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August 16, 2016
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Tracking views and Google Analytics

  • August 16, 2016
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Our web team has posed the below to me - which is beyond my Captivate and web knowledge - any idea how I do this without an LMS? The html5 published files are posted directly to our public web page. Is this a publishing setting I put on the file(s)?

We use Google Analytics on the site and that can track views, unique views and average time on page. This is not currently being included
on the video pages but it should be simple to add it.

I also had a couple of technical questions about the files in each course’s folder.

          1. I noticed there was a file name goodbye.html but I was not able to get to that page from the video. If that page were accessed
            at the end of the video, we could track the number of users that access that page and get a better idea about how many users watched the video until the end.
          2. I noticed that each folder has an /assets/sub-folder. I looked over a few and they all seem to contain the same files. If a user were to watch multiple videos, the videos may load faster if there was only one /assets/ folder and each video used the same files. That way the user’s browser would use the cached version of the files (images, javascript, etc.) instead of downloading new copies for each video. It would also reduce the number of files needed to provide these videos. I am not sure how complicated this would be considering all of the files necessary to create each video.

Thanks for any assistance!

Linda

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BDuckWorks
Inspiring
September 30, 2016

You'd need to look at the Google analytics documents for the code you need to insert into each course.

Get started with Analytics - Analytics Help

One of your webteam should have an understanding of the parameters you need, and the specific google developer key needed to track the courses back to your account.

You'll also need to understand the published files from Captivate, but it would likely be part of the course html file