Adobe Captivate Question: How Can I Get a Lesson to Close on its Own?
If you open a project in another window (leaving the menu open behind), is there a way to get the window to close when the module has finished running thereby revealing the menu underneath?
Answer
Choose Edit > Preferences. Set the project to Close via the Start and End category.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Why Are Quizzes Causing Trouble?
My company asked me to develop an interactive training module. There are 10 components each with 3 or 4 slides and a 10 question quiz which will be reported to LMS software. I have created a menu page that lets learners "jump to" the slides to review the sections they wish, any number of times they wish. At the end of each section is a 0-point quiz question with infinite attempts. On the menu there is also a button that jumps you to the scored quiz. Here's the problem: When they view any section, the questions work fine. However, in any of the following sections, the questions display a message that says "You did not complete this question completely" and greys out the responses. I cannot figure why it is doing this or how to get it to stop.
Answer
Adding interactive objects (buttons and click boxes) to projects that also contain quizzes is, as you've seen, a potential problem. You can try to shake things loose by first ensuring you have enabled backward movement via your Quiz preferences. There are other things to try of course, but you should start there.
I would encourage you to use an alternative method to your quizzes… pull them apart so that each one stands apart and create a menu for users to use to access each quiz. Trust me, if you continue combining them, you're going to come up against more heartache that many can stomach.
Follow Up:
I appreciate the advice. We eliminated the buttons and found that anytime you jump to slides involving a quiz questions "out of order," whether there is an interactive button or not, the quiz gets buggered up. So we changed our workflow. and it's all right now. Thank You.
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Adobe Captivate Question: Why Won't My Previews Work?
When I first started using Captivate 3, I could use any of the Preview options to view my slides. Now, for some reason, all of a sudden, I can only use the PREVIEW IN BROWSER option. When I click the PREVIEW button and choose "From This Slide" or "Next 5 Slides", I can only hear the audio–but I can't see anything. The screen goes white. No animations or anything.
But if I choose Preview In Browser, I can see everything just fine.
But if I choose Preview In Browser, I can see everything just fine.
Answer:
More likely than not the issue is due to an upgrade to the new Flash Player 10. Now that I've upgraded to version 10 of the player, my FLVs do not preview (but publish fine). The only fix to date that I know of is to roll back to your previous version of the Flash Player. For more information about the problem, read this post.
Follow Up:
That fixed it! I had to uninstall Flash Player 10, restart my computer, find Flash Player 9 and install it… then PRESTO! My Captivate preview options work again.
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