If you want to try and test a SCORM to see if it is valid, try the ADL Test Suite: http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/2004%204th%20Edition/Test%20Suite.aspx There's also a test track here by Rustici Software: http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/test-track/ Their SCORM player software is used in quite a few LMS systems.  You can upload your SCORM zip file to see if it is valid. However, none of this is a 100% guarantee that when you upload the same SCORM to your company's LMS it will all work as expected.  The reality of the LMS landscape is that each LMS speaks a slightly different "dialect" of the SCORM language because they all tend to implement the standard a bit differently. Hope this helps. ... View more

One of the issues will be related to the fact that you are trying to send email messages. To do this, you need to hook into an email gateway to gain access to the internet for the purpose of sending email files.  Web servers typically have access to these gateways.  If I understand your intention correctly, you are needing to use AS3 code to create the email message and send it via the web server without the user opening their normal email client (e.g. Outlook). Another problem you will have with only using the SWF file is that when the time comes for you to build a SCORM compliant course to interact with an LMS, the SCORM tracking information can only be sent via JavaScript. In Captivate courses, a lot of this JS code is located inside the HTML file.  So if you just upload an SWF to your LMS, it won't work. ... View more

Check under Quiz Settings >  Pass/Fail to see what percentage you have it set to. Also, if this is a SCORM course, check whether you've got a different percentage shown under the SCORM settings. ... View more

I recently solved a similar problem on a course I was creating.  The solution required a widget. Go take a look at this recent blog post on my website: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/beat_cp_interactive_catch22 Maybe this will nelp your situation. ... View more

If you have Captivate 4 you would have the Multi-SCO packager by default.  In their wisdom, Adobe decided that Captivate 5 users would only get the packager if they also purchased the entire E-learning Suite 2.0. Your other choice is to go on the net and Google for SCORM packaging tools.  I know there are several out there. Your worst issue is probably going to be trying to sort out the sequencing rules.  For the kind of daisy chaining you want to happen, you'll probably need to go with SCORM 2004 but some LMSs don't handle this version of SCORM too well. See if you can get by with just using SCORM 1.2 for a start and worry about the fancier stuff afterwards. ... View more

Not as far as I am aware.  The email that is being sent has to access an email gateway. Webservers have these.  If content is not served from a webserver with a scripted interface to the email gateway, it will have to fall back on the old mailto: link method that just opens an email in whatever default email client the user happens to have on their system.  But you said you didn't want that. ... View more

Were these course modules upgraded from an earlier version of Cp (e.g. Cp4) or created from scratch in Cp5 using only playbars that came with Cp5? ... View more

More information here: http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=54081 Looks like JavaScript is the way to go. ... View more

It is possible using this widget:  http://www.cpguru.com/2010/09/01/email-reporting-widget-as3-for-adobe-captivate-4-and-adobe-captivate-5/ You'll also need: your Captivate movie served up from a web server the web server supports a scripting language such as PHP you may also need access to someone with programming skills if you need to modify the PHP page ... View more

I hope I am wrong, but I think you will find that certain function keys (such as F5, F11, etc) are reserved by the browsers universally for invoking browser functions.  You may not be able to get around these being hijacked by the browser using standard Captivate interactive objects (clickboxes and buttons). Have you investigated whether or not you could use Javascript code like found here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1400528/is-there-a-way-to-capture-override-ctrl-r-or-f5-on-ie-using-javascript ActionScript 3 might also be able to provide a way around this issue.  But that would require creating a custom-built interactive widget, and that would cost you money.  Does your company have a budget for solving this issue or were you just looking for something free and easy? ... View more

It sounds like you're trying to create a Multi-SCO SCORM package with sequencing rules that your LMS will obey. You say you've "zipped" the lessons to upload to your LMS. What tool/s are you using to bundle all the lessons as a Multi-SCO and create the imsmanifest file with the sequencing rules? Are you using the SCORM packaging app that comes with Captivate, or something else? Or did you just zip the whole shebang with Winzip and expect it to work? ... View more

You haven't really given enough information.  A screen capture of the unwanted object would be helpful. Here are a few ideas to play with: If this object appears on all slides in the project, and you are not using master slides, look for the first slide on which it appears, and search the layers for an object that is set to a duration of Resto of Project.  Watch out for the fact that the object might be hidden. Unhide all objects to find it. If using Master Slides, do the same search on the master slide layers to try and find the object. If you cannot find it elsewhere, was the object/s merged into the background and now part of the background graphic? (look to see that the objects still have a timeline layer dedicated to them).  Try right-clicking on the background and copying the background graphic out to a graphics editing program to see if you still see the undesired object. Is the object merely locked or hidden on the timeline?  (look for the padlock symbol next to their name on the timeline layer.) You cannot edit locked objects. ... View more

It sounds to me like what you need is just to set the TOC to Separate and Left (if you want it to appear on the left side of your content).  All you need to do usually is ensure your users have enough room to display the total width in a browser given their available screen real estate. When I publish this way in Cp5 the total width of my content is the width of my TOC (usually 300 pixels or so but you can set it to anything you want in Cp5) plus the width of my Captivate stage. So if your TOC is set to 300px and your movie is 800 wide x 600 high, then your total required window width in the browser at runtime will be 300 + 800 or 1100 pixels.  The height will be 600 + 20-30 pixels for the playback bar if you're using one.  Now if your users are only on monitors running 1024 x 768, the height will be OK for them but the width would be too large.  For the setup described here they'd need to be running more like 1200 x 768 or more to see everything. I find with Captivate content playing in a browser, the best strategy is to use a Javascript link to open the playing window to the precise size you need to display everything.  Use the Javascript window.open() method parameters to turn off all scrollbars and toolbars that you can.  This is your best route to ensuring that all users see more or less the same window.  If serving up the content from an LMS, most will have options to launch the SCO in a separate window. I normally have the TOC set to Hide, but here's what I see when I set it to Overlay. Are you saying you cannot get anything to look like this? ... View more

The XML import option is designed for use when localising or translating the text in Captivate projects. You create the project complete with all captions, menus, etc, then export to XML.  Translate the XML.  Then save your original (unedited) project for the second language and import the translated XML to update all the text in captions, menus etc to the new language. As I understand the use case, it's not what you were looking for if you were seeking a way to avoid having to create the captions.  There has to be existing content to export to XML before you can later re-import it back in.  If it works similarly to the Export Project Captions and Closed Captions feature, then the file tags all the individual objects by their unique IDs so that it has a reference and knows where to put stuff on re-import. ... View more

Right clicking on any published SWF running in a web browser will show you the options you speak of. This isn't likely to be the reason your button isn't working properly.  Captivate buttons set to open a URL should work in Flash player 9 or 10 without issue. Perhaps there's something else you haven't told us yet: When you publish your content, are you publishing with the option ticked to Export to HTML or only as a standalone SWF? Have you uploaded your content to your web server as yet and tested it from that environment?  If so, are you only uploading the SWF, or published HTM and JS files as well? Since this was a project that was originally Cp3 format, have you tried deleting your button and recreating it in Cp5?  (I'm wondering if the button is glitchy.) ... View more

It appears that you must not have any Quiz questions at the end of the Refresher content, correct? If the initial pretest is the only quiz in the lesson module, then passing it is effectively passing the whole module. By default, Captivate only allows you one 'quiz' per module and it starts the quiz scope from the very first scorable object in the movie and ends scope at the last scorable object in the movie.  Your Quiz Results slide (if you have one) can only be placed after all scorable objects in the slide order.  If you put quiz questions or some other interactive scorable object at the end of the Refresher content which is required for the learner to pass the entire module, then you lose the ability to evaluate the user's score (via the Quiz Results slide) prior to the Refresher content. One possible solution is to set up a dummy Quiz Results slide after the initial Pretest questions that uses Advanced Actions and System Variables (specifically the ones for scoring) to evaluate the learner's current score at that point and tell them whether or not to continue or jump out to the full course.  However, the feasibility of this would need to be tested because my gut tells me that Captivate may only expose the scoring variable results for reading AFTER you've reached the final quiz element in the project.  It might not do any evals or scoring calculations before then.  (I've never tried to access scoring variables progressively throughout the quiz question sequence.  So I don't know if this can be done.  Maybe someone else more familiar with the variables can chime in here.) If this suggested solution proves to be a dud, your only other option is to break out your Pretest as a separate module to the Full course and Refresher courses.  This way, the Pretest stands alone as a quiz, and the Refresher course content can have it's own post test quiz, or even just a scorable button at the end which the learner must click in order to pass the Refresher module and satisfy the LMS Pass/Fail/Complete/Incomplet status. ... View more

Other people have reported success with Captivate issues after updating to newer versions of Java. So it couldn't hurt to try and resolve the Java update issue first and then see if Cp behaves better. ... View more

I've used Captivate since it was called RoboDemo before Captivate 1. I've never known any new version of Captivate to be backward compatible or allow you to save files to previous version formats. I have Cp3, Cp4, and Cp5 on my current machine.  None of them save to previous formats.  This is an urban myth.  Get someone that says it can be done to prove it to you. ... View more

Whoever told you Cp4 won't run on Win 7 is very mistaken. Captivate 4 is indeed compatible with Windows 7, and even works (as a 32 bit app) under Win 7 64 bit.  I have both Cp4 and Cp5 working on Win 7 64 bit right now. If you're having issues getting Cp4 to work on Win 7 there are plenty of posts that talk about how to resolve such issues.  It usually comes down to having the latest drivers for all hardware and running the app as Administrator. Don't let this stop you from upgrading to Cp5 though.  It's well worth the money. ... View more

Having two ways to get to a slide that shows a given field as active for typing input isn't all that difficult.  You just need an initial slide with two clickboxes.  One is placed over the field, and the other is placed over the relevant button that would move them to the field. But you are nowhere out of the woods yet with that solution. One thing I don't understand is: How are you getting the typing text to work?  How is clicking a clickbox over a key on the fake keyboard going to result in letters appearing inside the username or password fields that can then be evaluated by Captivate to decide whether or not the user typed the required text? Text input in Captivate is normally only possible from the keyboard.  So have you cracked that issue yet? ... View more

Whether it works or not depends on where the code is located that makes it work.  If the code is AS3 located inside the SWF it might work with the SWF only.  If it requires JavaScript code located in a JS file or the HTML file then it won't work. Quickest way to find out is upload it to your server and see what happens. However, I have to tell you that NOT using the HTML and JS files is asking for trouble in the long run when it comes to Captivate content. ... View more

It works like this: When you post a question on this forum the next person to see it that can contribute a possible solution will try to answer it for you.  Most of us are monitoring several and sometimes all of the different categories.  So you're not really accessing different people by posting another version of the same question.  You're just making more unnecessary work for the same few people that are already giving of their time and expertise freely from the goodness of their hearts. Furthermore, double-posting makes you look impatient and demanding.  It's considered bad form to demand help when it's being given freely. Even if it wasn't your original intention to seem demanding, it can still come across that way. All communities have accepted rules of conduct.  Online communities are no exception.  Around here everyone is in the same queue waiting patiently for help. So the rule is, unless you want more "emotional reactions", post once, then wait.  That's it in a nutshell. ... View more

Widgets make money??!! Since when? ... View more

Sure it is. Just buy each student a license of Captivate to go with each course. They can record their voice, output to SCORM, upload it to Moodle, and listen to themselves. The course cost might be a bit expensive though... ... View more

I'd suggest you look at the Event Handler widget:  http://www.infosemantics.com.au/catalog/widgets/interactive/wdgt_event_handler_01 It will allow you to set up multiple instances of the widget (you need 20?) on the slide, each of which has a Success caption set to play a particular audio file when the button is clicked.  You can also use widget event to trigger an Advanced Action that will unhide the image you want to show at the same time. Set the widget Preferences to Disable Continue and Reset Success/Failure after Action.  This will mean that your user will remain on the same slide clicking happily away for as long as they like. Set up another button or widget with the Success action set to jump to your quiz as the means to exit the slide. ... View more

You're probably going to need to do both. Although Captivate can certainly accept a 10 meg audio file, you would need to add it to the movie and then synchronise the slides to the audio. Chopping the audio file up and adding the relevant bits to each slide has both advantages and disadvantages.  It's easier to control the playback synchronisation when you divide up the audio, but it's more work. Take a look at this graphic from SoundBooth when I export an audio file recorded in Captivate 5: Notice that it shows the bitrate of the Captivate WAV file as being 16 bit.  This is quite a low bitrate.  You can go as high as 32 bit in SoundBooth, however, in my experience, when you try to import a WAV into Captivate that is over 16 bit you will encounter issues.  Cp just doesn't seem to like it. If you want to learn more about bit rates in multimedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_rate Suffice to say, you need to find out what the current bit rate of the audio file is, and if necessary, save it as 16 bit for Captivate.  For this, you will require some kind of audio editing software. You can try using Audacity as someone else suggested: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/  and try exporting the file out as 16 bit. However, if you are going to be doing quite a bit of this type of work, I would suggest you invest in Adobe Soundbooth, or something of that ilk.  You'll enjoy the experience more. ... View more

OK.  You've already posted this issue once before today. You're not going to get a quicker answer by posting twice.  You'll just annoy people. I've already suggested a possible solution on your original post.  Go take a look at it. Don't be surprised if the forum moderators delete this one. ... View more

I'm gathering from your description that you're trying to play this from your PC hard drive. These things usually work better when delivered from a web server and with the HTML and JS files also in the mix. Upload your content (all published files, not just the SWF) to your web server and try it from there. ... View more

If what you mean by "nothing displays" is that you're seeing a black screen, this issue has been resolved by applying a patch to Cp5. See this: http://www.infosemantics.com.au/node/191 http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/solution-for-cp5-content-not-working-with-the-latest-flash-player-version.html If this is not your issue, please supply some extra information.  What you've given so far is nowhere near enough. ... View more

Even if you weren't using it to generate the TTS speech, you're certainly using it to play it back. The other possibility is that this is related to CODECs. Maybe you should also be addressing the issue to the TTS software supplier.  They may have already seen the issue and found a fix. ... View more