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
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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
- 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 86)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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
On the Fence
- The templates and assets make it easier to create a project, instead of having to start from scratch.
- The ability to create interactive courses in Captivate is a great benefit.
- The abundance of available resources helps users learn how to use the program.
- I'm a new Captivate user. Learning how to create interactive courses has been difficult for me.
- Captivate is not especially intuitive. It's almost intimidating for someone who doesn't have a lot of experience in creating elearning courses.
- More templates and assets would be great.
- I wish it was easier to customize the templates to fit the content.
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 is not perfect yet but a widely used and powerfully templated system for content creation.
- Templated creation of learning experiences
- Automation of scores and completion
- Creation of interactive rich media experiences
- Automation of templating and design
- Responsive design
- Integration with third party platforms
- Personalisation with external real time data
Soon to be Captivated
- Interactive features.
- Scenario-based templates.
- Advanced Actions.
- Maybe integrated storyboarding?
- Audio functionalities.
Captivate with learners
- Offers lots of options for interaction.
- Has an extensive library.
- Incorporates audio well.
- Has lots of tools.
- Very complicated interface.
- Requires a lot of training to be proficient.
- Very specific workflows.
Adobe Captivate
- Font.
- Audio.
- Learning tool.
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