Captivate

Hello, I have just started using the latest version of captivate and I am already running into some obstacles (mostly self-imposed). I have modified a video content block to appear the way I want it to on desktop, but I am at a loss regarding how to edit the JSON file so that the content still appears legible and attractive when switching to Tablet or Mobile display. I guess I'm having a hard time reverse engineering the CSS in the file to get the ideal appearance on each display.    Can anyone suggest some resources that will help me figure this out? Thanks.

I would really like to start using Adobe Captivate 12 to build responsive courses but it is still impossible to design a useable course because of the lack of focus on basic design needs. Major case in point... It is impossible to add video into a course. If I try to add video into a course Captivate does something utterly ridiculous with the layout. It creates a horrible black wrapper around the outside of the video that it is impossible to manage. For example Here I have added a video. I can adjust the size and position of the video by tweaking the size of the padding around it and in doing so, I can remove most of the black padding around it.  But look what happens when I switch to mobile phone view...  This is completely unusable and If I try to adjust the padding to make this fit like so... Look what happens to desktop view...Captivate could be a great product but this makes it totally unuasable for any professional course builds.

So far I have been using a third party for generating my voice overs. However I would like to use the voice overs in Adobe Captivate 12. Sometimes I can see over 100 voices and generate them but at other times I get a message to say It appears there is a problem loading the voice. I have contacted my company's IT department - they have done various tests but they tell me that the problem is not with the security on my computer. Can you please advise?

Simple text box. The bottom of the "g" and the right side of the last letter are cropped. I've tried changing all the settings that are causing this to happen? Ideas? I've tried changing: font, font size, character spacing, paragraph spacing, padding right, padding bottom. 

Hi there.I'm new to Captivate - no obvious access to Classic. I am trying to figure out how to package multiple SCO together when Adobe's Multi-SCORM packaging is not available to me. Any search I do leads me here: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/classic/multi-scorm-packager.htmlBut that does not work with Captivate 12.5 on a Mac. Any advice, tips, or alternatives would be appreciated. Without the ability to do this, Captivate is a no-go as a tool for me. 

Hi Team, New user here with version 12.6. I have a graded exam, and in theory I've correctly set the pass/fail criteria (adjusted the slider to pass at 65%), and set the results slide to forward to either a "Congrats you passed" screen or a "Sorry try again" screen. The problem is, regardless of if I pass or fail it while in preview mode, hitting the continue button on the results slide always takes me to whatever the next slide in the slide order is. I can't figure out how to get it to activate based on score.  I've attached a screenshot showing the pass/fail settings and one of the quiz preferences. Any ideas?

I'm beginning to work with Captivate and just ran a test with my translations dept. When I export the Project Content and Closed Captions, the document table is filled with duplicates seemingly because of the various states for buttons and text. I've been told this will double our cost for translations because they are doing everything upwards or 4-5x each. For example, a single quiz option in a multiple choice has 5 states (normal, hover, selected, disabled checked, disabled unchecked) and each occurs in the export doc. Does any one have experience with this? A workaround maybe?

When I export Project Contents and Closed Captions to send to translations, the captions don't seem to export. To be more clear, the boxes that pop up to give the learner feedback on their answer. Am I doing something wrong? Is there a setting I missed? If these don't translate, it may be a dealbreaker. 

Is there a way to disable autoplay of slide audio in Captivate 12?  Automatically playing audio does not meet accessibility standards for our organization as it interferes with the screen readers.  

In what seems to be an ongoing issue with 'new Captivate', all of a sudden in 12.6 my carousel widget slides are displaying differently in the browser (Edge) than they do in Captivate. Most concerningly, the preview display is awful, with the text going all the way to the left and being covered by the arrow. Aside from redoing these slides with a different widget, what can I do?

Hello,For my work, I create several Captivate video files in multiple languages. We have finetuned a process over the past years to make this as efficient as possible. Basically what we do is the following:1. Create a Captivate file in one language with screenshots and audio files from a dedicated folder (for example English)2. Replace the audio and screenshot files in that dedicated folder with the ones from another language (for example French)3. I save the Captivate file under a new name, select the audio files and update them (CTR+ALT+D), then do the same for screenshots For what we do, this is super efficient and works perfectly in version 11.8.0. I now have a new colleague who installed Captivate Classic (11.8.3) and when he uses the update option, nothing happens. Anyone else who has this issue and (hopefully) a solution? If we have to change the media manually, this would slow down our work process enormously. Thanks in advance!

I have a button with a hover state and a visited state. When you hover over the button, it displays the hover state. When you click the button, you go to another slide. Upon returning to the original slide, you would expect to see the button in the visted state but it's not.It is on the hover state until the veiwer hovers over and off of it, then it shows the visited state. I would rather have the visited state already on display upon returning to the slide without having to hover on and off the buttton.

I have applied the states of "visited" and "selected" to a branched interaction. I have made them both greyscale and blurred the image. However, when I preview the page the image does not change to what I have selected for it after clicking the image and returning back to the original slide.

I've created an assessment with some input fields for open-ended questions.  These questions prompt the student to answer in paragraph form, 5-7 sentences.  However, now that the assessment is SCORMed and running in my LMS (Moodle in this instance), I've realized that the resulting interactions report doesn't include the entire paragraph from the student input.  There is a cut-off.  Is this a setting (or something in the variables) specific to the Adobe Captivate project?  Or, is this something within my LMS that I will need to adjust? In the Adobe Captivate project, I have selected the reporting option for these input fields (to both be included in the quiz and reported to the LMS).  And I am working in version 12.6.0.    Thanks for any advice or insight someone may be able to provide!

Problem: Need an user input field in Captivate (not classic) to report its content (variable) to the LMS. In the past, I was able to this in Captivate Classic using a variety of methods (simplest being a survey question). But, with the newest version of Captivate, I'm struggling. My goal is to "pulse" the learner on a topic. The users input will save in a variable or as a quiz response and kick back to the LMS in reporting either as a quiz question or user interaction data. I tried to use a short answer question field, but having issues with it requiring an "answer" so I'm trying the input field and set it to report to LMS. If I have it set up right, could be an issue on the LMS side (SuccessFactors Learning)? Here is the input field reporting turned on.  What are some best practices in Captivate to accomplish this goal? Am I missing something easy? Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone,I am new here. I just subscribe to free trial to exterminate before I make commitment and buy it. for some reason, I am not quite sure what went wrong. after downloading captivate and instilling the app it aske me to buy or free trial. I click on free trial it land me to another page which aske me to chose a plane of Photoshop which I did pick the monthly one. I instilled the Photoshop app and open it, but still every time I try to use the captivate it will open for me the window of buy or free trial. I did unstilled both captivate and Photoshop and redownload, I restart my laptop several times. I am not sure why I just cant use captive, I receive from them email of thank you of staring the 30 days trial. pleas advice on this issue. thank you  

Hello Captivate community, We’re thrilled to share that Adobe Captivate 12.6 is now live! This latest update brings meaningful enhancements that improve accessibility, stability, and the overall authoring experience, making it even easier to create engaging, inclusive learning content.   What's new in the update   Accessibility enhancements: Improved screen reader support, better TOC navigation, and enhanced keyboard accessibility help make your courses more inclusive. Performance improvements: Resolved issues around SVG handling, animation timing, and drag-and-drop resizing for a smoother, more reliable experience. Simulation improvements: More stable interactions in software simulations mean better learner engagement. UI/UX and and other ixes: From Google Fonts rendering to SCORM metadata accuracy and hyperlink editing, many smaller fixes are included based on user feedback.   See Captivate 12.6 release notes for more information on the changes and enhancements

I am on the 12.6 version of Captivate. In the last two weeks, I am unable to view anyone's CP  project review link sent to me or any CP review links I create.  The page either gets stuck at 90% or it gets past the project loading and then the page continues to spin.  I have restarted the program many times and restarted my computer with no luck.  This is frustrating as I then cannot view the comments left for me in the reviews.  Has anyone experienced this? 

I am very new to using Adobe Captivate, so new that at the moment I'm still playing around with the 30 day trial version, which appears to be the most recent version of the app. I'm feeling very frustrated, and I'm sure it's down to my inexperience, but it seems very limited. For example, I'd like to have a background image of floorplan with buttons which, when pressed, would take learners to a specific lesson for that room in the house (this is a home first aid module), but the buttons all seem to be locked in place and can only be moved left or right. I also tried the hotspot as an option, but of course they're not geared to that.  At the moment, I feel like I can do more with H5P or even Powerpoint. What am I missing, and what should I be looking at to improve?

For anyone looking for a solution to remove Duration from the TOC, this simple fix works.Once you have published, go to index.html and edit it in VS Code or similar and place this after the <head> tag:    <style>      .toc-preview-content-item-duration.duration-column {          display: none !important;      }  </style> Result is:   

Noticed that the bottom of some letters are getting clipped. Tried adjusting the font size and the padding around that texrt box, as well as adjusting the text layers in the timeline, but nothing seems to help get the bottom of those G's to appear.  Any ideas of how to fix this? 

Not sure if I'm losing my mind. I remember the ability to zoom in/out and print pdf in review/published mode. (Captivate 12.6)Did they take away this feature? In my narration, I mentioned to the students the ability to print the curriculum. 

Like so many others, I am so frustrated by this new version of captivate. Slow, slow, crash, crash, just stops working and won't open some files for no reason. I am trying to combine to .cpt files and since there is no longer an option under import to bring in slides from another project, I tried copying and pasting. This results in captivate shutting down every time. Does anyone have suggestions on how to bring slides from one project into another?

I am fairly new to captivate although I have learned to use it pretty well.   I love using the 360 slides in my training and they usually work fine with a few glitches here and there.  Here is where I am running into a problem:  I built a module where it is basically just informational.  You click a marker on a plot and it brings you into a 360 environment and you navigate around in 360 slides from there.  No quizzes or questions, just a tool for viewing in a VR type environment.   I have built it and it works great in preview.  It is too large of a file to publish to our LMS system, which I originally planned to do and just not have any reporting.  Then I tried to just publish it to HTML so I could allow users to access it at any time with a link and use it.  It seems like when you publish it as just HTML and try to open it in a browser, it just shows black screens for the 360 slides.  I am not finding any solutions for

Hi, I'm using Captivate 12.4. When opening my project in preview and/or published project, the hotspots are further left than where placed in the app.  I read a similar issue posted in Feb 2024 and followed the instruction to clear cache but this has not fixed the issue. Why is this issue persisting and is there a fix? In the app       Preview / published