Chapter 1: Introduction to Adobe Captivate Prime

Welcome to Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime. Adobe Captivate Prime was released for the first time in 2015, so it is a relative newcomer on the LMS landscape. Despite its youth, Captivate Prime has already built a solid reputation as one of the best corporate LMSes out there, as outlined by the numerous awards it has received throughout its young career.

Just like any other LMS, you can use Captivate Prime to host eLearning content, arrange that content into courses, maintain a list of users and trainers, enroll learners into courses, track user progress, and more. But Captivate Prime is far more than that! It has some unique features such as a powerful gamification engine, built-in social learning activities, and an AI-powered recommendation engine. This makes Captivate Prime a pioneer of the next generation of enterprise LMS.

You can further expand the power of Captivate Prime by leveraging numerous integrations between Prime and other enterprise-grade systems, such as directory services, marketing automation tools, content management systems (CMSes), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms, and more. This allows organizations to go far beyond the traditional learning management system and design truly comprehensive learning experiences that are consistent with their corporate graphic identity and aligned with other marketing efforts. This enhanced set of functionalities allows Captivate Prime to deliver customized learning content that fits the needs of every learner individually. This is why more and more people consider Captivate Prime a Learning eXperience Platform (LXP) rather than an LMS.

You will explore all these features and functionalities throughout this book. You will start by exploring the basic LMS features of Captivate Prime. To achieve this goal, you will upload training modules to the system, arrange these modules into courses, create various types of users, and assign learners to courses. Then, you will enhance the learner experience by turning on advanced features such as gamification and social learning. Finally, you will add a touch of artificial intelligence to provide personalized recommendations to your learners and integrate Captivate Prime into the other systems of the organization. This will help you build a full-blown learning experience for your employees, partners, and customers.

This makes for a lot of exciting features to discover and use cases to discuss, so let's start with the basics. In this first chapter, you will learn about the following topics:

• Discovering what Captivate Prime is and how it fits in the LMS landscape.
• Learning about where Captivate Prime fits in the Adobe ecosystem of applications and services.
• Activating your Captivate Prime trial account.
• Touring the Captivate Prime application and the main roles available in the system.