ramblings
Hopefully my series on Adobe Captivate’s SCORM publishing templates has shed light on the sorry state of Captivate’s publishing templates; I know it’s easy to play critic, complaining and pointing out deficiencies, but in this case I feel it was constructive and appropriate. However, I would also
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. First, in case you missed it, here are
Tutorials
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
best practices
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. Captivate
Adobe Captivate
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. Cleanup task #1: Tidy things up Personally, I like to clean up code
standards
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. Here’s the
Adobe Captivate Hacks
Adobe Captivate is an enormously popular tool for e-learning developers. My assumption is that most Captivate users chose Captivate as their development tool because it enables them to publish LMS-compatible courses without requiring any programming skills — no need to know JavaScript, ActionScript, SCORM, etc. This might explain why no one
ramblings
What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come
Adobe Captivate
The title says it all. The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript. var myMovie = CaptivateController("Captivate"); myMovie.set("myCustomCaptivateVariable", "Hello!"); Give the new set method a spin! Read about the CaptivateController
ramblings
Update 10/25/2011: I’ve discovered that Apple provides Lion-ready versions of the older server management tools via a separate download from Apple, called Server Admin Tools 10.7 (link no longer available). I have amended my post to reflect the capabilities of the Server Admin Tools 10.7
e-learning
Update 10/13/2011: I added more comments to the ActionScript code to help explain what each line of code does. I also added a Flash CS4 version of the FLA to the ZIP so more people can access the example. My “Planets” example (How to Add Basic SCORM Code
e-learning
The pipwerks SCORM Wrapper has been updated with a small patch for handling odd behavior in the Plateau LMS. Special thanks to Joe Venditti for the patch (and sorry for taking almost 2 years to add it to the codebase!). Get the latest version here. Comments Bobby wrote on August