Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) Release Notes

What's new and changed in this update

Release date: April 2, 2024

Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) introduces Share for Review for easier collaboration to create high-quality eLearning content. The update also features enhancements to image editing workflows, importing questions from a CSV file, importing SRT/WebVTT files for adding subtitles for audio and video, and other enhancements and bug fixes.

Captivate 12.3 is now supported on macOS Sonoma (version 14). See System requirements for more information.

Download the update

Visit the Captivate downloads page and try out the new update.

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Share for review

Easily collaborate with stakeholders, share your project, and receive instant feedback. Intuitively comment on projects and notify collaborators

View the Share for review document for detailed information.

Import questions as CSV

Adobe Captivate now allows users to effortlessly import questions from a CSV file and create question slides. Importing questions from a CSV file offers efficiency, convenience, and error reduction. It saves time and effort and reduces the likelihood of manual entry errors.

View Import questions as CSV for more information.

Import and export closed captions

Elevate your eLearning content by importing SRT and VTT files for adding subtitles to your audio and videos in your projects. In Adobe Captivate 12.3, you can easily manage and customize the style and font of closed captions.

View the document on how to add and edit audio, as well as videos, in an Adobe Captivate project for comprehensive guidance on closed captions for both slide audio and videos.

Enhanced image editing

The enhanced Image editing panel allows you to preview image changes on devices and change the image's properties accordingly.

• Slide Background: Crop, adjust display type, and image focus and preview changes for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. View the document on how to edit background image in a project for more information.
  
• Image Content Block: Edit images within content blocks. Resize, crop, and adjust the display behavior and focus for desktop, tablet, and mobile devices. Learn more on how to add images to your Captivate project.

Move the slider to compare how the image editing behavior differs between previous versions and this release.

Enhancements to themes

Reset a project to override all changes, for example, visual properties of text, and ensure consistency in appearance across the project.

View the document on Themes for more information. 

Quick start projects on the welcome screen

Maximise your productivity in course design with easy access to Quick Start Projects from the Captivate welcome screen. These pre-designed projects cater to various industries, including IT, healthcare, training, soft skills, and compliance, facilitating seamless customization for your specific needs.

Download certificate as PDF 

Adobe Captivate allows learners to download a PDF version of their certificate after completing a course.  

This feature can be enabled by the author in the Settings panel. Once enabled, a download icon will appear on the upper right corner of the certificate preview screen. Learners can click on this icon to download their personalized certificate in PDF format.

View the document on adding a certificate in your Adobe Captivate project for more information.

Enhancements to accessibility

Enable titles and subtitles for each content block in the Visual Properties panel, tagged as h1 (Title) and h2 (Subtitle) for screen reader compatibility. Slide navigation follows a top-down, left-right hierarchy, prioritizing the top block's heading. Multi-column text blocks read left-column titles first. The screen reader reads the title, subtitle, and then the body for slide navigation, enhancing accessibility for visually impaired users.

Resize slide objects using handles

In this release, Captivate allows you to resize objects on widgets and simulation objects using handles.

Widgets:

• Hotspot: Resize the callouts by dragging the horizontal edges.
• Drag and drop: Resize the drop targets by dragging the horizontal edges.

For simulation objects:

• Input Fields/Instructions: Resize the objects horizontally by dragging the handles.
• Click box/Highlight box: Resize the objects in all directions.

Add more components to a simulation slide

In this update, you can add multiple buttons to a simulation project's slide. Additionally, you can add a maximum of 20 components (except the Mouse Pointer) from the Components section in a simulation slide.

Bug fixes in this update

Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) fixes the following bugs:

• You cannot change the casing of a text to lowercase or sentence if the text is in uppercase. This happened on the quote content block and a few widgets. 
  
• In a text content block, if you have a multi-line text and apply any formatting to the text, the changes do not apply to the last line.
  
• If you create a demo simulation, the project gets minimized automatically after the creation. 
• For training and assessment simulations, empty slides are added at the end of the project.
  
• After you apply a design option to a list, for example, in a Tab widget, the list hierarchy does not appear as expected in the output.
• You cannot preview a project if you set its expiration date to 12/31/2024 and 2/1/2025. 
  
• After you add Closed Captions on a video content block and select the Play button, the audio doesn’t play as expected.
  
• If you create grouped slides in a Table of Contents (TOC), preview the project, and select the Next button on the playbar, the grouped slides are ignored.   
• When applying an animation to an object, the animation does not play as expected if you add a delay to the object. 
  
• Unable to modify the value of the SCO Identifier in Preferences > Reporting > Standard > Configure. In this update, you can change the value of the SCO Identifier. 
• When you create a project with the Hotspot widget, view the published output on a browser, and zoom in, the position of the hotspots shift.
  

System requirements

System Requirements

Update to the latest version

After clicking Help > Check for Updates, the error message, Error 184, may display.

Follow the steps below to resolve the issue:

1. In version 12.0, 12.1, or 12.2 select Help > Check for Updates.
2. Once the update is visible, close the Adobe Captivate app.
3. Select Update now.