Reporting user variables to an LMS

Hi All
I was wondering if Captivate 7 supports reporting custom user variables to an LMS?
I have created some interactions without using the Quiz wizard Captivate provides. The scores related to these interactions are stored in varaibles. Is there anyway to report these to an LMS? The functionality I have created would probably not be possible to do using Quizzes, so converting them them is not really and option (unless there is a hack where I can piggyback my user variables onto the Quiz reporting).
Cheers
Lewis Carey

If you are not using HTML5 you could use the Infosemantics Interactive Master widget.
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/interactive-master
On of its features is that it allows you to set up user variables as slave objects so that you can report a value to the quiz from a variable.
Trial version of the widget is available here if you want to try it out first:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets

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