Captivate 9 and Totara SCORM http

Report · Nov 29, 2017

Hi

I am trying to load a captivate course i have created into learning pools totara lms. They have told me the course has a http link somewhere in it and because it needs to be https the course will not load. I do not know where to being looking in the course for http links. Is it something to do with how the course is published? Can someone help me?

Thanks

GG

Report · Nov 29, 2017

Am I correct in assuming you are publishing to SWF?

If so, the link that the LMS is tripping over is likely to be found in the HTM file published with the SWF file. It is the HTM file that actually launches the SWF. However, in the HTML code of this HTM file there is a link to the Adobe web page where you can download and install the Flash Player plugin. This link is HTTP and is put there in case the end user tries to play the course module without a Flash Player installed in their web browser.

Your LMS will be secured, so it wants everything in the course to be also secured (hence the HTTPS) but this particular link is by default only HTTP.

You can manually find and change the link in each and every finally published HTM file you need to upload to your LMS. Or alternatively you can locate the HTM template file used by Captivate to publish these HTM files and change the link there. This will then mean that all HTM files published for that type of output (e.g. SCORM 1.2) will always be formatted the way you want.

The HTM template files are found in the Captivate install directory inside a Templates folder buried down a few folder levels and must be the specific HTM used for your particular LMS output. (SCORM 1.2 or 2004.)

Report · Nov 30, 2017

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

Would you be able to be more specific as I am not very technical and do not know where to change the code or which file to open in the first place. I would like to do this only once rather than for every piece of SCORM 1.2 I create.

Please provide screenshots if you can.

Thank you for your help.

GG

Report · Nov 30, 2017

If you are publishing for HTM/SWF for SCORM 1.2 this is the path to the file:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2017 x64\Templates\Publish\LMS\Standard\SCORM\Default\1_2\Default.htm

There are a couple of HTTP hyperlinks in that file pointing to links on the W3.org website. You could try changing them to https and see if that helped.

Inside the file at this folder:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Captivate 2017 x64\Templates\Publish\LMS\Standard\SCORM\Default\js\SCORM_utilities.js

At about line 13 there is this code:

REDIRECT_URL : "http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash",

The HTTP link here is the one I was referring to above. You should try changing that to HTTPS to see if that fixes the issue your LMS is complaining about.

These files are in the Program Files folders which you can only normally access and change if you have Administrator rights (and you should always have a backup copy of the original file to fall back to incase you break something in the code when you are editing it.)

If all of this is beyond you, then you need to find a friendly IT person to help you.