Adobe Captivate 6 / Features

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.

Accelerate content creation cycles by letting reviewers add comments to your SWF files while playing them without having Adobe® Captivate® installed.

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

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

Access a large repository of Help content, generated by Adobe and the user community at large, using an Adobe AIR® application.

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.

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.

Insert aesthetically designed interactive elements to eLearning content with just a click. Simply select from a wide range of stunning out-of-the-box interactions like Process Cycle, Glossary, Accordion, Pyramid, Animated Rollover, and more, customize the content and appearance, and you’re done.

Tell your eLearning story more effectively using human characters. Select from a wide range of out-of-the-box actors making various gestures to give your eLearning a more personal touch. Set them against relevant backgrounds to make your scenarios look more realistic.

Easily create high-quality product demos with the new capture-as-a-video workflow. Edit video, and add transitions, smart shapes, audio, and captions. Insert a talking head or another video in a picture-in-picture format. Publish it to YouTube with a single click.

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

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.

Create realistic branching scenarios without programming. Easily add buttons, click boxes, text boxes, and more interactive elements to solicit responses from learners. Specify the type of event you want to associate with a particular response.

Visually map out different learner paths. Collapse and expand sections of a simulation, and create complex scenarios by automatically branching at the end of slides based on a learner's choice at the beginning of the simulation.

Increase training effectiveness by adding interactive simulations to Adobe Presenter or Adobe Connect™ software. Every participant can practice simulations during live events or recorded presentations.

 Use Variables to personalize the learning experience by using learner-provided data, such as the learner’s name, throughout a scenario. Use Advanced Actions to further configure and modify the learning experience by enabling conditional actions, or more than one action in an interaction.

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

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.

Make your eLearning more personal by providing audio responses in content and quizzes. Record voice, convert text to speech, or import external sounds, and play them back when learners click on an object.

Keep learners tuned in to your content thanks to automatic voice-over functionality that turns text into high-quality speech in a few clicks. Need to change the text? Just click once to update the audio.

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.

Add a wide range of shapes, including circles, rectangles, triangles, callouts, arrows, lines, banners, and flowchart symbols, to your eLearning content. Customize them and convert them into buttons.

Add a new dimension to text, images, and even videos using reflections.

Group a set of smart shapes, images, or other objects so that you can work with them collectively. Resize, rotate, time, flip, move, or format all the objects in the group as if they were a single object.

Insert text hyperlinks to direct learners to other sections of the course or external sources for more information. 

Improve the appearance and readability of text by adding margins and custom bullets.

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.

Get a larger set of prebuilt widgets, playbars, skins, stock animations, images, text captions, and buttons with superior aesthetics and usability.

Preserve layers in imported Adobe Photoshop® (PSD) files so you can edit or animate individual layers in Adobe Captivate for just the right effect. (Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended software is available separately and as part of Adobe eLearning Suite 2 and later software.)

Edit and enhance audio files in Adobe Audition CS6 software and then bring them back into Adobe Captivate.

Use the new panning motion while recording to draw attention to specific areas in an application and to optimize your content for playback on even the smallest mobile device screens.

Focus attention by zooming into different parts of the screen. Simply magnify a chosen area of the screen or place a different image into the zoom area.

Provide additional just-in-time information on Adobe Captivate slides by displaying rich media content such as images, text, audio, and video when the learner moves the mouse over the hot spot.

Use rollover effects to offer additional information or to provide hints and tips during a lesson. The rollover images and captions will appear when the learner rolls the mouse over the specified area of the slide.

Place customizable playback controls outside the simulation and customize the frame color to your needs. You can even create a table of contents for large projects.

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. 

Use pre-tests to assess the knowledge, skill level, or training needs of individual learners. Based on the results, direct learners to the appropriate section, and quiz them at the end to gauge what they have learned.

Assign a score to each correct option when a question has more than one correct answer. Discourage guesswork by penalizing learners for wrong answers.

Make eLearning content more effective and improve the percentage of successful outcomes using the all-new remedial workflow. When answering a quiz question incorrectly, let learners revisit the relevant section, understand the concept correctly, and retry the question.

Create quizzes quickly with an intuitive user interface and the ability to insert multiple question types in one pass.

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.

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™ Training to measure content effectiveness.

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.

Deliver eLearning on the go. Now publish eLearning content as HTML5, and take your courses to mobile devices. Send scoring data to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and track learner progress.

Take your eLearning to mobile iDevices. Create interactive eLearning content in a jiffy using the iPad and iPhone presets. Publish content as HTML5, for access using browsers on iPads and iPhones.

Allow learners to pause and resume linear courses across devices. By publishing eLearning content as both SWF and HTML5, learners can begin the course on either their desktop or mobile device, pause it, and then resume it on the same or another device.

Output your project in Microsoft Word format to create complete printed training handouts.

Create simulations and demonstrations that help meet Section 508 accessibility standards. Define text equivalents for a single slide or an entire movie, add animations without causing constant refresh for screen reader users, insert clickable areas that allow keyboard access, and more.

Take advantage of ActionScript® 3.0 publishing to bring content created with Adobe Flash Builder® 4 and later software (available separately) into your Adobe Captivate projects and to embed Adobe® Captivate® movies in content created using Flash Builder.

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

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.

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

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.

Rest assured that your scoring data will integrate smoothly with your Learning Management System (LMS). Publish your courses effortlessly to leading LMSs like Moodle, Blackboard, Plateau, Saba, and SumTotal.