Adobe Captivate 12: Auto-Advance Slides

In older versions of Adobe Captivate, slides automatically advanced from one to the next. If you wanted a slide to pause for learner engagement, you had to add an interactive component, such as a button or click box. This version of Captivate is as different from Captivate Classic as night is from day.

To make a Captivate 12 slide auto-advance, add a bookmark to the Timeline and set its action to go to the next slide.

This short video demonstrates the process.

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Comments

[Marjorie Guzman]

YAY! Thank you so much for creating this video!

[Mark Miller]

This sort of basic flaw to the “new” (is it really still new after so long?) Captivate is why I think Adobe has abandoned the e-learning space. Here are some flaws to the logic:
1. The vast majority of slides will just auto-advance in most projects and this causes added work that doesn’t need to happen.
2. Most people will either place a “Next” button or rely on the learner to click the player. Since the slides should just auto-advance, it becomes tedious clicking which developers have been trying to avoid for years,
3. The nomenclature is flawed. Putting an action on a bookmark feels unintuitive, Traditionally you jump to a bookmark and not from one, It’s a workaround for the present issue but it feels very clunky.

Whoever thought this behavior made sense needs to re-evaluate. I suspect that it was simply left out to save time for the programmers to do more fun features instead of the core functionality,

E-Learning development tools are stagnating, or in this case regressing.

[Kevin Siegel]

Mark,

I agree with you 100%. I understand wonderful things are on the horizon for this version of Captivate. But much of this feels like a half-baked solution created by developers who are not eLearning developers.

If Adobe built this new interface for developers, I wonder who Adobe engineers spoke to before rebuilding this version. I can tell you that they didn't talk to me. I've spoken to several well-respected professionals in the eLearning space, and none of them were asked to advise on anything.

Captivate Classic worked great; it just needed a facelift. It needed fresh tools and a simplified workflow. Instead...