October 3, 2019
Help a total newbie with Captivate!
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October 3, 2019
Help a total newbie with Captivate!
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Hello, I am a complete newbie and I am currently trying to understand how Captivate works and whether I should invest the time to learn it. I am, however, finding it surprisingly difficult to understand how to use it exactly. Perhaps I am looking in the wrong places? The intro videos are very vague and generic. I asked Support some questions in the chat support box and I was given wrong information.

Obviously an MP4 output from Captivate would not be interactive (even though Adobe Support told me it would be). It would have to be exported to HTML5 in order to keep the interaction ability.

No course platform that I know of (I have used Podia and Thinkific but the others such as Teachable, Kajabi etc are the same AFAIK) accepts HTML5 as a format. So that leaves me with the issue: where do I host my course if I create it with Captivate?

It seems to me that this would be an incredibly important question to be featured in the FAQs – but, unless I’m missing it, it’s not there.

Can anyone help? Where/ how do you host your courses?

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2019-10-20 16:00:49
2019-10-20 16:00:49

Posted an answer, but because of the links, moderation can take a while. In short, there are a couple of ways to make your courses accessible to learners:

  • Upload them to a webserver, and provide the URL to your learners (there is an example in the post which is waiting).
  • Embedding them in an iFrame on a web page.  Provide the link to the web page (example in first answer).
  • Uploading the course to a LMS (Learning Management System). Such a system will take care of learner management (accounts) and gradebooks, where scores obtained by the learners will be registered. Some LMSs are free (Moodle), others have more features but you’ll need to pay for them (Adobe Prime, Cornerstone, Blackboard….à.
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2019-10-20 15:56:38
2019-10-20 15:56:38

You can use published (HTML5) Captivate courses after uploading them to a webserver or to a LMS.

If you want to see a course uploaded to my webserver, click this link, which has an interactive presentation (which I presented on one of the Adobe summits):

Captivate’s Timeline

Since this is HTML, you can also embed such a course in a HTML page. I am using an iFrame for that purpose. Here is a link to one of my blog posts, where I do have an embedded short tutorial:

http://blog.lilybiri.com/svgs-for-color-based-quiz

 

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