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
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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
(1-5 of 5)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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- Course lockups in SumTotal LMS
- 360 View - love it!
- Timeline
- Bullet color animation effects
- SCORM settings
Great Product
- Imputing graphics.
- Interactivity.
- User friendly.
- Accessibility.
- Simplifying advanced actions.
- Upload to LMS easier.
- Easy to use.
- Training available.
- ROI - positive.
- Accessibility issues- negative.
- Client and staff training.
- na
- na
- Product Reputation
- Don't know
- Training
- No Training
- advanced features
- accessibility issues
- Adobe illustrator
- vyond
- unsure
- File import/export
- Single Signon
- Javascript widgets
- unsure
- more accessibility
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.
- Course authoring
- 70%7.0
- Course catalog or library
- 10%1.0
- Player/Portal
- 20%2.0
- Learning content
- 40%4.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 20%2.0
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 50%5.0
- Social learning
- 10%1.0
- Poor return on investment compared to other Adobe products. You pay a lot for very little.
- Good short develop time.
- Frustrating on limitations.
- Develop a course like a PowerPoint in minutes.
- Create good visual product.
- Develop certificates.
- Get results out without an LMS.
Why I keep using Adobe Captivate
- 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.
- Course authoring
- 80%8.0
- Course catalog or library
- 90%9.0
- Player/Portal
- 100%10.0
- Learning content
- 100%10.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 90%9.0
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 90%9.0
- Social learning
- 80%8.0
- 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.
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.
Adobe Captivate - eLearning authoring tool
- 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.
- 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
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Drag and drop interactions
- Converting a shape to a button
- Rollover Caption
- State views
- Timing of buttons
- Simple settings such as default font