Hi, as Adobe has stopped support for FLASH and we have courses published in .swf and uploaded on Microsoft Sharepoint. A learner can login and take a course. Can you guide in what format I should publish the course in now as .swf is no more supported.
One of the publishing options of Adobe Captivate is HTML / SWF (the other two being video and executable). When you select HTML / SWF, you will have toggle options that allows you to enable HTML 5 and SWF. You can toggle on and off these options individually.
If youy toggle SWF on and HTML 5 off, you will get a lesson published as Flash SWF. This is probably what you are doing in your lessons, but as of 2021, major browsers no longer support Flash.
If you toggle both, Captivate will publish a folder that containst both SWF and HTML 5 files. The way this option works, Flash takes priority. The learners with receive Flash lesson if the browser supports it, otherwise it’s HTML5.
To publish as HTML5 only, toggle on the HTML 5 and toggle off the SWF. This allows you to publish a lesson as HTML5, and the learners will access HTML5 lesson regardless of browser’s support to Flash.
You can publish a lesson as a folder containing files, or a s zip file containing all the files needed for the lesson to work. You can then upload the zip file to a web server or LMS. LMSs automatically unpack the zip file.
Not completely true, sorry. I would never recommend dual publishing, but SWF output has no priority. The way the multiscreen. html file is working: when detecting a desktop or laptop, SWF version will be launched, when it is a mobile device, HMTL5 version is launched.
Not all webservers do require a zipped folder, I never have to zip the folder. A SCO is always zipped by Captivate because that is a SCORM requirement, but such a zipped folder can only be uploaded to a LMS, because it has Reporting turned on. A not reporting package can be uploaded to a LMS if the LMS supports it, because that is not the case for all LMSs.
Adobe has stopped support for the Flash Player which used to be a default plugin for desktop/laptop browsers. That player was needed to play SWF output which was widely used on websites.
The warning was given almost 4 years ago. Adobe Captivate provides the alternative output, HTML5, since multiple versions. If you fear that learners will use recent versions of desktop/laptop browsers which do no longer provide the needed Flash Player plugin, HTML5 output is the way to go.
Contrary to SWF output where you probably only provided one SWF file, losing some functionality because the courses should have started from the htm file to invoke JS and CSS, HTML5 output is like a website and has a lot of folders and files. To work properly, it needs to be uploaded to a webserver (or a LMS if reporting is turned on). The webserver needs to support JSON. Learners start the course from the launch file which is index.html from a webserver. It is sufficient to provide the URL.
Sharepoint is normally NOT a webserver, so you’ll need to have a webserver.
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