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Generative AI in Adobe Captivate

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  1. Captivate User Guide
  2. Get to know Captivate
    1. What's new in Adobe Captivate
    2. Adobe Captivate System Requirements
    3. Download Adobe Captivate
    4. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Adobe Captivate releases
    1. Adobe Captivate 13
      1. Adobe Captivate (13.1) release notes
      2. Adobe Captivate (13.0) release notes
    2. Adobe Captivate 12
      1. Adobe Captivate 12 summary
      2. Adobe Captivate (12.6 update) release notes
      3. Adobe Captivate (12.5 update) release notes
      4. Adobe Captivate (12.4 update) release notes
      5. Adobe Captivate (12.3 update) release notes
      6. Adobe Captivate (12.2 update) release notes
      7. Adobe Captivate (12.1 update) release notes
  4. Project setup
    1. Slide navigator
    2. Project dimensions
    3. Set preferences
      1. General preferences
      2. Generative AI preferences
      3. Project preferences
      4. Quizzing preferences
    4. Themes
    5. Configure URL access for Adobe Captivate features
  5. Import from PowerPoint
    1. Import PowerPoint presentations into Captivate
    2. Select PowerPoint slides to import into Captivate
    3. Work with text on imported slides
    4. Work with shapes on imported slides
    5. Add media to imported slides
    6. Add interactions and animations to imported slides
  6. Import from Captivate Classic
    1. Import Captivate Classic projects into Adobe Captivate
    2. Import Captivate Classic simulation projects into Captivate
  7. Generative AI in Adobe Captivate
    1. Generative AI overview
    2. Generative AI FAQs
    3. Generative credits
    4. Generate text 
      1. Generate text overview
      2. Write effective prompts for text generation
      3. Generate text using quick prompts
      4. Generate text using custom prompts
      5. Provide feedback to improve text generation
    5. Generate images
      1. Generate image overview
      2. Generate images using prompts
      3. Choose image content type - Photo or Art
      4. Use reference images for Composition and Style
      5. Best practices for effective image generation
      6. Provide feedback to improve image generation
    6. Generate avatar
      1. Generate avatar overview
      2. Customize the avatar
      3. Create transcripts for avatar narration
      4. Generate avatar narration
      5. Provide feedback to improve avatar generation
    7. Generate transcripts
      1. Generate transcripts overview
      2. Generate transcripts for closed captions
      3. Best practices to use transcripts effectively
  8. Add and edit text
    1. Add text to a project
    2. Add Adobe fonts to a project
    3. Add quotes
    4. Author in right-to-left languages
  9. Add and edit images
    1. Add images to a project
    2. Edit the background image on a slide
    3. Add SVGs to a project
  10. Add and edit media
    1. Add videos to a project
    2. Add and edit audio
    3. Add audio for widget interactions
    4. Add closed captions
    5. Add web objects to a project
  11. Interactive components
    1. Add a button
    2. Add an input field
    3. Add a radio button group
    4. Add a dropdown
    5. Add a checkbox
    6. Variables in Adobe Captivate
  12. Create quizzes
    1. Add a Multiple-choice question
    2. Add a True or false question
    3. Add a Match the column question
    4. Add a Short answer question
    5. Add a Sequence question
    6. Add question pools and random question slides
    7. Import questions as CSV
  13. Add widgets
    1. Add a Card
    2. Add Tabs
    3. Add a Certificate
    4. Add a Carousel
    5. Add a Hotspot
    6. Add Drag-and-Drop
    7. Add a Timeline
    8. Add Click to Reveal
    9. Add an Accordion
    10. Add a slider
    11. Add a stack card
  14. Interactions and animations
    1. Add interactions to a project
    2. Create interactive video with overlay
    3. Create a slide-level interaction
    4. Create an object-level interaction
    5. Add animations to a project
    6. States in Adobe Captivate
  15. Enhance your e-learning project
    1. Add padding to content blocks and components
    2. Add a header to a project
    3. Add a footer to a project
    4. Create a long scroll project
    5. Add a conversation slide
    6. Add characters to your Adobe Captivate project
    7. Assets in Captivate
  16. Simulation projects
    1. Simulation overview and setup
    2. Demo mode
    3. Training mode
    4. Assessment mode
    5. Full-motion recording
  17. Timeline and TOC
    1. Timeline panel in Adobe Captivate
    2. Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate
    3. Lock and hide slides in Adobe Captivate
  18. Review and collaborate
    1. Share for review
    2. Create and manage reviews
    3. Add review comments and collaborate
    4. FAQs and Troubleshooting guide for sharing projects for review   
  19. Preview and publish
    1. Preview your project
    2. Publish your project
  20. Accessibility
    1. Create accessible eLearning content in Adobe Captivate
    2. Make a slide accessible
    3. Make slide objects accessible
    4. Make an interactive component accessible
    5. Make a widget accessible
    6. Make a quiz accessible
    7. TOC and Playbar accessibility
  21. Design options in Adobe Captivate
    1. What are design options?
    2. Parts of a design option
    3. Create custom design options
    4. Modify a custom design option
    5. Export a custom design option
    6. Import a custom design option
  22. Additional resources
    1. Top How-tos in Captivate
    2. Captivate Classic vs Adobe Captivate
    3. Upgrade older Captivate projects to the latest version
    4. Create and deploy Captivate packages in Admin Console

Explore how Generative AI in Adobe Captivate accelerates eLearning development. Generate text, visuals, avatars, and transcripts to create personalized, scalable learning experiences.

Overview

Adobe Captivate 13.0 introduces generative AI to simplify and accelerate eLearning development. With these new capabilities, you can:

  • Generate text tailored to your learning objectives, tone, and audience.
  • Create custom images from prompts or slide content for consistent visuals.
  • Produce talking avatars with synchronized narration, customizable appearance, and multilingual support.
  • Generate transcripts for narration, closed captions, or summaries to improve accessibility.

These features help you build engaging, interactive courses faster, without relying on external tools or resources.

Pre-requisites of using Generative AI

IMPORTANT

  • Enable all related features in the Generative AI preferences settings.
  • If Generative AI features don’t work in your network, allow the required URLs. See Configure URLs for more information.

Generative AI features in Adobe Captivate

Feature

Description

Generate text

Use AI to draft, rephrase, and optimize slide content tailored to your audience and learning objectives, with built-in prompts for tone, grammar, and structure.  Learn more on how to use Generate text using AI.

Generate image

Creates visuals from slide content and contextual prompts and reference images. Learn more on how to generate images using AI in Captivate. 

Generate avatar

Generates natural-language transcript based on slide content.  Creates a talking narrator with lip-sync using transcript text. Learn more about AI Avatars in Captivate. 

Generate transcript

Automatically generate natural-language transcripts from slide content for narration, closed captions, or summaries, with tone and audience customization.  Learn more on how to generate transcripts using AI in Captivate. 

Best practices

Ensure the best results with generative AI features in Adobe Captivate:

Guideline Description
Set clear goals  Define your learning objectives before generating content. Know what outcomes you want and what content you don’t want. 
Use strategic prompting  Experiment with different prompt styles to discover what works best. Write prompts in natural, conversational language using active voice. Phrase requests positively and clearly. 
Provide context Include course background, learner level (beginner/intermediate/advanced), and relevant industry or organizational details. Specify your audience’s demographics, experience, preferences, accessibility needs, and cultural considerations. 
Blend AI with human expertise  Treat AI as a powerful assistant, not a substitute for instructional design. Use your domain knowledge to guide and refine AI-generated content. 
Iterate and improve  Review AI outputs and refine prompts based on what works. Combine successful results and adjust as needed. 
Ensure quality  Validate facts and ensure content aligns with learning objectives. Seek feedback from users to improve relevance and clarity. 

Common use-cases and applications

Course Development Scenarios

  • Rapid prototyping of new course concepts and modules
  • Content localization for international audiences
  • Accessibility enhancement through automated transcription and visual descriptions
  • Version updates when refreshing existing courses with new information
  • Microlearning creation for just-in-time training needs

Industry-Specific Applications

  • Corporate training with company-specific scenarios and branding
  • Academic courses with curriculum-aligned content and assessments
  • Compliance training with regulatory requirements and real-world examples
  • Product training with technical specifications and user scenarios

Manage AI features at an organizational level

Adobe Captivate supports both local (user-level) and enterprise (organization-level) control of generative AI features.

User-level control (in-app)

You can enable or disable individual AI capabilities (such as text, image, avatar, or transcript generation) from the Preferences > Generative AI panel.

Enterprise-level control (Admin Console)

Organizations can also control access to certain AI capabilities using Admin Console roles and permissions.

  • Admins can restrict access to specific AI services across users.
  • Feature availability in the Captivate interface may reflect these organizational restrictions.
  • If a feature is disabled at the organization level, it may not be available—even if it is enabled locally.

For more information, see:

Note: Some AI-powered capabilities may not be fully controlled through the Adobe Admin Console. For example, audio generation that relies on external service integrations (such as third-party APIs) cannot currently be blocked at the organization level and may remain accessible even when AI features are disabled.

Important

  • Some AI features (such as image and avatar generation powered by Firefly) can be managed through enterprise role-based controls.
  • Other features, such as text-to-speech or voice generation, rely on integrated third-party services and may not be fully governed through the same role-based controls.

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