Regarding mention of "Captivate content has been tested against some of the popular LMS along with ADL Test suite to ensure standard compliance."

I have been trying to test some Captivate content using the Test Suite and it has failed to initialize. I am using Test Suite 1.2.7, authoring with SCORM 1.2, and it is a quiz with tracking. The quiz works on a SCORM LMS just fine. I made sure the swf location is a trusted site in Flash Player security- it loads fine.

Is there a newer version of the Test Suite that will test for 1.2 that I should be using? or...?

Thanks in advance,

MAC

This is just what I needed! I use a Systemax workstation with Realtek audio and couldn't figure out why none of my USB or analog mics were working. Thanks!

Is there a way to access the score variable outside the published swf for quiz. I wish to embed the published swf file into another swf file, though I dont need the score to communicate with LMS, but want to access it the parent swf.

Thanks in advance,
Shail

I am publishing content into a zipped SCORM 2004 file. The content has no quiz so I select Slide View only for 100% because I just want them to look at each slide. Since there is no quiz, I set this option to optional. I left on pass and on fail at continue. When I import the zip, I promote it and assign it to users. Everything works fine EXCEPT, if the user closes the window prior to looking at every slide, it is still being marked as complete. Any suggestions?

Thanks for the blog, really useful.

Is there a way that I can prevent the score being sent back to an LMS? I just need the completion status and bookmarking facility to work, but at present I get a completion indicated plus a scor of zero.

I can prevent the cmi.core.score.raw being sent back using the custom.htm file, is this the only way or am I missing something obvious?

Thanks,

Dave

Score can be prevented from being sent to LMS using the Custom template only. As of now there is no other option available.

Also to access the score from another swf Quizzing variables can be used. For complete list of Quizzing variables and their usage follow the below steps
1. Open Captivate
2. Select Project->Actions
3. Select Variables tab in Actions dialog
4. From the type dropdown select System.
5. In the View By dropdown, select Quizzing.

thanks
ravi

I am using Captivate 4. In it, I am enabling SCORM 2004 e-Learning output in preferences and leaving the "Never send resume data" unchecked. For some reason, bookmarking is still not working so when I re-open a course, it opens on the first page instead of the page I was last on. Is their another setting that I don't know about?

If I use the "Quiz results and slide views" option, but I have branching within my project, how do I set the % of slides viewed? If I set it to 100%, and they (by design) only went down one of two possible branches, will it show as complete? Or, if I set the percentage lower, what's to prevent it from being "complete" before they reach the last slide?

Hi Kurt,
Please make sure that your LMS supports SCORM 2004. We have observed cases where SCORM 2004 content when run on SCORM 1.2 compatible LMS does not bookmark.

Hi Lia,
Quiz Results and Slide Views setting will consider all the slides included in Quiz. And unless all the slides with interaction data are viewed, slide % will not be updated correctly. In your case i think it will not be appropriate setting as you donot want to view all the slides. You can use Quiz results only setting.

thanks
ravi

Ravi, can you elaborate on this

"Score can be prevented from being sent to LMS using the Custom template only. As of now there is no other option available."

I need to do this also, as we only are concerned with pass/fail.

I have output a captivate project in SCORM 2004, bookmarking is not working (the same project published in SCORM 1.2 bookmarks fine). I have tested the 2004 version on 2 LMSs, Moodle and ThinkQ and bookmarking isnt working. i have done a bit of debugging and can tell in the first session that captivate writes the CMI elements to the LMS. On next session Captivate is not calling on the CMI elements, so therefore bookmarking cannot occur as there is no information coming back. I have interrogated moodle and can retrieve CMI elements. Thanks in advance for any help

We don't have a LMS. We were wondering if there's a way captivate could report the answers/score to us as an email?

Hi,
i was wondering if anyone got cmi.scor.raw reported in the LMS. I have debugged te LMSSetVariable function and found that whatever setting we use captivated does not send the cmi.score.raw while attempting the quiz. I am using captivate 4 trial version. Is that the problem for not getting the raw scores back to LMS at each action? Has anyone else found this problem.

I am wondering if individual question results can be passed to an LMS and also if there is a way to pass the number of attempts it takes a user to pass individual questions within a course? Thanks in advance.

Hi,

I have a similar problem to Ravi who wrote earlier
"For some reason, bookmarking is still not working so when I re-open a course, it opens on the first page instead of the page I was last on. Is their another setting that I don't know about?"

The bookmarking seems to work when I export the course (Captivate 4)without any reporting (AICC or SCORM 1.2). But, when I add the reporting in either AICC or SCORM 1.2 the bookmarking no longer works. My LMS only takes AICC or SCORM 1.2.

Can anyone shed any light on this and advise a possible fix.

thanks
Simon

I am still trying to get some feedback from a previous post requesting scoring data and granularity. i would like to know if Captivate can pass individual question tracking? I need to know exactly which questions a user missed and how many attempts they tried for each question.

Hi Rhonda,
Under edit> preferences> quiz> reporting - Choosing Reporting level as "Interactions and score" will send the results for individual Questions. But we do not send the number of attempts at Question level. It is sent at a Quiz level. We actually send the same Interaction ID multiple times. Depending on LMS, it might be overwritten or will be a separate entry.

I am hoping someone can help me solve a major issue with the suspend_data exceeding the maximum (4096) characters I am experiencing with my course which is being hosted on SkillPort LMS. The course is published as SCORM 1.2

Below is the email that was sent by the SkillPort tester to describe the problem we are having:

It appears that when you page through the course, part way through the final quiz the suspend_data exceeds the maximum 4096 character limit defined by the SCORM (I did a check and found at one point the course was attempting to set over 5000 characters for this field). I believe the mismatch between the lesson_location and the data stored within the suspend_data causes the course to discard the suspend data and return to the start of the course.

Unfortunately due to the order of my testing, I did not encounter this issue earlier. This definitely is a fairly significant issue that would need to be addressed. The suspend data should not surpass 4096 characters as the player will return a 405 'Incorrect data type' error message (as dictated by the SCORM) when the suspend data is set.

You will need to communicate with Captivate support to see how to prevent your course from setting suspend data longer than the maximum defined by SCORM. When the content attempts to send suspend_data longer than this value, it ceases to be ADL SCORM 1.2 conformant (unfortunately I cannot provide a log indicating this as the content will not function correctly in the ADL SCORM 1.2 test suite). I have attached a snippet of the Java console for the course which displays the course attempting to set the suspend_data to a value 5319 in length.

I have searched the Adobe Forums and found a log entry where another user who was using SkillPort and SCORM 1.2 had the exact same issue we are having. The soultion she used (which was checking "never send suspend data") will not work for us we most definitly want it to bookmark.

Has anyone else had this issue and How did they solve it.

Lastly, why is Captivate 4 sending non SCORM 1.2 compliant suspend data?? Is it a bug that should be reported?

Hi John,

SCORM 1.2 has limit of 4096 characters on suspend_data.

Incase your Quiz has more multiple choice questions, suspend_data limit is hit quickly. In Cp4 we have optimized suspend_data.

As you mentioned that another customer of SkillPort LMS faced similar issue, can you check with SkillPort to look at the possibility of increasing the suspend_data size?

I'm setting up a mutiple choice quiz with Captivate 4 but if there are, for example, 3 correct answers to one question Captivate will only record a correct answer if all 3 are given, and the final score, if say 2 out of 3 correct answers are given, is recorded as 0, rather than 2. How do I overcome this - it seems pretty basic to me that this is how many multiple choice quizzes are scored!

I have a test that requires a 100% score to pass. Is there anyway to have learners just retake the questions they missed without retaking the entire assessment?