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June 23, 2014
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Lock the progress bar in the playbar (Captivate 8)

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I'm looking for a way to lock the progress bar in the playbar in Captivate 8. This has come up a few times in regards to older versions of Captivate, but I haven't seen anything for 7 or 8 yet.

I've tried this: Captivate 6 Help me Lock the Progress Bar in the Playbar, which relates to ver 6, but seemed to kinda do what I'm looking for, but not exactly.

However, the Playbar Lock Widget seems to do exactly what I'm looking for (Flash-Factor   » Playbar Lock Widget (Cp5, Cp5.5)) but is for 5 and 5.5 only. According to this threadCaptivate 6 playbar lock, the widget doesn't work on 6, so I assume it doesn't work on 7 or 8, either. I've emailed the developer (Whyves) the other day, but considering the last activity on that site was a couple of years ago, I'm not really expecting a response.

Does anyone know if there is an easy-ish way to do this or if there is an updated version of this widget available?

Thanks,
Marc

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Lilybiri
Legend
June 23, 2014

It was a sad day when my friend Yves Riel decided to stop developing widgets, already a while ago. Don't count on him, he will not upgrade that widget certainly not in this time of HTML5 jungle/hype.

There is no easy way to do it. Do you need that progress bar? It is only useful in linear projects, even then it can be confusing.

XCrashAuthor
Participating Frequently
June 23, 2014

Lilybiri,

Thank you very much for your response. I realize it was very unlikely that particular widget would be updated, but was hoping someone has since been able to make something like that work in Captivate 8 (or even Cp7).

I am actually working on a project that must be completed in a linear fashion the first time through. It consists of three parts, with each part consisting of a short video presentation followed by a couple of knowledge check/quiz questions. Learners must correctly answer the questions before they can proceed to the next part, and should be able to review the video they just watched (or any previous video) at any time, but they must not be able to skip ahead to the next video until they've correctly answered the KC questions for each part, or to skip the video the first time through.

Enabling remediation helps in that it allows learners to re-watch the video before and even during the knowledge checks without getting 'stuck' on a question they've answered correctly already. However, it seems that forcing a linear flow while still giving learners an idea of their progress through the course via a progress bar without allowing them to use it to skip ahead has proven very difficult to do.

The widget seemed to perfectly fit the bill in that it would disable 'scrubbing' with the progress bar until learners completed the activity. Then, once they've completed it, they could now use the progress bar to review the material again if they wished.

Oh, well... we'll keep digging and hoping that maybe someone out there with more knowledge and skill in this than us figures out a way to make it work.

Thanks again!

-Marc

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
June 24, 2014

You can look at this blog I wrote, I also develop custom playbar widgets for SWF output.:

Controlling Captivate - Disable Scrubber - TLC Media Design, LLC