Overview Adobe Captivate 12

What is Adobe Captivate?

Adobe Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool used to create interactive courses, software simulations, responsive learning content, and interactive videos for online education and training. It provides design options, ready-to-use assets, and a widget gallery to help users build engaging learning experiences without needing to be programmers.

The All-New Adobe Captivate 12

The new Adobe Captivate is a next-generation eLearning authoring tool that blends power and ease of use. With a sleek, intuitive interface and intelligent automation, you can design professional, responsive, and engaging courses faster than ever before.

Jump right in with ready-to-use slides, design assets, and visually appealing templates. Explore the Widget Gallery for immersive interactivity, and author once to deliver content that automatically adapts to any screen size.

Key Features

Modern User Interface

Built with Adobe’s design philosophy, the new Captivate interface is modern, intuitive, and user-friendly. Logical layouts, efficient navigation, and simplified workflows help you create content quickly and precisely.

Responsive by Default

Courses automatically adjust layouts, interactions, and visuals to fit any device or orientation—desktop, tablet, or mobile—for a seamless learner experience everywhere.

Enhanced Software Simulations

Record screen actions—mouse clicks, keyboard input, and system interactions—and instantly turn them into interactive software simulations.

Interactive Learning Made Easy

Use the Simplified Interactions Panel to add buttons, hotspots, drag-and-drop activities, branching scenarios, conditional logic, and more. From simple interactions to complex simulations, Captivate gives you full control.

Accessibility

Meet compliance standards like Section 508 and WCAG 2.0 with built-in accessibility features. Add text equivalents, closed captions, and keyboard navigation to create inclusive learning for all.

Visual Design Options

Choose from polished layouts, balanced compositions, and professional templates to make your courses visually captivating.

Closed Captions

Quickly add and control captions for audio or video on the timeline. Adjust style and placement to ensure clarity and accessibility.

Text-to-Speech & Audio Editing

Turn text into high-quality, multilingual narration with natural voices. Edit audio directly within Captivate—cut, loop, reduce noise, or add voiceovers—without relying on external tools.

Infinite Scroll

Eliminate disruptive slide-by-slide navigation. Create continuous, scrollable courses with animations, visuals, and interactivity to boost learner engagement and completion rates.

Image Editing

Crop, filter, and adjust images without leaving Captivate. Add eye-catching animations like rotation, stretch, swirl, or wobble to bring content to life.

Typography & Fonts

Access professional text presets for headlines, subheadings, and body text. Use Google Fonts directly in Captivate for consistent, modern typography across your courses.

Media Enhancements

• Image Grids: Insert grids, swap images, and add captions in seconds.
• SVG Support: Import scalable vector graphics without losing quality.
• Overlay Slides & Bookmarks: Add overlays, timed animations, and navigation aids to enrich learning experiences.

Widget Gallery

Engage learners with visually appealing widgets and build advanced interactions without coding.

Assessments & Knowledge Checks

Choose from multiple question types—MCQs, true/false, matching, sequencing, and more—to measure learner progress.

Advanced Interactivity

Multi-state Objects: Add unlimited custom states to text, images, and buttons.

JavaScript Support: Extend functionality with custom coding for advanced interactions.

Why Choose the New Adobe Captivate 12?

With its intuitive design, responsive by default architecture, and a powerful suite of authoring tools, Adobe Captivate makes it simple to create immersive, accessible, and scalable eLearning experiences. Whether you’re building simulations, product training, or interactive storytelling, Captivate empowers you to deliver professional-grade learning at speed and scale.

✨ In short: The all-new Adobe Captivate helps you author faster, design smarter, and deliver everywhere.

Out-of-box Assets, Interactions, and Quizzing

Text-to-speech, quiz slides, and a host of plug-and-play interactions, such as drag-and-drop and click-and-reveal, that you can customize simply by swapping in your images and replacing the text. Check also the My Software Deals Blog and learn "10 Interesting Quiz Features of Adobe Captivate"