Archive for the ‘e-learning’ Category
Complete List of Variables for Adobe Captivate 5
Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, JavaScript
While updating my CaptivateController script I noticed there have been some changes to the Captivate variables available to Captivate developers. I figured I should document them for future reference.
Note that some variables available in CP3 and CP4 are no longer available. The following list should be exhaustive for CP5; variables for previous versions of Captivate [...]
CaptivateController Updated to Support Adobe Captivate 5
Posted Monday, August 23rd, 2010.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags ActionScript, Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, How-to, JavaScript
By popular demand, I’ve updated my CaptivateController to work with Adobe Captivate 5 (CP5). Since this is an open-source project, there’s no upgrade fee. (What? “Adobe” and “no upgrade fee” in the same paragraph?!) I kid, I kid… I’m a kidder.
Adobe Captivate: What the heck is g_intAPIType?
Posted Wednesday, August 18th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, e-learning, How-to, SCORM
If you do spend any time using Captivate to create SCORM-conformant courses, you’re bound to have run into an issue or two that caused you to read some Captivate forum posts. Almost without fail, someone will mention that the solution to their problem was changing the value of the magical g_intAPIType JavaScript variable from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.
So what the heck is g_intAPIType, and why does changing it make a difference?
SCORM Tip: Use an onunload handler
Posted Friday, August 6th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, SCORM, SCORM actionscript class, SCORM wrapper
What happens if the browser window containing your course is closed by the learner before the course finishes sending data to the LMS? If you’re not careful about how you’ve coded your course, you can lose some of the data.
SCORM Tip: Don’t forget to commit!
Posted Tuesday, July 27th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, SCORM, SCORM actionscript class, SCORM wrapper
A number of people have recently asked me about the scorm.save() function in the pipwerks SCORM wrappers. What is it, and when should it be used?
Customizing SCORM Manifests in Captivate and Articulate Presenter
Posted Wednesday, May 19th, 2010.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Articulate Presenter, How-to, learning management systems, SCORM
Someone recently asked me if it was possible to customize Captivate’s SCORM template to reduce the need for manual editing after publishing. In her case, the manifest needed to be edited to include SumTotal TotalLMS’s custom SCORM extensions. The answer is yes. Here’s how.
Speaking of IMS…
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, fail, impenetrable fortress, IMS, opinion, privacy, Rant, standards
The IMS wants your personal information before they’ll let you read their public standards.
IMS issues press release for new e-learning interoperability standards
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, grandstanding, IMS, opinion, Rant, standards
If the new standards are written as poorly as this press release, it’s going to be 1,000 pages of useless spec.
What feature is missing from your e-learning development tool?
Posted Tuesday, January 26th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Flash, Articulate, development tools, e-learning, e-learning tools, HTML, JavaScript, Lectora
I have some simple questions I’d love to get feedback on.
I’m curious about what people are looking for in their e-learning authoring tools, specifically:
What feature is your current tool missing that you would love to see implemented? Support for team collaboration? Support for themes or custom CSS styling? Support for language localization? A [...]
Not so crazy about Moodle? Try Chamilo
Posted Tuesday, January 19th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags Chamilo, dokeos, learning management systems, moodle, open source, Rave
Tired of Moodle? Former Dokeos developers have forked Dokeos’ open-source code and used it to create a new LMS named Chamilo. It’s basically Dokeos under-the-hood, but with newer features and a new direction.