publishing captivate games to a weebly website

Report · Feb 12, 2014

Hi guys,

I want to put a small adobe captivate 6.0 game onto a website but not really sure how. has anyone evr done it before? it is just a simple drag and drop game but am i right in saying i can put this game on the internet and the viewers can play the drag and drop game?

Weebly gives the options to insert the following onto a page, which would best suit a captivate project? sorry for the questions but i am a beginner

Report · Feb 12, 2014

Hard to say for certain. I do see a Flash option which would be helpful. You could try publishing your Captivate as a SWF and see if uploading the simple SWF from Captivate will work.

Captivate does have other files it produces (or may produce) depending on what you have done with it in creating your output.

But I'd start by using the Flash option and see how it goes.

Cheers... Rick

Report · Feb 12, 2014

I have some small games in blog posts. They are SWF, and this host allows inserting a SWF. But I really think that it would be better to publish with the app packager.

Lilybiri

Report · Feb 12, 2014

thanks ill give it a go. Can you explain what you mean by publish with app packager Lilybiri?

Report · Feb 12, 2014

Look if you can find the App packager, I'm not totally sure it is included with the standalone version of CP6. You publish from CP to HTML5, then use the App Packager to create an app. There is somewhere a tutorial on YouTube but I'm in a hurry, have a meeting.

Lilybiri

Report · Feb 19, 2014

i have tried uploading as a .swf but it for some reason file wont show up. can someone explain more about app packager or give a link to a tutorial video?

Report · Feb 28, 2014

i dont see much about putting captivate projects onto a website on this forum? do people not do it? is it too difficult? Does anyone know a good free website server to do this?

Report · Feb 28, 2014

I'm new to Captivate also, but I can tell you that if you select Flash you can load the published SWF file to Weebly. Unfortunately, no one using a MAC can access the file. I just tried publishing to HTML5 and Captivate made so many errors, that I haven't tried the APP Packager. If anyone knows why somethings will work in the SWF but not in HTML5 published file, I sure would appreciate some help. I have a Captivate 7 file on my Weebly (SWF) at

www.trainandwrite.weebly.com.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

I have many Captivate swfs on my Weebly. I haven't had any problems, but then I haven't uploaded anything to my Weebly for about 6 months as now I am using our school server so I can publish using the HTML5 too. Are you using the Flash tool in Weebly and uploading the file with the extansion swf? I will try adding a swf in a few minutes to my Weebly just in case they may have a new bug preventing swf uploads.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Report · Mar 01, 2014

OK, I just tested it in case there was a new bug and I was able to successfully upload a new swf. Give it a try at http://justabitmoore.weebly.com/coordinate-points.html. Setting it in place did help me to recall a few tips. Let the file completely upload and settle in to place before changing any settings in Weebly's swf upload control panel. When you change anything, the page reloads and it interupts the swf upload. Give that a try.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Hi Tammy,

Thanks for reply. Your website looks great. I hope i can publish my swf so. i will try later. mine is a drag and drop game but that shouldnt be any different i hope? did you ever try launch a drag and drop game to weebly?

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Yes, I have several drag and drop activities made in Captivate on the Weebly. When you try yours again, remember to let the file completely upload before you change any of the settings. Even give it a try before you make any adjustments just so you can see if it works. Then you can try to play around with left, center, right justification and the other customizations. If you do things in that order, you will find everything works fine.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

conormc03 - I remember what it was like being a newbie. If you want some help getting your Captivate legs under you, feel free to drop in during my open office hours. I will try to give you some help. I run my open office hours in an online classroom so I can app share to show you some tips and how-tos. To come to open office hours, go to my project home page at http://www.virtualhomeschoolgroup.com/. The open office hours and days are listed in the graphic in the left side bar. Just click the graphic to log in. Anyone else that is a newbie is welcome as well. Open office hours runs year-round with 4 two-week vacations: 1st 2-weeks of April, two-weeks near July 4th, 2-weeks at U.S. Thanksgiving, and 2-weeks near Christmas/New Years.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Are you using a MAC?

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Yes, I use Captivate on a Mac.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Looks beautiful on my PC, but I only get your site outline and an inner white screen on my IPAD. I thank you for you offer for training. If I'm not at work, I'll be there.

Report · Mar 01, 2014

Weebly will only publish a Flash/SWf file, so there is no HTML5 available from that site.

I can place a copy of it on our porject's server where I can publish to HTML5 as well. I had it on the server and realized just a bit ago that I had an update I wanted to get in place, so let me get that done and I will post the link to that location.

Report · Mar 05, 2014

Tammy, thank you very much for all your help and tips so far. you have been invaluable. i might take you up on the offer. I am only using trial version of 7 atm but if these trial projects work well i will be purchasing. Just went to upload as .swf. in the publish output options i have been told to check the export to HTML in the output options but this box is not availible in my trial version? I am using chrome ona windows 7 maachine and when i go to upload file it doesnt respond. it is about 3mb in size

Report · Mar 06, 2014

I'm having this same problem with a captivate swf file and weebly. After chatting with weebly rep, he said "to export the video file from Captivate in a standardized video format. Then upload to YouTube or Vimeo and embed on your site." Doing this would lose the interactivity in my file and I need that for the portfolio I'm working on. Right now, I upload the SWF file and then when I look at it, it's just stuck loading at 25%. I see that other people have put SWF files created in captivate on weebly sites...I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Do I need to change a publish setting somewhere? Like should it not be set up for SCORM if I'm putting it on a weebly site? I'm using captivate 6, should I use captivate 7 to publish the file? Any help would be appreciated as I need to figure this out by 3-7-14 at midnight.

Report · Mar 06, 2014

SCORM should be used only on an LMS, so perhaps that would help to turn that off, replublish, and give it a try. Captivate 6 should be fine. Many of the swfs I have on my Weebly comes from version 6 and they play fine.

Report · Mar 06, 2014

Hmmm...I tried publishing another captivate file as a swf and that one uploaded just fine on weebly. It must be something with my file...but I can't figure out what. I turned off reporting. There are only 39 slides in the file. Do I need to compress the swf file when I publish it? My file has question pools in it. Do you think that might have something to do with it?

Report · Mar 06, 2014

Got rid of the randomized pools and it still doesn't load...

Report · Mar 06, 2014

It sounds like you are ending up trying to shoehorn the power of captivate into a platform, Weebly, that really is up to the measure of what Captivate can do. I do use Weebly, but it is just as a fun personal site, not for my students to use. I use my LMS for that. Would it be worth it to shift gears away from Weebly being your portfolio site to something that could probably do your e-learning published files more justice? If you want to inquire what capabilities an LMS could add to your portfolio, I can help. It will give you vital experience too. Most of the people that you will likley build for will be using an LMS because they want the scoring. The knowledge you will gain from using an LMS for your portfolio can be very valuable. You can test your work much better before delivery. You would have the ability to publish to HTML, which Weebly cannot do.

Report · Mar 06, 2014

I had only a few minutes to post earlier and now that it is evening I can slow doown a bit. I was thinking that your porject was for a portfolio, but upon re-reading I see I may have picked up that idea in aother thread I may have read. Are you posting the game for your students? If you are a teacher using it with your kids let me know and I can host it for you. I am a teacher myself and I can tell you it is so much fun building your own custom lessons. It takes a bit to learn the ropes of the hows and the wheres of it all, but it will pass and then you will be deep in the fun stuff of creating and enjoying the kids have fun learning with it.