Bookmarking in Captivate 7

I know, to some extent, boomarking depends on the LMS and/or browser, but I'm trying to determine how to best set this course up for my customer.
They want it so that the user can leave at any time and come back to that exact page. In previous versions of captivate, I've seen people talk about checking the "self-paced learning" option under TOC. What exactly does this do? Pros vs Cons?
I've also seen people mention making changes to the advanced quiz preferences. When I go there, by default, it has ""Escape Version and Session ID checked."
The following are not checked: Send Data on Every Slide | Never Send Resume Data | Set Exit to Normal after Passed.
It seems like checking "Send Data on Every Slide" would work best, but I want to make sure from someone who knows. What do these options mean, and should I check one in combination with "self-paced learning"?
Thanks,
Arthur

Captivate only bookmarks the slide, not the location in a slide.
You would need something, like a Flash widget to set a Captivate variable based on cpInfoCurrentFrame, which would update a custom CP variable every so many frames, 1 or 10 or 30, whatever you'd choose. The lower the number the more drag on the system.
You would need this because you may not be able to capture the slide exit event to store the current frame in your custom CP variable.
The issue would be overriding Captivate internal programming with it's returning to the bookmarked slide. So if the user exited in the middle of Slide 6, on resuming, you had an advanced action executed onSlideEnter, and there was no value for cpInfoLastVisitedSlide, then you'd know that the user was resuming and you could send them to the vaue of the variable that contains the frame of the slide they exited on.
In this instance, it's much more reliable and manageable to turn off CP's bookmarking and make the calls yourself and using a widget to read and set the bookmarks.
Hope this isn't confusing,
I am in the process of writing a widget that does this for video on a slide, even embedded YouTube video can be bookmarked.

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Bookmarking with video in Captivate 6

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Bookmarking in Captivate relates to the slide number only. Therefore it will always return to the last visited slide - not the last visited frame on that slide or the last viewed position in an external file (flv, mp4).
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Some questions about features of captivate

Hello,
since I am waiting some days now for a recall of the adobe office i ask here if some features are available within captivate:
- Is it possible to upscale a recorded session to the screen size. e.g. captured with 800*600, played with 1024*768? Same functionality like upscaling a video on youtube ...
- Is there a pause button? Can i pause the session (as the person who is using the finished module to learn something) and restart at the same point som days later? Even on another computer?
- I´ve seen multiple choice and dropdown. Are there any other types of question directly implemented in captivate? Like fill-in-the-blank text or drag & drop with pictures? Or anything else?
- What about accessibility? anything possible with the mouse also possible by shortcuts with the keyboard? Especially forward, backward, start, stop, pause, tab to the next input, ...
- Can the design of the controls customizable? We need all buttons with a corporate design ...
- How detailed are the recordings. Can i see a example for mouse overs and dropdowns somewhere? How much will this increase the file size of the final module?
- Is the an (optinal) print button on to print out any single page of the module?
Thank you very much for some short answers
Frank

Short answers, as requested:
- Is it possible to upscale a recorded session to the screen size. e.g. captured with 800*600, played with 1024*768? Same functionality like upscaling a video on youtube ...
YES. You can change the project size after capturing, however, you will likely notice some loss of crispness in the output. The best size to use for capturing is the one that you DO NOT need to alter afterward.
- Is there a pause button? Can i pause the session (as the person who is using the finished module to learn something) and restart at the same point som days later? Even on another computer?
YES and NO. You are referring to bookmarking. Captivate has a couple of options in this area. One is used when NOT using an LMS and the other is only possible when using SCORM and an LMS. If you are publishing your content to SCORM using a Learning Management System, then some LMSs may support being able to resume the content from another PC at a later date. You need to know more about your particular LMS for the full answer.
- I´ve seen multiple choice and dropdown. Are there any other types of question directly implemented in captivate? Like fill-in-the-blank text or drag & drop with pictures? Or anything else?
YES. There are seven different scorable quiz question types, plus non-scorable Likert questions, and you can also randomise questions via quiz pools. Drag and drop question slides are available via widgets from Infosemantics. Captivate 6.1 and 7, also have drag and drop capability.
- What about accessibility? anything possible with the mouse also possible by shortcuts with the keyboard? Especially forward, backward, start, stop, pause, tab to the next input, ...
YES and NO. Your question is too broad to answer. Not everything possible with a mouse is replicable with a keyboard because some keystrokes are already taken by the browser, and not all browsers behave the same way. Tabbing has been vastly improved in Cp7.
- Can the design of the controls customizable? We need all buttons with a corporate design ...
It depends on your definition of "buttons" and how you want them to look. For example, you can use a graphics editor to create your own image buttons, and Cp6 or Cp7 allows you to fill shape buttons with a graphic. Either of these can be added to slides. If you're talking about branding the playbar buttons, you'll need to pay an ActionScript or Flash guru to build you a custom playbar.
- How detailed are the recordings. Can i see a example for mouse overs and dropdowns somewhere? How much will this increase the file size of the final module?
Download the trial version, install it and play around with the screencapture functionality. You'll soon see what you can and cannot achieve. You can certainly capture mouseovers and dropdown menus in demo mode. Reproducing the behaviour of similar controls in Training or Assessment mode is a bit more involved.
- Is the an (optinal) print button on to print out any single page of the module?
NO. But you can create printable PDFs and link them to each page if you really want this.

How to reset bookmark after audiobook has finished playing?

I get audiobooks through audible.com. When playback is stopped a bookmark is saved. When playback is resumed it is possible to advance or rewind from this point. However, when an audiobook has played through to the end (sometimes accidentally) the book mark is at the very end so that the file does not actually begin to play at all! This makes it impossible to rewind it. The only way I have found to do this is when the iPod is conncected to iTunes where there is a slider associated with the file which can be adjusted. How can a bookmark at the very end of an audiobook file be reset when the iPod is not connected to anything?
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It's possible to do in Captivate 3 by using some JavaScript code. Some have also reported that it works with Captivate 4 but I have not yet tested it myself.
You can try it out and see if it works out for you. Here is the link with the explanation and code: http://www.cpguru.com/2008/11/25/reset-bookmark-in-captivate-3/
/Michael
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Resume Bookmarking on Shared Machine

Greetings gurus and non-gurus (like me).
There have been some discussions around managing the Resume settings in published, LMS-deployed Captivate pieces and this will solve my problems going forward, I think. But today I have to face and resolve a present issue that goes a little something like this.
For no good reason whatsoever, the shared computer in our widget factory has only one login ... the Windows User Name is "Widget". Both Bob and Sally share this same computer -- logged in to Windows as "Widget".
Sally logged in to our LMS as herself and completed the Widget Quality Control training course. Good for Sally.
Bob next logged in to the LMS and launched the Widget Quality Control training course and was taken to the last page of the course. He cannot restart from the beginning, and he cannot complete the course. It sucks to be Bob.
Bob calls the Help Desk and courteously explains his frustrations...
At this point, I would like to be able to tell the Help Desk how to instruct Bob to delete the progress tracking for the course so that he can start over from the beginning. It is clear that the courseware is probably tracking the user's progress according to the Windows user account "Widget's" (which was "Completed" by Sally).
I was hoping it would be as simple, perhaps, as clearing the browser's cache and re-launching the course. But woe; it is not to be.
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Does anybody know if I am on the right track to "resetting/clearning" progress tracking for poor Bob so that he can complete his training. If so, it would be very helpful to know the proper procedure to accomplish this given my situation. I know this isn't the elegant solution that I will eventually implement, but I need at least a temporary "work around".
As always, thanks to all for a most helpful user forum!!
Mike

Are you by any chance using the TOC in your courses? If I am not mistaken the TOC stores progress as a LSO (Local Shared Object) on the users computer. That would cause problems for Bob and Sally. The LSO's cannot be deleted through the browser so that could explain why your helpdesk can't assist them with deleting the bookmark.
If you are using Captivate's built in bookmark function then one thing you could do is to automatically reset it when it reaches the last page of the course. This is generally also a good idea since a user that has completed a course most likely don't want to be teleported to the last page again when they restart the course.
I'm not 100% that this will work for Captivate 4, because I have only tested it in Captivate 3.
Insert the below code as execute JavaScript in your project end options:
var data = g_objAPI.GetValue(”cmi.suspend_data”);data = “A” + data.substring(1);g_objAPI.SetValue(”cmi.suspend_data”,data);
This will clear the bookmark (at least for Captivate 3).
You can read a bit more about it here: http://www.captivate4.com/2008/11/25/reset-bookmark-in-captivate-3/
/Michael
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I have package and uploaded my CP 5 lesson into LMS (SumTotal) and works as expected. I need the ablility to review the content after the first time a user views and recorded as 'Completed/Passed'. Is there a special setting is CP? I can click the review option is LMS and it plays the first and last slides extremely fast and then closes. Any guidance is extremely appreciated. I have to have this finalized by Friday October 12. Thanks in advance, Diana

This something you have to organise via the LMS settings. Your problem will be that in SumTotal if the user re-enters the content after completing it, SumTotal views this as a new attempt and their score for that content is set back to incomplete.
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I know that SCORM 1.2 has a limit of 4000 characters in suspend_data and with a long course with many interactions this can quickly be filled up by Captivate. I don't know if AICC publishing has similar restrictions, but an overfilled suspend_data could explain many of your troubles.
Now.. I have a fix that will "flush" the suspend_data in a Captivate 3 course published with the SCORM protocol. I don't know if it will work for AICC, but you could give it a shot. Please note that this will also delete any resume data that Captivate stores, but since you selected not to send that anyways it shouldn't be an issue for you.
Insert this JavaScript as the “Project End Options” found under Project Settings – Start and End:
var data = g_objAPI.GetValue(”cmi.suspend_data”);data = “A” + data.substring(1);g_objAPI.SetValue(”cmi.suspend_data”,data);
You can read some more details about the above "hack" here: http://www.cpguru.com/2008/11/25/reset-bookmark-in-captivate-3/
Good luck ;o)
/Michael
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Pausing screen and resuming

Hello,
Is there a way to allow users to pause a presentation where a working application was captured? And if so, can the users resume where paused?
Cathy

Are you talking about bookmarking a Captivate module at a given point so that you can close it down and later begin again at that point?
If so, Captivate has a couple of mechanisms used for this, including:
The Self-Paced Learning option in TOC settings will store the last visited slide in a cookie on the user's PC and return them again to this slide on next session.
If using an LMS, Captivate can store the user's last location in Resume Data. Not all LMSs work well with this.
Neither of these solutions will bring you back to the exact point where your learner left off. But they can get as close as the beginning of the nearest slide.

Captivate 4 - Bookmark feature for LMS

I have completed all development of a course, but have just learned that a bookmark feature is required by the LMS. There must be a way for a User to begin the course then stop, and later be brought back to the same place.
Is there a setting in Captivate where I can enable this feature?

Does your CP-movie have quiz slides and if so, do you report to the LMS? Then you have to activate Resume Data, which is normally the standard option in the LMS Customization Setting (Quiz Preferences, Settings).
When I'm not using the SCORM-functionality (reporting scores), I use the TOC-feature and activate the option 'Self-paced Learning' in the Settings, Runtime Options of the TOC, to have the bookmarking function. I'm certain there are other ways, perhaps someone else will give you another solution. If you do not want to lose any space on your screen you can put the TOC in overlay mode.
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Adobe Captivate 7 Bookmarking

Hi, I have built a SCORM course in Captivate 7 that marks the user as complete when they reach the last page. After completing a course, every subsequent time you launch it you are taken back to the assessment summary page, even if that wasn't the last page you visited. Do you know if there is a way to resolve this so that bookmarking behaves as it should after completion?

Can you let me know the details of your Scorm course.Whether it scorm 1.2 or 2004.I was not able to repro the issue in either of them.If possible send me your project cptx file

Self-Paced Learning - Bookmark not working in Captivate 5

I followed the directions of adding a Table of Contents to one of my captivate projects and selecting Self-Paced Learning in order to create a bookmark but this does not work. I have saved it as Adobe Flash 9 and Adobe Flash 10 but I am not getting the message about starting where I left off when either refreshing the browser or exiting and going back in. What am I missing?
Thanks for your time,
Brenda

All slides in the presentation are marked as continue. I have gone
through the first 5 slides and when I refresh the browser or exit out of
Internet Explorer and open the project again it just starts at the
beginning.
Brenda
From:   Lilybiri <[email protected]>
To:     Brenda Dersham <[email protected]>
Date:   01/25/2011 08:33 AM
Subject:        Self-Paced Learning - Bookmark not
working in Captivate 5
Hello Brenda,
How did you check: after uploading to a LMS?
You have to be aware of the fact that a slide will be marked as 'viewed'
only when the playbar has played the whole slide till the end. If you do
pause slides with a click box, button, TEB and attach the action 'Go to
Next slide' or something similar instead of the default action 'Continue'
this will not happen and the slide will not be marked as completed.
Lilybiri

Bookmark Captivate-developed course in LMS

We're trying to get the bookmark feature to work with a Captivate-developed
course (using Captivate 3, course is SCORM 1.2) on the SkillPort LMS. We had assumed that it was sufficient to use the appropriate SCORM.htm and scorm_support.js files (i.e., those that are part of the Adobe Captivate program). However, the bookmarking feature does not seem to work on the course that we loaded to SkillPort. So now I'm thinking that I must have made some wrong selections under Preferences. I'm wondering --
1. Under the Quiz Reporting "Advanced Functions," should I de-select "Never send Resume Data"?
2. Under Quiz Reporting, should I have selected "Interactions and score"? Does the LMS need the interactions in order to note where the learner stopped his session?
3. Or should I have added a playbar to the course, so that the learner could click the playbar's x to exit from the course? (Currently there is no playbar, and the learner just clicks the x in the upper right window corner to close the course.) Although my SkillPort contact tells me that the playbar can be problematic, so I'm thinking we should leave it out. (We don't need it, as we use buttons in the course for navigation.)
Thank you for any insights! This is new territory for me, and the Captivate online help doesn't explain the bookmarking feature.
(Note: I had originally tacked this question onto another topic on this forum, but since it was in an inappropriate category I suspect no one found it, so now I'm posting it in this eLearning section.)

Here's an update. After I de-selected "Never send Resume Data" and also changed the Reporting tab (to not report) on the quiz questions (since in our case, the questions are not the basis for successful completion), we re-published the course at the LMS, and now the bookmarking feature works when you are into the course a ways, for example, if you leave the course at, say page 11, when you later return, page 1 opens only momentarily and right away page 11 is displayed, which is good.
However, it seems if you exit the course at an earlier page, for example, page 6, that the course goes only to page 2 (instead of page 6) later when you resume. We're wondering whether this may relate to -- perhaps we need a quiz question earlier in the course, or perhaps we should delete a silly text animation that I put on page 2, or perhaps something else is causing the first few pages in the course not to correctly activate the bookmark/resume function.
- Jan

Captivate Bookmarking Issue - Returns to Wrong Slide!

I have a Captivate course with over 270 slides divided into 7 sections. There are 3-4 quiz questions at the end of each section with a score page on the second last page.
when through the course and exiting, bookmarking works until you get around half way through, at which point bookmarking returns me to a slide about halfway through the course. Ive made various version trying to rectify this, and at times it was a quiz slide, other times a standard slide. I tried moving all the quiz questions to the end of the course, and bookmarking would return me to a specific quiz slide each time. This bookmarking issue would appear when I existed the course after not completing it, or completing it and failing the quiz. Has anyone experienced this or got an idea what might be causing this?

What version of SCORM are you publishing to?
The bookmarking info is held in the suspend data, along with quiz info and all variables in the project. It could be that the suspend data has reached it's limit. Or it just can't handle that many slides.
There are ways to manipulate the bookmarking in CP as I wrote in this blog:
http://www.tlcmediadesign.com/blog/2015/01/controlling-captivate-bookmarking/
This probably won't help your situation though. Depending on the SCORM version you can use the comments field to store info and use that to bookmark.
With a project of that size and depending on the info you need to tract/save, it would be best to connect a non-Captivate SCORM driver and make a SCORM calls yourself..
Or you can split the course into 7 separate SCO's to reduce the suspend data.

Captivate Bookmarking Issue

We have developed a WBT using captivate 2.0. This WBT is
published as SCORM 1.2 complaint. But while testing it on ADL Test
Suit and on Sample RTE, we have observed that, the data was sent
only on some slides. That is why, course is not bookmarking
properly. We had also gone through the captivate slides, but there
is no such difference in the slides where data is send and the
rest. We want every slide should bookmark. Could you please guide
us in resolving this issue?
Thanks..
Ajit Danve
Aptara, Pune.

I think in Captivate 2, the lesson sends the latest data on
each and
every screen. Why that would NOT happen, I don't know. If
anyone there
has any javascript experience, you can see all the JS
functions in the
parent HTML file. Perhaps you can add alerts in those
scripts, if you
can decipher them, and determine if data actually is or is
not being
sent on each page change.
I don't know of any way to demand that the Captivate file
send data at a
given...
Erik
AjitD wrote:
> We have developed a WBT using captivate 2.0. This WBT is
published as SCORM 1.2
> complaint. But while testing it on ADL Test Suit and on
Sample RTE, we have
> observed that, the data was sent only on some slides.
That is why, course is
> not bookmarking properly. We had also gone through the
captivate slides, but
> there is no such difference in the slides where data is
send and the rest. We
> want every slide should bookmark. Could you please guide
us in resolving this
> issue?
>
> Thanks..
> Ajit Danve
> Aptara, Pune.
>
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