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Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:35:06 GMT

Thanks Jim. That gives me an option to pursue.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:32:37 GMT

Passing the SSO student identity could possibly be done through custom JavaScripting. The JavaScript would need to set a Captivate User Variable, then that variable can be sent to the spreadsheet.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:33:27 GMT

Hi Jim. On the face of it the Google LMS Widget looks like a good solution for our needs. Out of interest, do you think it would be possible to pass the students' identities to the widget from their single-sign-on in to the CMS (the SiteCore CMS uses MongoDB) rather than have them sign in to each Captivate?

Please forgive my fishing around for solutions. I'm trying to filter through things before asking our tech team to investigate thoroughly. Part of the struggle here is to present a seamless experience, so that students enter the SiteCore CMS site, which is mainly focused on study skills and advice, and can then watch short Captivate presentations with ungraded 'check your knowledge' type quizzes embedded. We want to be able to identify the individuals that have participated and completed the courses in order to determine popularity of the content and to cross-reference to their academic performance in the programmes of study, and ideally to feed this back to their student profile so that they can see how much of the value-added content they have completed. We can't simply do this by 'page views'. This is separate from their Blackboard learning experience.

Many thanks again.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:47:52 GMT

Thanks Jim. Looks interesting. Will investigate.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 07:42:37 GMT

Thanks Rod. I'll have a look in to it. I managed to get it work with Moodle. It's just the presentation issue that's a problem. We need to present it in the same shell as the rest of the site.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:15:16 GMT

You may want to look at the Google LMS widget that records data to a Google Spreadsheet.

http://captivatedev.com/2012/11/12/adobe-captivate-6-x-widget-google-lms-with-email-report ing-2/

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:27:53 GMT

Not using SCORM. You might be able to use AICC standard instead. Captivate supports that as well and it allows you to have your content on a different domain to the LMS.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:29:51 GMT

The courses are delivered through SiteCore CMS, so not an LMS, but only because they are outside the academic classes that we deliver via Blackboard. Could the courses be presented in the CMS shell, whilst referring to a Blackboard database?

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:18:29 GMT

Maybe not. You never mentioned in your original post that you were prepared to consider using an LMS. Yet this type of software is essentially a database-driven website that communicates with Captivate course content using the SCORM standard JavaScript API.

So is there some reason why you don't go that route? Captivate IS certainly capable of doing this part out of the box.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:07:28 GMT

Thanks Rod. I think I have vastly misinterpreted Captivate's capacity. Or perhaps, more accurately, misinterpreted the gaps between my capabilities and Captivate's features.

Re: Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:02:14 GMT

What you are asking for here is NOT a trivial exercise.

Unlike some other Adobe software tools Captivate currently has no built-in way to bind to a datasource and do what you are looking for.

Any solution that would do this would need to be custom programmed for you. You would need AS3 or JavaScript expertise for the client side, and relevant scripting expertise in whatever server-side technology that would be required.

Where can I find out how to link my Captivate quizzes to a database?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 12:48:27 GMT

I need to link my Captivate courses to a database in order to track individual students' participation and completion of activities. I am less interested in capturing grades than simply recording whether they took the formative quizzes and read through to the end of the presentations.

Any help greatly appreciated. A fair amount of searching has not lead me to an answer on the web and my Captivate 7 'e-Learning Uncovered' book has absolutely zero information on this.