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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate Prime is an enterprise learning management system (LMS) that enables organizations to deliver, manage, and track engaging learning experiences for employees, partners, and customers. This book will help you unlock the full potential of this platform to deliver world-class learning experiences. Complete with walkthroughs, examples, and strategies to fully understand Captivate Prime, this book will set you on the path to becoming an administrator, author, or teacher and see you experiment with Captivate Prime from different perspectives. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of how the features relate to one another and to your business. After setting up the platform, you'll learn how to push learning content online and arrange it to build an online course that provides a blended learning experience. You'll be able to deploy your content to different devices and explore Captivate Prime's features for monitoring your students' progress on a daily basis. Finally, you'll see how to organize and maintain your course catalog and take the learner experience to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to implement your organization’s training strategy and provide engaging learning experiences while building meaningful reports to monitor their effectiveness.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Publishing Learning Content
6
Section 2: Managing and Tracking Students' Learning
13
Section 3: Enhancing the Learner Experience
17
Section 4: Administering the Platform

Getting content into Captivate Prime

Adobe Captivate Prime is an LMS. A basic way to define an LMS is to say that it is where learning content, learners, and instructors meet. In other words, getting learning content into Captivate Prime is paramount.

Unlike many other LMSes (especially those LMSes targeted at the education market), Captivate Prime does not have any built-in, browser-based, content authoring capabilities. This means that all the content hosted on your Captivate Prime account has to be brought in from outside the system.

Basically, the content that's available to your learners can come from two types of sources:

  • You can integrate third-party, off-the-shelf content libraries into Prime.
  • You can upload your own custom learning content into the platform.

Let's take a closer, high-level look at these two options.

Integrating third-party, off-the-shelf content

There are a lot of learning content providers out there, and it is not...