ragesh.c@gds.ey.com
The new Adobe Captivate version lacks the ability to restrict the video seekbar—a key feature for ensuring learner engagement and compliance in eLearning. In many training scenarios, it's important to prevent users from skipping ahead or fast-forwarding through video content. Ideally, the seekbar should be locked until the video has been watched completely. Once the video is fully viewed, users can then be allowed to fast-forward or rewind for review purposes. This functionality was available in Adobe Captivate Classic and is essential for maintaining the integrity of learning paths. Please consider adding this feature to the new version to support structured and effective video-based learning.
Ragesh C
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Ragesh C
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Hi Shivang,
When replaying the video, users should be able to easily fast‑forward to reach the desired portion. Controlling the video seekbar is not a difficult technical feature to implement, and having an option to limit scrubbing is very helpful—it allows users to rewind only the completed portion of the video, which is especially useful when the video duration is long.
Additionally, the seekbar displays the video's progress, so hiding it is not ideal from a user‑experience perspective.
I kindly request the Captivate team to consider adding this feature. -
AdminShivang
(Admin, Adobe Captivate)
commented
Thank you for your feedback.
You can achieve this by utilizing slide videos in new Adobe Captivate instead of regular Video content block (event videos in Captivate Classic) as the slide videos utilize project controls. New Adobe Captivate does not currently include a playbar with timeline scrubbing which prevents fast-forwarding or skipping. Additionally, authors have full control to hide the playbar or disable navigation controls (like Next, Back, etc.) to ensure that the learner must view the entire video on a slide before progressing.
Here's the link to help article for more details: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/help/add-videos-adobe-captivate.html.
Please let us know if you have a different use case so we can check further accordingly.