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eugener2418576
eugener2418576
Inspiring
December 17, 2018
Question

Accessing movie clips/button from Animate (html5) in Captivate

  • December 17, 2018
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Hi there.

New user of Captivate - trying to make my content 'scorm' compliant.

My content has been produced in Adobe Animate CC, using the canvas element (html5).

I would like to be able to interact with my various buttons and/or movie clips - but have them record some sort of detail to help with SCORM scoring. So far I have been able to create an 'Advanced Action' and console.log out the name of the html5 file that I have imported into my Captivate scene, but I have no been able to target any button click within the html file. I assume that's because of timeline restrictions.

So I'm thinking - maybe I could export from Animate with Captivate code as an AOM, and then import that into captivate?

I'm just throwing ideas out there, hoping that I might be right with one of them.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Cheers

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
Legend
December 17, 2018

Animations (like OAM and animated GIF's) are not meant to be converted to scored objects, sorry. It would need a lot of scripting to make that possible, and I wouldn't even try to start doing that notwithstanding my long experience with Captivate and other Adobe apps.

Captivate is an eLearning authoring tool, it has all you need to create a SCORM-compliant course that can report to many LMS's. It looks to me very strange to develop in an animaton application instead of in Captivate? Please, take some  time to learn Captivate as you have learned Animate. . Have a look at:

Challenges for Starters - Captivate blog

All interactivity, and scoring is linked with ineractivity, has to do with Captivate's TImeline:

Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

As for animations, Effects in Captivate allows you to create animatinos within the package. They are more limited than in Animate. What is the primary goal of Captivate: to develop eLearning which results in real 'learning'. For Animate the primary goal is to create animations or games, not eLearning. Same for Powerpoint: its goal is to create Presentations, not eLearning. Use the right tool for each purpose is one of my personal motos. You have nice roundtrippping with Photoshop and Audition in Captivate. With Illustrator is not so good, and with Animate it is even worse.

eugener2418576
eugener2418576Author
Inspiring
December 18, 2018

Hey Lilybiri

We create really nice looking, nice feeling animated and interactive learning modules using Adobe Animate as you couldn't really get the same functionality out of Captivate re: animating.

After some thorough research online, I can't confirm that you are 100% correct that making a script would be all that tedious. I'm about to leave this job for another one but i'm just trying to help out as I have created about 150 seperate modules on Animate for them. and I feel like linking an external javascript file to my captivate file which validates whether the score of clicked javascript buttons is some number is the best solution here.

Do we know any resources online for doing such?

Am I limited to Captivate 'quiz' objects in scoring? is that why I am having problems?

RodWard
Community Expert
RodWardCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2018

There are no free resources for achieving such inter-connectivity.  It requires somewhat advanced JavaScripting skills.  You would need to pay a programmer for his or her time to do it.

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