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Adobe Captivate is a rapid responsive authoring tool that is used for creating elearning and training contents such as software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and quizzes. This subreddit is for articles, news, information, and help regarding Captivate.

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Adobe Captivate is a rapid responsive authoring tool that is used for creating elearning and training contents such as software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and quizzes.

This subreddit is for articles, news, information, and help regarding Captivate.

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Drag & Drop Widget allows you to Drag... everything?

So in this widget: https://imgur.com/a/o4PU5wW

I realized recently that in this widget you can drag the ENTIRE gray box with all the options in it completely off the slide. Unfortunately this creates a horrible problem where the Reset button does nothing, returning back to the slide does nothing, and the only way forward is to reset the course completely.

I know the average learner probably isn't silly enough to do this, but I would LOVE an explanation as to why this is even possible?! In what world would the learner need to drag all the options around the slide at all? Now I need to explain to my clients why I have to put a disclaimer on this activity because it could potentially lead to the learner needing to redo the entire course.

Does anyone have a workaround for this? Is there a hidden setting or checkbox to make it so this isn't possible? Is there I way I can code it so that if this accidentally happens, the learner can come BACK to the slide and have it reset the entire activity?

0 Comments
2024/11/06
15:58 UTC

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Can't Get Rid of Dead Space on My Slides

I'm currently using Captivate 12.4 and have an issue with image blocks containing an abundance of dead/unused space beneath the image/text on the slide; the issue persists when published as well. This is most noticeable when I have the image block setup with an image on the left/right, opposite text. When it is published it causes the user to scroll. If it functioned correctly, the dead space wouldn't be there, and scrolling would be minimized if not eliminated. I uncheck the 'Autofit height' box and adjust the box as needed but all it does is shrink the image while maintaining the dead space. I'm stumped.

Does anybody know a potential fix? Or is there something I'm missing?

1 Comment
2024/10/22
18:28 UTC

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Can’t preview or publish with playback control

Hello guys,

I have come across an odd issue in Adobe Captivate. I am developing a course that contains only videos and PDF files using the classic Skin Editor.

However, if I enable the Playback Control in the Skin Editor, I am unable to preview or publish the project. If I switch it off, the project loads as normal.

I need this project to be published with the playback controls so that the learners are able to watch the video content.

Any ideas on how to navigate this?

5 Comments
2024/10/15
15:47 UTC

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Descenders get cut off in text box?

Hi all!

I'm relatively new to using Captivate (version 12.4), and this community and a lot of the online tutorials have been really helpful so far!

I'm working on putting together an e-Learning course right now, but I noticed that when I'm editing the text the 'g' is fully visible, but once I click out of the textbox it gets cut. This happens to all of the descenders on the bottom lines of a textbox. I already tried messing with padding, line spacing and paragraph spacing but that doesn't seem to help. Has anybody else seen this issue, and if so how did you fix it?

Thank you in advanced!

2 Comments
2024/10/11
05:36 UTC

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Video slides get cut off in published SCORM

Trying out New Captivate (regretfully?) I have a project with a video on each slide and a "next" button that is shown at the end of the video using a bookmark. I am testing in SCORM Cloud. Project works great if you sit and watch the videos and hit "next" right away at the end of each slide. However, if you leave the window open and walk away for a few minutes, and then come back and click the next button, eventually the subsequent slides start ending early. On these slides, the video will freeze up to 10+ seconds early - longer the further into the project you get - and the next button will appear. The only option is to go to the next video without being able to see the rest of that slide's content. Any ideas how I might be able to fix this?

0 Comments
2024/10/08
02:37 UTC

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Certificate widget not working all of a sudden?

I had a certificate widget in a course that was about to go live, but now the continue button isn't allowing learners to move onto the certificate from the text entry box slide (See Paul Wilson's video on YouTube, I followed it exactly like that). Did the 12.4 update throw a bug into the certificate widget?

0 Comments
2024/10/03
19:06 UTC

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Captivate 12.4 Doesn't Fit to Broswer

Hi Guys,

I'm developing some E-learning content and the publish / preview of the module has a scrollbar both ways. How can I fit so that it publishes without?

The only work around I can think of temporarily is that the screen captures I make remove the taskbard icon and the url banner at the top etc but I'd rather they be there to show case some important bookmarks etc.

Can't find anything online either!

0 Comments
2024/10/02
16:48 UTC

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0 Comments
2024/09/26
10:06 UTC

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Error: Something went wrong while content block insertion

Hi I am working on the new captivate to create a course. We created a slide with the filp card widget, when we first open it/click preview you can see the slide displayed. However when I got to the slide I get the attached error "something went wrong while content block insertion". I tried updating to the 12.4, which just made it worse because it takes longer to upload. I also followed what they suggested here : https://community.adobe.com/t5/captivate-discussions/error-message-something-went-wrong-while-content-block-insertion/td-p/13951680 (to Delete the eLearning Assets folder in /Users/Shared/Adobe (on Mac) or C:\Users\Public\Documents\Adobe (on Win)

  1. Run the file CleanPreferencesMac or CleanPreferencesWin in Adobe Captivate > utils > CleanPreferencesMac or CleanPreferencesWin

Let us know if you're still facing the issues after applying the steps.)

But this didn't work at all!! The only thing I haven't tried yet is to uninstall and re-install fresh. What do you all suggest? Thank you!

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2 Comments
2024/09/18
21:16 UTC

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New Update Out Today!

Looking through the Adobe announcment about the 12.4 update, I see a lot of fun and well needed additions, like more control over layout/sizing, tools to improve and provide customized learning experiences, etc, but still no hints of a plan to bring Classic projects into Captivate 12, web based objects, or even spell check? Thoughts? What are you still waiting for/wanting?

3 Comments
2024/09/18
13:32 UTC

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Question: Closed captions specifically for video?

Hi! I am new to Captivate and have been using it for about 3 months so far, so my apologies if this is common knowledge, but I can't seem to figure this out.

I have two slides that contain videos. I originally uploaded the video to YouTube because I knew that doing so would help to reduce the file size and make it easier when adding the closed captioning. However, after showing it to my director, they did not love the fact that YT shows suggested video thumbnails once video finishes. They thought that would be distracting and confusing to users, which I can understand. So, I went back to Captivate and uploaded the video into the slide directly and then used the slide captioning feature to add in the captioning. But, I see that the captions are only visible on the slide and are not visible when I make the video full screen.

I definitely could be missing something since I am still new to this, but does anyone know how I can make sure those captions appear inside the video frame so that they are visible in fullscreen mode? Or, does anyone know how to not have suggested thumbnails appear at the end of a YT video??

4 Comments
2024/09/12
16:26 UTC

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Captivate Support?

Is there any official support channel for Captivate bugs?

Facing an issue currently where text in certificates is cut off when downloading, which essentially makes the new certificate download feature useless.

Or is it a case of posting on the forum and hoping someone from the community picks it up that has connections?

1 Comment
2024/09/12
11:46 UTC

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Captivate Classic Crashing

I am trying to copy text from a voice over to create captions (which is insane that they don't hair auto generate, but whatever) and this dn thing keeps crashing. I cannot run the app as an admin since this is on my company laptop.

Any suggestions and is there an easier way to create captions other than pasting line by line? Why is there not an auto scroll feature for larger blocks of text?

7 Comments
2024/09/10
16:55 UTC

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Hyphenation?

I'm new to Captivate, and cannot locate any text hyphenation features. I realize that a responsive structure includes type perfection limitations, but there has to be some level of automatic hyphenation. This is particularly problematic in narrow column instances (card components, for example), where Captivate simply breaks words with no hyphen inserted. Online searches of "Adobe Captivate hyphen" (including on Adobe.com) deliver such scant results that I'm imagining to my horror that there is no such thing as hyphenation in Captivate. I'm hoping I'm just overlooking something, being a newbie to the app. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

3 Comments
2024/08/21
21:47 UTC

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Timing Different in Timeline vs. Preview

I need some serious help. I am working on a ton of different courses through new Captivate and I keep running into the same issue:

I have a narrator that is reading the course content. I time out the slides so specific text pops up at specific times, and it looks perfect in the Timeline. However, when I open the course Preview, text will randomly refuse to load or will pop up at incorrect times.

Has anyone else been having this issue? Is the Preview more true to how the learner will experience the course or is the timeline?

2 Comments
2024/08/07
19:51 UTC

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Is anyone actually using the new Captivate?

An honest question because the newest version is so fundamentally flawed that we can’t use it for 95% of our client work. And if a client is looking to invest in elearning software the first thing we say is “new Captivate is missing crucial features and old Captivate is scheduled for EOL in a few years”

22 Comments
2024/08/05
04:05 UTC

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New Captivate - Add Single Image to Quiz Slide

In the new Adobe Captivate it is not possible to add a media block to quiz slides. But it is possible to toggle images for each individual answer. How would I go about having a single image for a question which all the answers are in reference to?

Currently, I have to include the same image on each individual answer which seems redundant and poorly designed.

None of the help articles on Adobe or independent online sources seem to address this. Has anyone encountered this and found a solution? If this is not possible it seems like an oversight and extremely limiting given the ability to do it in the classic version.

1 Comment
2024/07/22
20:54 UTC

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Captivate Theme from Powerpoint

My company has Powerpoint templates that have our branding and look & feel. Is it possible to import those into Captivate?

5 Comments
2024/07/15
17:22 UTC

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How can I force users to watch a certain percentage of a video before going to the quiz ?

I have the newest version

4 Comments
2024/07/12
20:01 UTC

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Editing software simulation slides in 12.3

Is there a way to edit a background image from a software simulation in 12.3? In Captivate Classic, I could find the background and edit it in Photoshop, but I can't figure out how to find the background slide in 12.3. Is there a library that I'm missing?

5 Comments
2024/07/03
12:54 UTC

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Forcing User to Click All Clickboxes

Hello, me again!

I have a slide where I want the learner to click all six click boxes (where each goes to a different slide) before they can continue. I have done a lot of reading and generally understand what needs to be done (ie use a conditional variable and make it boolean) but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to execute that on the slide. Can anyone provide assistance?

7 Comments
2024/07/02
14:03 UTC

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Adobe Captivate Classic: Post Results button not showing.

I set up reporting on my quiz, but the Post Results button isn't showing up at the end of the quiz. I've set the attempts to 1, and I also hit the Review button to see if it shows up and it never does.

I will say, I'm not a Captivate expert, I'm a total n00b. No certs no nothing, but I am using it to build an exam for my employees to take.

Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.

4 Comments
2024/06/28
13:13 UTC

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Two Questions: Default Bullet Options in Themes? Hiding Slides?

Version 12.3.0

1.) We're trying to nail down as close as we can a consistent template with a few slides (Welcome/Title, Audio Notice, Course Complete, Attestation, etc) the way we used to do in Classic with master slides to Save As from. We've added our systems fonts and font settings into presets and imported the theme, but we'd like to bake bullet size into the theme (80% size of fonts) is that setting available somewhere in the theme settings?

2.) Same situation above, we're hoping we can hide slides like we used to in Classic. So far it seems like the only slide that can be hidden is the quiz results slide. Any thoughts?

1 Comment
2024/06/19
15:00 UTC

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Looping videon in 12.3?

This is such a silly thing to get hung up on, but I cannot figure out how to loop a video for the duration of a slide in 12.3. And of course tutorials online for 12.3 are a bit sparse. Anyone found the solution to this?

2 Comments
2024/06/19
14:12 UTC

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Version list for windows

Where can I find a list of all the previous windows versions by date of release, including updates??

0 Comments
2024/06/18
14:29 UTC

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Why does Captivate 12 only support Youtube and Vimeo links?!

I mean, I can guess as to why... but I just feel depressed about it. It seems like with New captivate I hit the most random roadblocks.

My client pays good money to host all their videos on Microsoft Sharepoint and it's so annoying to explain I will have to set up some hidden youtube account to make sure the file size of my SCORMies aren't 50 gigs.

5 Comments
2024/06/14
18:28 UTC

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Complete Beginner. Struggling to find tutorial videos.

Hey so, I've never really used Captivate until now. My team has been way overloaded with work. and my position still being a newly created roll with a pretty open schedule. I took it upon myself to learn Captivate to take some of the extra work load off their shoulders.

everyone on myt team knows the Classic version, which seems all tutorials are based on. While, My IT department has given me the most updated version of Captivate. I'm struggling with being able to learn because the interface is completely different than the classic. I don't know if maybe I just haven't looked hard enough or im missing something when goggling. I just cant seem to find and beginner tutorial videos for the newer versions. Makes learning a new programs really difficult for a visual learner. Im getting fustrated that i cant make progress by just messing around with the program.

2 Comments
2024/06/10
16:24 UTC

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Large Question Pools = poor performance?

In Captivate Classic, I have a project with two question pools. One of which is 55 questions, while the other is 66.
Almost any changes I make to the template for the slides takes at least two minutes to finalize.

Is this expected behavior? or is it likely the document is corrupted?

3 Comments
2024/06/06
19:15 UTC

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