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Aug 3, 2024, 3:44:22 PM8/3/24

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Specifically, I want to know if you are uploading the SWF file or HTML files in a Zip file format that Captivate produces and then using the SCORM package as in other learning management systems. Or, do you embed the Captivate file or module? Or is there an easier way in Canvas?

I had an instructor attempt it last semester. He gave up and went a different route.This was before we could add the SCROM feature to our account. Not sure if things would work easier now. I vaguely remember importing his content as a .zip and linking to the html in his files from from the Rich Content Editor. I am curious as well if any one has had any success.

I've had some success recently importing my Captivate Projects into Canvas. I have the Creative Cloud version so I know it's most up to date. The instructions Canvas gives to save worked just fine. The only issue I've run into so far is the SCORM package doesn't carry over on a class copy.

I typically publish the html5 version and then load/unpackage the .zip file in the files area. I then link to the multiscreen.html file within the Captivate package so it works on most devices (laptops, tablets, etc). I am not using SCORM so cannot comment on that integration.

Depending on if we need to track students progress we wrap up the modules as a scorm package and use the scorm upload provided by canvas or we just create the swf and the html5 file pointing to the multiscreen.html file

Canvas does now have a SCORM LTI. Based on my experience it works well. Unfortunately, it is necessary for your Canvas Implementation Rep (at Canvas) to install and configure it. Not sure why it could not be a course level LTI. A system level LTI means you would need to go through the entity at your institution that manages your instance of Canvas to get them to approve the installation of the SCORM LTI.

I'm glad you found a workaround at the time of your implementation. I too was surprised that Canvas was not SCORM compliant at the time of release or adoption. As it currently stands (outside of your workaround), Canvas has two ways to integrate SCORM content.

Canvas has also recently introduced a System based SCORM LTI. It is installed by your Canvas rep at Instructure. It would be much better if it was just integrated into the system by default but that is not the case at the moment.

This was quite helpful, thanks for posting. I actually came here from another discussion about course space quotas and am curious if you ever run into problems with your Captivate content bumping up against any course space limits on your Canvas instance. How large do your courses tend to be and what is the per-course space limit you use in Canvas? Do you find that you have to host any of your SWF/HTML5 content outside of Canvas to work around any course space limits?

Our courses are pretty large and we have a lot of schools getting access to the same contents. Sometimes it's necessary to update them and it's not easy to handle let's say 30 scorms so having the content in files is not an option, that's why we prefer to locate them in our servers. Of course it would be easier if canvas was scorm compliant so in terms of updating content would be a matter of drag & drop the imsmanifest.xml

We don't use a tracking system such as an LRS or similar as by now we don't need to. However, for some captivate activities we have created some variables that retrieves information about the performance of students and we retrieve them an use them as a feedback in a google sheet.

I have imported a SCORM package from Panopto into Adobe Captivate Prime. The completion of the video is recorded but the quiz results are not recorded by captivate prime. Has anyone else had this issue?

As a training simulation, you can walk people through a process on a site or in a piece of software, then allow them to repeat those steps by clicking and even typing into the simlation without actually leaving the site or having their own version of the software installed. This can be an invaluable tool in your Moodle toolbox because users will be able to repeat processes and review steps right inside your page.

After showing the simulation or demonstration, you can create an assessment for your users which can contain, multiple choice, short answer, or T/F questions and then package it in a SCORM zip file and integrate it with your Moodle page. For Captivate 4, this is where the documentation seems to be lacking, and I would like to see more info added. A module that includes an embedded captivate file and a use of the SCORM content is located here: [1] with a demo page here: [2]

A simpler alternative method to deploying Captivate presentations as a Resource, without grade reporting, is to use the SWF Activity Module. It is not a standard Moodle module and must be installed prior to following these instructions.