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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.
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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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October 12, 2022
Adobe Captivate Review
Courseware development that solves the training needs of multiple departments in the company.
- 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.
- 360 view
- Video insertion
- Take-home license
- In my experience, Adobe Captivate courseware failures in SumTotal LMS have resulted in our aircraft mechanics not meeting qualifications, prohibiting them from repairing aircraft and resulting in delays in releasing the aircraft to service.
- In my experience, it is very difficult getting a hold of an Adobe technical service agent who speaks clear English, causing long delays in resolving problems.
Adobe Captivate is superior in 360 view courseware development. It's outstanding and a delight to work with. That's about it. Unfortunately, Articulate dominates in everything else.
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Training development.
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Adobe Licensing specialist, SumTotal Administration experience.
- Recurrent training on technician qualifications
- Standalone CBT/WBT courses
- Quizzes/Exams
- 360 view
- When vaporware becomes real-ware, our leadership will be able to re-consider the product for 2023.
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Consider showing us a comparison table of competitor products and we can put rankings on features/functions (Adobe Captivate, Storyline 360, Rise 360, etc).
- Implemented in-house
- Course lockups in SumTotal LMS
I actually don't know if our level of support is "premium" or not. Sadly, in my opinion, Adobe should not be asking this question. ALL support should be "premium."
Yes
No - not in a timely fashion. In my experience, Adobe Captivate stopped working across the enterprise a little over a year ago and throughout the users in the Adobe Captivate forums. In my experience, Adobe's first response was to blame Microsoft's update. Then later, it became evident there was something wrong with Adobe's license server. We never liked how Adobe handled a system-wide outage like that.
Right now - taking the risk of asking users at this conference for frank reviews and opinions of the product. This is the most attention I've gotten from Adobe regarding what I think about the product, and I appreciate it very much.
- 360 View - love it!
- Timeline
- Bullet color animation effects
- SCORM settings
October 07, 2022
Adobe Captivate - Advanced Tool
Adobe Captivate is our authoring tool for e-Learning. We use this to create e-Learning content to deploy to employed and non-employee staff.
- Interactive learning.
- Flexibility with Advanced Actions.
- Access to assets.
- More animation options.
- Better text to voice options.
- Responsive design is challenging to work with.
- Quiz settings/tracking.
- SCORM compliance.
- Assets for courses.
I've only ever authored in Adobe Captivate.
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Instructional Design and Epic Training.
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IT Team for subscription and installation, ID Team to support other trainers.
- eLearning development.
- Flexible tool to meet learning needs.
- Cloud has multiple other Adobe products to support.
- e-Learning
- Interactive video
- VR
- Quick e-Learning development.
- Microlearnings.
No
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
We have paid subscriptions for the Cloud and Captivate, so all tools together allows for limitless options.
I wouldn't.
No
No
- Themes.
- Fonts.
- Smartshapes.
- Learning Advanced Actions
- VR
- Video
No
November 28, 2018
Why I keep using Adobe Captivate
We utilize Adobe Captivate to produce training modules for our proprietary system for new customers to learn how to use it. Captivate helps by providing a quick and easy utility that can create amazing videos with no frustration. I love that there are deployment options to host the produced video on different platforms and includes incorporating LMS such as SCORM with a full scoring quiz at the end. Captivate also makes it very easy to address the sounds in the videos and mouse clicks as well as the audio you want the audience to hear.
- Easy learning curve. Captivate makes it easy for a new user to pick it up and understand where to begin. Adobe, in general, does this very well and Captivate is no exception. When you begin using Captivate, many of the tasks to create a video come naturally as things are laid out in a way that makes sense.
- Embedding with LMS (Learning Management Systems). Adobe has made it very easy to deploy your produced video to any of the popular LMS's available. Captivate also gives you a very easy way of including a SCORM score for any quizzes that must be passed at the end of the video in order to proceed to the next video.
- Capturing Audio has never been easier. With Captivate you can easily add voice-over audio that you can record directly inside of Captivate, or import a pre-recorded audio clip. You can import sounds from other sources for effects in the video and Captivate already includes all of the commonly used sounds for mouse-clicks, error sounds, etc.
- While Captivate does an amazing job at recording movement of mouse and keystrokes on the screen, it would be great to have the ability to capture the same items via a plugin to 3rd party software (Outlook, Firefox, or other Adobe applications). The results would be that while working in another application and realizing that someone might want a quick tutorial on something, rather than launching Captivate, one could use the plugin to quickly capture the screen and mouse movement.
- Configuring the LMS to have quizzes at the end and have a passing score could use an enhancement. While it works great, it is not the most straight-forward setup there is. One finds themselves searching online for solutions and answers how to accomplish certain setup steps for LMS or SCORM.
- It would be nice to be able to have the control of Captivate on a 2nd or 3rd monitor that is not being captured, to be able to see more of the real estate of your screen that you are capturing.
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- While using Captivate, our organization has decreased training times from 6 days when done face-to-face, down to 4 days when done via Captivate training modules. The ROI thereby has been established at a yearly rate of ~2 months. In just a 2 month period each year, we are averaging a new employee, which is trained in 4 days rather than 6 days, causing the difference in overhead for 2 days to easily pay for the yearly cost of Captivate.
- Another positive impact Captivate has had on our company is that it provided us the ability (and idea) to create help videos, where normally in a software you have a question mark (?) to click on for help, a text document would open to the FAQ's or User Manual. In our case, it set us ahead of any competition by creating short videos when the user clicks on the question mark and a few-second-long video would play explaining the item they were clicking on.
I also used AnalogX Capture, but this survey would not allow me to enter it as a competitive software as they do not have it in their list.
Captivate is the best. Simply put, no one stands up to them. The amount of thought put in to Captivate is beyond that of any other application. Adobe has spent much time making it sync with other Adobe apps and makes it very easy to use together. The ability to include your quizzes right from the software and control the LMS is great. All the capturing tools built in to Captivate make it so much easier to use when you are just starting to learn the product and when you are an advanced professional.
Captivate is the best. Simply put, no one stands up to them. The amount of thought put in to Captivate is beyond that of any other application. Adobe has spent much time making it sync with other Adobe apps and makes it very easy to use together. The ability to include your quizzes right from the software and control the LMS is great. All the capturing tools built in to Captivate make it so much easier to use when you are just starting to learn the product and when you are an advanced professional.
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I have an Adobe Creative Cloud subscription on top of the Adobe Captivate subscription. This allowed me to contact the support team directly with Creative Cloud, they then have a direct line to Captivate to get me a tech immediately. This provides the same support as their Premium Helpdesk Support, but without having to pay extra for it. Is it worth it to pay? Well...I am 50/50 on that because the support you get is not the best. So when you pay for something, you expect the best support. Being what it is, I view it as more of an included support and should not be an additional charge.
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There was an issue with a SCORM score being returned as false when the timeout threshhold was reached for the amount of time a person had to answer a question on the quiz. Adobe was able to identify the issue...but failed to resolve it. It was naturally resolved in the next version of Captivate, offering no solution to the actual bug. It may have been ignored or discarded as not able to be resolved...but I never heard back after that.
Yes. When I first started out using Articulate Studio and was publishing to a proprietary LMS, we had major issues getting everything talking together. Adobe was willing to get an engineer online with us, whom spent a lot of time with us to learn how our system worked in order to make a couple changes in the SCORM system in Captivate in order to get it all working. This caused Adobe to publish a hot-fix update that was an optional download. When we installed it, everything was fixed and worked perfectly. I've never known another company to involve an engineer at this level to work with a single customer (my company). Awesome job!
November 22, 2017
Adobe Captivate - eLearning authoring tool
We are transforming our training program from completely in-person to a blended learning environment to engage our people better, while saving on the expense of travel. We are spread out over a 300 mile span, making geography a challenge. Adobe Captivate allows us to deliver content on the learner's term, from their own office.
- Adobe Captivate can integrate current PowerPoint presentation, and transform them into eLearning curriculum.
- Publishing an Adobe Captivate project is simple.
- Adobe Captivate uses built-in interactions to engage the learner, making the content easier to remember.
- Adobe Captivate does not allow for great customization overall. For example, you cannot change the default font, causing a lot of wasted time changing the font choice.
- Creating engaging interactions could be a simpler process.
- A customizable Quick Access Toolbar would be quite useful.
- Less travel expense.
- More access to training courses, more impact on the frontline.
- Only $29.99 a month, it can be used when necessary, keeping overall cost low.
Articulate 360 offers a both Storyline and Rise as eLearning authoring tools, as well as a Stock Library with over 100,000 images for $1200/year. Adobe Captivate is a stand alone product for $30/month. If you are only using eLearning authoring tools the cost is significantly less. If you are looking at the broader suite of software, Articulate 360 does offer two eLearning authoring tools and a Stock Library, in addition to 3 other program, for a total of 5. For the same cost, I purchased Adobe Captivate along with the entire Adobe Creative Cloud suite (27 programs), including Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, etc.. This suite offers a much broader range of design, allowing for content to be created and engaged in many more ways.
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Training and Development. We have been able to broaden our training footprint drastically through the integration of Adobe Captivate. Creating quick Microlearnings allow managers to assign quick trainings to their team on very specific topics. We have been able to set clear expectations for the company through a 5 minute Microlearning. This is huge for ensuring the organization is moving in the same direction.
I am the primary support for Adobe Captivate. I function mainly in how-to scenarios. If there is an issue with Adobe Captivate, we utilize their support. They have been quite helpful every time support has been required. They are thorough and efficient. They ensure the issues are resolved and stay connected until then.
- Replacing in class training with eLearning
- Implementing microlearning for topics of interest
- Software simulations
- Microlearning
- Software simulation open a lot of options
- "Board Game" eLearning
- Reusable course outlines
- Further department reach
- Available for customers
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Adobe Captivate integrates with the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, for a very reasonable price. This made the choice for Adobe Captivate very simple. Other eLearning authoring tools offered a few things that Captivate did not, but with the backing of the Creative Cloud and the very low price point, Adobe Captivate was the strongest option.
I do not think that I would change my evaluation process. I utilized the free 30-day trial for both software suites that I was evaluating. I vetted them through our Risk Assessment Team to ensure security is tight. I sought opinions from other users, and read reviews. Being able to try them both helped me make my decision.
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I could not access the Assets tab of Adobe Captivate. I called in for support, they ran through the settings to ensure everything was installed properly. I received frequent email updates and phone calls letting me know what they were doing to find a resolution. I ended up checking with my IT to find the issue was on our end. Adobe made sure everything was working properly, even after it was resolved.
- Drag and drop interactions
- Converting a shape to a button
- Rollover Caption
- State views
- Timing of buttons
- Simple settings such as default font
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