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Tinyblu
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March 13, 2017
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Is Captivate Useless without a LMS?

  • March 13, 2017
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I REALLY like Captivate and would love to be able to deliver interactive exercises to my work community, but we currently do NOT have a LMS, and management does not want to pay for one or put use Moodle on our server.

I spent a week creating an exercise, but was never able to deliver it:

1)  The executable is not allowed

2)  The interactive PDF is quirky, and still won't work despite me loading Flash Player on my workstation (blank page)

3)  I can't embed the code for the published project because it does not start with https://

Is there a way to deliver this without a LMS?  If not, I am going to look into cancelling the monthly fee because I can't use the product.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

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    StevePixel
    Inspiring
    March 13, 2017

    Hi Tiny,

    Just ask your web guys at your company. Tell them you want to place the full unzipped package folder Captivate outputs, in the public_html section of the web site OR in the public web facing part of your SharePoint server. Then get them to send you a link to the mulitscreen.html file or index.html file.

    Click on the link the course should load in any browser and play as it does on your preview.

    Cheers

    Steve 

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    TinybluAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 14, 2017

    Got it! This was very helpful.

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 14, 2017

    A link starting with file://  would be pointing to a location somewhere on your own hard drive or perhaps even a network LAN drive, neither of which will be accessible once your content is up on a web server.

    TLCMediaDesign
    TLCMediaDesign
    Inspiring
    March 13, 2017

    I'm confused on No. 3.

    The https is just the protocol for the server/website. You can put it on any server, Captivate doesn't publish a URL, just some files.

    If you can put it on your company server, which could be https and are putting Captivate on an http site and linking from the https site, then yes, that's not secure. But that's not Captivate.

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    TinybluAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 14, 2017

    The URL produced by Captivate starts with file:// which isn’t allowed with an embed code on some web pages. For now I was able to insert the SWF on a weebly page. I’m going to try to figure out a way to get my Office 365 product to point to that website and go from there.

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    StevePixel
    Inspiring
    March 13, 2017

    Hi Tiny,

    Sure, just publish it for web based delivery and put it on a web server. You won't be able to track scores or enrollment, but everything else should work fine. I do it all the time.

    Cheers

    Steve 

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    TinybluAuthor
    Known Participant
    March 13, 2017

    Thanks for the response, Steve. I’m not very well versed in computer lingo. I haven’t been using captivate long. Could you provide more insight?

    My apologies. I’m unfamiliar with web servers (I’m a lowly teacher that’s trying to do something creative).

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