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The State of Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Support

3 Comments / January 22, 2012 January 22, 2012 / e-learning, SCORM

I’ve heard rumors that the upcoming Captivate 6 will contain a completely revamped SCORM system that eliminates many of the issues I’ve covered. If this is the case, many of us will surely be elated, perhaps enough to pay for yet another upgrade. This could also help explain why Adobe hasn’t addressed the current SCORM publishing template; a complete overhaul of the existing SCORM system — including the ActionScript code inside the published SWFs — is a considerable amount of work.

Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 6: Bugs & Scope Creep

11 Comments / January 20, 2012 January 20, 2012 / e-learning, 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

2 Comments / January 18, 2012 January 18, 2012 / e-learning, 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

January 14, 2012 January 14, 2012 / e-learning, 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 this installment, we will examine and update the SCORM code.

Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 3: JavaScript

January 12, 2012 January 12, 2012 / e-learning, 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. Today we will clean up the JavaScript.

Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 2: HTML

7 Comments / January 12, 2012 January 12, 2012 / e-learning, SCORM

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.

Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 1: Introduction

1 Comment / January 11, 2012 January 11, 2012 / e-learning, SCORM

In this multi-part series, I will walk through the files Captivate outputs when publishing to SCORM 2004, pointing out the bad parts and suggesting alternatives when needed. At the end of the series, I will provide a fully-functional SCORM 2004 publishing template you can use with Captivate 5.5.

HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware

6 Comments / November 14, 2011 November 14, 2011 / e-learning, web design and development

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 to grips with what has undoubtedly been a tough week for them — aside from the product news, they were also informed of massive layoffs (around Adobe 750 employees). Regardless of your feelings about Flash, your heart must go out to the families affected by a sudden job loss. Flash critics …

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CaptivateController Updated to Support Setting Variable Values

13 Comments / November 3, 2011 November 3, 2011 / e-learning, JavaScript

The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript.

SCORM “Planets” Example Updated

29 Comments / October 7, 2011 October 7, 2011 / e-learning, SCORM

My “Planets” example (How to Add Basic SCORM Code to a Flash Movie) has proven to be one of the most popular items on pipwerks.com. Unfortunately, it was designed as a quick example and had a bunch of flaws and shortcomings. It’s also about 3 years old and starting to show its age. Since people frequently contact me with questions — many of which were due to the flaws in the example — I decided to update the project.