Captivate! It didn't quite Cap-tivate my interest.
May 17, 2018
Captivate! It didn't quite Cap-tivate my interest.
Score 5 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate was a software program that I used in my graduate degree class. This course was designed for students to use Captivate authoring tool for the development of learning content. We were tasked to use the A.D.D.I.E. model and work with an SME on our project and insert/implement all of our work by using Captivate to build the course content/material.
- Captivate allows the user the ability to create a drag n drop method within your presentation. I was able to successfully incorporate an activity within my course module that would allow the learner the chance to test their knowledge by dragging and dropping items into the correct sections. I found that to be nice and pretty seamless.
- Captivate allows the user to create and include states and actions. I think this is important because it allows for the creator to make engaging and interactive slides that will hopefully keep the learner motivate and engaged in the material.
- Captivate has the options of demo and simulation slide presentations. I found these to be useful within the course I was building because it prevented me from having to complete extra steps of using a different video caption software tool then having to upload it into Captivate. This feature was already included within Captivate which made it nice and easy to access and incorporate into my presentation.
- Captivate can stagnate and is less user-friendly when it comes to adding animations and certain transitions on your presentation.
- I found that Captivate wasn't always so user-friendly when it came to using the Demo presentation feature. There were times when I'd have to re-record my steps because for some reason it wasn't accepting certain clicks and/or it would capture things I didn't want it to capture.
- I found myself getting frustrated a lot when using Captivate because some of the things that I was used to clicking/creating on a different software tool (that was more user-friendly) and the results I was looking for caused me to take extra steps when using Captivate.
- I used Captivate as a student in graduate school and I would say that I am not planning to upgrade my student registration when it's over next year.
Adobe Captivate is an okay software program, but it is not something I'd pick over Articulate Storyline or Articulate 360. I only selected Captivate because it was mandatory for my course plus I wanted to explore it to find out how it worked. But after using it, I didn't find it to be as appealing as I thought. It's not a horrible software tool, it has its perks but it's just not as user-friendly as I'd hoped it would be.