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Learn effective prompt writing techniques for Adobe Captivate's AI text generation features. Master contextual prompting to create quality eLearning content, assessments, and scenarios.
Overview
Adobe Captivate’s Generate text feature empowers eLearning creators to quickly produce slide content, quizzes, and scenarios. Crafting well-structured prompts is essential to ensuring the AI generates meaningful and instructionally aligned output.
Guidelines for writing prompts in Adobe Captivate
Follow these principles when creating prompts in Captivate:
- Define your audience: Specify learner demographics, prior knowledge, or preferences.
 - Clarify learning objectives: State what learners should know or do after the course.
 - Design assessments with context: Indicate the type and number of questions.
 - Use scenario-based learning: Frame real-life situations that learners can engage with.
 - Set tone and style: Indicate if content should be formal, conversational, or instructional.
 - Be specific and detailed: Use clear and specific language and include setting, environment, and tone.
 - Use natural language: Phrase prompts conversationally for more intuitive results.
 - Tailor to learners: Match tone, complexity, and format with your audience.
 - Iterate and refine: Use AI output as a draft; revise to improve clarity and accuracy.
 
Examples of effective prompt usage
To better understand how prompt quality impacts AI-generated content, here are paired examples that illustrate what works well and what needs refinement.
| Instructional goal | Prompt quality | Example | Why It works / Needs improvement | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Learning objectives | Well-crafted | “Create five SMART learning objectives for a beginner-level course on cybersecurity awareness for corporate employees.” | Clearly defines scope, audience, and instructional goal. | 
| Needs improvement | “Write some objectives.” | Too vague; lacks context and specificity. | |
| Scenario design | Well-crafted | “Generate a scenario where a retail employee helps an angry customer who received the wrong product. Keep the tone professional and supportive.” | Provides role, situation, and tone. | 
| Needs improvement | “Make a customer service scenario.” | Missing role, setting, and tone. | |
| Assessment creation | Well-crafted | “Write three multiple-choice questions and one true/false question to assess knowledge of workplace fire safety procedures.” | Specifies question types, number, and topic. | 
| Needs improvement | “Write some quiz questions.” | Lacks structure and instructional focus. | |
| Content summarization | Well-crafted | “Summarize this 200-word policy on data privacy into a short paragraph suitable for a compliance training slide.” | Clear purpose, audience, and length. | 
| Needs improvement | “Make this text shorter.” | No guidance on how much shorter or for what purpose. | |
| Narration writing | Well-crafted | “Create narration text in a conversational tone for a 1-minute video introducing new hires to company safety rules.” | Defines tone, medium, and duration. | 
| Needs improvement | 
 
 “Write some narration.” 
 
  | 
 
 Too generic; no tone, format, or context. 
 
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Summary
Crafting prompts with clarity, context, and specificity is key to unlocking the full potential of Adobe Captivate’s AI-powered text generation. By defining your audience, instructional goals, and desired format, you guide the AI to produce content that is both relevant and impactful. Use the examples above to fine-tune your approach and ensure your prompts consistently yield high-quality results.