Captivate 5.5, SCORM, and Blackboard 9.1

I'm currently administering online classes that rely on Captivate 5.5 modules published in SCORM format, which are housed on Blackboard 9.1. Even though all of the modules are published with the exact same settings, they don't all work consistently--for example, the grade center will report one module attempt as "in progress" instead of the quiz score, but when I check the attempt, it appears that the student viewed the module and completed the quiz successfully. Other modules in the same course report the score with no problem whatsoever.
Is anyone currently using Captivate SCORM in Blackboard 9.1 successfully with consistent results? I'd be happy to share my Captivate/Bb settings to see if I'm doing something wrong on my end. However, since some of the modules report to the grade center with no issues, I'm not sure if that's the case.
Thanks in advance,
JAB

I don't think many Blackboard users have the option of just "changing the LMS". That's a decision that would be out of their control.
My suggestion is to make sure that the users who are not getting their course modules marked completed are actually moving beyond the Quiz Results slide. In many cases you'll find that learners are just shutting down the course player as soon as they get to the Quiz Results slide. This can mean their score is not transmitted to the LMS.
I've found that with many LMSs you need to have at least one slide beyond the Quiz Results slide and you need to force (or at least strongly encourage) the learners to click the Continue button on the Quiz Results slide to ensure the timeline moves into that final slide. So I rename the Continue button to something more encouraging like REGISTER YOUR SCORE! so that learners believe they need to click this button.

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SCORM and Blackboard 6

Hello everyone,
While Captivate 3 appears to be robust in its SCORM
capabilities, I have tried and failed after long hours to implement
a Captivate 3 assessment simulation in a Blackboard CE 6 course. I
have been through the technotes, and tried many of the fixes, even
changing a lower case "l" to a capital "L" in the word
"schemaLocation" in an XML file as instructed by one technote. I
have run the gamut.
As a result, I can import a Captivate 3 SCORM package into
Blackboard CE6 (Campus Edition 6), so it will be recognized, but
Blackboard CE6 will not report the user's scores-- the main reason
for importing the package in the first place. The SCORM package
should instruct CE6 to create a grading column and report scores,
but it just does not happen.
I have also communicated with the Blackboard community on
this and some of their "gurus" have thrown their hands up in
frustration. I refer to this discussion thread at Blackboard:
http://discussions.blackboard.com/jive4/thread.jspa?threadID=32286&tstart=0,
where it appears Blackboard tried and gave up on integrating
Captivate 3's SCORM protocols with Blackboard about a year ago
after trying to work things through.
Wouldn't it make sense for Adobe Captivate's SCORM content to
be compatible with this country's biggest and most widely utilized
learning management system? This is not a rhetorical question.
You've got some smart guys, Adobe. If you agree that it does make
sense, please, make it work, or tell me (and by extension others)
what works. I'll be happy to learn and eat humble pie.
Glen Gummess
Instructional Designer
University of St. Francis
Joliet, IL

While I've no direct experience with Blackboard, I would
strongly
suspect the issue lies with Blackboard and not Captivate.
There are stories tenfold about the net about issues with
Blackboard and
true SCORM functionality, as well as general IT reviews of
Blackboard
code being a mash of years-old spaghetti.
Not that Captivate is necessarily the essence of efficient
programming,
not at all...but I don't think it fair or likely to put the
burden
square on Adobe's shoulders. The fact that Captivate works
pretty well
with many, many other LMS systems alone would indicate it's
more likely
a Blackboard issue.
However, reading through the thread, this appears to be a
Vista-related
issue? Only? I've not had to deliver any Captivate-specific
projects to
a Vista environment so perhaps my above opinion is not as
rounded as it
needs to be. Are you sure this is not a browser issue? Do you
find the
Captivate files to work correctly in the ADL Test Suite and
Reload
Player? If they work in those environments properly, then
even more an
indication of a Blackboard issue...
Erik
Glen Gummess wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> While Captivate 3 appears to be robust in its SCORM
capabilities, I have tried
> and failed after long hours to implement a Captivate 3
assessment simulation in
> a Blackboard CE 6 course. [snip]
>
http://discussions.blackboard.com/jive4/thread.jspa?threadID=32286&tstart=0
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UPK11 - SCORM and Blackboard 9.1

We are new to using UPK at Arizona State University.
We are trying to figure out the "LMS" publishing using SCORM -
(We think we have most of the "player" functionality as far as publishing figured out).
What we are looking for is if the LMS publishing via SCORM can allow us to show an individual topic from withing a Blackboard 9.1 shell.
We know about the stand alone topics, but having our end-users have to download a player before viewing the topic will be problematic in our environment.
Has anyone successfully connect UPK 11 content and Blackboard?
We would be very interested in any Wisdom that you can share!
Paul

I don't think many Blackboard users have the option of just "changing the LMS". That's a decision that would be out of their control.
My suggestion is to make sure that the users who are not getting their course modules marked completed are actually moving beyond the Quiz Results slide. In many cases you'll find that learners are just shutting down the course player as soon as they get to the Quiz Results slide. This can mean their score is not transmitted to the LMS.
I've found that with many LMSs you need to have at least one slide beyond the Quiz Results slide and you need to force (or at least strongly encourage) the learners to click the Continue button on the Quiz Results slide to ensure the timeline moves into that final slide. So I rename the Continue button to something more encouraging like REGISTER YOUR SCORE! so that learners believe they need to click this button.

Problems with Scorm and Captivate

There appears to be a major problem with Scorm compliance and Captivate 4.
From my understanding, Scorm 1.2 requires that the Manifest include the filenames of all resource files in order to import them. It appears that when Captivate externalizes its resources (Skins, etc) it does not include them in the Manifest. This is because Captivate does not dynamically create the manifest, but rather uses template manifest to fill in variables. The file that is missing from the template is untitled_skin.swf. Below is the template and the output from my test. From the template, it does not appear that Captivate will support anything other than a single SWF and be compliant with Scorm 1.2 (1.2 Scorm Specs http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/cpv1p1p2/imscp_bestv1p1p2.html)
Template:
<resources>
<resource identifier="@RD_MQZ_MANIFEST_ID_RES" type="webcontent" href="@RD_MQZ_MANIFEST_HTM_NAME_HREF" adlcp:scormtype="sco">
         <file href="@RD_MQZ_MANIFEST_SWF_NAME"/>
      <file href="@RD_MQZ_MANIFEST_HTM_NAME"/>
            <file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.htm"/>
            <file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.js"/>
            <file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.swf"/>
</resource>
Actual XML:
<resources>
- <resource identifier="SCO_ID1_RES" type="webcontent"href="untitled.htm"adlcp:scormtype="sco">
<file href="untitled.swf" />
<file href="untitled.htm" />
<file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.htm" />
<file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.js" />
<file href="SCORM_support/scorm_support.swf" />
Please advise..
Thank You!

Michael,
SCORM packages do have a number of "must-haves", but the listing of every last resource asset is more a best practice (although a good idea).
The content doc that you reference actually states that it is a best-practice document at the top.
My stand has always been that in the long run you are much better off if you follow all the rules (especially as the standards evolve and build on each other) so I would love to see captivate list all the resources in the future.
Importantly though, for any SCORM certified LMS there are two instances where resources MUST be listed.
First, if it is the href launch file for that particular resource (i.e. <resource identifier="SCO_ID1_RES" type="webcontent" href="untitled.htm"adlcp:scormtype="sco"> in your example) then obviously it must be listed in order for LMS to serve up the next part of the course.
The other time it must be listed is if that particular resource is actually a "dependency sub-element" of whatever sco or other resource it applies to.
As long as you have those bases covered, and all the other rules of course (schemas definitions, etc...) it should still pass the appropriate ADL conformance test suite.
I use both captivate 3 and 4 with a whole host of different LMS systems and have found the generated files to be quite sufficient for basic packaging needs.
Although, I have made a few customizations based on comments I have read from Andrew Cherney and Mike Rustici (I try to read everything either one of them answers for someone on the forum).
If you are saying that a particular LMS is doing some kind of "import validation" before it accepts and allows you to publish your content, then that is actually quite common (though usually transparent unless you hit a snag in the validation).
Typically, the validation will consist of a shortened version of the same basic items that the ADL test suite checks for (schemas and declarations, launch files, etc..).
That said, if because of an LMS that you need to account for, you absolutely NEED to have all the files listed in the manifest, a great tool for ensuring that is actually free.
It is called RELOAD, and if you ever take one of the courses run by the ADL Academic Co-Lab (which I highly recommend) that is the tool they use for teaching about packaging and sequencing.
Very useful tool for creating new packages or editing existing packages as well as adding metadata, sequencing rules and so on.
RELOAD lets you drag and drop whole directories of resources and set their dependency requirements so you could use it to quickly add all your resources to the manifest.
This is their website:
http://www.reload.ac.uk/
I can generally get by with just the files that captivate generates for scorm 1.2 , but for any heavy lifting (i.e. dynamic sequencing in scorm 2004), I always bring RELOAD into the picture.
I hope this was helpful. I tend to ramble on about standards sometimes...
Russ

Still struggling with Captivate 6, Oracle LMS and SCORM 2004

Still can't get this course tracking with scores. Herewith the screen shot. Does anyone know if the settings I have chosen for the quiz are correct. When I load the published course into the lms and test it, it shows "not attempted" prior to opening it and it gives the final score on the last quiz slide. There is a slide after the last quiz slide. It still seems not to transfer the scores to the lms. I recently found out that we have Scorm 2004 version 4, so I changed the configuration setting as it was defaulted to version 3, but that still hasn't helped with the scores. Under the start and end settings, I have chosen close project for the end. I have been through a week of torture with this course! Please can anyone assist as I'm not sure what to do anymore!

Oh no. Now I'm panicking! I will try it. Thanks
Mrs T Cassisa
Oracle Learning Management Practitioner
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>>> RodWard <[email protected]> 2/26/2014 11:20 AM >>>
Re: Still struggling with Captivate 6, Oracle LMS and SCORM 2004
created by RodWard in Quizzing/LMS - View the full discussion
This sounds like you have some major issue in this course project file.
Breaking it up into smaller files might not fix your issue.
I suggest you create a new blank CPTX project file, add one true/false quiz question, set it to report to LMS with the settings you have above, publish as a single SCO package zip file, and upload to both your LMS and SCORM cloud.
If this file doesn't even work, your installation of Captivate would have to be suspect and nothing you do in course module is going to fix that until you work out what the problem is. If this very simple single-SCO lesson plays OK and reports successfully to the LMS, then we need to figure out what is lacking in your current file.
It could be that your current file has somehow become corrupted. See the suggestions here for how to debug general corruption issues:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-troubleshooting/basic- troubleshooting-techniques
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Captivate 3 send Quiz and Results via email

I created a Quiz in Captivate 3. Upon completion of the quiz I would like to have all the questions which were answered and the results emailed to me in PDF (or word if possible). In Captivate 3 I can receive an email with the pass/fail completion scores etc. This is not enough information. I need to know which questionss were answered in order to get back to the person who took the quiz and give them further assistance. We have Adobe Connect Pro, but did not purchase the LMS. Can this be done without an LMS? Can this be done in Captivate 4?

Short answer: no
Longer: Search and read through these forums for all the issues surrounding email. Not only is it not terribly reliable but it's also not terribly customizable.
You could possibly do what you need if you've got some Javascript folks there who can parse through the Captivate HTML/JS files and modify them to output interaction data to the email... To do that, I suspect you'd have to setup the lesson to work with SCORM, but then modify the resulting published HTML/JS files to redirect all SCORM API calls to some other functionality that would instead insert the desired information into an email.
It may be better to just get an LMS. ;-)
I think I've seen an article somewhere on Adobe's site, likely by Andrew Chemey, that discussed modifying the published files to send data to a standard database instead of an LMS...so maybe that would be an option, or that could be a base article for modifying the code to work with email. Worth a search of Adobe's site, I suspect.
HTH!
Erik

Some options are greyed out in Captivate 8.0.1 and my bullets do not work?

Hi, I am using Captivate 8.0.1 and am having trouble with 2 things:
1. The bullets and indents that I have formated for my responsive project appear very messed up and not as I have formatted when I view my project in Edge Inspect?
2. Some options in the TOC are greyed out (that I really need for my project). These option are to upload an icon and to align the position of the TOC (It wont let me align to the side of my project as the only option available is for 'overlay'.
Any ideas on how to fix these problems would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

Hi there
Captivate 8 introduced the first "Responsive" type of project. And in these types of projects, certain things simply won't work in the output. Henceforth, their options will often be disabled (or "grayed out"). The TOC appears to be one such item. The only option is to use an overlay TOC. I would suspect that this is because of "responsive design". Since the output will be adapting to differing screen sizes, I'm guessing that adding an additional 250 or so pixels for a TOC could prove troublesome and would likely throw off all the other design elements.
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I tracked down the problem with the download and installation, my windows 7 was missing a file and after reinstalling windows everything worked out. The first 32 bit program in their list was used. I hope this can help others.

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Captivate SCORM and WebCT

When I tried posting a SCORM zip file into WebCT 6.0 I
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"The SCORM package could not be imported because it does not
comply with one or more specifications within the package. The
following error was produced: **Parsing Error** Line: 12 Message:
cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute 'xsi:schemalocation' is not
allowed to appear in element 'lom'. Please inform the SCORM vendor
and try again once the problem has been resolved."
I did not know if this was a WebCT or Captivate issue until I
downloaded a SCORM player called RELOAD and opened the file in that
program. I received the same error there, as is follows:
Problem validating manifest
(file:C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/u0352996/reload/reload-scorm-player/server/webapps/rel oad-scorm-player/course-packages/allergy/imsmanifest.xml:
12, 92): cvc-complex-type.3.2.2: Attribute 'xsi:schemalocation' is
not allowed to appear in element 'lom'.
(file:C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/u0352996/reload/reload-scorm-player/server/webapps/rel oad-scorm-player/course-packages/allergy/imsmanifest.xml:
95, 102): cvc-id.2: There are multiple occurrences of ID value
'Allergies_Assessment'.
(file:C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/u0352996/reload/reload-scorm-player/server/webapps/rel oad-scorm-player/course-packages/allergy/imsmanifest.xml:
95, 102): cvc-attribute.3: The value 'Allergies_Assessment' of
attribute 'identifier' on element 'item' is not valid with respect
to its type, 'ID'.
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file, if you have paths associated then some of the servers gives
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files in a folder, select all the files and create a zip out of
that. Open the zip, and make sure that the path column is either
empty or relative for SCORM_* files.
Not sure if it will help you, but you may give it a try.
thanks

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Has the SCORM publish feature been improved significantly in Captivate 6? I understand that the code in Captivate 5.5 and previous versions caused lots of problems.

Yes and why ?
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2. We have tested against many popular LMS
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This is the scenario. We have a Captivate 7 module. One of the slides will have an HTML5 animation on it. The module also has quiz questions. We have used Adobe Captivate 7 App Packager to include the HTML5 animation and publish the course. When we upload the course to our LMS (LearnShare), nothing shows up. If we upload the HTML5 published course without any Scorm settings, it works. But we obviously need the Scorm settings on. Can't figure out how to package this thing to have it include the animation and the Scorm settings and work on the LMS.

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Captivate.
If your LMS supports it, you can even have Captivate submit
the user's answers to each scored interaction/question. This is
done through the "Submit interactions and the score" option in the
Quiz preferences, although there seems to be a hard limit to the
amount of data that can be sent to an LMS so you wouldn't want to
submit interactions for a file with a large number of
interactions/questions.
The quickest way to set up all your scoring parameters is to
press F9, which opens the Advanced Interaction dialog that lets you
specify the scoring of each item in your project.
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Captivate SCORM and SharePoint...

My company is working to set up a training program using
SharePoint Learning Kit (SLK) as the LMS and Captivate 3/SCORM
compliant classes for the content.
Here are my questions:
1. Can captivate class progress be saved and resumed at a
later date exactly where the student left off? Currently we are
using demo mode not interactive, but I'm wondering if this can be
done with both as we may go interactive later.
2. Can the captivate flash player be rebranded to fit the
company brand?
3. Do you have any links or resources on configuring
captivate to work with Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit?
Thanks in advanced.

1. Sure, as long as the LMS supports it. Captivate stores
current
progress in the suspendData field. So as long as the LMS has
that
variable and can send the values back to a Captivate lesson
on request
(when relaunched), Captivate will resume (in most cases).
2. I think so, at least to some degree. Search about a bit
and find out
where the 'skins' are stored. You should be able to use one
as you
basis, modify it, and save as a new skin. I think they're
pretty much
all just BMP/JPG files.
3. I'd like to know this too!
Erik
malcolmlo wrote:
> My company is working to set up a training program using
SharePoint Learning
> Kit (SLK) as the LMS and Captivate 3/SCORM compliant
classes for the content.
>
> Here are my questions:
>
> 1. Can captivate class progress be saved and resumed at
a later date exactly
> where the student left off? Currently we are using demo
mode not interactive,
> but I'm wondering if this can be done with both as we
may go interactive later.
>
> 2. Can the captivate flash player be rebranded to fit
the company brand?
>
> 3. Do you have any links or resources on configuring
captivate to work with
> Microsoft SharePoint Learning Kit?
>
> Thanks in advanced.
>
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I have an issue with Captivate 5.5 SCORMS failing in Moodle 2.5.3 and now in 2.6, have upgraded to Captivate 8.0, any ideas?

I am new to Captivate (and Moodle) and have inherited a project that was built with Captivate 5.5, and originally deployed on Moodle 2.5.3.
The SCORMS started failing in Moodle 2.5.3 and so we migrated to Moodle 2.6, but they still start to load, then the spinning wheel of eternity takes over and they don't load.
From some other posts I have seen, it appears to be a Captivate issue? Any suggestions or ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Zac, sorry to hear about your troubles, but that's why us other users are here to try to help in these instances.
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