Adobe Captivate Changelog

What's new in Adobe Captivate 2023 12.1.0.16

Aug 10, 2023
  • What is the all-new Adobe Captivate:
  • Introducing the all-new Adobe Captivate – the new generation eLearning authoring tool, which incomparably blends power with ease-of-use. Dive right in to your first interactive content, as you easily maneuver and master the brand-new intuitive user interface. Choose from an assortment of beautiful design options, ready-to-go slides and assets to quickly create professional-grade courses. Say hello to the widget gallery which empowers you to design immersive learning experiences in an instant. Author only once, and see your content automatically adapt to different screen sizes.
  • Modern User Interface:
  • Designed using Adobe's design philosophy, the new Adobe Captivate has a modern and user-friendly interface that uses efficient layouts, logical organization of features, and intuitive navigation patterns to enable users to complete tasks quickly and precisely.
  • Speed up authoring with simplified workflows, ready-to-go slides, and assets.
  • Responsive by defaultL:
  • The new Adobe Captivate is engineered from the ground up to provide a responsive experience by default. This means the courses you create automatically adjust and enhance their layout, content, and interactions to fit different screen sizes and orientations. Whether learners are accessing your courses on desktops, laptops, tablets, or mobile devices, the content will dynamically resize and reflow, ensuring a seamless learning experience.
  • Enhanced software simulation:
  • Using Adobe Captivate, you can create a software simulation by capturing your actions on the screen as you interact with the software application or system. Adobe Captivate can record your mouse clicks, keyboard inputs, and other actions, and then use them to create an interactive simulation.
  • Simplified interactions panel:
  • Bring your courses to life with a wide range of interactive elements. Adobe Captivate allows you to add interactive buttons, click-and-reveal interactions, drag-and-drop activities, hotspots, branching scenarios, and much more. Create everything from best-in-class simulations to complex branching scenarios and configurable conditional logic. Write your own scripts to effectively control learning outcomes.
  • Accessibility:
  • Provide equal opportunity for professional development by creating a level playing field for learners with special abilities. Easily generate eLearning content that meets accessibility standards like Section 508 and WCAG 2.0. Ensure content accessibility by defining text equivalents, clickable areas for keyboard access, and more.
  • Design options:
  • Creating visually appealing content is essential for effective learning. The New Adobe Captivate includes visually pleasing design options that give your eLearning courses an attractive and professional appearance. The design options utilize visually pleasing layouts, clean design elements, and balanced composition to create captivating courses.
  • Closed captions:
  • Create courses that meet accessibility standards by instantaneously adding closed captions for slide videos or audio content. On the timeline bar, easily choose the exact timeline for which your captions will appear. These captions can be further enhanced by controlling how they look and where they appear.
  • Modern Text-to-speech:
  • Keep learners tuned in to your content as you easily turn text into high-quality speech with a few clicks. Need to change the text? Just click once to update the audio. Choose from a collection of non-mechanical, multi-accent, and multi-lingual voice options.
  • Audio editing:
  • Save time and cost by quickly and easily editing your audio inside Adobe Captivate. Add audio files from your system or the asset library, record your own voice, or generate voiceover from text captions with just a few clicks. Perfect your audio by cutting, pasting, adding captions, removing background noise, looping, and more.
  • Infinite scroll:
  • Introducing infinite scroll in Adobe Captivate! Fascinate your learners with engaging storytelling. Empower them to scroll through your content till the end using visual aids, animations and interactive elements. Author slides without any breaks and boosts course completion rates by eliminating the need to click and navigate to the next slide.
  • Image editing:
  • Accelerate course creation by not using a different tool for image editing. Adobe Captivate now allows you to easily crop images, add filters, shadows, and overlays, increase or decrease brightness, contrast, blur and much more. Reduce dependency on graphic designers and get your images ready for your courses, without delay.
  • Animations:
  • Keep your learners glued in, by using the astonishing new animation effects. Choose an object or a set of objects in your content and set a motion effect for its entry, emphasis, or exit. Choose from many stimulating animation effects like rotation, wobble, flicker, puff, roll, swirl, stretch, and more.
  • Text presets:
  • Create engaging and comprehensible courses with ease, using impeccable text and font styling. Design user-friendly courses quickly, with flawless typography for your text content. Choose from a variety of presets to achieve the perfect look for your headlines, subheadings, body text, variables, questions, and more.
  • Image grid:
  • With the new Adobe Captivate, adding an image grid to your content takes just a second. Make your content look gorgeous as you replace the default images with your own, add captions, and choose design options and components to explain the subject matter.
  • SVG:
  • Produce top-notch projects using vector images that scale across devices and sizes without losing quality. Create intricate shapes and seamlessly import them into Adobe Captivate as scalable SVG graphics.
  • Google fonts:
  • Choose the Google fonts you love without having to log in to Google. Use these fonts available out-of-the-box with Adobe Captivate and apply them across your courses to make a polished, easy-to-follow experience for learners.
  • Overlay slides:
  • Mark any slide as an overlay and add it to your video timeline, enriching the learning experience.
  • Bookmarks:
  • Introduce interactive elements or additional layers of content that enrich learning experience. Easily add overlays or timed animations to capture your learners’ attention.
  • Widget gallery:
  • Capture your learners’ attention with visually appealing widgets. Effortlessly build advanced interactions without effort.
  • Quizzes and knowledge checks:
  • Evaluate your learners’ progress and understanding with ease. Select from a selection of question slides like multiple-choice, true or false, match the columns, rearrange the sequence, and much more, to effortlessly design thought-provoking quizzes.
  • Multi-state objects:
  • Make complex workflows intuitive with just a few clicks by enabling unlimited number of custom or in-built states for images, text, buttons, and more.
  • JavaScript support:
  • Use Javascript coding to build advanced interactions for your slides, objects, images, SVGs, etc.

New in Adobe Captivate 2019 11.0.0.243 (Aug 22, 2018)

  • Create Virtual Reality projects
  • Create Interactive Videos
  • Smart video recording
  • Live device previews
  • CSV question import template
  • Fluid Box enhancements
  • Responsive PowerPoint projects
  • Bug fixes

New in Adobe Captivate 2017 10.0.1.285 (Apr 23, 2018)

  • In-app interactive help for responsive projects:
  • An interactive, guided tour of how to use Fluid Boxes and make your responsive e-learning projects stand out.
  • New video tutorials:
  • Whether you’re just getting started with Captivate and need some help with creating a shiny new project, or you’ve used the previous versions of Captivate and looking for some help to update your Captivate skills, there’s good news for you!
  • We have published 25 new video tutorials covering the basic, advanced, and new workflows in Captivate (2017 release).

New in Adobe Captivate 9.0.2.437 (Nov 16, 2016)

  • Import assets:
  • Import assets and e-learning templates from Adobe Stock and eLearning Brothers and customize your e-learning projects.
  • Community portal:
  • To access the community portal, click Community in the main toolbar.
  • Performance enhancements in this release
  • Captivate 9.0.2 comes with several runtime performance enhancements. Some of them are:
  • Multi-state objects now load faster.
  • Images in a project load faster as there are fewer http calls to the images.
  • Changes in timer logic to prevent heavy load on CPU and battery.

New in Adobe Captivate 9.0.2.427 (Nov 16, 2016)

  • Import assets:
  • Import assets and e-learning templates from Adobe Stock and eLearning Brothers and customize your e-learning projects.
  • Community portal:
  • To access the community portal, click Community in the main toolbar.
  • Performance enhancements in this release
  • Captivate 9.0.2 comes with several runtime performance enhancements. Some of them are:
  • Multi-state objects now load faster.
  • Images in a project load faster as there are fewer http calls to the images.
  • Changes in timer logic to prevent heavy load on CPU and battery.

New in Adobe Captivate 9.0.1.320 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • Rulers and guides:
  • Enhanced rulers and guides are added to improve your design experience
  • Enhancements to the multi-state object feature:
  • Multiple enhancements are added to the multi-state feature that was introduced in Adobe Captivate 9. With Adobe Captivate 9.0.1, you can now:
  • Relatively position object states automatically when you move an object on the slide
  • Retain state on slide revisit
  • In addition, there are some bugs fixed related to undo and redo operations while working with object states
  • Captivate Draft app enhancements:
  • For easier usability, the gesture mode has been discontinued and its main feature - the ability to "draw" shapes on screen is merged into the edit mode.
  • The copy and paste feature is also enhanced allowing you to copy and paste objects from one slide to another within a project.
  • Another navigation method is added - the two-finger swipe.

New in Adobe Captivate 9.0.0.223 (Aug 27, 2015)

  • Captivate Draft app for iPad:
  • Use the Captivate Draft app for iPad to quickly create content on the go. Create storyboards whenever inspiration strikes you, and then export it to the Cloud, to work on it later. You can also send your draft projects to reviewers and collaborators
  • Capture content from iOS devices:
  • You can now connect your iOS device to your computer, and capture actions on the device
  • Multi-state objects:
  • Objects can now have multiple states. This feature gives you the freedom to manipulate object behavior and appearance quickly and easily directly from the Property Inspector.
  • Enhanced effects:
  • The effects panel UI has been revamped for a better user-friendly experience
  • New effects have been added. Also motion path effects are now available for responsive projects also.
  • Preview project in LMS:
  • Preview your project in an LMS and verify it is structurally accurate before actual publishing.
  • Work in Captivate with svg graphics:
  • Import and edit your svg graphics within Captivate.
  • Additional breakpoints and UI enhancements for responsive projects:
  • Additional breakpoints are introduced to help you refine your project further. In addition, several UI enhancements have been included.
  • Create knowledge check slides:
  • You can create knowledge check slides to enforce learning activity for learners.
  • Publish to Adobe Captivate Prime:
  • Adobe Captivate Prime is a new learning management system that you can use to distribute your e-learning content over the internet to learners.
  • You can now publish your Captivate projects to Captivate Prime.
  • Other features:
  • Emulate geolocation:
  • You can test any geolocation functionality you have set up when you preview your project in the browser.
  • Introduction of delays in advanced actions:
  • In previous versions of Captivate, a given set of actions in an advanced action gets executed all at the same time and not sequentially. This issue is now addressed by the Delay action.
  • Exclusive e-learning assets:
  • Click Assets on the toolbar to access more than 30,000 assets available to you free with Adobe Captivate 9.

New in Adobe Captivate 8.0.2.266 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • What's new and changed:
  • App packager integration:
  • Publish apps for devices from within Captivate project instead of using app packager. Choose Publish > Publish for Devices (App). It is supported for Android, iOS, and Windows 8 platforms.
  • For more information on publishing apps for devices in responsive projects, see Publish as Apps for devices
  • Convert captions to smart shapes:
  • Success/Failure/Hint Captions can be replaced with Smart Shapes. Right-click the Caption and select Convert to Smart-shape. To revert, right-click and click Revert to text.
  • Responsive drag & drop:
  • Users can drag-and-drop objects in responsive projects with a seamless experience. For more information, see Responsive drag-and-drop
  • Custom shapes & line support:
  • Now, you can use custom shapes and line to create your own objects in responsive project.
  • Publish projects as exe files:
  • Adobe Captivate 8.0.1 enables you to publish your projects as stand-alone executable files for both personal computer and for Mac. This publishing option enables you to create a Windows executable file (.exe) or MAC executable file (.app). For more information, see Publish as exe.
  • Other enhancements:
  • Map support:
  • Map support is included for selecting geolocation in variables. Users can browse through Google integrated maps and choose the location. Values are populated automatically.
  • Embed support for web objects:
  • Now, you can embed code in to the properties window along with URL. An option to choose Help (i) is also added. Width and height of Video web objects aligns according to the web object container dimensions seamlessly in responsive projects.
  • Symmetrical editing:
  • Shift+draw option added for drawing shapes like circle or square. Now, by pressing shift key authors can draw a circle or square symmetrically in projects.
  • Shift+control+drag option is included for all shapes enabling authors to draw shapes symmetrically with reference to a starting point.
  • In the above image, A and B graphs are drawn with reference to Origin (intersection point of x and y-axis) by using shift+ctrl+draw. In A, you can see the starting point with crossbar cursor at the origin. When you draw circle with shift+ctrl+draw, it moves symmetrically with reference to the starting point (here, the origin).
  • In the image C also the pink colored circle is drawn with origin as a starting point, but here shift+ctrl+draw is not used.
  • You can notice the difference and the usefulness of this enhancement for drawing.
  • Apply position properties across all views:
  • Now you can update position properties of objects across all views to match the properties of the currently selected text element. To support Applying the object position properties across all the views, right click context menu is included. This setting relinks objects across the views in responsive projects.
  • Apply text and text properties across all views:
  • Now you can reset the properties of responsive text elements or update all views to match the properties of the currently selected text element. To support applying the text and text properties across all the views, right click context menu is included. This setting relinks objects across the views in responsive projects.
  • Color coding:
  • Now, text objects in different views of responsive projects can have color coding. You can see different color coding in text area border in properties window. Earlier, it was applicable for only position properties.
  • Project size:
  • Project Info panel displays the project content size enabling users to know the size of the projects before publishing. Users can choose Windows >Project Info panel to view the size. In non-responsive projects, it displays SWF content and HTML content sizes. For responsive projects, only HTML size.
  • A sample project info view is shown in the below snapshot. Figure A represents responsive project and Figure B represents blank project. By default, when you open project info, the size of the project is not displayed in responsive and blank projects. Click blue colored Check text to view the size.
  • Smart positioning between breakpoints:
  • Smart Positioning is honored in between breakpoints of responsive projects. View published projects seamlessly across all device sizes.
  • Export responsive views captions to single Word or xml file:
  • Project Captions and Closed Captions in responsive projects can be exported to a single Word™ or xml document. Now, it is responsive. Exported documents contain data from all the views of responsive projects. This feature facilitates translation of responsive captions, even when the text is different in various views.
  • Automatic linked files inclusion in output:
  • Open URL/File/Project options copy/paste the linked file to the destination folder if the file is present in an accessible location. It copies automatically in the published output folder. (Note: files in next level reference url do not get copied.)
  • Swatch manager:
  • Swatches are integrated in color palette. Users can load swatch manager from color palette by clicking at the upper-right corner as shown in the Figure - B below. In windows menu, swatches menu item is renamed to swatch manager as shown in Figure -A below.
  • You can add more colors to the swatch manager:
  • Choose any color from the swatch manager dialog
  • Click eyedropper icon
  • Type the name of your chosen color and
  • Click OK.
  • You can see your chosen color being added to your swatch manager dialog at the bottom. When you click color palette, you can notice the new color being shown at the bottom of all other existing colors. You can also include a set of colors to the swatch manager by clicking Append and choosing the file. Your new set of colors appear at the bottom row of the existing colors in swatch manager dialog.
  • Lock individual objects:
  • Now you can lock or unlock the size and position of individual items contained in group, from within timeline.
  • fx symbol for objects in timeline:
  • Visual indication added for objects with effects in timeline. fx symbol appears next to object in timeline.
  • Color tool tip:
  • Color Category is displayed as tool tips in theme color palette. For example, hovering over a color theme displays Title component of theme.