"Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X which can be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and randomized quizzes." I was asked to create a document that enlists the new features and enhancements in Captivate 9 few months back.

1. Captivate 9 Features
Adobe Captivate is an electronic learning tool for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X which can
be used to author software demonstrations, software simulations, branched scenarios, and
randomized quizzes.
With new Adobe Captivate 9, the user can go seamlessly from storyboarding to responsive
eLearning design. There are more than 25,000 assets that you can make use of to enrich your
content and make your courses run seamlessly across desktops and mobile.
New-Asset Store with More than 25,000 Assets
Draw on the newly minted library of 25,000+ assets
including games, interactions, layouts, scenarios,
people cut-outs, and much more, to dress up your
courses. Developed exclusively for Adobe
Captivate 9 users, the library will be updated
regularly so that your content will always dazzle.
New-In-product LMS preview
Eliminate the guesswork from content-LMS
integration, get fine-grained control over all
aspects of your course, and reduce
dependency on your LMS administrator.
Automatically preview courses in Scorm.com,
to gauge LMS compatibility and get error logs
to identify those portions of the course that
need attention.
Enhanced- Publish to Adobe Captivate Prime and other LMSs
Get your training content out to your learners with
a single click, thanks to the new self-service LMS,
Adobe Captivate Prime. The tight integration of
Adobe Captivate and Adobe Captivate Prime
ensures a superior learning experience for users,
while keeping you in control of your learning
environment. Optionally, publish your courses
effortlessly to other leading LMSs.

2. New- Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) support
Create high-quality projects with vector images that
scale across devices and sizes with no loss of quality.
Define complex shapes and bring them into Adobe
Captivate, as SVG graphics. Convert them to auto
shapes and use them as buttons or feedback captions.
Roundtrip with Adobe Illustrator CC to edit the images.
The images are automatically added to the library,
and can be re-used across projects.
New- Knowledge Check questions
Keep learners on-track with informal checkpoints
embedded in your course. Include knowledge check
questions to help learners pause, think, and consider
before they move on to more content or assessments.
Provide option-level feedback to learners for greater
understanding and retention.
New- Adobe Captivate Draft
Convert your ideas into storyboards complete with
eLearning elements such as content and question
slides, branching logic, and more. Create storyboards in
minutes using the all-new app, and share them for real-
time, collaborative reviewing on the cloud; reviewers
do not need to have either the app or Adobe
Captivate. Simply import your storyboards into Adobe
Captivate 9, and publish them, to seamlessly generate
responsive projects.
With draft you to create your storyboard all right within the app and provides a lot of functionality.
You can add slide objects and modify their properties like the size and fill color. You can even add
hotspots and questions slides. When you’re finished creating your storyboard you can save it to
Creative Cloud and open the storyboard file directly into Captivate 9 and add full development.

3. New- Multistate objects
Power up your eLearning with less elbow grease
using object states on steroids. Improve retention by
enabling learners to interact with objects in ways
never seen before. Make complex workflows
achievable with just a few clicks by triggering an
unlimited number of custom or in-built states, for
each object, including smart shapes, images, text,
buttons and more. Easily edit states using the States
timeline.
New- Interactive slide shows with multistate objects
Easily loop multiple states of an object to create interactive slide shows without having to create
multiple slides. Impart an unlimited number of states to virtually any object. Each state can
contain images, text, videos, animations or any combination of these objects. Add buttons that
learners can use to navigate the course.
New- iOS device capture
Now record your device screen as a full resolution
HD video. Make your video richer by adding
mobile-specific gestures such as swipe, tap, and
pinch to zoom. Select from a range of audio
sources, such as system audio, device audio, and
microphone input, to customize your video demo.
New- Responsive Motion Effects without
programming
Create eLearning that rocks with fluid object transitions that
include motion paths and rotations, even in responsive
projects. Define Linear, Custom or Scribble motion paths to
completely control the way objects move. Preview
animations on hover, and see how effects play out relative
to other objects on the integrated Effects and Project
timeline. Deliver a superior responsive learning experience
by designing different effects for different devices. Integrate
multi-state objects with customizable effects to create more
impactful courses.

4. Enhanced-Enhancements to Responsive Projects
Now responsive projects have up to 5 breakpoints to create for the devices that you are
delivering your projects on. These could be used to create specific views or you can create them
as the landscape/portrait view alternative to your project.
If don’t want your learners to view content on mobile devices in landscape mode, you can do
that as well with disallowing landscape orientation and including a message to only view the
course in portrait orientation. You can find this in Preferences, Publish Settings.
New-Multi-State Objects
A new level of interactivity has been added to
Captivate 9 with multi-state objects. You can create
these interactions without having to use show/hide
techniques in your project. In the Properties panel that
is new section called Object States where you can
create different states for an object. There are still the
three default states, Normal, Rollover, and Down. You
can also create your own custom states with objects.
There is also a button called State View that opens up the Object State panel to manage the
states you have created. You can add or delete states and add more objects to existing states.

5. You can execute then execute and Advanced Action to Change State of… so when the learner
clicks on the target button it will then change the state of the object.
Here is an example screenshot of how states can work
instead of the show/hide features in Advanced Actions.
This example has several car colors so when the learner clicks
on each color button the car will match the color on the
button. This was all created using the multi-state object feature
in Captivate 9.
Enhanced- Geo-location Enhancements
Captivate 8 introduced geo-location for responsive courses,
but now in Captivate 9 there’s an extra layer of functionality.
Geo-location allows you to deliver content to you learners
when they need it and where they need it.
One of the better features of this is the Geo-Location
Emulator which allows you to test out the project as if you
were in the learner’s location.
Another update is executing an Advanced Action when the learner’s location changes.

6. New- Multistate support for drag-and-drop interactions
Make learning dynamic by leveraging multistate
object support for drag and drop interactions.
Simulate real-life scenarios by customizing the
states for Drag sources and Drop targets, based
on learner interaction. Provide feedback and
aid retention, by altering the state of the Drop
target to reflect whether an answer is correct or
not.
Improved-Timeline Based Interactions
In terms of course design, the timeline is a vital resource for interactions and Captivate 9 now
brings advance action features that let you program what happens at a specific point in the
timeline. This is a process that has been improved so designers don't have to write ActionScript.