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Kansas Eiffel

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:58:52 PM8/3/24

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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.

I have a client who is hesitant to use Adobe Captivate with HTML inserted in Moodle because of concerns from an IT expert of the possibility of Moodle or Adobe doing an update that will render the work done in captivate unusable with Moodle. The project is a big investment but for what we want, Captivate would make the whole thing look more professional than using the native Moodle tools for question creation, formatting, etc.

Does anyone have any experience, sources, experts or articles that may shed light on the long-term usability of Moodle with Captivate and if there is any basis of these concerns of HTML5 not functioning in the near future?

Technology will always keep changing, I don't expect to be able to open a document produced in Pagemaker 1 in InDesign CC without issues ... does that mean I should never have used Pagemaker back in the day?

First up, and please don't take this the wrong way, with the matter in hand when speaking to your expert or others please be specific; there is a difference between talking about "HTML" and "HTML5". In my experience "experts" try to score points on any small ambiguities.

HTML has been around for around 25 years, the numbers after it (e.g. HTML5) basically indicate standards the version complies with. Although people had been using components of HTML5 for a few years prior, between HTML4 and the new standard HTML5 being recommended by W3C was a 15 year gap. The standards for HTML5 where only finalised in 2014 so whenever the next version will be standardised is anyone's guess but I'd wager on it being years rather than months.

To reiterate, Moodle is basically irrelevant to your issue. What you develop in Captivate is platform agnostic, to not publish a cross-platform learning object (which is where your reference to HTML5 comes in) from Captivate at this time based on doubts re "the longevity of HTML5" is illogical IMHO. If, and that is a ridiculous "if", HTML5 died tomorrow, simply open the project in Captivate and republish to another option; there's plenty of them (see here for example).

I really would love to hear what alternatives this expert is putting forward, as I said in the original reply I'm not endorsing Captivate (it's just one tool of many) but I don't see what the issue with HTML5 could possibly be. Sounds to me his/her issue is using Captivate more than anything else.

I agree... Unfortunately that was from the start. HTML5 is definitely being put advertised as the future all over the place. I think his problem is with Captivate. He doesn't trust Adobe to support itself and while I agree that they love to change very small things and not make things backward compatible, it's not exactly the same as the HTML code it creates not being able to run on the internet. I also use Storyline among other visual HTML authoring programs but that's just another thing for him to disagree with.

I'm going to try again once more to convince them not to throw away something easy and very good looking because it might die in the next 25 years... believe it or not I almost put "expert" in quotations! His experience is more of web programming, and Moodle and Captivate are new concepts for him. He knows a lot and is doing this mostly out of concern for the investment but I suppose I will have to do a module, time it, and calculate the cost vs the longevity of the language. At least if they see that it will break even after 3 years or so, they won't be so hesitant to make the investment.

I have no doubt he has a wealth of knowledge in certain areas but I think we've gotten to the nub of the issue which as I suspected is basically "fear" of new technology. We have a new instructional designer here who refuses to use Captivate which is down to being conversant with Storyline rather than thinking of the end user ("Storyline is easier to use"; this to me does not negate the fact it still doesn't do responsive at this time therefore has a negative impact on the end user IMHO) .

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.