Captivate Bookmarking

Would like to turn off bookmarking in a course but when I
check the "never send resume data" in the settings then the course
will not provide a complete to the LMS. Any ideas here? Am I doing
it wrong?

Why this isn't working, I don't know...I've not dug into the
details of
CP as you have. Perhaps a workaround is to start the user one
slide
early from where they left off? So even if that slide is
'bad', the
following ones work as they should?
Otherwise, note that CP bookmarking only works 'out of the
box' with an
LMS and the tracking to do that - successfully - is in place.
So perhaps
better to set your lesson up to track using SCORM but modify
the HTML/JS
behind the lesson SWF to intercept the SCORM calls and store
the info in
the Shared Object instead.
I'd imagine CP is looking for the resume data in a particular
format/name that your method is not providing? By working
with the
functionality it comes with and redirecting the
storage/retrieval,
perhaps you'll have better luck.
There are past posts with links to sample files, I believe,
that show
how to intercept this data. Search the site! Perhaps for
posts by Mr.
Chemey as he often replies with pointers to such examples...
Erik
AjitD wrote:
> The problem is suppose I was in between the 10th
captivate slide and closes
> the course. When I again launched the course the
captivate starts playing from
> 10th slide but it skips the audio for 10th slide
completely. So I can not here
> the complete audio or the audio which was remained for
the 10th slide.
>
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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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Captivate not bookmarking with my LMS

From what I've read, Captivate with an LMS should support
bookmarking, and resume at the slide where a user closed the
window. However, with our LMS (GeoMetrix TrainingPartner), this
does not seem to be the case. I've uploaded some test SCORM2004
movies with 12 slides, and no matter which slide I quit on, if I
come back in it starts right back at the beginning. Is there a
setting within Captivate I'm missing to turn on bookmarking? After
searching the forums and the web, it seems like most people have a
problem with Captivate bookmarking when they
don't want it to, which is the opposite of my problem.
PS - Yes, I've made sure that "Never send Resume Data" is
unchecked. :)

Only thought is I'm pretty sure you can make the
modifications to the
HTML javascript without worrying about the Actionscript.
Sure, the CP
file has Actionscript, but that largely calls and passes
values to the
SCORM JS functions in the parent HTML document. I'm pretty
confident
that Actionscript does not make calls to the SCORM API
directly.
I know that JS code is there as I've waded through it a
couple times.
It's a bit confusing but I am pretty certain that's where the
direct
SCORM API calls are generated, and thus is where you should
be able to
add the cmi.exit function.
I defer on the resume/ab initio stuff as I'm not clear on it
but,
regardless, you're right - if CP is not setting the exit
value to
suspend (as I trust you're saying it should), then whether it
sets 'ab
initio' or 'resume' when it starts again seems irrelevant.
HTH!
Erik
totvos wrote:
> And unfortunately, it does not seem to be as easy as
editing the HTML file
> because the SCORM support is not in there. It is
compiled into the SWF file
> (again, you can decompile it to see, and match it up
with the ActionScript
> files above).
>
> As to the validity of the variables, according to the
specs, both 1.2 and 2004
> support the "suspend" value for "exit", and the "entry"
value should be
> "ab-initio" or "resume" based on whether the exit was
suspended or not. So I am
> pretty sure that Captivate is offside on this issue, and
is probably why others
> are reporting bookmarking as not working in their
SCORM-compliant LMSs.
>
> That all said, I have another topic in the General
Discussion area asking how
> to modify these core ActionScript files as simply
editing them and republishing
> a project to not seem to have any effect. It would be
ideal to hack in the
> "cmi.exit" support there so that all projects inherit
the compliant behaviour.
>
> Any thoughts on that?
>
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Control lesson re-entry behavior?

I have a question that might be more LMS related, but I
thought I’d post it on a Captivate forum since I am using
Captivate to for the content end of my project. In a nutshell, my
client wants to use a captivate lesson as both a lesson and as
reference material.
Right now, when I create a Captivate project and publish it
the behavior of the project is as follows:
1. User enters lesson and begins encountering slides.
2. If the user leaves the lesson early the LMS marks the
lesson as “incomplete”.
a. Captivate bookmarking brings them to where they left off
when they re-enter the lesson.
3. If the user successfully finishes the lesson, the LMS
marks them as “complete” (or if it is a quiz, they
might have a score).
a. If the user re-enters the "complete" lesson Captivate
(bookmarking, I think) immediately takes them to the end of the
lesson.
I want the user to instead go to the beginning of the lesson
if they re-enter the lesson a second (or third) time, so that they
can review the lesson. I want the LMS to keep the highest score, or
at least not over write the previous score.
I can set Captivate to “Never send resume data”.
This allows the user to re-enter a previously completed lesson at
the beginning of that lesson. Unfortunately, it also resets the LMS
complete/incomplete score data. A previously completed lesson could
be re-marked as “incomplete” or a previously
“passed” lesson might be remarked as
“failed”. This is not the desired behavior.
Ideally, the user would be able to re-enter the lesson, begin
at the beginning again, keep the highest score they achieved
previously and be able to use the “lesson” as reference
material.
I have seen this done with pure Flash, but I'd like to be
able to do it in Captivate.
Has anyone been able to do such a thing using Captivate? Any
ideas?
Thank you,
TPK

Whether the LMS overwrites the previous score with a
subsequent score is
up to how the LMS behaves. Some may offer you an option to
change this
behavior?
With the LMS I use, it will overwrite the previous score if
the lesson
is not yet completed/passed, if the new score is higher than
the old one.
If the lesson is completed/passed, then that score is never
overwritten.
As for Captivate's resume feature, the only way I know of
getting users
back to the beginning once they resume a completed course is
to put a
button on that last page that says something like "Restart
this lesson".
The user clicks it and the CP file navigates back to the
beginning slide
but (I don't think) resets any of the quiz data.
Unfortunately, afaik, CP does not allow you to say "bookmark
this users
location, unless they've completed the lesson, in which case
send them
back to the beginning". You have to do that yourself with the
last-page
button workaround mentioned above.
HTH
Erik
TPK wrote:
> Ideally, the user would be able to re-enter the lesson,
begin at the beginning
> again, keep the highest score they achieved previously
and be able to use the
> ?lesson? as reference material.
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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.
Lilybiri

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

Bookmarking with video in Captivate 6

I'm running into a problem that when I insert an flv video in one slide, if user in our LMS system exits partway through the video, the next time the user starts the training module the system does not bookmark where the user left off in the video, but begins the user at the start of the video. We're using SCORM 1.2. What is the trick to get bookmarking working within a video?

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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"Bookmarking" without an LMS - Captivate 7

Hi,
I'm currently working on a module that will not be used with an LMS. The module will be on a website for employees to take at their leisure, and we'd like them to also be able to stop and pick back up at the place they left off whenever. There are a few catches to this:
1. We'd like people to be able to pick up where they left off on their mobile device or some other device, not necessarily their work computer
2. We can't input people's names or other possible identifiers, because this is for a government agency, and they are sensitive about identities (hence the no LMS thing)
Is there some way to do this through javascript inside the program? Or even outside the program? Would it be possible to generate a random variable for people to input at the beginning that would take them to the slide they left off on? Or does anyone know of a widget for Captivate 7 that does this (not just for a bookmark on the same computer, but to be able to access the left-off slide from any device)?
I realize this is quite a tall order, so any suggestions would be appreciated!
Thank you.

I don't think you will find anything "stock" that will achieve what you are after as this request is quite extra-ordinary
In order to make this work you would need to use a database of some sort to store the "random user number" and their location. You would also need some type of interface in Captivate that will allow the user to get a "random user number" and enter this number again if they are returning to the course. This would most likely need to be a Captivate Widget and since you mentioned mobile it will need to be a Flash and HTML5 capable widget.
Perhaps it would be possible to skip the widget part and instead create a type of "login" form in PHP / ASP or whatever, which connects with the database and either gives the user a "random user number" or allows the user to enter the number to continue the project again. The login form should then retrieve the last location of the user and "inject" this back into Captivate using JavaScript.
It is uncharted territory but it should be possible.
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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.

Captivate 7 - Bookmarking issues with Cornerstone LMS on IPAD

Hello,
I am looking for some assistance with Captivate 7 (currently using version 7.0.0.118) with the Cornerstone LMS and bookmarking when using an IPAD. We have no issues with content launching, bookmarking, and sending completions on Windows based opeating systems, but on IPAD's, with the latest version of the IPAD OS and Safari, we have no issues with launching the content and it will send back a completion, but the content will not bookmark.
Cornerstone is stating that the Safari browser on the iPad is not properly implementing the onbeforeunload trigger, which is primarily used in courses to force a save of the course data. This event is not triggered within the iPad version of Safari, preventing courses from saving themselves when the course is closed. We currently have our customers closing the web browser in order to exit the course on the IPAD. We are not experiencing this issue with the HTML5 courses that were exported with Captivate 6.
Thank you,
Karl

Clare,
If you want a continuous movie (since it is simply a demo) you can use the HD Video Demo. But editing and synchronizing will be much more a pain.
Captivate's power is just in the creation of those static slides, but I would never record narration at the same time. I create the VO after having created the simulation, that is much easier just because the slides are static. I have been choosing Captivate just for that reason, but of course it is up to you. Want to have just demo: use HD Video Demo or choose Camtasia. But you'll never have the interactivity power that has Captivate. For trainees and students, interactive simulations are much more engaging, but that is your choice. And even a 200 slides movie has only 6000 frames, and will have a much smaller filesize than a video that explains the same.
Lilybiri

Captivate audio not pausing in LMS after bookmarking relaunch.

My course is in Captivate 5.5. I have audio attached to each slide and each slide has a "Next" text button to pause the slide at the end. We use SumTotal LMS. The course works fine if you launch and complete it in one sitting. If I close out and bookmark my place, then relaunch the course it will start where it left off and the slides pause at the "Next' button, however the audio keeps going. I have looked this up and down from both sides and cannot resolve this issue. Multiple users have had this issue. Any help would be appreciated as I need to get this course live.

Rod,
Thank you very much! I added the audio slide by slide and I do have it at the start of each slide. I will try moving it a tenth or two out.
I appreciate the help.
Terry
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Captivate 7 course does not track or bookmark when using Fire Fox browser. Can anyone help me???

We recently switched from using EI to Fire Fox. When we switched my Captivate 7 course is now not bookmarking or tracking in the LMS. Prior to the switch the course was working fine. Bookmarking and tracking as it should.

I only have Windows 7 handy to test...
I installed the bookmarklet from here: http://www.refworks.com/refworks/bookmarklet.asp
On a non-secure (HTTP) page, it worked as designed and populated a page with reference info. When I clicked import it took me to another page, I guess a login is needed to do that.
On a secure (HTTPS) page, it opened only a blank tab and triggered a mixed active content block in the secure page. To work around that, I edited the bookmarklet to this code:
<pre><nowiki>javascript:var%20wRWMain1=window.open('','RefWorksBookmark');d=document;i='AddToRWScript';if(d.getElementById(i))RWAddToRW1();else{s=d.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.src='//www.refworks''.''com/refworks/include/addtorw.asp';s.id=i;d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(s);}void(0);</nowiki></pre>
(The change is removing the http: from src='http://...' so the script will be retrieved using whatever protocol the site is using.)
Then I reloaded the secure page and tried again. This time Firefox warned me the data was submitting to an insecure page, I OK'd that, and got the expected Web Page Info on refworks.com.
Can you get that far?
''Sorry, the bookmarklet is messed up because of the wiki syntax. I will re-post.''

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