The Adobe Captivate Worst Features -
Adobe Captivate is a great tool that has tons of functions However, it is best to stay clear of this feature completely unless you are looking for massive headaches and loads of work!
With the number of learning tools out there, it is normal to incorporate a handful of them for online learning. In the past I've utilized Articulate and Adobe Captivate to create an elearning course on new processes and software. I find that presenting process flows and information in Articulate is a lot simpler than doing it with Captivate. This is mostly due to Articulate being a PowerPoint add-on, which allows for rapid development (and multi-developer integration) in a fairly effortless manner.
In the future, I think Adobe Captivate prefers that developers ignore Articulate entirely and make use of their PowerPoint import tool instead. I'm speaking from personal the experience of others, this is perhaps the most ineffective function in the whole range of Captivate.
If you import the PowerPoint file into PowerPoint, you essentially link the separate PowerPoint document to Captivate. Captivate file. If you update the contents of your PowerPoint, Captivate *should* be able to update itself... However, that is usually never the case.
Most often it is likely an issue with the connection between Captivate and PowerPoint. If you try to open PowerPoint within Captivate it will show difficulties with performance as well as other issues (i.e. the entire slide will go white).
Most importantly, when you utilize this feature and you are using this feature, you'll experience more severe glitches because your presentation becomes larger. If you are required to import a PowerPoint, expect these issues to pop up, especially in the case of presentations that are longer than 35 pages. There were a handful of courses that had to be sent to the Adobe helpdesk to be "recovered" due to an unintentional fatal error.
Short story my group and I spent a lot of time repairing small glitches until the point where changing a spelling mistake in the course took nearly 15 minutes. Then, in the end the team decided to move all the eLearning we had to Articulate (after finishing the project with Captivate) due to it being not easy to change into the client's condition as it was in its.
This wasn't done due to the fact that Articulate can be considered to be more of a "better" program (I actually prefer Captivate), but Captivate isn't designed for PowerPoint as this option appeared to have been quickly added to "appease" the PowerPoint people who love PowerPoint.
Do yourself a favor, avoid using the PowerPoint import option within Captivate or at the very least, at the moment it is not available (v5.5 as I write). Use Captivate for screen and software demonstrations, what it was initially designed to do.