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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Review of Adobe Captivate
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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
(51-75 of 127)Be captivated
- Never crashes
- Easy once you get familiar with it
- Lots of resources
- More explanations of functions
- Free
- Part of the cloud
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- Very customizable. There is not a color or font that I can't change.
- Quizzes and assessments.
- Ability to upload video and content.
- I like the software simulation, but it's really only good for point-and-click and typing software simulations. In terms of movement within the software, it doesn't do well. I can understand it would be difficult, but it was still something I wished for while I'd been building.
- There are some features that are very hard to find. I stumbled upon the skin editor. I stumbled upon the object manager. I can't tell you how many negative comments I received about the skin before realizing I could change it. I can't tell you how much time I wasted going slide by slide to change objects only to find that I could do it in one go with the object manager.
- Audio and video editing. I create all my video content in Camtasia and then export it to MP4 to load into Adobe Captivate.
Adobe Captivate - A challenging experience
- Software simulation
- Branching
- Customization
- Templates. There seem to be "themes," but Adobe Captivate has a terrible time saving any sort of object preferences which makes it really difficult when a set of courses need to follow branding guidelines. I have to create a basic course and set up all my colors and whatnot and start every course using that.
- Ease of use. It is like pulling teeth sometimes to get Adobe Captivate to do things. You may be able to get it to do it, but it'll be like a dozen or more steps which make creating courses incredibly tedious.
- A bigger focus on software simulation. Adobe Captivate isn't designed for simulation, I get that, and I am happy it does as much as it does. However, it could be better to capture actions and things within a program. For instance, click and drag options and hot-key combinations.
Adobe Captivate is a great tool for interactivity and E-learning
- Interactive functions and movement
- Effects
- HTML for use in browser
- Timeline is great
- Text function is sometimes blurry when exporting graphics into Adobe Captivate stage
- Not as much cross use between other programs besides adobe
Adobe Captivate 2019 is great WBT tool.
- Advanced Actions
- Reading active text on screen
- TTS and Closed caption with Notes
- Text input
- Masters
- Color input
- Bullets animation (as like in PPT) in one text box, not one each bullet.
- Import animations from AE or CP easier. OEM files don't play well with layers or advanced actions.
- Accessibility, 508 compliance could be easier.
- Import Closed captioning created in Premier using the standard industry file format.
- VR and 360 function is not 508 compliant.
- Option to Keep ALT text if updating an image instead of having to replace it. Retyping it is annoying.
- Option to Keep CC applied to a video file if it needs updating. Retyping it is annoying.
- Move asset button away from the library panel. We click it when the library window closes.
- Make updating images as easy as it is for InDesign. Replacing images in Adobe Captivate is difficult. Took me 3 years to figure it out. And it doesn't always work using the "replace" button in the library.
- Make updating PPT easier. It only works some of the time. And relinking it doesn't always work. It is very clunky and touchy when sharing files with other users.
Adobe Captivate has captivated our learning process!
- It is intuitive in creating knowledge check questions.
- Animations can be added with ease.
- Audio is not only easy to add, but extremely easy to edit.
- Training is user-friendly.
- Adding layers to slides to add interaction can be a bit cumbersome to create.
- Drag and drop experiences tend to be slow to respond when adding them to knowledge check questions.
A One STOP LMS for Creator and Consumer
- Differientiates
- Personalize
- Organize Content
- I believe the new Adobe Captivate is providing what I have wanted to see.
Great Product
- Imputing graphics.
- Interactivity.
- User friendly.
- Accessibility.
- Simplifying advanced actions.
- Upload to LMS easier.
Captivate Gives You Control!
- Flexibility in interactions.
- Action Scripting.
- Conversion from PPT to Adobe Captivate.
- More modern user interface.
- More plug & play interactions. For example, pre-made click & reveal buttons.
Publish amazing content with Adobe Captivate
- The immersive feature. Able to change the screen to fit the relevant content.
- Slide templates to customize for your training topic.
- Able to preview before publishing.
- Adding a designed PowerPoint. Some characters, images and animation do not transfer well if they do at that.
- Asset libraries don't have some types of job people characters.
- Training! It would be nice to have a search button on how to do something.
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- Ability to create complex interactions
- Access to Adobe stock images
- Access to training materials for Adobe Captivate
- Adobe Captivate can be very complex which causes some to give up developing in it.
Captivate your Customer with Adobe!
- Software simulation
- PowerPoint conversion and export
- Media (specififcally music) additions
- More intuitive layout
- Better processing
- Bug fixes more quickly
- Collaborative work
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- It allows a variety of animation options that assist in creating more engaging training material.
- Content would lock up. A blank slide would pop-up when trying to complete the training in LMS.
- Unable to preview one slide at a time; We had to preview the entire presentation in HTML.
Adobe Captivate lets you create cool courses
- Interactions
- Quizzes
- Adding to LMS
- Adding Voice Over
- Developing more graphics within the platform
- Editing Videos more easily
- It allows me to create my own ideas without using templates.
- It works well with other Creative Cloud software so that I can create beautiful slides.
- It does what you tell it to do. If it doesn't behave the way you expect, it's almost always a user error. Once you learn how to use it, you have lots of control.
- It's a steep learning curve for new users.
- Learning curve is so steep, those who aren't tech savvy won't even try to learn.
- It doesn't upload PowerPoint well (not that I'd do that, but some would like to).
A great development tool for those who demand more
- It makes producing SCORM-compliant content relatively easy.
- It does not allow for multiple videos within a slide.
- It requires programming expertise for intermediate to advanced functions.
- It can be clunky and non-intuitive.
- It does not feature dynamic text resizing.
- The current version does not integrate with other Adobe products.
- Standardized templates
- Powerful layout and editing features
- Integration with other Adobe tools
- Easy integration with multiple LMS solutions throughout the industry
- User interface
- We need the ability to pull both raster and vector graphics directly into the software from their native applications, ie Photoshop and Illustrator.
- An easier method to create text lists that can be animated individually without creating separate caption boxes
eLearning Experience Creator
- Assessment Management
- Audio and Timeline Management
- Animations
- Image integration management
- Better voice over functionality
- Multi platform preview
- Software training videos.
- Software training assisted simulations.
- Software training unassisted simulations.
- "How to" explainer videos.
Captivate on e-Learning content production
- The published content is produced as a standard product that we can mount everywhere.
- It is easy to use.
- Has a library of preset content types.
- Speed. It's slugish on all computers I has used it, Mac and Windows, the UX feels so slow.
- Outdated UI, looks and behaves like a 10+ years app.
- A better way to control what we see at a certain point of the timeline.
Good, but not great
- It's interactive
- It is more engaging than PowerPoint
- Closed captions need more improvement. One specific issue is that they react significantly to unseen formatting from Microsoft and make it hard to edit/change them without having to take an additional step to paste all text into notepad to clear formatting first. It's way too laborious.
- I wish copying variables and formatting was easier when I'm creating an interactive "click on these buttons" type of experience. I feel like I have to recreate it every time.
- When playing back the videos there is a lot of quirks that are causing issues for the end user experience; formatted items aren't appearing on the screen, timing is delayed...I don't understand why or how those things happen, but when I completely delete and redo them, then it works. It's delayed the rollout of this training by 2 months already.
Works well with others! Captivate offers innovative and integration abilities that others often lack.
- Ability to save for multiple LMS platforms such as Moodle, SCORM and HTML5.
- Easily streams videos from external hosts or internal servers.
- Offers interactive features and branching options to engage user participation.
- Available templates and icons are available to streamline design.
- Tests work better and are better integrated when created outside of Captivate using other LMS software.
- Difficult to share without publishing for others to review or preview.
Great for producing interactive, engaging content
- Interactivity
- Overlaying and recording audio narration.
- Importing content from PowerPoint.
- Compatibility with systems outside Adobe.
Great environment for your learning needs
- Great UX
- Easy Use
- Great Menu
- User experience
- More instructional courses
- More training on specific qualities
Captivate - an overpriced, underdeveloped product
We came back to Captivate after a customer had been using it and asked for help. We were pleased to see some improvements and again started to use it but the product is still full of out-of-date code, an attempt by Adobe to keep flash users.
It does include some AR and VR options but nothing compared to other products in the excellent Adobe range. So we are now being forced to move away again from Captivate.
- Easy to use for a basic user and you can quickly produce a reasonable course.
- Tight integration with LMS systems.
- Good working examples to develop.
- A good user base if a bit long in the tooth!!
- Little coding options (yes you can use some Java script but it needs to be adapted.
- Poor cross-platform integration with other Adobe products.
- Poor slow develop cycle.
- Can be buggy and cause Windows errors.
Not good if you seek to do much with VR or AR and sadly lacks integration with other Adobe products.