Captivate results to database? [Branched from Coursebuilder for DW CC]

[rosacooke84]

In looking at Captivate it appears you can make powerpoint slides interactive.  Can I use Captivate just to create a simple quiz, all one page, that will then send the score to a database that I create my gradebook from?

[Nancy OShea]

I have branched this post to a new discussion and moved if from Dreamweaver support forum to Adobe Captivate​.

Nancy

[Erik Lord]

This has come up in the past but with complex answers.

Captivate is setup to track results via SCORM or xAPI (TinCan)

SCORM expects the piece to be launched from an LMS, or similar site, that has a SCORM API it can find and talk to.

xAPI is more flexible, but still requires a properly-setup DB (called an 'LRS') to post data to.

And, while I'm not sure this has improved, in previous CP versions the piece expects to be launched from the actual site with the LRS, so it can easily determine the post-back page.

However, I'm pretty sure there's a way to hack the output to point to a custom LRS...

So the easiest option is to find a free or cheap xAPI LRS you can track back to.

Otherwise, there have been methods to hack the SCORM JS code in the published CP piece to send data to Google Docs.

Maybe these will help:

Send Captivate Data to Spreadsheet or Text file or Email or HTML

communicating scorm data to google docs?