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pumpkinfreon
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December 15, 2008
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How to Verify Users Watched the Training Video?

  • December 15, 2008
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I saw several questions similar to mine but none that were exact.

We have a training video each employee much watch. There is no assessment-- we just need to verify that each person watched it. Emailing a "signature" of some sort at the end of the video will suffice.

What is the best way to set this up?

thanks!

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    Anonymous
    December 23, 2008
    I, too, am interested in this!
      Captiv8r
      Captiv8r
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      December 15, 2008
      Welcome to our community, Nikki

      Unfortunately E-Mail isn't really a viable option for many who post here. Just search the forums if you wonder. You will see post after post where E-Mail fails for one reason or other.

      Basically you just need a button object at the end of your project that the user will click. This could feed into a web based form or you could associate the Captivate to a Learning Management System and use its reporting.

      Cheers... Rick
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      pumpkinfreonAuthor
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      December 15, 2008
      Hmm, I got the feeling the email worked for some if configured correctly. Not encouraging...

      We don't have an LMS. By web-based form, do you mean this? http://pipwerks.com/journal/2008/09/07/send-captivate-quiz-data-to-javascript/

      thanks!
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      www_cpguru_com
      Inspiring
      December 24, 2008
      quote:
      Originally posted by: pumpkinfreon
      Hmm, I got the feeling the email worked for some if configured correctly. Not encouraging...

      We don't have an LMS. By web-based form, do you mean this? http://pipwerks.com/journal/2008/09/07/send-captivate-quiz-data-to-javascript/

      thanks!



      Do you need to track specific users or just the number of times the video has been viewed?

      If you need to track specific users then you need them to input their name / email / employee number as well. Otherwise you would never be able to associate who viewed the video with individuals.

      The js solution on pipwerks.com is one way to do it, but you would need to further enhance it to store some sort of username as well.

      If I had to do it I would probably do it in Flash. Make a flash file which pops up when the video has finished playing. Here each employee would have to input their employee number / name or whatever you use and click on "submit". The data from the flash file could be stored in an XML file and that way you could retrieve who have viewed the video. In order to get Flash to write to an XML file you would need to use either PHP, ASP, AJAX or some other go-between-programming language.
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