORM-compliant LMS systems, including Adobe Captivate Prime.
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Adobe Captivate Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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.
Reviewers rate Course authoring and Progress tracking & certifications and Social learning highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of Adobe Captivate are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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December 29, 2022
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
November 29, 2022
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
October 24, 2022
Review of Adobe Captivate
- organize media
- text knowledge
- ease of using
- better use of multiple videos
- graphics editing
- speech to text
October 12, 2022
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.
October 12, 2022
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.
October 12, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
Captivate review
- 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?
October 07, 2022
Great experience with Adobe Captivate
- User friendly.
- Integrate with LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to government cloud.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
Captivate is great at simulations!
- Software simulations.
- Videos.
- 360 slides.
- It crashes a lot.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
Captivate is AWESOME!
- Design.
- Interactive features.
- Easy to use.
- More training available online.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
What Captivates me...
- Displays content in simple fashion.
- User Friendly interface.
- Easy to create and display created content.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
Great product!
- Create courses.
- Easy to integrate with current technology.
- Works great.
- More visibility in the marketplace.
October 07, 2022
Use Captivate happier than sorry
- Traditional eLearning.
- Audio closed captions.
- Basic transition.
- Interaction.
- Video closed caption.
- Multi-language.
- Text to speech quality.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
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.
October 07, 2022
Captivate has propelled our SCORM development to new heights and captivated our team and users!
- 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.
October 07, 2022
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).
October 07, 2022
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.
October 06, 2022
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
October 06, 2022
Overview of Good Development Tool
- Mobile development.
- Exporting to HTML5.
- Advanced Actions.
- The built int JavaScript editor.