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xtd8865
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January 13, 2018
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  • January 13, 2018
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Hi,

I'm thinking of creating quiz for potential learners that would be on our website. Basically, it'll be some branched scenarios around the potential learner's particular circumstances to establish their eligibility for funding and which course would be most suitable. Can you confirm the following:

1. I believe it's possible to send the results (learner answers) to a specified email, is it possible to add them automatically to, say a spreadsheet or some DB?

2. Is it possible to embed a stand-alone scorm package (the quiz above) on a website page (not being part of moodle or any LMS) and get the results sent/exported)

Thank you

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    RodWard
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    January 13, 2018

    There is often confusion around Captivate's Send Email action.  It doesn't actually send an email.  It merely OPENs your email client (e.g. Outlook) and spawns a new email with the address you supplied when you set up the action already populated in the To: field.  There are some tricks you can use to pre-populate the Subject and Body fields, but no real way to automatically send the email without the user's intervention.  If you want that kind of functionality you really need to be looking at building server-side web pages (e.g. PHP pages) that receive the data from a web form and then send to an email gateway.  Captivate is not really designed for this.

    You can quite easily republish a Captivate quiz module (from the original CPTX) after first disabling the SCORM settings and then deploy that output from a normal web server.  If you want the results captured on a web database, you might want to investigate Captivate's Internal Server option.

    But be warned that there is very little documentation from Adobe about it, and you should ideally have experience with setting up PHP pages and web servers in order to get it to work.  It's NOT a simple solution.  In my opinion you are far better off trying to set up a Moodle SCORM server.

    xtd8865
    xtd8865Author
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    January 13, 2018

    That's what I feared. Ok. Thank you. Will have to look into that.