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paulai7301936
paulai7301936
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January 2, 2017
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Steps to publish HTML on LMS

  • January 2, 2017
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Excuse the (most likely) silly question, but I am still very new and have scoured the internet and cannot find an answer that I can understand.

I am trying to upload my course modules which have been published in HTML and are currently in .zip files to our LMS. The LMS is asking for the webpage name. Where would I find this, or do I have to have a host for all of the course content? Is someone able to provide some simple instructions for how I can get this course on our LMS? What steps am I missing?

For context.. this is what I am looing at, and when I upload the zip files, it simply says the web page doesn't exist.

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    TLCMediaDesign
    TLCMediaDesign
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2017

    Nothing to add that hasn't already been suggested, but what a bad LMS if it can't parse the imsmanfest.xml to get the start page.

    BDuckWorks
    BDuckWorks
    Inspiring
    January 3, 2017

    When you publish the course, you're setting the default HTML file name in the 'Project Title' field.

    Publish dialog

    The project title of "Sample Visio Process Flow Template - V 2_5" will generate an HTML file named "Sample Visio Process Flow Template - V 2_5.htm"

    Lilybiri
    Lilybiri
    Brainiac
    January 3, 2017

    BDuckWorks shows the publishing to SWF only. In that case the launch file is indeed a file with the same name as the SWF, but with extension .htm.

    If you publish to HTML instead of SWF, the launch file is index.html.

    If you publish to both HTML and SWF, and you want Captivate to decide which version to launch depending on the device, the launch file is multiscreen.html. You will also get both the htm file (with a name similar to the SWF name) and the index.html.

    Sorry for this extra info, just want to avoid confusion. The OP stated that he publishes to HTML, several answers in this thread point to publishing to SWF.

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    Joe S Ganci
    Participating Frequently
    January 3, 2017

    My guess is that you may be publishing to Flash because otherwise the LMS should be smart enough to find the index.html file that Captivate publishes with HTML5. If so, and you really want to publish to Flash, you will need to put as your Default Webpage Name the file that ends with .htm, which is the name of your project when publishing to Flash. For instance, if your project source file is horses.cptx and you have published to Flash and haven't changed the name of the published file, your default webpage name should be horses.htm.

    RodWard
    RodWard
    Community Expert
    January 3, 2017

    If you've chosen to output the course as HTML5 then you just need to specify the index.html file found at the root level inside the zip archive.  This is the 'web page' that launches the content.

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