Adobe Captivate: Bookmarking Without an LMS

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Bookmarking a lesson provides the learner an opportunity to continue viewing a lesson from the exact spot where they left off. If you've uploaded your eLearning lesson into a Learning Management System, bookmarking is enabled by default in every lesson that you publish. 

If you're not working with an LMS and you still want to enable bookmarking, you're out of luck, right? Not exactly. With a few simple clicks, you can enable bookmarking within any Captivate project. Once enabled, learners will see the following message should they close their web browser while your eLearning lesson and then return at a later time.
 
Adobe Captivate: Bookmarking message
 
Enable Bookmarking (Self-Paced Learning)

  1. Open or create a Captivate project and choose Project > Table of Contents. (The Skin Editor Window opens.)
  2. From the left of the Skin Editor Window, select Show TOC.
    Adobe Captivate: Show TOC  
  3. From the bottom of the window, click the Settingsbutton. (The TOC Settings dialog box opens.)
    Adobe Captivate: TOC Settings  
  4. From the Runtime Options area, select Self-Paced Learning.
    Adobe Captivate: Self-Paced Learning   
  5. Click the OK button.

By enabling Self-Paced Learning, you have basically activated Captivate's bookmarking feature. You can test the bookmarking by publishing the project and then opening the HTML file with any web browser.

Move through a few slides in the lesson and then close the browser window. Reopen the HTML file and instead of the lesson simply starting over from the beginning, you (and your learners) will see the "Continue from where you stopped last time?" message shown below. How cool is that?

Adobe Captivate: Bookmarking message

If you'd like to see the Self-Paced Learning option in action, check out the video I created on the IconLogic YouTube channel.

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6 Replies to “Adobe Captivate: Bookmarking Without an LMS”

  1. Hi, I am actually trying to get rid of the bookmarking capability. I did the opposite of what you did here, but the bookmarking symbol still shows up at the top of my TOC. IS there a way to remove it? Thank you!

  2. Hi, I am actually trying to get rid of the bookmarking capability. I did the opposite of what you did here, but the bookmarking symbol still shows up at the top of my TOC. IS there a way to remove it? Thank you!

  3. Hi, I am actually trying to get rid of the bookmarking capability. I did the opposite of what you did here, but the bookmarking symbol still shows up at the top of my TOC. IS there a way to remove it? Thank you!

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