Adobe Captivate

If you need to do a presentation and add a video. It is easier to use than other programs to keep your design in order. It is less appropriate when it is something that needs to happen quickly and with no storyboard.

For a long time if you wanted to use 360 degree photos, Captivate was stellar and made it pretty easy, but due to the slow pace of updates competitors have caught up and exceeded. I'd really love to see some innovation here, and in terms of "real" VR/headet support for some industry players like Meta and HTC. I find if I am creating a "traditional" eLearning, Captivate just feels cumbersome/archaic to navigate and create content in vs something like Articulate Storyline. I do still love that you can build responsive design in Captivate. It is annoying that competitors have created separate apps if you want responsive design, so Captivate is definitely a big winner there!

My team and I primarily train front line employees that are customer facing. We have to teach them how to use various systems and programs to service the customer. Being able to use Captivate to simulate the customer experience with scenario based eLearning and the ability to simulate our systems to give our learners hands-on experience is a great benefit for us.

We like Captivate, but there is a lot of time to learn it and for features we would like to do not as automated as we would have liked, you do need to program some features for the logic. We have not seen a new release since 2019 so we started to explore alternatives including Articulate 360 and GoMo and iSpring. We would like better collaboration features for several staff to work together on the same project.

Captivate is perfect for eLearning courses that require a user to click. It's also great for branching and simulations.

Captivate works particularly well for our workflow simulations & user instructions.

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.

Captivate is often a solution that people are already using, and have a lot of knowledge in. We see it used in course design by teams with deep experience using it. We most often come across our users using Captivate in media creation teams at universities and companies who want to create interactive and immersive video experiences.

Captivate allows the simulation capture of programs, apps, and websites to develop on boarding training.

When creating eLearning content.

This is best suited for users who are technologically "flexible" and up to date with programs. There are a lot features (some needs improvement) that can make learning more personal and customized. I like that because it is from Adobe, it works well with other products to create characters and animations. This is hard to use and confusing for someone who has not used similar features that Captivate offers. I have seen my colleagues frustrated because they see the product as overwhelming and not user friendly. It is also not suited where a simple training interface is enough.

Adobe Captivate is awesome when it comes to engaging our associates in training!

It will code a specific task to your liking in order to get the job done, such as trying to flip objects or make things show until all buttons/tabs have been selected really correspond to your needs.

Captivate is very helpful for creating courses and giving templates. It's especially helpful if you don't know where to start with a course, and offers a various options for interaction. They offer a lot of templates that you can work off of to construct your content. It is not appropriate to use for beginners or trainers who have no experience in using it.

Adobe Captivate has always been the best program for all of my eLearning projects.

Best to use in creating learning tools.

Adobe Captivate is well suited for inserting AR and VR. It is not well suited for work centers where staff are new to eLearning development

Captivate is great for simple eLearning courses as well as super complex courses and assessments.
It is great for recording demonstrations and hands on simulations.
Captivate is great for adding interactive elements to include quizzes to videos
Captivate is great for creating accessible eLearning

I believe Adobe Captivate is well suited for new hire training and simulations for medical professionals to train on new technology. Perhaps it is less suited for basic training on procedures that have changed slightly - where the trainee has already gone through the initial training.

Adobe Captivate is well suited for software training. Even though we do not use the software simulation recording feature, we simulate the environment with screenshots and then roundtrip into Photoshop to make edits to a screenshot For example, they added 3 new fields and it affects 25 different slides in the course. I dummy up the 3 new fields in Photoshop, copy the layers with the new fields, flatten and save the screenshot and it's instantly updated in Abode Captivate. I then locate the next slide that needs the same new fields added and round trip into Photoshop and then I just select Paste in Place and flatten and save. The alignment is perfect and the screenshots never leave Adobe Captivate. I had a course that I had to do this to with about 25 slides and it was easy peasy.

Adobe Captivate is great when showing new easy content to the user including website and software simulation. The guided actions that assist a new person in simulating data entry are great functions. It is also helpful when certificates and proof of an LMS are required. Sometimes, however, the design of a certificate does not translate correctly. Other times the certificate may need to look a particular way due to the policies and regulations of a company. It would be great if we had the capacity to create it easily instead of altering the templates that do not display like we may want.

Well suited for creating content where eLearning is apparent. Its a must have application.

Adobe Captivate can be utilized for a wide variety of training courses. The software enables basic course content creation to allow for rapid-learning development and excels at advanced and complex course creation. The capabilities of Adobe Captivate are only limited to the user's working knowledge and his/her own creativity. If you are focused on only creating basic interactions, rapid learning, or text-only courses, perhaps another tool may be best suited for this.

The big advantage to Adobe Captivate is it does everything in one spot instead of having to purchase, learn and maintain multiple tools and software. Its disadvantage is it is dated.

Adobe Captivate is well-suited for scenario-based learning and assessment. For example, you can program text boxes and have the learners complete real problems and input real information, which is very helpful. I also think Adobe Captivate is great with embedding videos. There are several options including slide and event videos, embedded films from YouTube, closed captioning and accessibility, and interactive video and slide overlays.

Adobe Captivate can be a powerful tool when used alongside other Adobe products. Furthermore, the seamless connection with Adobe's LMS is a nice bonus. Conversely, integration between Adobe Captivate outputs and LMS' (e.g., Canvas) leaves much to be desired. That being said, LMS integration is on-par with its competitors (e.g., Storyline360). Lastly, it has improved accessibility i.e., section 508 compliant outputs would greatly expand my ability to use Adobe Captivate in my organization.