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Performance Overview
Overall Rating 92%
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Great for direct publishing for web, makes elearning easy

Mar 24, 2019

Overall Rating 92%
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What do you like best? A great feature of Adobe Captivate is the ability to retain text, shapes, animations and media files in ppt projects to captivate and publish them to HTML5. These can be then published to Captivate prime LMS as well. For mobile and other devices, it provides scalable support.
What do you dislike? Publishing to HTML5 for a responsive project can take some extra steps and time. User interface can be improved
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Grace B.

Industry : Elearning | Company size : 11-50 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Media and Communication | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

Customizations available. For multiple devices....

Mar 24, 2019

Overall Rating 95%
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What do you like best? Learners use multiple devices for elearning. The options to ensure responsiveness on different devices is good. The VR features are great as well.
What do you dislike? Editing the responsiveness section for each device should be made easier. otherwise its a good tool for companies where learning is diverse.
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Industry : Elearning | Company size : 11-50 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Information Technology | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User

Accessibility Support is great. Inclusion important in elearning.

Mar 23, 2019

Overall Rating 92%
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What do you like best? Using Captivate, you can ensure that your content is accessible to everyone by defining text equivalents and inserting clickable areas with keyboard access and more.
What do you dislike? If you’re looking at shared course creation between a team, it may a little difficult to cordinate..
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Carmen F.

Industry : Logistics and Supply Chain | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Administrative | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

Good for creating courses comes with great features

Mar 23, 2019

Overall Rating 96%
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What do you like best? It lets us capture all on-screen activities and create complex branching scenarios. Can make responsive motion effects too. Great tool
What do you dislike? Content updation, reviews and sharing, takes time especially for different versions. some version control is required.
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Industry : Staffing and Recruiting | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Administrative | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator, Member of the procurement team

Captivate exceeds expectations with its new features

Mar 22, 2019

Overall Rating 90%
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What do you like best? For creating simulations and demos, screen grabs and recordings are very important. The options for quick and decent quality recordings and import are available in just a few click. These are important to make courses interactive and easy to learn.
What do you dislike? When the work involves heavy media files, storage and sharing is very important. Cloud storage instead of system hard drive will be good.
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David L.

Industry : Computer & Network Security | Company size : 5,001-10,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Operations | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User

Abundance of options for making interactive elearning courses.

Mar 22, 2019

Overall Rating 94%
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What do you like best? While making courses in captivate, there are options to add overlay slides. These are very useful for quick info or checks during the course progress to keep the learning interactive.
What do you dislike? Better version control is needed for moving courses from one version to another for smooth course creation
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Zhang W.

Industry : Oil & Energy | Company size : 501-1,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Media and Communication | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

An impressive course creation tool with easy viewing features

Mar 22, 2019

Overall Rating 89%
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What do you like best? Adobe Captivate has some really useful features like a live preview. Using QR codes one can see the project preview from a mobile device. Publishing to an LMS also is easy.
What do you dislike? It needs memory to install and run and memory needs to be for monitored so there is enough space for the project files.
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Dorcas P.

Industry : Media Production | Company size : 501-1,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Operations | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User, Administrator

High levels of accessibility standards, easy for learners with special needs.

Mar 22, 2019

Overall Rating 95%
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What do you like best? Adobe Captivate is well suited for course creation for all types of learners. Especially in terms of accessibility standards. It allows creating simulations that enable adherence to web content accessibility standards for learners with auditory, visual, speech and cognitive disabilities etc.. It is an truly an inclusive course authoring tool.
What do you dislike? Inbuilt text to speech and other easy accessibility features like audio triggers should be made available.
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Industry : Education - Secondary | Company size : 51-200 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Administrative | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User, Administrator, Member of the procurement team

It integrates well and well knit with other Adobe tools

Mar 20, 2019

Overall Rating 95%
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What do you like best? There are really efficient features like bookmarking, linking of videos from Youtube etc.. On those overlays and knowledge check blurbs can be added to make learning interactive and easy.
What do you dislike? If you are not familiar with Adobe interafaces in general, it may take time to master this tool. The advanced actions sections can take even more time to master.
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Industry : Media Production | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Manager | Focus : Creative | Experience using the software : Less than 6 months as User, Administrator

Responsive fluid box features are great for next gen mobile learning design

Mar 20, 2019

Overall Rating 91%
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What do you like best? For a good learner experience, the courses should be able to auto adjust to different devices. Interface is very important. The fluid boxes in Captivate does that job well. By defining a few parameters, it can easily be adopted to different devices. Predefinied options are there too to give a truly responsive experience.
What do you dislike? Some of the interface in the panels needs to look more user friendly. Too much of grey can make it seem dull.
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Raymond S.

Industry : Retail | Company size : 1,001-5,000 | Level : Consultant | Focus : Administrative | Experience using the software : Free Trial as User