SCORM Support Files

Question

I've read through similar issues on the forum and checked out
some support articles but I'll be danged if I can get Captivate 2
to generate SCORM manifest. I see .MGP filews in the My Adobe
Captivate Projects folder with today's date but my output is not
even directed there.
I inserted a scored question and enabled SCORM reporting.
The Export HTML check box is disabled on the publishing
option. I blew away the old DAT file in case that was the problem
but... no difference.
I find this SCORM business in Captivate to be poorly
documented. It's not as straightforward as the sparse directions
state. I'm not SCORM illiterate at all. But Captivate has me
flummoxed on this one.

Answer 1

Hi JackAnz
I think something else may also be clouding the issue. The
fact that Captivate 3 seems to insist on creating new folders for
output locations. Please allow me to explain.
For example, I just tested and published an "Untitled"
Captivate with no eLearning output enabled. When I did, Captivate
insisted on creating a folder named "Untitled" to store the files.
I published and looked inside the folder. So far so good.
I then enabled Reporting via SCORM and published again. As
you have seen, the HTML option becomes disabled. I believe this is
because HTML is a requirement for SCORM. (If you look closely, you
should see that there is a check mark inside the check box, but
it's disabled so you cannot DE-select it!) I also selected the .ZIP
option.
What was surprising to me was that the resulting .ZIP didn't
end up in the same place the previous output did. Instead, it was
in a folder level above my "Untitled" folder that Captivate
lovingly insisted needed to be there when publishing with no
reporting and no .ZIP. So I'm wondering if you weren't seeing the
files because you were being misled about where they should have
been.
Cheers... Rick