http://thedesignspace.net/ My daily explorations, troubleshooting, solutions and discoveries. en-us ellen@thedesignspace.net Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:41:16 -0500 http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000992.html We use Captivate with our LMS both as standalone SCORM modules that communicate directly with the LMS, and as embedded quizzes inside custom learning modules. Communication of the Captivate score back to the learning module was done using a trick suggested by Adobe's Andrew Chemey which involved redefining the built-in sendMail function Captivate used to send an email report of... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000970.html Symptom: hyperlinks that worked in a Powerpoint file no longer work in the published Presenter or Powerpoint presentation based on that Powerpoint. This is because Flash Security treats local content differently than the content on the internet. The solution is to put the published files onto a web server and access it using the URL (like: http://yoursite.com/yourpresentation.htm).... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000948.html There have been several times when I've discovered that settings changes I make in Captivate Preferences or Properties are not being honored - my changes can be seen in the Preferences or Properties panels after closing and reopening the Preferences or properties, but they are not being used.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000947.html Captivate allows you to import a Powerpoint file to use as the starting point for your learning activity. It's often easier for people to "think" in Powerpoint, so many users prefer to rough out a project in Powerpoint, then import it and continue working in Captivate. When a Powerpoint file is imported this way, its images become part of the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000945.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000943.html The other day a Captivate author showed me a new problem: on one slide, resource links she had put into a slide imported from Powerpoint were not working.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000910.html In Captivate versions up to version 4, it used to be easy to copy slides from one project to another. by simply importing slides from any other project. But Captivate 5 lacks the import slides feature! However, another way to copy slides is to use copy/paste. According to the documentation it should be possible to open one Captivate file, select... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000890.html In Adobe Captivate, if you check Allow User to Review Quiz in the quiz settings in Preferences, a button should appear on the Score page that allows the user to go back and see what they answered and any available feedback for each question slide. Sometimes this button doesn't display, even if this setting is checked.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000886.html Captivate 5 removed the need to answer this question: it only publishes in ActionScript 3 format, and correspondingly limits the compatibility of the published SWF file in certain situations as described below. But if you are using Captivate v. 4 or earlier, you may still be wondering which to choose.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000862.html Publish the Captivate file In the Publish window select Flash (SWF). Check Publish to Folder. This will help keep your published files in one piece, isolated from unrelated files.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000861.html Project Size At this time, the maximum width the template can handle is 1024px. Set your project size at 1024 x 768 or smaller.... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000860.html http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000827.html If you have a Captivate 4 file that refuses to generate any SCORM support files when publishing, check your Publish settings. Make sure that "Fullscreen" is not checked in the publishing settings. Then it will publish fine. Since you are eliminating the Captivate generated code for maximizing the window, you may want to add that back in. To force the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000826.html Captivate 5 has many bugs that have been complete showstoppers for my elearning projects. Among them, there is a problem with SCORM courses that get perpetually stuck on the gray "Loading..." screen. This is because "API.Initialize" is never called. Thanks to the detective work of Bart Lewis, we have a partial fix. Publish the Captivate file as SCORM. Open the... http://thedesignspace.net/MT2archives/000782.html