Adobe Captivate

"Transform presentations into interactive eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5.5"


Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 software is the industry-leading elearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining interactive eLearning content. Import your existing Microsoft PowerPoint content and make it more engaging with rich media, application simulations, branching scenarios, and quizzes. Easily publish to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems and track key performance metrics.

Features

Rapid eLearning content development

Easily transform presentations into interactive eLearning content using a roundtrip Microsoft PowerPoint workflow, an intuitive user interface, and out-of-the-box functionalities.

• Roundtrip PowerPoint workflow
Leverage existing PowerPoint slides in your projects. Import slides with audio and interactivity, easily update the content, and keep your PowerPoint and Adobe Captivate files in sync with the dynamically linked import option.

• Optimized user interface
Get going faster, do the job in fewer steps, and improve the overall authoring experience with the Property inspector, a multiple document interface, and personalized workspaces.

• Master Slides
Use Master Slides to easily create and maintain well-formatted and consistent-looking content that meets corporate guidelines.

• Object Styles
Define styles and apply them to selected objects for quick and consistent formatting across a project.

More effective collaboration

Collaborate more efficiently by leveraging Acrobat.com. Enable learner collaboration using the Twitter widget from Adobe.

• Hosting and collaboration via Acrobat.com
Host published or in-progress eLearning projects in the cloud using Acrobat.com* and share them with learners and reviewers, who can access them from virtually anywhere.

• Real-time reviewing of SWF files
Accelerate content creation cycles by letting reviewers add comments to your SWF files while playing them without having Adobe® Captivate® installed.

• Direct access to Adobe resources
Reach out to Adobe support, access social media forums, and receive timely updates from the Adobe Captivate product team, all from within Adobe Captivate.

• In-context learner collaboration via Twitter
Leverage the Twitter widget from Adobe to create courses that let learners collaborate with one another as well as the author by simply logging in to their Twitter accounts. They can ask questions, get answers, and access preexisting discussions

Easy creation of interactive eLearning experiences

Generate robust software simulations with multiple learning modes in a single recording session.

• Automatic screen capture with smart full-motion recording
Automatically record all your actions, including mouse movements and keyboard activity, while using any software application. Full-motion recording automatically switches on and off for drag-and-drop actions.

• Multimode recording for screen capture
Generate robust software simulations with multiple learning modes in a single recording session, including a demonstration of the procedure, a simulation for practicing the steps, and an assessment.

• Support for right-clicking in simulations
Maintain realism in your software training content by simulating right-clicking as well as left-clicking and double-clicking.

• AutoText Captions
Create text captions that describe concepts and screen actions, or have Adobe Captivate software automatically add them during recording. Customize the appearance, size, orientation, position, and display speed of captions.

Rich multimedia to attract learners

Import video in popular formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize video with selected slides. Turn text into high-quality speech with a single click. Create customized animations without programming by combining effects like linear motion, rotation, and glow attractive set of components.

• Gradients, shadows, and rotations
Make your slides and objects more attractive with color gradients. Select a preset shadow, or define one, to add depth to objects. Use the rotate handle to easily turn and flip objects.

• Multivideo support and synchronization
Import video in a wide variety of formats (AVI, MOV, FLV, MPEG) and synchronize it with the project, slide, or set of slides.

• Audio recording and editing
Simultaneously record narration and capture screen motion, and synchronize audio with slides and timed objects. Edit audio to correct mistakes and pauses, add an external track, or attach sound effects or narration to individual objects.

• Rich animation effects
Create rich object animations within Adobe Captivate 5.5 by combining predefined effects like straight-line motion, rotation, and glow. For added impact, seamlessly import custom animation effects from Adobe Flash® Professional software.

Easy quizzing

Work in an improved quiz review area that makes evaluation simpler and faster. Create eye-catching quizzes with new out-of the-box templates and evaluate quiz results more conveniently.

• Attractive out-of-the-box quizzing
Create eye-catching quizzes with new out-of the-box quiz templates and an attractive set of components.Work in an improved quiz review area that makes evaluation simpler and faster.

• Selection from multiple question types
Create quizzes even faster thanks to a friendly new user interface and the ability to insert multiple question types in one pass.

• Randomized quizzing and question pools
Choose from customizable quiz templates such as Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank, improve learner assessments by randomly drawing questions from a set of question pools, and more.

• Score interpretation
Interpret scores through a SCORM 1.2– and SCORM 2004–certified LMS, integrate Adobe Captivate with the Questionmark Perception tool to create simulation-based assessments, or use Adobe TM Training to measure content effectiveness.

Delivery virtually anywhere

Publish your projects in multiple formats (MP4, SWF, EXE or PDF) to the web, desktops, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, iOS devices, and leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems. Deliver content virtually anywhere.

• Multiformat publishing
Publish your projects in multiple formats (MP4, SWF, EXE or PDF) to the web, desktops, notebooks, tablets, smartphones, iOS devices, and leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs.

• Publishing to tablets, smartphones, and iOS devices
Publish in the widely accepted MP4 format for high-quality video streaming, podcasts, and video tutorials that can play on Android TM based tablets, iOS and smartphones.

• Single-click publishing to YouTube
Create a project using preset dimensions, and use the new direct workflow to publish it to YouTube with a single click.

• PDF publishing
Bring text-based instructional content to life by embedding Adobe Captivate movies in Adobe PDF files. Easily create PDF Portfolios that bring together files of varying formats in a single PDF document, complete with navigation and a customized look and feel.

Scoring, Tracking and Reporting

Satisfy basic evaluation needs at no extra cost by tracking and reporting key performance metrics, like average score and pass or fail, without having to invest in an LMS.

• Comprehensive scoring
Capture scoring data from all interactive elements, including click boxes, text entry boxes, buttons, and quizzes.

• Tracking and reporting
Satisfy basic evaluation needs at no extra cost by tracking and reporting key performance metrics, like average score and pass or fail, without having to invest in an LMS.

• SCORM/AICC compliance (LMS integration)
Export scoring data in a SCORM- and AICC-compliant format for use with an LMS. Adobe Captivate content is SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 certified and automatically generates the manifest file required for an LMS to interpret the data.