Skip to main content
E
edlearner
Known Participant
May 18, 2011
Answered

Indicators for Visited slides

  • May 18, 2011
  • 1 reply
  • 964 views

Hello everyone,

Ok, an issue been encountered in regards to resuming a course built in Captivate 5 reporting to an LMS (SumTotal).

Currently (and future projects), my course includes 50 slides of lessons with a slide acting as the menu/table of contents. This menu slide allows users to jump from slide to slide allowing them to learn at their own pace. When a user views a specific slide chosen from the menu, I enabled a checkmark as an indicator to appear for that specific slide using advanced actions. This checkmark give a visual indication on their progress towards completing the entire lesson plan.

Users hardly ever finish a whole course in one seating and often close out to return at a later time. Fortunately, Captivate 5 has allowed users to begin at the slide they last visited. However, when the user checks back to see his progress on the menu slide, all the checkmarks/indicators are gone! So the user would now have to figure out which slide was viewed or not. Imagine yourself as a user completing 45 out of 50 slides to later come back and realize you have to figure out which slides were completed and which slides need to be learned.

Please help, this is a very important part of these courses I build. Thanks in advance!

~edlearner

    This topic has been closed for replies.
    Correct answer RodWard

    By default Captivate modules do not have any way of persisting data once the lesson is closed down.  Since your menu slide is not a standard SCORM implementation, your LMS is not going to be of any help in ensuring that your ticks appear there either.

    What you need is some way for the module to store variable data on the learner's PC and have the same lesson read that data when they next resume the module.  Captivate doesn't do this out of the box, but fortunately there are widgets that can do this.

    Check out this solution from CpGuru: http://www.cpguru.com/2011/05/18/save-and-load-data-widget-for-adobe-captivate-4-and-adobe-captivate-5/

    1 reply

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Legend
    May 18, 2011

    Hello,

    Did you never try to use the TOC, that has the checkmarks built in? If you set it to self-paced learning the user will be returned where he left off, if he uses the same PC because it is done by a cookie

    Lilybiri

    E
    edlearnerAuthor
    Known Participant
    May 18, 2011

    Thanks for the quick reply!

    Yes, I used the default TOC but clients absolutely disliked it and advised me that if I plan to use the default TOC, then do not bother.

    Is there any other way?

    edlearner

    RodWard
    Community Expert
    RodWardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 19, 2011

    By default Captivate modules do not have any way of persisting data once the lesson is closed down.  Since your menu slide is not a standard SCORM implementation, your LMS is not going to be of any help in ensuring that your ticks appear there either.

    What you need is some way for the module to store variable data on the learner's PC and have the same lesson read that data when they next resume the module.  Captivate doesn't do this out of the box, but fortunately there are widgets that can do this.

    Check out this solution from CpGuru: http://www.cpguru.com/2011/05/18/save-and-load-data-widget-for-adobe-captivate-4-and-adobe-captivate-5/

    Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
    Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices