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Captivate - Importing multiple languages

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September 10, 2018
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Hi All,

I have a captivate project that I need translated into 7 languages that has a language selection menu on the first slide. I managed to find a tutorial on Google which led me to use the export project captions and closed captions option in captivate and then to update all the text with the new languages.

In the tutorial I found, it shows that when he imports the updated word file the new captions are imported on top of the original text, however when I import my updated text it just replaces the original text with the new text... How do I get captivate to keep the original text and import the new text? then use actions to hide and show the right captions when the language is selected?

Here is the link to the tutorial I used: Adobe Captivate 8 - How to Create a Multiple Language Option e-Learning Course with Language re-set - eLearning

Many thanks,

Mark

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Reinhard Fröhlich-Steiner

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Hi!
I have the same issue - one elearning course including several modules, each module ends with a quiz that unlocks the next module - now the customer wants me to add multiple languages but within the same scorm file... Since this thread is a bit older already - do you have any recommendation how I can accomplish this?
Since the course has about 100 slides, and more captions than I can count, the solution with advanced actions and renaming eacht caption for each language, as presented here Adobe Captivate 8 - How to Create a Multiple Language Option e-Learning Course with Language re-set ... is not an option for me...

Thank you

RodWard

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I would NOT be suggesting you try to build multiple languages into the same SCORM package file. The usual way to accommodate multiple languages is to create copies of your CPTX files, export all the text to translation documents (MS Word or XML) send these off for translation and then reimport them again when they come back translated. There is always still some tidying up to do, but that gives you complete modules in just one language each. If you have a user base that is from multiple languagse, would be looking into whether your LMS can give people the option of choosing their preferred language and then direct them to courses in that language from then on.

Trying to build multiple languages into the same SCORM file is going to bloat the size of the module and potentially make it unstable as it grows larger and larger. And if you have localised audio files as well, that just contributes to the complexity and file size.

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Reinhard Fröhlich-Steiner

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Thank you Rod!
The Course has only text and pictures, no video, no audio at all. And the customer informed me that other elearning provider easily create scorms with multiple languages, so I am kind of "behind"... Since I didn't find yet a possibility to add more than 1 language at a time to a course, my workaround would be to copy the whole bunch of slides once for each language and create one "choose your language" slide in the beginning.

In this way I can export the captions and closed captions once and tell the translation agents from where to where they need to translate it to german, then to english the next pages of the doc and so on...

Since I am kind of under the pressure to compete with others who seem to do this easily, I have limited options...

Lilybiri

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The link adds in an error code for me.

There must be some misunderstanding: the original text will be replaced by the translated text on import.

Captivate has no automatic multilingual feature at all (like Joomla). The best approach (also because of file size) is to create the course in a separate file for each language, and use a 'main' dashboard file that uses buttons to open the appropriate file. Or, if you work with a LMS, to let the LMS take care of it.

designerc64378506Author

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Thanks for the reply.

well that would save me a lot of time as I have already created the separate languages in separate captivate projects. How do i create a main dashboard file that links to the other captivate projects?

Thanks!

Lilybiri

Legend

Easiest way would be to create one slide with multiple buttons, labeled with the language name, and use the command 'Open URL of File', pointing to the URL of that published language file.

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