Reporting with Audio

[tanyalee12345]

Good morning,

Does anyone know if this is possible...I want to have a Captivate course that's just 2 slides - the first slide just explains how to use the playbar controls, and the second slide is a recording of a presentation/meeting. Is there anyway to force the learner to listen to the whole audio in order to get a "completed" or "passed"? I tried it with slide views but of course as soon as they click on the slide with the recording, they are marked as completed. Not sure if this is possible.

Thank you!

Tanya

[Lilybiri · Accepted solution]

You want to report to a LMS?

Easiest way is to use the audio as slide audio, put a button with a timeline that starts after the audio, and attach a score to that button. Require to get that score for Completion in the LMS. Only when the user clicks on that button, which appears after having listened to all of the slide, will the score be acquired. Of course: never use a playbar in that case, where the navigation controls including the progress bar are available. Every button has to be custom. If you want to enable them to go back to parts of the audio, you'll have to split it up over several slides.

[tanyalee12345]

Oh what an interesting way to do it! Yes, I'm reporting to an LMS. I think this would work, thanks so much, I'm going to try that.

Tanya

[Lilybiri]

Timeline and quizzing.... two of my favourite topics:

Pausing Captivate's Timeline - Captivate blog

Using Quizzing System Variables - Captivate blog

[tanyalee12345]

Hello! So I did try this - great idea; I got the scoring to work. Thanks so much! I do have a follow-up question though. Is there a way to get the audio to not start over again if a person exits out of the course and goes back in later? These are hour long recoridngs, so I don't think employees would appreciate having to start over lol. Thank you.

[Lilybiri]

You would have to use local storage to track if the user already had visited the course (user variable). This can be done both with JavaScript or with the CpExtra widget of InfoSemantics (for HTML5 output only). Based on a conditional check of that variable you could set up micronavigation to jump immediately to a frame at the end or after the slide audio.

Alternative, still based on checking that variable: have a duplicate Next button, timed from the beginning of the slide but hidden on first visit.