InDesign files to Captivate 8 for LMS????

Our training manuals are currently published in InDesign. We are implementing an LMS and using Captivate as the authoring tool. What is the best way to get these files into Captivate? Should I copy/paste into PPT and then convert to InDesign????? Anyone have any ideas?

Sounds like a re-think might be needed. If you are working with InDesign files they are probably mostly oriented around TEXT. You could take the ideas incorporated in the text and design and develop interactive learning courses in Captivate. But there isn't really any benefit in just taking the InDesign files and then dropping them into Captivate, because that doesn't really make them any better, so save yourself the trouble of trying to figure out how to do that.
To create something interactive, you could stay in InDesign and add interactivity there--but it won't necessarily allow you to accumulate user's scores and such. There is a good program in this on Lynda.com.
Or, you could, as I said, start from the content in the InDesign documents and create a scorable course in Captivate.
Either way, the solution won't be instant, and there will be a learning curve involved. Best not to rush when you also have to learn. Clarify your long term goals for the project, see if there's an ugly short term solution (i.e., just putting up pdfs of the InDesign files on the LMS), and then get to work on the "beautiful" solution in the time you've bought.

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