In my opinion, this is precisely what we should be trying to avoid. It would just be trying to retrofit an old format into a new medium, in other words it would be shrinking something big that fits on the desktop into something smaller in order to fit it on a mobile device. However even if Adobe managed to fix the long list of HTML5 conversion issue they have, this would still not be true mLearning. I ran a quick ‘ HTML5 Tracker‘ test with an old project and I’m still getting pretty much the same amount of unsupported features I did with Captivate 6, so not much in the way of improvements there. Note the scroll bars needed for all devices except for the iPad in landscape mode.Īnother example is the HTML5 support for PowerPoint, which Adobe is promoting heavily.
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In the Post-eLearning era, we don’t need more feature, which more often than not lead to heavier courses, we need less, we need simpler learning experience that adapt well to multiple screens and not make us wait for heavy courses to download to our mobile devices, only to have to pinch, zoom and swipe left, right, top and bottom to see the entire course, as illustrated here:Īdobe Captivate 6 project converted to HTML5 and viewed on multiple devices. Take for example the expanded list of Smart Learning Interactions, there are now 15 more, and this is bad news in opinion.
In fact I think the team is adding more and more of the things we absolutely don’t need in this new Post-eLearning era. There’s nothing that I have seen in this product that tells me I should be hopeful as a Learning professional, that Adobe will help me get to the next level, by helping me develop learning that can be accessed anytime, anywhere and most importantly on every device. 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.
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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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