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.
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Using video photos and audio and test knowledge
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Captivate - a solid performer in need of a refresh
Great product for knowledgeable user.
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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
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- 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 |
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Reviews
(1-25 of 75)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
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- 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 experience with Adobe Captivate
- User friendly.
- Integrate with LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to government cloud.
Captivate is great at simulations!
- Software simulations.
- Videos.
- 360 slides.
- It crashes a lot.
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.
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.
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
- Early introduction of 360 degree photos
- Very responsive interface, even on modest hardware
- Easy editing/previewing of content for different screen sizes
- Clunky interface, it takes a lot of extra clicks to get places compared to other Adobe apps and competitor's eLearning software.
- Would be nice if it was part of creative cloud, or at least in the group of apps you can add through Creative Cloud.
- More regular and meaningful updates. Compared to flagship apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. Captivate is like the read headed step child. Competitors excel at providing regular updates with clear change documentation. How are we still using Captivate 2019 in 2022?
- The interface feels like it is still stuck in the 90s, would be nice if it was more modern and better in-line with flagship adobe offerings.
- Variables and associated menus are a nuisance to work with vs some of the clever drop down and content-sensitive options in Articulate Storyline.
Captivate great for creating SCORM
- Convert PowerPoint to SCORM.
- Templates to start a design for eLearning.
- YouTube how to video community.
- More simple user interface for navigation.
- More automated features.
- Built in templates and ready to go features to plug and play.
- Additional interactive features and elements to engage learners.
- Learner Choice elements to easy add to a design.
Captivate - Sharp Learning Curve - You will thank me later
- Advanced Actions.
- Customization.
- User interactions.
- Multi-state objects for users.
- Crashes.
- Lots of Space for a laptop.
- Save early, save often.
Captivate has increased our creativity.
- screen simulations
- ability to create multi-state objects
- ability to create user-friendly interactions
- Mostly it needs glitch/bug improvements - things disappear or just don't show up, such as state view for objects being used as buttons, etc.
- It would be nice if you could expand the timeline to make the slides in it slightly larger, or at least provide 2 columns of slides.
We create "what's new" courses for each product release (usually monthly), but Captivate is too "clicky" for what we are trying to accomplish and have switched to Camtasia for that.
- Integrates knowledge checks easily.
- Provides templates to get you started.
- Programming advanced actions.
Captivate a Must Try!
- User friendly.
- Allows for diverse use.
- I think that some of the issues may be address with Project Charm to make it even more user friendly.
- Speed.
Does Captivate Really do the Job?
- Codes pretty well.
- Works well when you tell it do the right thing.
- Ability to change the state of object with ne and follow with the rest.
- Common preferences made available rather than not.
- Timeline needs to be better overall, as an 2d and 3d animator this timeline doesn't compare!
Adobe Captivate
- Font.
- Audio.
- Learning tool.
Captivate is the #1 tool for eLearning- Hands Down
- Awesome graphic editing features like round-tripping from Adobe Captivate to Photoshop is a huge time saver.
- The QuickStart slides are an amazing time saver.
- The library functionality is very useful as well.
- Ability to crop photos into shapes other than squares/rectangles would be useful.
- Ability to preview just one slide or from any slide in scaled HTML5 format.
Good
- Scoring exams.
- Easy up-loadable content (images, jpeg)
- Easy to edit text and animation.
- Easier media management.
- Interchangeable objects without changing the name/ variable.
- Ability to work simultaneously on the same projects either with different slides or the same.
- Custom presentations
- Ability to embed video/music
- Build quizzes and knowledge checkpoints
- Interface
- Steep learning curve
- Needs "how to" videos