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ZeniZen
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April 17, 2011
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What does the Adobe Captivate actually do?

  • April 17, 2011
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I want to build an educational site where I intend to present training material as flash video, quizzes, assignment submission, discussion forums, hopefully some live video chat and other features of LMS such as login, students’ progress reports, etc.

Will someone please tell me what would be the workflow between Captivate—Dreamweaver----Moodle?

I searched all he Adobe Site but could not find what does the Adobe Captivate actually do?

To be fair it did tell me it can build rich multimedia courseware with ease by integrating seamlessly with other Adobe products, but what is the format of final output, I mean will I get pdf documents, html pages or some captivate file as a final result? Will I be able to publish it directly on my website or I will still need Dreamweaver to build a website and import Captivate content in Dreamweaver? How it contents can be integrated with LMS such as “Moodle”? If I have course builder extension with Dreamweaver do I still need Captivate?

Any help would be very valuable for me.

Thanks

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    ZeniZenAuthor
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    April 18, 2011

    Thanks friends. Picture is much clear now.

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
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    April 17, 2011

    Hello,

    A short answer: output from Cp is possible to SWF (with an accompanying HTML/JS file). Thus you can deploy it in a LMS (like Moodle) or on a website (created with Dreamweaver). Cp can also have output as an independently running file (EXE) so you could even deploy it on DVD, CD.  Moreover output to multimedia PDF is also possible. Those output formats will allow you to have interactivitiy, assessments, simulations. You can also have output to FLV/F4V but then it is pure video, demonstration, no activity. There is also an option to convert to a format able to play on iPad.

    Coursebuilder extensions in DW are OK, but how will you create training simulations, branching possibilties to have personalized courses with those extensions?

    As for the type of course possibilities, I think that the examples on the product page of Captivate do elaborate on that: presentations, training simulations, demonstrations and assessments, software trainings etc. As a teacher I have been using Captivate and the eLearning suite since multiple years to provide my students with self-study  courses and tests. The same could have been realized with Flash (started that way before I discovered Captivate) but it would have taken me at least 10 x as much time as the rapid authoring tool that is Captivate. Integration with Photoshopn, Soundbooth, Powerpoint and exchange possibilities with Flash you do find in the eLearning Suite were even more timesavers.

    Lilybiri

    RodWard
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    RodWardCommunity Expert
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    April 17, 2011

    You can deploy many different kinds of content in Moodle, including several of the types that Adobe Captivate creates.

    However, if you were planning on leveraging Moodle's sophisticated LMS abilities to track user interaction and scoring from your Captivate course modules then the only format you should be considering is output of Captivate content as SCORM modules.

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