Posts tagged ‘Adobe Captivate Hacks’
Important Adobe Captivate SCORM template update
Posted Wednesday, March 28th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, e-learning, How-to, SCORM
Over the last few weeks, I received a few reports that scores were not being saved in the LMS when using my template. Turns out there was a simple oversight on my part, and the issue is fixed. Please download the latest version (v1.20120328) from GitHub.
Introducing SWFRightClick
Posted Tuesday, February 28th, 2012.
Filed under JavaScript, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, Adobe Flash, e-learning, JavaScript, JavaScript UI Goodies
Adobe Captivate currently ships with a 3rd-party JavaScript utility named RightClick.js, which enables the Captivate SWF to detect when a user right-clicks the SWF. While upgrading the Captivate publishing templates, I realized RightClick.js wasn’t built to work with SWFObject 2.x and suffered from a few shortcomings. I modified the Captivate template’s SWFObject code to [...]
New SCORM 1.2 Template for Adobe Captivate
Posted Wednesday, February 15th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, e-learning, GitHub, How-to, SCORM
By popular demand, the SCORM 1.2 edition of my revised SCORM publishing templates for Adobe Captivate 5.x is now available on GitHub.
Further Tweaks to the Adobe Captivate SCORM Publishing Template
Posted Thursday, February 2nd, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, e-learning, GitHub, How-to, SCORM
Since the code for my templates will remain on GitHub, I highly suggest checking in from time to time to see if the code has been updated. I won’t be posting a blog entry on pipwerks.com for every little edit I make to the code.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 7: Giving the Revisions a Home
Posted Wednesday, January 25th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, GitHub, How-to, SCORM
I decided to post the revised Adobe Captivate publishing template to GitHub, where it can be easily copied, forked, and updated. I moved a few bits of markup/code around, added some configuration options (such as the ability to turn off centering, turn on logging, and require SCORM when loading), and added a ton of comments to explain some of the new options. Hopefully it’s all self-explanatory.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 6: Bugs & Scope Creep
Posted Friday, January 20th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, SCORM
For this blog post, I was going to write a summary of the changes to the template and wrap up the series. Instead, I’m looking at ways to increase the template’s flexibility and hot-rod it for some cool other stuff.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 5: Finishing up
Posted Wednesday, January 18th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, opinion, SCORM
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. In part three, we cleaned up the JavaScript. In part four, we updated the SCORM code. In this installment, we will put the finishing touches on our code and move our files into Captivate’s publishing folder.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 4: SCORM
Posted Saturday, January 14th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, SCORM, SCORM wrapper
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. In part three, we cleaned up the JavaScript. In this installment, we will examine and update the SCORM code.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 3: JavaScript
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. Today we will clean up the JavaScript.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 2: HTML
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under SCORM, e-learning with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In this part, we’ll take an in-depth look at the HTML generated by Captivate (using the SCORM 2004 publishing template) and clean it up as much as we can.