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
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 and Ratings
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Reviews
(1-5 of 5)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.
- Quiz settings/tracking.
- SCORM compliance.
- Assets for courses.
- 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.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Themes.
- Fonts.
- Smartshapes.
- Learning Advanced Actions
- VR
- Video
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.
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- 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.
The ins and outs of Adobe Captivate
- Software simulations work very well in Adobe Captivate and are easily captured and editable.
- Outputs a variety of SCORM compliant formats to work with many LMS.
- HTML5 compliant content can be adjusted to be viewed on a variety of devices.
- The quizzing is very lackluster. You cannot review questions without breaking them.
- Animations are clunky and not as easy to set up as with other software
- The workflow in Captivate could stand to be improved. There are limited templating options.
- Course authoring
- 100%10.0
- Course catalog or library
- 80%8.0
- Player/Portal
- 90%9.0
- Learning content
- 100%10.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 100%10.0
- Captivate has a steep learning curve, it takes a while for users to become proficient.
- Travel for training has been nearly eliminated when Captivate has been utilized to create the learning modules.
- SME's are paid more than content developers so it makes sense to have content developers create the content instead of an SME needing to spend the time to get up to speed to use the software or to train in person.
- Orientation
- Software Simulations
- Assessments
- Knowledge Checks
- Surveys
- Creating gamified training modules
- Creating presentations that are more engaging that can be created in powerpoint
- Creating 'easter eggs' in the modules to drive engagement.
- Hoping to branch into 3d goggles with future versions of Captivate
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Importing Powerpoint slides
- Creating Quizzes
- Embedding videos and customizing how they play etc.
- Drag and Drop
- Scripting
- creating templates
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