Adobe Flex or Adobe Captivate for an eLearning Platform

A client of mine would like to build a project where he would like to keep track of students as the go through Math Lessons and Quizes of each Chapter, with the potential to post their achievements to facebook and so on.
Before I jump into Captivcate, I need to make sure that Captivate can do what we need:
- Simple Animation explaining a Math problem
- Interaction with User when Needed
- Able to track Student on where they're reached
- Able to continue on a Mobile
- Quizes
I am curious to know if I am able to code in Actionscript if need be, say to post to facebook.
Please do advise me if I am able ot perform all these in Captivate, or Simply build such a platform in Flex?
Thanks

I have done stuff with Authorware/Flex/CP. Here's my take:
- Simple Animation explaining a Math problem:
YES
- Interaction with User when Needed: I don't understand what you mean ?
If you mean like drag/drops, hotspots ...etc ...then...YES, SOMEWHAT. Hotspots are very basic. Drag/Drop...you can build/buy widget to do this...buying has its limitations.
- Able to track Student on where they're reached:
YES.
- Able to continue on a Mobile
MAY BE...if have an LMS and your mobile device supports FLASH....so forget about i-Devices.
- Quizes
I dont like the default quiz slides in CP at all. They are very convoluted and too many buttons to do simple things. It's better to build your own quiz templates or use different tools for this.
You can use Flex to build stuff that you can't do in CP and embed in CP as swf widgets. You would need the lib to have Flex swf to communicate w/ CP.
I just wish that CP can do stuff like Authorware.

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I came across Adobe Captivate and the eLearning Suite while looking for screen capture video software. I don't know if this is going to serve my purpose and that is my question.
What I would like to do is create tutorial videos through screen capture and video recording. For instance, I might record how to install a sound card into a PC, then I might want to record my screen as I show how to check for the latest Drivers, I want to be able to talk the user through this as I go of course.
So is this software what I am looking for? Can it do all this, or would I be better off with something else?
if Anyone has rich examples of this software doing something close I would love to see them! After all, seeing is believing.
Thanks in advance!

Hello,
My 2cents. For the software training, Captivate is indeed for me personally the best app around, and I have been trying a lot (Camtasia, Smartbuilder, Viewletbuilder...).
Of course you have to record the video (that is not possible with Captivate) with a video-recorder. In CP5 importing the video (Adobe Media Encoder will be automatically used for converting if it is not flv) and working with it has become really great. You can spread the video over different slides, readjust the timings, resize, insert Text Captions on the slides with video, add Question slides, audio ...
Would recommend to go for the eLearning suite if budget allows it, because besides Captivate you will have some other great apps (Flash, Photoshop, Soundbooth, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro,...) and moreover very nice roundtripping to Photoshop and Soundbooth.
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Hello Captivators,
I went to the following site about Captivate:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/logged_in/sfleischer_captivate2.html
Located on this page was an interesting demo on "soft skills"
elearning. What really caught my interest, is part way thru the
demo (2 or 3 slide in or so) was located a button in the upper left
of the captivate view screen, that was labeled "Behind the Scenes".
When this button was clicked, it displayed, rather nicely, some
information and a nice chart/graph of what was happening in the
demo. I was wondering how they accomplished that effect. One click
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where it left off.
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elearning exercise, to track what the user's last slide was. Much
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¿Cuál es la diferencia entre Adobe Captivate for teachers and alumns y la versión normal?

Qusiera saber la diferencia para saber cual conviene más, soy diseñador pero trabajo en una institución educativa y hacemos manuales interactivos para manejar softwares nuevos

Tendrás que llenar los requisitos para tener derecho a usar la versión educativa.

Can I pick up from where I left off with my Adobe Captivate subscription?

Hello,
I had a subscription for Adobe Captivate for almost two years. I fulfilled my 12-month requirement, and paid my monthly subscription price for another 10 months after that.
About 6 months ago now, I canceled my subscription.
Question: Is there a way to simply reactive my subscription?

Hi There,
The best way is to place a new order of Captivate 8 annual subscription online by visiting our website :-
Elearning Software, Screen Capture, Mobile Learning, HTML5 Publishing | Adobe Captivate 8
Click on buy and then choose subscription under I want to buy drop down menu and place a new order by which you will not face any billing/ credit card issues in future.
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My professor uses adobe captivate for his slides, I was wondering how I can print them off to take notes since I am just a viewer and not a publisher. Thank you in advance for your help.

You will not be able to print them, why not ask your professor to insert the Notes Interaction, so that you can take notes on each slide, and print those notes?
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I also applied the steps above and had no luck.
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Static XFA uses the PDF markup language for content and form fields, so users can view the documents in Adobe Reader for iOS, but we currently do not properly handle filling, saving, and submitting those forms. I have improving our handling of Static XFA on my roadmap, but cannot offer any specific date yet (sorry, policy plus actual uncertainty). I know that there are some other apps that partially support Static XFA, though I do not know how complete their support is. If you can even open the XFA document in Adobe Reader for iOS, it is likely Static XFA.
Dynamic XFA is effectively a JavaScript application packaged inside a PDF wrapper, which generates layout and form fields via code and requires a significant engine to support this. Support for Dynamic XFA is unfortunately not currently on our roadmap for iOS due to the nature of the technology, and our concern that any implementation we try likely will not pass Apple's restriction against installing something that allows other "apps" to be downloaded and executed from within it. The LiveCycle team is exploring solutions for our enterprise customers wanting to use Dynamic XFA from mobile devices as part of their server offering, but I cannot offer any insight here. To my knowledge, there are no applications that handle Dynamic XFA other than Adobe Reader for the desktop platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).
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Adobe Reader for iOS currently does not appear to support XFA forms created through Livecycle. Although it supports some field types, the HTTP submit and Email submit buttons don't work.
Being able to email the completed form ready for someone else to submit would be a work around, however when attempting to 'share' a completed form and send it by email the form is blank when saved and opened in the desktop version of Adobe Reader on a PC.
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There are two basic varieties of LiveCycle XFA...Static XFA and Dynamic XFA, which are very different in terms of their future for potential support in Adobe Reader for iOS. Which variety of XFA are you using?
Static XFA uses the PDF markup language for content and form fields, so users can view the documents in Adobe Reader for iOS, but we currently do not properly handle filling, saving, and submitting those forms. I have improving our handling of Static XFA on my roadmap, but cannot offer any specific date yet (sorry, policy plus actual uncertainty). I know that there are some other apps that partially support Static XFA, though I do not know how complete their support is. If you can even open the XFA document in Adobe Reader for iOS, it is likely Static XFA.
Dynamic XFA is effectively a JavaScript application packaged inside a PDF wrapper, which generates layout and form fields via code and requires a significant engine to support this. Support for Dynamic XFA is unfortunately not currently on our roadmap for iOS due to the nature of the technology, and our concern that any implementation we try likely will not pass Apple's restriction against installing something that allows other "apps" to be downloaded and executed from within it. The LiveCycle team is exploring solutions for our enterprise customers wanting to use Dynamic XFA from mobile devices as part of their server offering, but I cannot offer any insight here. To my knowledge, there are no applications that handle Dynamic XFA other than Adobe Reader for the desktop platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux).
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The right place to look for updates on Flex is http://flex.apache.org
The good thing is that activities are still going on. The bad things are that:
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for business critical applications... The risk is high !

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You can make it happen by creating a private connection for 40 users by capi script and when creating portlet select 2nd option in Users Logged in section. In this the portlet uses there own private connection every time user logs in.
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Another thing is there is an option of entering password or not in ASC in discoverer section, if your version 10.1.2.2. Let me know if you need more information
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I am building eLearning modules for staff training across a Province - would I need Adobe Captivate, or the whole Adobe eLearning 6.1 Suite?

Maybe I was not clear: Captivate is not included in the CC but is a separate subscription (which I would recommend over buying license, better price/quality value).
All depends on what you want to develop? I'm using both Photoshop and Audition (from the CC) intensively for graphical and audio assets. I also use Illustrator (inserting vector graphics as smart objects into Photoshop because of its roundtripping functionality with Captivate). Edge Animate is included in the CC and is great for creating animations. I'm also using several other applications.
But if you are buying graphics, or use another graphics editor, and can live with the audio created within Captivate (or use Audacity), don't need animations etc, you could just start with Captivate subscription?

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Adobe Captivate has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

I am trying to use Adobe Captivate 5 and I am receiving this message when trying to open the application,
"Adobe® Captivate® has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."
Can you explain how this issue can be resolve!?

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On which operating system are you using Adobe Captivate?
Please recreate the preferences of Captivate, following is the location of Captivate Preferences:
Windows 7: C:\Users\[user name]\AppData (hidden folder)\Local\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5 folder
Windows XP: C:\Documents and Settings\[user name]\Local Settings\Application Data\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 5 folder
Mac: /Users/[user name]/Library/Preferences/Adobe Captivate 5 folder
rename Captivate 5 to Captivate 5_old
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I am an MBA student , doing a research project on e-learning authoring tools, would like to find out no. of licences sold/active to date for adobe captivate. how many get sold every year. any pointers/help is appreciated. cheers.

I am an MBA student , doing a research project on e-learning authoring tools, would like to find out no. of licences sold/active to date for adobe captivate. how many get sold every year. any pointers/help is appreciated. cheers.

I doubt you'll get an answer in a user forum, sorry. This forum is meant for users to help other users when they have problems that have to be solved. You should contact Adobe itself.

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