Captivate Resume Course - not at last slide

Hi
When a user exits our course in captivate and then resumes at a later time it asks if they want to continue where the left off however it always begins again at the start of the chapter in which they were in.  For example, if they were on slide 5 of chapter 4 it would start them again at slide 1 of chapter 4.
Is this a setting that I need to change?
Thanks,

Hello,
Welcome to Adobe Forums,
Captivate should do this by default, unless you check the 'Never Send Resume Data' option chceked in the Quiz preferences section.
However, if it does not, that is likely because your LMS is expecting the lesson to set the cmi.exit value to 'suspend'. Such a setting tells the LMS to send the last-session's data back to the CP lesson the next time it's launched so it can resume.
You can also Go to Project > Skin Editor and tick the box there for Self-Paced Learning.
That will enable local bookmarking that should work if the user is just playing the course modules from a local drive.  However, be aware that this setting may conflict with the Resume Data bookmarking that is sometimes activated (by leaving the Never Send Resume Data checkbox unticked) so as to use bookmarking with SCORM-compliant courses served from an LMS.
Regards
Himanshu

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