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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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Adobe Captivate - Software Simulations and Video Demos
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Create your first video demo with Adobe Captivate (2017 Release)
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Adobe Captivate Animated Text - brief how to and samples
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Adobe Captivate Tutorial - Pan, Zoom, Picture-in-Picture - Captivate Training in Los Angeles
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HOW TO Record Video Demo with Adobe Captivate
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Demo PowerPoint to Captivate Demo
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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 |
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Operating Systems | Windows, Mac |
Mobile Application | No |
Frequently Asked Questions
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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The most common users of Adobe Captivate are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Rating: 6 out of 10
March 13, 2025
Vetted Review
Verified User
4 years of experience
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.
Best tool on the market for software demonstrations and simulations
Rating: 9 out of 10
June 29, 2024
GN
Vetted Review
Verified User
17 years of experience
Adobe Captivate outshines all of these other tools -Camtasia, Snagit, Powtoons, After Effects, PowerPoint - when it comes to software demonstrations, simulations and/or training videos that contain software demonstrations ( hybrid video containing software demonstrations). But for other types of video, it is less useful, depending on the video type. I tend to use it like I use a power drill - it's a top-of-the-line tool for certain jobs but less useful for others.
Captivate is the #1 tool for eLearning- Hands Down
Rating: 10 out of 10
October 06, 2022
CM
Vetted Review
Verified User
8 years of experience
Articulate Storyline has less than impressive graphic editing capabilities, no access to the library, and a quirky button set to feature. Their free trial is very limited access to anything in Storyline 360 assets.
Great for Intermediate-Level Instructional Designers!
Rating: 7 out of 10
October 05, 2022
EW
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
I think that Articulate360 is more user-friendly and has a cleaner, more updated look. If you can edit a PDF, then you can use Articulate 360. Adobe Captivate may be more challenging for the designer, but it has more features. We chose Adobe Captivate because we want the option to create interactive learning environments. Adobe Captivate plays well with the other Adobe design products including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premier. Additionally, Adoe Captivate is highly compatible with Cornerstone, our preferred Learning Management Systems.
Adobe Captivate - A challenging experience
Rating: 7 out of 10
October 05, 2022
CH
Vetted Review
Verified User
1 year of experience
Compared to a program like PowerPoint, Adobe Captivate is much more robust but also more complicated. However, I find thinking of Adobe Captivate as "PowerPoint on steroids" is a good way of thinking about the program. If you can build a PP slide deck, you can probably build a basic Adobe Captivate course. I also used Flash in the distant past, and in comparison, I feel like Adobe Captivate is MUCH LESS intimidating than Flash was, so that's a major positive.