- Captivate User Guide
- Introduction to Captivate
- Add a slide
- Design options in Adobe Captivate
- Add text blocks
- Add media blocks
- Interactive components
- Add branding blocks
- Widgets
- Create quizzes
- Add audio to a project
- Interactions
- Animations
- Accessibility
- Customize the timeline
- Customize TOC and Playbar
- Edit project properties
- Create a simulation project
- Preview a project
- Share a project for review
- Publish a project
- Upgrade projects in Adobe Captivate
Overview
The Adobe Captivate Share for Review feature enables eLearning content creators to collaborate effortlessly with reviewers on projects. Authors can generate public or private links to the project and share them with reviewers for feedback. Reviewers can access the projects, leave comments, and provide valuable feedback without requiring Captivate installation. Authors can then address the reviews and either finalize the project or initiate a new review cycle.
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Why is reviewing important
Reviewing a project created with Captivate is important for several reasons:
- Feedback and collaboration: Reviewing enables e-learning collaboration between the author and reviewers. This Captivate project feedback provides an opportunity for the author to receive suggestions from reviewers, which can help improve the project content and design while ensuring its quality.
- Quality assurance: Reviewing ensures project quality by examining content, design, functionality, and user experience. Reviewers offer insights for improvement, ensuring compliance with copyright laws and spotting overlooked errors for correction before finalization.
- End-user perspective: Reviewing provides an opportunity to evaluate the project from the end users' perspective. Reviewers can provide feedback on the clarity, usability, and effectiveness of the project, helping to improve the overall user experience.
In essence, conducting a comprehensive review of a Captivate project is crucial to guarantee its precision, caliber, adherence to standards, and efficacy. The Share for review functionality conveniently consolidates all these aspects into a single platform.
How to create a review in Adobe Captivate
In this section, you’ll learn the Captivate review process, from creating a review and generating sharable links to inviting reviewers and utilizing the Captivate online review for e-learning collaboration. Watch this short tutorial on how to create and share a review:
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Open the project that you want reviewed on Captivate.
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Select Share for review at the lower-right corner of the toolbar. This launches the review panel where you can create a review.
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Add a title for the review. The title is picked from the name of the project by default. You can, however, change it.
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Select Create Review to create the review. After you select the button, Captivate uploads the project’s assets to the cloud and prepares the project for review.
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Select from the following options in the Access type dropdown.
- Public: anyone with access to the link can add/edit comments: Anyone with the link can view the project. This is ideal for sharing projects with a larger audience since it has fewer security restrictions.
- Private: only invited people can add/edit comments: Only a set of invited reviewers can access the shared project. This option provides more secured access limited to the invited reviewers only.
Бележка:Both groups of users need to possess an Adobe ID to access and provide comments on a project review.
- Public: anyone with access to the link can add/edit comments: Anyone with the link can view the project. This is ideal for sharing projects with a larger audience since it has fewer security restrictions.
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Select Invite people to add reviewers to your project. Enter the email addresses of the reviewers.
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Set a context to the project and write a message for your reviewers.
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Select Invite to view to invite the reviewers.
The reviewers receive a mail for reviewing the project.
Update a review
Updating a review refers to making changes to an existing review in Adobe Captivate. This can include updating the content of the review link, such as adding or removing slides, making visual edits to images or videos, changing themes, changing questions, or any other modifications to the project. After updating a review, you can then send the review link to the reviewers to ensure that reviewers are kept updated with the latest version of the project.
- Make some changes to the project.
- Select Update review. The project review gets updated with the latest changes.
The reviewers will be notified via email, and they can open the web link again to view the updated project and provide feedback accordingly.
Create multiple reviews
Creating multiple reviews in Adobe Captivate allows authors to have separate feedback cycles for different groups or stakeholders. Each review can be private or public, depending on the intended audience and the type of feedback expected. This allows authors to gather feedback from multiple sources and manage them separately for better organization and collaboration.
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Select New review.
Create another review from scratch and share it with reviewers. After creating the review, all previously created reviews are stacked on top of each other, with the most recent review, at the bottom. Authors can see the access type (public and private) of all reviews for the project from the review list.
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Hover over a review from the list and see additional options such as delete review, copy review link, and open review on the web.
How do I review an Adobe Captivate project
Adobe Captivate allows you to review the content of a shared project on the web. You can add comments, suggest changes, and tag other collaborators to provide their input. The author can then view the feedback, make changes, and address the comments. The review process helps to keep track of the changes suggested and implemented based on the feedback, ensuring the project meets the desired requirements and quality standards.
Here is a short tutorial on how to add review comments for a shared project:
Follow these steps to review a project:
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Open the email notification sent by the project author.
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Select Open Review in the email to open the project review in a web browser.
Once the project review is open, you can view the project slides and provide feedback by adding comments on the relevant slides.
Unmapped comments refer to those that are not associated with a specific slide within a project.
They come in two forms:
- Comments made before selecting play on the first screen during review.
- Comments attached to a slide which was later deleted.
You can filter the comments based on the following criteria:
- Reviewer Filter: This filter displays the names of all reviewers who have already added comments. You can select a reviewer's name to filter the comments made by that reviewer.
- Time Filter: This filter allows you to filter comments based on the time they were made. You can choose options such as Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days, or Older.
- Status Filter: This filter allows you to view only the list of resolved comments. You can use the Resolved option to filter the resolved comments.
By using these filters, you can reduce clutter and focus on the relevant comments during the review process.
This allows you to easily manage feedback in the project. You can see all the comments across all screens for that slide.
Request project access
If you receive a forwarded link for a private project review but are not invited by the author, you will need to request access to the project from the author before you can view and comment on it. Once you have reviewed the project and provided your feedback, you can close the web browser. The author will be notified of your comments and can address them accordingly.
Add device-specific comments
Add device-specific comments for each viewport (desktop, tablet, or mobile) to provide feedback on how the project appears on different screens. This allows for specific comments and suggestions to be made for each device, ensuring that the project is optimized for different screen sizes and resolutions.
To add comments for each device in Adobe Captivate, you can follow these steps:
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Open the review.
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Select the slide for which you want to add comments.
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Select a device viewport button on a slide to switch between different device views.
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Add your comments for each device view by typing in the comment box. You can also tag specific collaborators by using the "@" symbol followed by their name to notify them of the comment.
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Once you have made changes to the project, you can reply to the comments to indicate that the issues have been resolved or the changes have been implemented.
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If you have implemented the modifications recommended in the comment, select the Resolve option.
If you encounter content that violates Adobe's Terms of Use while reviewing a shared Adobe Captivate project online, you can report it.
Select the
icon from the top right, and then select Report Abuse and fill out the form.Alternatively, you can report abuse via email to abuse@adobe.com.
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Select Help menu > Manage My Account. This opens your Adobe Account settings on the web.
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Select Collaboration from the Communication Preferences dropdown.
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To set commenting notifications for Creative Cloud assets, choose All emails, Daily digest, or No emails from the dropdown menu, depending on how frequently you want to receive notifications about the activity.