Publishing in Captivate 3, SCORM 1.2, no manifest file...

I’m using Captivate 3, publishing to FLASH/SWF with SCORM 1.2 enabled. I’m only getting a zip with two swf files and nothing else.
I’ve selected Quiz Results only, Score to LMS as Percent, Report Pass/Fail with Reporting level as Interactions and score.
I’ve required Answer all – the user must answer every question to continue
Selected Allow user to review quiz, show score at end of quiz and show progress
In LMS Customization settings, nothing is selected.
When I access Advanced Interaction there are nothing but blank spaces in the Track Score column for the Quiz slides.
I believe this is why when I publish I’m not getting a manifest file, but I have run out of ideas.

On your Quiz Settings select:
Status Representation
Incomplete-->Complete
Success/Completion Criteria
Report slides viewed = 100%
Uncheck Quiz
Uncheck Data to Report/Interation Data
Click the Advanced button and select "Set extit to normal after completion".

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Captivate 4/SCORM/LMS

Adobe E-Learning Suite CS4 w/
Captivate 4
Flash CS4
etc...
I'm pretty sure everyone looking at that subject is sighing and rolling the eyes. lol.
In any event I really need some help, as soon as possible.
Let's go with that I have NO experience with SCORM compliance or LMS.
I had created a Software Simulation CBT, basically used for employees to learn how to use an application that my client uses.
I had originally done this all in one, and it ended up being around 150 slided.
The opening slide has a 16 second Flash produce introduction with 16 second audio.
Only other audio is produced from clicking the "Next" button
Only other Flash is from FMR demonstrating the software (very minimal)
It seemed that publishing such a large file produced very inconsistant files - sometimes very buggy in sections - back button not working properly, getting stuck on quiz slides, etc.
So I broke up the large file in 8 separate files. Intro, Modules 1 - 6, Conclusion.
Now... Here comes my next problem. I set up all the SCORM/Quiz reporting. Each of the modules has a quiz associated with it for reporting. Intro and Conclusion have reporting on the last "NEXT" button.
What I am asked from our client, is that the employee will log onto the LMS - click on the Course Name - and it will launch the intro. Now to the user, the rest of the course should be seamless. It's for the most part (except for one section in Module 1) completely linear. When the user gets to the last slide of the Intro section, when they click next it should go to the first slide of Module 1. It should have the built in TOC that I built in the flash files. I did all the SCORM 2004 reporting options, manifest file, etc. I used the SCORM Packager provided (the aggregator) and sucessfully created a .ZIP to upload to the LMS.
I downloaded Moodle, full package, to use as a sandbox LMS on my local system.
When I upload the .zip file produced from the SCORM packager, and run it in the LMS the TOC does not show all of the modules.
Also, when I get to the last slide of Intro and click "NEXT" it just goes to a blank screen.
How do I make this a seamless transaction with proper LMS reporting - which is NOT pass/fail it's just completion.
Anybody still reading yet??
Please let me know if you need anymore information, it's very vital that I get this figured out by this weekend as our client is requesting a final product by Monday/Tuesday. I really really appreciate any help that can be provided, thank you all very much in advance.
I fear I may be in over my head here... which is not an option.

Imagine that a SCORM course is a book. This book has separate chapters - each chapter is a SCO. If you have a SCORM course that consists of 7 SCO's you would still only have one course in the LMS. Depending on how the SCORM communication is set up YOU define how the course should work.
Example of a SCORM manifest (NOT correct - only an example)
Title: Course title
SCO1: Chapter 1 - Introduction - introduction.html (the HTML files which has the apiwrapper and loads your swf)
SCO2: Chapter title - resource link
SCO3: Chapter title - resource link
Okay, so I guess my question is this then. Is it MY responsibility as the programmer to link the SCOs together within Captivate? or is that done within the SCORM manifest? Or does the LMS handle this?
I would say that it is your responsibility. The programmer / developer would need to put in the SCORM calls in the chapters/SCO's for it to work. This cannot be done afterwards.
In other words, lol, does the next button on the last slide of each module have to "Open File/URL" or can it simply say "Continue" as it does now and the LMS, via the manifest, will know to open the next module and start that slide annnnd will it report as one final score?? That's the other thing, I would like it to report one score for the overall course (it's actually not a score, it's just a complete/incomplete)
No you would need to do two things at the end of each module.
1 - Set the particular module as "Completed" in the LMS by using a SCORM command
2 - Close the particular module in the LMS by using a SCORM command.
Once these two are done then the LMS will unload the current module and automatically fetch the next module in the SCORM manifest and run that.
If you are only interested in reporting complete/incomplete then this is enough. Just call the SCORM commands to set each module as completed and then the SCORM command to unload the module. Once they go through the last module all is completed and the course is "passed".
As for the TOC I am a bit confused.
Do you have a TOC for each of the modules created in Captivate? If so then this will work just fine in an LMS.
If you have a TOC using the Aggregator then you would of course need to use Captivate to make the SCORM package. Another option could be to check if the LMS has a "TOC" of it's own. Many LMS' build their own TOC based on the SCORM imsmanifest.
One suggestion I have for you.. Make a testfile for your client. This file should basically be what you tried to upload to Moodle first. Completely done in Captivate and Aggregator. Then ask them to load this in their LMS and see if they encounter any problems first. As I said Moodle isn't the best choice for troubleshooting LMS / SCORM issues ;o) Perhaps everything works perfectly well in their corporate LMS.
/Michael
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Captivate 7 - SCORM 1.2 Publishing Issue to IE8

When publishing my Captivate 7 files to SCORM 1.2 and loading into an LMS, when exiting the course file from the LMS, I am taken to a page that says "This page does not exist." I am only receiving this page error in Internet Explorer (8), not the Chrome browser. I have tried various publish settings, none have fixed the issue thus far. Please let me know how this issue can be resolved. (My LMS said this is a Captivate 7/IE issue, not an issue on their part).

Hi,
Can you test this to close the course window:
Insert 3 buttons or smart shape used as buttons (as Finish course buttons).
On the first button apply an action to execute javascript and in the script window, use this script: parent.close()
On the second button apply an action to execute javascript and in the script window, use this script: top.window.close()
On the third button, execute a standard action and assign "cpCmndExit" (system variable) with 1.
Then publish the course and upload it to your LMS and check whether any one of these work for you?
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Publish a Captivate course with HTML5 and Scorm

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.

You can score any interactions or question slides you want in
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.
From there, you just need to figure out which combination of
settings in the the Quiz preferences gets the SCORM data to your
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When we published a Captivate 6 file to SCORM 1.2 and then tried to view the resulting htm file, we received 3 errors:
Invalid character in line 1 of SCORM_utlities.js
Invalid character in line 1 of Utilities.js
'CheckForDebugCommand' is undefined in line 19 of the htm file
This is our first venture into SCORM-land with a new LMS we're setting up so we're not sure how to address these issues. Any guidance?

Upload your SCORM package to SCORM Cloud LMS and see if you get the same errors from its log. If you do not, then go back to your LMS vendor and ask them why their LMS has an issue when the most SCORM compliant LMS on the planet doesn't.

Why does captivate 5 scorm 2004 change the pass/fail status when using complete/incomplete

SUMMARY: I am trying to use SCORM 2004 reporting but I am finding out ADOBE does not diffentiate between COMPLETE/INCOMPLETED and PASSED/FAILED variables in the SCORM 2004.
RESULT: I can not accurately get the passing/failing status from the course.
QUESTION: Is their anything I can do or does ADOBE have a patch they have release which will accurately report the passed/failed STATUS as well as the completed/incompleted status.
OTHER RESEARCH: I even attempted to post these "proofs" on scorm.com and they have something called "SATISFACTION TRACKED" to accomodate content creation systems (CAPTIVATE 5) which does not follow the standards of SCORM 2004.
BACKGROUND: the report status "Incomplete/Complete" and "Pass/Fail" under the publishing options for SCORM 2004 essentially mean the same thing when the CAPTIVATE COURSE sends setvar commands to the SCORM API... In other words the SCORM API receives the same exact commands when publishing in both modes. "THIS IS WRONG"
why is the wrong? IF REPORTING; incomplete/complete ; the CAPTIVATE 5 COURSE SHOULD NOT "change" the STATUS OF PASS/FAIL when attempting to report COMPLETE/INCOMLETE with 100% slide views.
DEMO #3> SHOWS THE PROBLEM
About DEMO #1 and DEMO #2> these are other reporting options I attempted with other problems arrising..so these images are just for supporting my original problem which is shown in DEMO #3...
DEMO 1 (REPORT STATUS has no affect on reporting):SETTINGS:
PASS: (PROBLEM)
Anything above Passing Score is not recorded to LMS (once passing is reached...no more bookmarks are recorded)
FAIL: (CORRECT)
Failure gets sent to the database on the last screen with "completed"
DEMO 2 (Report status [Complete/Incomplete Pass/Fail] has no impact on commands sent to scorm api):
SETTINGS:
PASS: (CORRECT)
Very Last page gets sent to the Database
FAIL: (PROBLEM)
NOTHING GETS SENT TO DATABASE (stuck in final score screen forever)...because it says "INCOMPLETE"
DEMO 3:
Report status [Complete/Incomplete Pass/Fail] has no impact on commands sent to scorm api
SETTINGS:
PASS: (CORRECT)
Very Last page gets sent to the Database with a 90% passing with "completed"
FAIL: (PROBLEM)
LAST SLIDE SENDS "completed" but GETS SENT AS A PASSING SCORE??? even when it is a failure
(IN OTHER WORDS ADOBE CHANGES THE PASS/FAIL STATUS based on slide views...
this is WRONG ....REALLY WRONG becuase I am trying to report
"COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE" for 100% slide views
PASS/FAIL OPTIONS:
OPTION I CAN PURSUE?
SO WHAT CAN I DO? YES, I CAN TELL THE LMS...to COMPARE THE SCORE RECEIVED DURING A "COMPLETE" status...and then change the grade in the LMS based on the SCORE IN THE LMS...BUT THAT WOULD MEAN THE LMS COULD REPORT ONE GRADE and the COURSE COULD REPORT A DIFFERENT GRADE....and that would not be good.
ALL OF OUR COURSES SHOW THE STUDENT THE FINAL SCORE WITHIN EACH COURSE..
QUESTION TO ADOBE?
SO ADOBE when are you going to differentiate these two reporting options so that the PASS/FAIL OPTIONS ARE ACCURATELY REPORTED WHEN USING COMPLETE/INCOMPLETE?
MORE INFORMATION
HERE IS THE SCORM.COM "Satisfaction" adjustment (very last line) to accomodate inconsistent reporting in CAPTIVATE 5.
Thanks,
DOUG LUBEY OF LOUISIANA
www.douglubey.com
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I was trying to use "completion_status" as a way to determine when all slides were shown. So that I can send the final score (PASS/FAIL) the LMS after all slides were viewed and this was the absoluted score the student recieved.
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Hi,
Here's something I found in a similar situation... hope this helps!
After publishing your CP5 project as a SCORM 2004 zip file, unzip the file so you can get into the separate files. Open the imsmanifest.xml file with a text editor; I like using Notepad++. Search for the line starting with <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>. The complete line will probably look like <imss:minNormalizedMeasure></imss:minNormalizedMeasure>, this is the line that is supposed to contain your passing score (at least for our LMS). So, if your passing score is supposed to be 80%, edit this line to be: <imsss:minNormalizedMeasure>0.80</imsss:minNormalizedMeasure> and save the file. Then select all the files and re-zip them, I use 7-zip for that.
I found one other weird thing that doesn't happen 100% of the time, so test it. In the example above, try to get a score of exactly 80% (or whatever passing grade you are using) and see if you get the correct status reported. I found I sometimes have to re-edit that line in the manifest file to be 0.79 so it correctly includes an exact 80% score. No idea why and you have to watch the number of questions in your quiz to make sure that works for you mathematically.
If this works or not, I'd recommend posting your results so others can get some ideas. Good Luck!!

Captivate 5/SCORM 1.2: Won't read percentage score right?

I am using Captivate 5.5 to publish a 21-SCO course (18 reading slides and 3 quizzes). I have used SCORM 1.2 (in order to eventually use Moodle) and have chosen Complete/Incomplete, Report as Percent and Slide Views Only (for the learning slides with no interactions) and Quiz Score Only (for the three quizzes). I am using the Captivate 4 SCORM Packager.
Here's my problem: I can't get it to read the percentage complete as the score. I am using SCORM Cloud for the test server, BTW.
When I test the full, 21-SCO course, it reads the first SCO fine and reports back 4.76% complete (100/21). But after that, it completes the other SCOs fine, but the scoring does not change.
Following the advice of some others in these forums, I made a test with some buttons to give the non-scoring, read-only SCO's point value. (1 point for each button). Then, the percentage scoring seems to read the percentage of only the slides accessed. So, for example, when it completes Slide 1 and moves to Slide 2, the percentage score reads 50 percent complete. But when it completes Slide 2 and moves to 3, it reads 66.7 percent complete.
Buttons are not a good solution for me anyway. The client wants the SCOs to flow one into another seamlessly, with no forced interactions.
All I want this to do is step percentage complete correctly for each slide.
Anyone have any suggestions?

OK. That makes a bit more sense.
The scoring that you speak of is really controlled in the LMS, not inside the Captivate modules. All they do is report out to the LMS at the end of the module what the completion percentage or Pass/Fail score was for THAT PARTICULAR module, not for the entire course. Each SCO is really a separate standalone object that just reports its own result. It's up to the LMS to roll up the results for the overally course.
Each LMS is different and has different capabilities. So to have any chance of getting the result you want, you'll have to wait until you can work with the LMS that will eventually be used to deliver the content and then play around with the settings to see if it will allow some kind of cumulative scoring.

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I've been attempting to publish a Captivate 5 project using any of the publishing features available and nothing will publish. I'm receiving a "publish failed" for the SWF file, the exe won't execute and the F4v file locks up at 41%. I'm running a Windows 7 machine and have cleared the cache among other suggestions I've read on this site. Nothing seems to be working. Any suggestions? Thank you.

I attempted this and yes, it finally worked. Thank you so much! I was losing my mind. Have a great day. Sharon

Every time I publish my captivate 6, the backgrounds change? Anyone have this problem? Or a solution

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I am getting a black screen when publishing in Captivate 4. I have noticed patches that care for this with later versions, but is there something available for version 4.

Thank you for your reply, I work for Citi and am personally unable to make decisions about updating our Flash player version. Is there a patch for this issue for Captivate 4?
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 13:29:16 -0800
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Subject: Getting a black screen when publishing in Captivate 4.
    Re: Getting a black screen when publishing in Captivate 4.
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Hi there, Thanks for reaching Adobe Community. Please accept my apologies for the same. Try updating your Flash Player to the latest version and then republish the project. This black screen issue was first discovered few months ago after the first Flash Player 10 release. The link to download the latest version of flash is here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Newer versions of Flash Player do not result in the same issue. Thanks!Shekhar
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When publishing a captivate I get the message "Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name." and it won't allow me to publish the Captivate, can anyone help?

When publishing a captivate I get the message "Swf compilation failed. Note: Please verify if any of the actionscript keywords is used as user variable name." and it won't allow me to publish the Captivate, can anyone help?

Hi There,
Can you tell me the Operating System and Captivate version you are using?
Also can you confirm if you are getting this issue will this one project or all the projects? Try to copy paste this project on a new blank project and then try to publish.
Regards,
Mayank

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Word is installed on my system and was not in use, so I am not sure why the error. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance!

Hi there
I use Captivate 4 and it publishes to Word 2003 without issues.
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Preview from this slide does nothing, and does not show an error message.
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I have a course in Captivate 6, when I try to publish in captivate 8 the actions of the buttons disappear
i feel very concerned, because the work it's hard

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The course would stop playing at the same slide, and didn't allow me to advance to any slides beyond that slide using the TOC, I simply got a blank gray screen, refreshing the course in the browser caused the course to start over from the beginning and it would stop at the same slide. Refreshing the ppt allows the course to play through and the TOC now allows navigation.

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Just upgraded to captivate 7 and have presenter 9. We are updating some old training courses created using Presenter with demos created in Captivate. I've gotten as far as upgrading the old .cp files to .cpx files and now am ready to publish the files within Captivate so I can import them into Presenter 9.
When I hit 'publish' in captivate there are options to publish as .swf and/or .html5. So I am trying to fugre out what will work best given what I'm trying to do. In presenter I don't see an option to import HTML5, only video files or .swf files, is that correct? in which case i need to publish as .SWF files? Is that the best way to do it in order to be able to import into Presenter 9?
If that's the case, and I need to have .SWF files, how do I choose which Flash Player version I want to use when I publish the files in Captivate? It's got the drop down box containing Flash 10, 10.2 and 11. My instinct would be to use the newest (flash 11). Is that correct? If not, why would I want to use a lower Flash version?
thank you!

Hi,
You can publish to either as .mp4 (Go to publish >Media >Mp4 ) or .swf from Captivate 7. In presenter 9 you do have an option to either import .swf or .mp4 files. See the image below to import these two formats in presenter:
Regards,
Mayank

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