Is there a workaround to require a user to play a YouTube video inside a Captivate project?

[pamyers01]

I have a 145-slide course authored in Captivate 2017 and published as HTML5.  We use a Captivate course player for navigation.

My team used the Captivate YouTube video widget found in Learning Interactions to present a few 1-2 minute videos in the course. We used this widget because the LMS administrator who will host the course asked us to stream videos rather than play videos using a Captivate onscreen player.

The accrediting officials for the course want us to make the videos required, the same way we did with other interactions in the course, using the Object-Event-Action model kind of Advanced Action. Alas, since the video Play button is actually on the YouTube website, we don’t have an object to focus on.

Can anyone suggest a workaround solution for this dilemma? Thanks!

[Erik Lord]

Not a real solution but an inaccurate workaround...

If you're not using the playbar and have your own controls, hide Next for the duration of the video.

If the video is set to auto-play, say 1 minute, cover or hide the navigation for 58 seconds.

Unless the user pauses the videos and watches, they'll likely watch then click Next when the video is complete, or close to complete.

[pamyers01]

Thanks, Eric! I should have mentioned that the course must be Section 508 compliant, meaning that the user might be using a screen reader that will be trying to read the screen as the video plays. Thus, using the YouTube widget's auto-play feature not an option. But I'm thinking to fake it by hiding the playbar and then having a Next button display after the duration of the video. If the user is told they'll see a Next button after the video, it may be as close as one can get to motivating the user to watch it.