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Jessetr
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July 10, 2020
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Big project for a newbie. Seeking guidance before I start.

  • July 10, 2020
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Hello folks,

 

Situation:  I have a task at work where I am going to make a “video manual” for onboarding employees.

 

Goal #1: 

  1. Make a series of interactive Captivate projects, with all the bells and whistles like interactivity and the professional polish, and of course responsive to many platforms and formats.  
  2. Test the whole project to see if others can interact with my project.
    1. But is this an unnecessary concern? Isn't the whole project test-able like any other project or program would be on my own computer?   I don't need a web server to test all of this do I?

 

Goal #2:   Unfortunately our agency doesn’t have the capacity to host Captivate or any kind of LMS.  Yikes!  So I decided to adapt.  I will:

  1. Complete Goal #1. 
  2. Follow up by running through the whole interactive project myself and record everything I do (I’ll have to break the video manual up into several “chapters”/individual videos, but that’s fine). 
  3. Add voice narration as I go and include :
    1. Captions
    2. Zooms
    3. video from my cell phone
    4. .jpgs
    5. Background music
    6. Overall spice it up to a professional level

 

Then present for my agency a series of pure watchable videos that show someone running through the lesson, the quizzes, the interactivity, etc.  Again, unfortunately our network doesn’t have the capacity to host the LMS system itself.  So I demo the whole thing and record it and upload a series of videos for use.

 

I imagine that two separate programs will be needed for this task, but as I imply they'll have to interact well.

 

I need some good examples to model for creativity purposes.

 

And finally, in the end, it's fortunate I was given this project because I can use my experience creating Captivate projects as a bridge to a more corporate setting and more pay.  What kind of storage space have you required for your own Captivate projects?

 

Thank you all in advance!  Looking forward to reading your responses.

 

J.

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    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    July 10, 2020

    If your goal is only passive video output, would consider to use Camtasia, not Captivate.

      Stagprime2687219
      Stagprime2687219
      Legend
      July 10, 2020

      You know better than I do what is possible within your environment/budget/etc but I am not sure I fully understand creating all sorts of interactive projects in order to simply record yourself doing them and provide a video as the deliverable. I am also not sure why it needs to be responsive if a video is the deliverable. Perhaps I misunderstand the goals.

       

      Your agency does not necessarily need to host (on premesis) an LMS. Since I believe that allowing the new hires who are onboarding to engage with the interactive modules would be best, I would suggest some alternatives.

      1. If you're not interested in tracking data and such - an internal file server is sufficient to share the modules with new hires. You just need to point them to the index.html file of the published project.
      2. If you want new hires to have access on their phones - you might explore some options like Amazon S3 for storing projects online.
      3. You could maybe look into a subscription service (rather than hosting) like Captivate Prime as an LMS option which would allow both of the above.

       

      Even if you just do videos - you'll want some place to store them as they will likely be too large in terms of file size to email to your new hires. Check with the IT department on file server access and storage. Hopefully they have several TB worth available.

      J
      JessetrAuthor
      Participating Frequently
      July 10, 2020

      Hi Stagprime:

       

      Thank you for answering.

       

      "If you're not interested in tracking data and such - an internal file server is sufficient to share the modules with new hires. You just need to point them to the index.html file of the published project."

       

      Let's go down the path of hoping only Captivate will be necessary, and we can engage all that interactivity.  I don't think we'll need to track any data so...

       

      Newbie questions:  Is the internal file server just a standard one that most any network employs?   And, in the end, does the agency have to be running Captivate as well so that onboarding employees can wat, which means getting a license for it?

       

       

      Stagprime2687219
      Stagprime2687219
      Legend
      July 10, 2020

      Yes - a company of any decent size is bound to have a file server which is basically what most employees would refer to as their "Network Drive". Many will have a shortcut or mapped drive so that navigating to the network folders to which you have access is no different than browsing your local C:\ drive on the PC. Many may not even realize it is a file server in a closet somewhere they are connecting to. Most companies would encourage folks to save their stuff to the Network Drive because that is what gets backed up as opposed to each individual PC.

       

      If your company has one - I think it would be worth trying to allocate a directory for you to put the published training projects that all can have permissions to access. Like I say - then you can just introduce yourself to the new hires with an email and point them to some awesome training links!

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