Adobe Captivate

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Learning experiences that last

Easily design rich and interactive courses. Retain, engage and teach your learners effectively with simulations, roleplays, videos, games, branched paths, widgets and more.

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Explore how you can build professional interactive learning content

  1. Templates
  2. Visual appeal
  3. Widgets
  4. Audio and video
  5. Interactions and quizzes
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Readymade layouts

Readymade layout slides

Get started instantly with readymade slides

Pick slides with pre-built layouts that include text, images, scenarios and questions. Customize every detail to meet your learning objectives.

header-footer content blocks

Brand your slides

Easily add header and footer content blocks to apply brand identity, slide number, table of content and more. Ensure consistency and save time by templatizing the slide design.

deep copy

Deep copy

Duplicate attributes

Easily replicate selected attributes of different objects or components. Quickly copy and paste interactions, animations or appearance of one object to another.

quick start projects

Quick Start Projects

Fasttrack authoring

Choose a real content Quick Start Project from the assets library. Swap out the text and images to make it your own project, in no time.

ready to go slides

Ready-to-go slides

Plug and play your content

Select from hundreds of responsive ready-to-go slides with real content and add them to your project. Easily replace text, characters, images, and videos to create your course.

infinite scroll

Infinite scroll

Unfold your course with scroll

Keep your learners hooked with smooth, endless scrolling. Combine visuals, animations and interactivity to build courses that flow like a story.

design options

Design options

Style it right

Make courses look the way you imagine. Choose from responsive design options for text, images, videos, widgets and more. Nail the look for every device, with a single click.

assets library

Assets library

Dazzle with free assets

Find the perfect asset for your projects, from a library of thousands of royalty-free images, characters, slide templates, icons, audio and videos.

extensive image editing

Extensive image editing

Finetune visuals with ease

Easily crop images, add filters, shadows, overlays. Increase or decrease brightness, contrast, blur and much more. Reduce dependency on graphic designers and get your images ready in minutes.

engaging animations

Engaging animations

Catch attention with movement

Choose a slide object and set a motion effect for its entry, emphasis or exit. Engage learners with stimulating animations like rotation, wobble, flicker and more.

stylish text presets

Stylish text presets

Design clean and readable text

Achieve flawless typography for text content. Choose from a variety of presets to get the perfect look for headlines, subheadings, body text, variables and questions.

image grid

Image grid

Say more with images

Use a grid of images to make your slide look gorgeous. Replace default images with your own and add captions to explain better.

themes

Themes

Establish visual identity

Customize default themes or create your own, to meet brand design requirements. Import and export themes to maintain consistency across projects created by your team.

out of box font support

Out-of-box font support

Polish content with quality fonts

Offer a pleasant and consistent reading experience with out-of-the-box Adobe and Google fonts. Use these premium fonts to create professional and easy-to-follow content.

frag and drop

Drag and drop

Make learning fun

Build interesting games, quizzes and learning modules using the drag and drop widget. Easily map drag items to drop targets with a few clicks.

click to reveal

Click to reveal

Unravel insights on click

Let learners click to uncover content at their pace. Use the click-to-reveal interaction to layer information, reduce clutter, and keep them curious and engaged.

hotspot

Hotspot

Guide learners to discover

Create virtual tours, product walkthroughs and other forms of visual storytelling using hotspot widget. Let your learners explore by clicking different areas on an image.

carousel

Showcase stories effortlessly

Let learners swipe through images to explore details, compare visuals or follow a sequence. Make learning memorable and self-paced by plugging your content into the carousel widget.

tabs

Tabs

Declutter training material

Present long and complex content in clickable tabs format. Eliminate scrolling and allow learners to quickly jump to the relevant information.

cards

Cards

Spark curiosity

Use a flashcard-style interaction to uncover and explain concepts. Mimic the physical act of flipping a card and allow learners to reveal information on the other side.

accordions

Accordion

Organize content to train better

Create step-by-step instructions, FAQs, progressive disclosures that look clean and clutter-free. Help learners grasp concepts easily, as they expand and collapse accordion sections.

timeline

Timeline

Depict chronology

Add and customize the timeline widget to enable learners to effortlessly navigate through historical events, project milestones, or any sequential information.

certificates

Certificates

Reward for success

Celebrate your learners’ accomplishments with formal acknowledgement. Easily generate beautiful and personalized certificates that recognize their achievements.

forced navigation

Forced navigation

Set rules for learner journey

Ensure your learners do not skip lessons to complete course. Restrict navigation to next slide until they finish interacting with every section in your widget.

software simulations

Software Simulations

Train via hands-on simulations

Offer immersive learning experiences in a risk free, controlled environment. In a single session, record system audio, keyboard and mouse activities to create ‘Demo’, ‘Training’ and ‘Assessment’ modules.

interactive videos

Interactive videos

Drive active learning

Add overlays, knowledge checks and feedback in your training videos to turn passive viewers into active learners. Use bookmarks to help them navigate to relevant sections with ease.

overlays

Overlays

Enrich with timely intervention

Insert overlay slides in your course timeline to pause videos and present focused content. Introduce additional information, knowledge checks, or actions that boost learner engagement.

bookmarks

Bookmarks

Draw focus to important information

Add bookmarks to slides or videos to trigger overlays, animations or interactions. Easily capture attention with timely placed content.

video grid

Video grid

Unify narratives and scenarios

Display multiple videos in a grid layout. Enable learners to watch and interact with related content without losing context or feeling disconnected.

native audio editing

Native audio editing

Save time and cost for the right sound

Apply native audio editing on clips from your system, asset library, voice recording, or text-to-speech. Perfect the sound by cutting, pasting, removing background noise, looping, and more.

interactions panel

Interactions panel

Build interactions in minutes

Quickly create games and immersive learning experiences with the simple and intuitive interactions panel. Choose triggers, set conditions, assign actions and test in just a few clicks.

assorted interactive components

Assorted interactive components

Involve learners at every step

Add readily available interactive components like buttons, input fields, radio groups, checkboxes and drop downs, to improve engagement.

table of content

Table of Content

Enable easy navigation

Give clear overview of your training content to learners. Automatically generate TOC, rearrange the topics and get the desired course structure.

playbar

Playbar

Amplify engagement

Add a configurable playbar to your course. Apart from Next and Back buttons, easily show or hide play button, closed captions, TOC, mute options, Tooltips and much more.

multi-state objects

Multi-state objects

Make interaction intuitive

Easily configure states for an object to make it respond visually and contextually. Guide learner behavior by enabling unlimited custom or in-built states for images, text, buttons, and more.

web objects

Web objects

Link learners to live web content

Let learners access online resources without leaving your course. Integrate websites, videos, and documents into your training using the native support for web-based HTML objects.

javascript support

Javascript support

Own your interactions

Use Javascript coding to build advanced interactions for your slides, objects, images, SVGs and much more.

CSV question import template

CSV question import template

Create quizzes faster

Automatically create question slides with CSV Question Import template. Add questions, answers, score, and feedback in a single file. Import it and create the full assessment instantly.

assessments and knowledge checks

Assessments and knowledge checks

Quiz with ease

Evaluate learners’ progress and understanding with thought-provoking quizzes and knowledge checks. Cherry-pick question slides for multiple-choice, true or false, match the columns and other formats.

randomized question pool

Randomized question pool

Ensure a fair assessment

Author a randomized pool of questions to provide a unique testing experience every time your learner takes the test.

easy closed captions

Easy closed captions

Make audio inclusive with subtitles

Add closed captions for audio or video, to meet accessibility standards. Quickly import SRT / VTT files or type in your captions. Effortlessly customize timestamps and appearance of your captions.

text to speech

Text-to-speech

Tune in everyone

Easily turn text into high-quality speech. Select from hundreds of AI powered non-robotic, multi-accent, multi-lingual voice options. Just click once to update the audio for any text edits.

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