There’s a mobile revolution out there and is passing this once-great product by, in the way Kodak was left behind in the new digital age. My biggest problem is that Captivate (and the team for that matter) is holding on to the past and is risking becoming obsolete. Captivate needs to let go of the past and embrace the new Post-eLearning era I’m not sure I understand the benefits of having an Equation Editor or how the Learning Notes feature works, but these are probably a good thing for certain verticals. The team did add Tin-Can-API support, which I think is a must these days as learning moves more and more to mobile devices, so that’s definitely a nice addition. Same goes for the drag-and-drop widgets, which is something Articulate customers have been enjoying for a while now, so nothing terribly exciting there either. In fact I think that most of the new features being promoted by Adobe have been there for a while in competing products like Articulate software, namely the ability to include YouTube videos in a course, as well as embedding a browser session on a slide.
#ADOBE CAPTIVATE 7 FULL VERSION SOFTWARE UPGRADE#
I think this makes a lot of sense, especially with the pace with which change happens in Technology these days.ĭon’t get me wrong, there are some nice new feature in version 7, however I cannot find that game-changing feature that I think every software upgrade needs to have, the ‘killer app’ if you will. I give the team credit for what is obviously a faster upgrade cycle, as compared to the old 18-month upgrade cycle. Here we are 12 months later and Adobe India releases a new version of Captivate just in time for the mLearnCon conference.
Shortly after publishing the above review, I followed it up with another post entitled Here’s how Adobe Captivate 6 could have been a Game-Changer for mLearning, where I shared some ways in which Captivate could help take instructional designers to the next level.
Via An Honest Assessment of Adobe Captivate 6 | The mLearning Revolution Blog. Having said that, I cannot recommend this version of Captivate nor would I recommend relying on Adobe as the future vendor that can deliver innovating and breakthrough eLearning and mLearning experiences for the 21st Century. There’s nothing in there that addresses real solutions for today’s trending topics, such as Cloud computing, Mobile Learning, Responsive Design, Adaptive publishing, Mobile Apps, etc. It’s not even this particular version that disappoints me it’s the overall lack of vision that Adobe has clearly shown in this release. Sadly I’m very disappointed with what I’ve seen out of the new Captivate version, and I say sadly because for years this product was my baby, from my early days working at eHelp, later Macromedia and more recently Adobe as a Senior Product Evangelist for Captivate and the eLearning Suite. Here’s how I concluded my review of Adobe Captivate 6 back then:
A year ago I wrote a post entitled An Honest Assessment of Adobe Captivate 6, which garnered 81 ReTweets and 62 comments, and to this day is the most read post here on my blog.
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