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Andrew Chemey

Andrew Chemey

AEC Consulting

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Tracking Process
  3. Recording or Creating a Captivate File with Interactivity
  4. Setting or Modifying Reporting Options on Interactive Components
  5. Enabling and Configuring Tracking Options in the Quiz Manager
  6. Previewing File and View Tracking
  7. Configuring Additional Settings and Publishing the Captivate file, Through the Publish Dialog Box
  8. Conclusion
Created:
22 November 2004
User Level:
Beginner
Products:
Captivate

Output Options in Captivate – Part 1: An Overview of Tracking Options

Macromedia Captivate has several output options. These options might look very familiar, since most of the same options were available in previous versions of Macromedia RoboDemo. However, the Captivate team changed a lot of the architecture of these output options in the new version. Some of these changes include better support for the AICC and SCORM standards in general, along with support for the SCORM 2004 standard and e-mail integration.

The goal of this document is to give an overview and help you understand the tracking mechanisms that are available in Captivate. It will not address specific benefits of using a Learning Management System (LMS), or integration efforts with any of the tracking options. These topics will be covered in other articles in the Captivate Developer Center, in the near future.

For the purpose of this document, I may refer to the output options as "tracking" or "tracking mechanism," since I am essentially talking about tracking the results of Captivate files.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial you will need to install the following software and files:

Adobe Captivate (or Captivate-published files)

Flash Player (version 6 or higher)

You may use additional software, if you are publishing for AICC, SCORM, Authorware, QuestionMark, or E-mail.

This document is written for all user levels. It provides an overview for new users as well as an entry point for users looking for specific LMS integration. This document does not describe the LMS standards or information on how to use any of the products with which Captivate communicates. To better understand some of the terminology in this document and view links to other information, visit the Macromedia eLearning website.

Overview

Captivate can send data to a number of tracking mechanisms, including industry standards, such as AICC, SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004, as well as other common mechanisms or integration tools. Captivate's built-in tracking can send tracking data to:

  • AICC (LMS)
  • SCORM (LMS)
    • SCORM 1.2
    • SCORM 2004
  • Questionmark Perception (assessment tool)
  • Authorware (development tool)
  • E-Mail (simple communication mechanism)
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About the author

Andrew Chemey has been involved in learning for almost 10 years. Starting with Macromedia on the Authorware 3 development team he eventually moved to the Pathware/Learning Space development teams for Macromedia and Lotus. He is the developer of the LMS Knowledge Objects for Authorware and recently licensed a basic version to Macromedia for release with Authorware 7. He has also helped build/test the Flash Learning Interaction templates. In addition to working with Macromedia as an employee or contractor on the Authorware, CourseBuilder and Flash development teams, he has been an independent consultant for content developers and LMS vendors; helping to build and integrate AICC and SCORM standards-compliant content and LMSs alike.