Publishing Simulations to a Website instead of an LMS, and Flash

Report · Apr 20, 2018

Hello all,

My company doesn't have an LMS that I can upload my 2017 Adobe Captivate simulations to, but I have some questions I am hoping you all can answer. My ultimate goal is to publish a bunch of simulations to our internal website that users can try in order to learn navigation of several systems.

1. Is it possible to publish simulations to an internal website instead of an LMS?

Flash also seems to be causing some problems as well, and I don't know that all of my users will have access to download it, or even currently have it. I have tried to publish to HTML5 and SWF, but the hang up comes in when trying to view the simulations in a browser--it just loads infinitely and never gets to the actual simulation.

2. Is there a publishing setting I need to make sure I am doing correctly or some simple backend thing to get it to work correctly?

3. Can the simulations be published without Flash and still be functional?

Report · Apr 20, 2018

Yes you can publish your courses for uploading to a web server (internal website).

In the "Publish to Computer" setting publish to html5. Ensure Flash is not selected in Output Format, just HTML5 - therefore will not publish to flash only html5.

The simulations will work in html5 they do not require flash.

Report · Apr 20, 2018

Totally agree with David, just want to add one detail.

If you have FMR (Full Motion Recording) slides in the simulations, those are Flash-based. I strongly recommend to replace them by Video Demo slides which are mp4-based and compatible with HTML5.

Report · Apr 20, 2018

Thank you both! That is very helpful. I do believe I have a few slides in there that are FMR (some scrolling action). Hopefully swapping those out will fix the problem!