Can you Import ZIP LMS file to Captivate?

[KatieWilson32]

I have a zip file for a course someone else made for us. I was told it was made with Captivate. They sent over the zip file. I am unable to import the zip file into Captivate. I'm not sure if maybe it's actually not Captivate files, or if I'm not doing something correctly. I was asked to translate the content into Spanish, so I am trying to figure out what this course was created with. 

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

If it is the published course for a LMS, which can be zipped, you need to know that there is a big difference between the raw cptx-file which can be opened in Captivate, and the published course resulting from that file. You can never open the published output in Captivate, it is only meant to be uploaded to a LMS and use as a course.

To confirm my suspicion: could you show a screenshot of the content (files) within that zip file?

[KatieWilson32]

That is what I thought. When I attempted to upload my zip file it was not giving me the option to import but allowed me to open file after file. So, I figured I did not have the correct files or "raw files" to import. I just wanted to confirm that was the case. 

[Lilybiri]

Indeed, for the translation you need the cptx file, and after translating you'll need to publish to a similar output like you have now.

[KatieWilson32]

I'm new to this, and learning as I go. Thank you so much for your assistance and quick reply! 

[RodWard]

Actually, there is one caveat here.  The Captivate CPTX project file format is actually a renamed ZIP file. 

You don't specify exactly how the file was sent to you by the original author, but it is possible that the system used looked at the file, recognised that it was a ZIP archive and renamed the file ending.  I have seen that happen a number of times.

So there IS a possibility that what you have been sent is in fact the Captivate CPTX project file rather than a zipped version of the HTML5 output, and to import it into Captivate all you might need to do is change the file ending back to CPTX again.

Please try that.

[Lilybiri]

@RodWard That was the reason I asked the OP to show the content of the zip file, to find out if it is indeed the published folder or the original cptx project. But that question was not answered. If it is a cptx file, it depends on the way it was transferred if the extension was changed from cptx to zip.  It happens more rarely nowadays than years ago. WeTransfer will not do it anyway.

[KatieWilson32]

@Lilybiri I apologize I did not post the files. I believe I only have the HTML file and not the cptx file. 

[Lilybiri]

Thanks, this confirms my suspicion. This is the published folder, a SCO, which means that Quiz Reporting was set up. You do not have the 'raw' cptx file, could recover some assets but not what you really need to translate the course. 

I often as supplementary questions when I am not totally sure my answer is correct. It was my Captivate intuition behind the first answer, but it can be wrong of course.