Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate 6

The Adobe Systems company announced in May, 2012 release of the new version of the solution Adobe Captivate 6 for production of electronic training materials in the eLearning format. This quite important and significant updating of the Adobe Captivate 6 platform popular in the field of remote and e-learning. In particular, except universal support of HTML5 standard for mobile electronic textbooks, the version of Captivate 6 offers comprehensive compatibility with standards of SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model is the Reference object model for the extended content) and AICC (Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee is Committee on computer-based training in the aviation industry).

Support of key industrial standards of e-learning is important advantage of a packet of Adobe Captivate 6. According to representatives of Adobe, in this version were as much as possible considered needs of those who are forced to take electronic training courses on trips or in other mobile form. Besides, the close attention is paid to comfort of work for developers of eLearning-rates, trainers, instructors, experts in data domains and other business users.

From other advantages of a packet authors select the improved mobile access to the created electronic textbooks and also the increased level of involvement of users in educational process at the expense of several new tools, including an opportunity to stop and resume educational process. Authors of textbooks can publish the interactive training HTML5 content available on the IOS and Android platforms. Thanks to the publication of the training materials in the SWF and HTML5 formats, listeners can begin studying of a rate on the desktop PC, suspend a rate, and then continue work on other device. The built-in module HD Screencast helps to create quickly videos of high resolution with the image of the instructor occurring on the screen. Also additional installation of videos with adding of transitions, interactive graphics, a soundtrack and credits is supported. Also the insert of one roller in another in the "picture in picture" mode, and the publication of ready rollers on the popular websites of a video hosting is supported.

A rich set of ready interactive elements (actors) with a possibility of an individual design is a part of a packet of Adobe Captivate 6. Additional degree of interactivity is given by new widgets, animation effects and other functions which can be added to several mouse clicks.

The special attention is deserved by expanded work with initial materials in the PowerPoint format. Users of a packet of Captivate 6 can import slada of PowerPoint 2010 together with objects, animation and multimedia inserts directly to the drafts of electronic textbooks now. Also fast updating of the imported content is supported – you edit the PowerPoint presentation, and function of dynamic bound import synchronizes the updated data in the textbook. The packet of Captivate 6 offers an extensive set of ready tools for an examination, level of the received skills and the needs for additional training for certain listeners. Proceeding from results of testing, teachers can direct pupils to appropriate section and use repeated tests to learn how additional classes affected level of training. Also the Captivate 6 system allows pupils to open repeatedly the necessary sections after unsuccessful passing of the test, and for an exception of answers at random it is possible to include a penalty for the wrong answers.

Using a packet of Captivate 6 teachers and instructors can give individual traits to the electronic textbooks, adding own voice comments and other sounds which will be reproduced when clicking the corresponding object. Developers of training courses can unify a design of ready materials, using a set of the offered subjects. The improved integration with control systems of training helps developers of electronic rates to publish with ease the materials in the leading management systems for educational process, including Moodle, Blackboard, Plateau, Saba and SumTotal.