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TPK7254580
Inspiring
August 13, 2007
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Background reading describing Captivate variables?

  • August 13, 2007
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Greetings,

The environment I am working in uses an LMS. I have had a request to develop a Flash swf that can be embedded in a slide that ticks off (displays a check mark) slides that have been passed (by the user) within a Captivate project, sort of like a counter, but one that reveals a small graphic (movie) beside line of text.
Another alternative would be a similarly functioning control that does the same from a separateHTML.

I realize that I will likely need to pull this information from the LMS. I’ll need to have a better background knowledge of Captivate variables. I’ll need to know more about the interaction that takes place between the Captivate swf file and the LMS.

Does anyone know of any publications that address this level of interaction between Captivate files and an LMS? Flash articles? I’m basically looking for documentation on what variables are being passed between and LMS and Captivate files.

Thankx for any ideas as to where I might look for more information.

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    TPK7254580Author
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2007
    Hi Ray,

    I'll let you know what I find out, likely by reposting in this thread. In the meantime I am going to make a feature request for a new feature that would basically do what we both want.

    TPK
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    TPK7254580Author
    Inspiring
    August 14, 2007
    Thankx mattturley,

    I had forgotten all about the SCORM test suite! Knowing the calls will certainly help. I'll ceertainly use the tool to see what variables are being passed.

    Thankx again,

    TPK
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    rayc9999
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    August 15, 2007
    TPK:

    I'm looking for somewhat the same info on how to parse data passed from Captivate to LMS. In my case I want to track which slides in a flash presentation were visited by each participant.. I am not technical, but am working with a company who has the LMS. Would like some way
    to steer them to how it can be accompoished.
    Thanks for any assistance
    Ray Champagne
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    Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    When I am working on similar items, I like to look at the calls myself. I find the best way to do that is to use ADL's SCORM Test Suite.

    http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/index.aspx

    Captivate 2 (and I believe 1.1) does some wonky things with the way SCORM calls are handled, particularly the way bookmarking is implemented.

    Using this, you can watch in real time the communication between the SCO Launch Stage (which stands in place of an LMS) and the Captivate produced files. For what you are looking to do, I would consider placing variables in the HTML container that are set to false for each slide. As the learner passes each slide, I would trigger js that would set the value to true. For your checklist, have it check if the variable is true, and when it is, display the check mark.
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