While we’ve talked about eLearning tools in previous articles, including CourseArc and Articulate 360. But, when it comes to all of the tools out there, these tools are just a couple amongst countless other options. This week, we’re continuing along in our mini-series discussing the best eLearning tools for education and focusing on Captivate by Adobe.
In this article, we’ll talk about Captivate by Adobe, including what it is, how it integrates with LTI, and how it can help you take your eLearning environment to the next level.
What Is Adobe Captivate?
Quickly create all kinds of eLearning content that is fully responsive, without any programming, with the help of an intelligent eLearning authoring tool known as Adobe Captivate. This incredible eLearning tool allows you to accelerate eLearning by creating stunning courses in a matter of minutes.
Design modern learning experiences that are immersive, boasting 360° media assets and virtual reality as you begin to embrace learning of the future. You can also drive up learner engagement by amplifying video-based learning. Adobe Captivate makes it easy by allowing you to add interactivity to videos that you bring in from YouTube or record yourself.
With Quick Start projects, ready-to-go slides, and out-of-the-box interactions, you can create beautiful mobile-ready courses in minutes. By copying the style and appearance of one object and applying it to another, you can instantly accelerate course creation using automated branching.
At any point in your interactive video, you can now edit SVGs, convert them to buttons, play overlay videos with the click of a VR hotspot, and add multiple overlay slides.
Adobe Captivate Benefits
It’s no secret that Adobe Captivate has countless features allowing you to create some of the most interactive eLearning courses out there. Let’s take a closer look at some of the benefits of working with a tool like Adobe Captivate.
VR and Interactive Video Enhancements
Virtual reality projects and interactive videos make for exciting enhancements to try. Play video on click of a hotspot or customize the styling of a VR hotspot and text captions. At any point on the video, you can import from Vimeo and add multiple informational or knowledge check slides for interactive videos.
VR Walkthrough that is Fully Navigable
With Adobe Captivate, you can now import 360° videos or images. Navigate the virtual environment by using text captions, tagging the objects in the scene. Give uses a seamless experience by adding navigation hotspots to click to move on.
Live Previews on VR Devices
Adobe Captivate now allows you to offer live previews on VR devices by generating a QR code. See how your virtual reality course will look on your student’s VR device by scanning it using your mobile phone and immediately. Publish your VR project for devices once you’ve got it looking the way you want.
Create Interactive eLearning Videos from Existing PowerPoints
Take your pre-existing PowerPoint content and create interactive mobile-ready videos. Content that runs flawlessly across any device can be transformed from static PowerPoint slides into eLearning courses. Add interactive elements, assets, and quizzes to boost the learning experience.
Add knowledge check questions and fantastic interactions as video overlays. At different points in the video, you can test the learner's knowledge by adding question slides. Take the learner back to revisit the section containing content relevant to the attempted question if they answer incorrectly.
At any point on your video, to make it interactive simultaneously, record PPT content using webcam video, add a voiceover and interactions like drag and drop, click, and reveal as overlays.
New Asset Library
Create dazzling eLearning courses as you explore 75,000+ free eLearning assets. Choose from thousands of intro and outro videos, buttons, interactions, icons, images, themes, character poses, and more. Using text-to-speech voices that come with Adobe Captivate, you can also add automatic voiceover.
Kickstart Course Creation with QuickStart Projects
All the slides you require to build a complete course can be downloaded at one go through QuickStart Projects, a set of ready-to-go slides. The project includes multiple options for slides - quiz, interaction, menu, scenarios, objection, introduction, etc.
Rapid Authoring with Ready-to-Go Slides
With your pick from thousands of mobile-ready, ready-to-go slides, you can create beautiful eLearning courses in minutes. Designed by experts, you can choose from different quiz slides, interaction types, and content layouts. You are all set to publish your course with the easy swap out of the text, images, shapes, characters, and videos in these slides.
You can convert any image or SVG into a button with a single click. You also can design complex branching logic and interactions within your courses without programming.
ryco.io and Adobe Captivate
The primary focus at ryco.io is to develop eLearning courses and applications accessible to all learners, following WCAG, for businesses and schools worldwide. At ryco.io, we focus on social and emotional development among students of all learning needs by seamlessly integrating data and learning analytics.
To aid us in building out some of the interactives within the ryco.io courses, we use an authoring tool called Adobe Captivate to help move us towards achieving some of our eLearning goals.
We are able to design learning solutions for students and employees on any device to be accessed at any time with the help of Adobe Captivate, the e-Learning course authoring tool. With Adobe Captivate, we can deliver engaging content, including virtual-reality courses and interactive videos, which go beyond standard slideshows.
Final Thoughts
The priority here at ryco.io is to make our eLearning courses the most effective form of education out there for both students and educators. Just one of the ways we want to lend a helping hand is by identifying some of the best eLearning tools for education out there today.
Now that you have a better understanding of Adobe Captivate, which is just one of many incredible eLearning tools out there, you can determine whether or not this tool sounds like something you might be interested in integrating into your eLearning.