File formats
I have developed a love – hate relationship with Captivate. I have only been a Captivate user for a few months. I am trying to create training modules of my 40 years at my employer before I retire in Q1, 2020 for new and future engineers in my relatively small department to learn from.
After creating a few detailed training modules, one being a responsive type, I now think the easiest path forward is to create EXE files. The reason is that I am doing this outside of the normal companywide LMS type training because they relate to only a very small group. I have found that when I store the HTML5 files on a virtual drive, you can go out for lunch and a round of golf waiting for it to run. That is, if the user knows which file to click on! The EXE files, although they are huge, are very quick for me to create and for the trainee very quick to load and run.
Now my dilemma… If I stick with EXE, I have found that I can’t create an EXE from the responsive projects. I have tried to do cut and paste out of the responsive to a non-responsive template, but so far, it is a royal pain and looks terrible. It sets me way back to clean the files up.
What do others do?
John
Please, can you give some feedback to my comment?
Disagree, I would never use EXE because it is SWF-based and I have no idea what will happen when the EOL fo the Flash player is a reality. It is the same reason explaining why a responsive project can never be published to EXE, since responsive projects only have HTML5 output, the Flash player has disappeared from all mobile browsers since many years already, but that will be the same for desktop/laptop browsers in 2020.
Publish only to HTML5 and store the output on a (free) LMS is the best way, because the LMS can control the access by managing user accounts.
Alternatives for software is to create passive videos (MP4) using the Video Demo. Easy to distribute but with much less learning efficiency. BTW I am an engineer myself.
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