Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 5: Finishing up

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Cleaning up Adobe Captivate 5.5's SCORM Publishing Template

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 1: Introduction

This entry is part 1 of 7 in the series Cleaning up Adobe Captivate 5.5's SCORM Publishing Template

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.

SCORM “Planets” Example Updated

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.