[ARCHIVED] Adobe Captivate and Canvas

[manish_tripathi]

Hello, I am new to Canvas.

Does anyone have any tips for using Adobe Captivate instructional/interactive modules with Canvas?

Specifically, I want to know if you are uploading the SWF file or HTML files in a Zip file format that Captivate produces and then using the SCORM package as in other learning management systems. Or, do you embed the Captivate file or module? Or is there an easier way in Canvas?

Any other tips would be appreciated. Thanks!

[kona]

 @manish_tripathi ​, I've never integrated Captivate into Canvas, so I can't help you with that. But, since this isn't really a right or wrong type question would it be ok if I changed this from a question to a discussion? Also, you might get more feedback/information if we moved this over to the Instructional Designers​ group in the community.

[manish_tripathi]

Sure sounds fine to me.

[ilovell]

I had an instructor attempt it last semester. He gave up and went a different route.This was before we could add the SCROM feature to our account. Not sure if things would work easier now. I vaguely remember importing his content as a .zip and linking to the html in his files from from the Rich Content Editor. I am curious as well if any one has had any success.

[manish_tripathi]

Thanks!

[rharp]

Hey  @manish_tripathi ,

I've had some success recently importing my Captivate Projects into Canvas.  I have the Creative Cloud version so I know it's most up to date.  The instructions Canvas gives to save worked just fine.  The only issue I've run into so far is the SCORM package doesn't carry over on a class copy. 

[manish_tripathi]

Thanks!

[Amanda_L_Albrig]

I typically publish the html5 version and then load/unpackage the .zip file in the files area. I then link to the multiscreen.html file within the Captivate package so it works on most devices (laptops, tablets, etc). I am not using SCORM so cannot comment on that integration.

[manish_tripathi]

Thanks!

[jon]

I'm looking into doing this but am struggling at the minute. How exactly are you importing the HTML 5 files?

[dhulsey]

jon​, perhaps this tutorial from the canvas Guide will hepl: How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?

[rledda]

Hi @ @manish_tripathi 

We are using Captivate and depending on the project we embed the file within canvas or sometimes we retrieve it from a private server and embed them in canvas.

Depending on if we need to track students progress we wrap up the modules as a scorm package and use the scorm upload provided by canvas or we just create the swf and the html5 file pointing to the multiscreen.html file

Canvas is not scorm compliant but I discovered a workaround to track students progress.

1. After I create my module I count manually the 25% 50% 75% and the 100% of the content.
2. I establish that once the student arrives at a certain point -i.e 25% 50% 75% and 100%- the module it sends this number to the LMS.
3. In settings I choose to report points instead of slides visited.
4. Create your scorm following the steps for the author tool.
5. Then I upload the content inside canvas following the steps provided by Stefanie Sanders How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?
6. Now, the file is a graded assignment.
7. Next step is to edit the assignment and in points inform 100.

If you need any help you can reach me out whenever you need it.

Rosalie

[Amanda_L_Albrig]

Canvas does now have a SCORM LTI. Based on my experience it works well. Unfortunately, it is necessary for your Canvas Implementation Rep (at Canvas) to install and configure it. Not sure why it could not be a course level LTI. A system level LTI means you would need to go through the entity at your institution that manages your instance of Canvas to get them to approve the installation of the SCORM LTI.

[rledda]

Thanks Amanda.

I've seen the scorm cloud integration but I think that it could be easier if Canvas was scorm compliant as it happens with the most common LMS such as Moodle.

It was a bit shocking at the beginning but we ended up tracking student's progression in a different way. 🙂

Rosalie

[Amanda_L_Albrig]

Hi Rosalie,

I'm glad you found a workaround at the time of your implementation. I too was surprised that Canvas was not SCORM compliant at the time of release or adoption. As it currently stands (outside of your workaround), Canvas has two ways to integrate SCORM content.

The SCORM Cloud LTI is course based and can be found under Settings > Apps. I believe it is a fee for LTI which was out of the question for our purposes.

Canvas has also recently introduced a System based SCORM LTI. It is installed by your Canvas rep at Instructure. It would be much better if it was just integrated into the system by default but that is not the case at the moment.

Have a great weekend,

Amanda

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[manish_tripathi]

Thanks, Rosalie!

[Michael_Cain]

Rosalie,

This was quite helpful, thanks for posting.  I actually came here from another discussion about course space quotas and am curious if you ever run into problems with your Captivate content bumping up against any course space limits on your Canvas instance.  How large do your courses tend to be and what is the per-course space limit you use in Canvas?  Do you find that you have to host any of your SWF/HTML5 content outside of Canvas to work around any course space limits?

I hope all that is clear.  Thanks!

Mike

[rledda]

Hi  @Michael_Cain 

Our courses are pretty large and we have a lot of schools getting access to the same contents. Sometimes it's necessary to update them and it's not easy to handle let's say 30 scorms so having the content in files is not an option, that's why we prefer to locate them in our servers. Of course it would be easier if canvas was scorm compliant so in terms of updating content would be a matter of drag & drop the imsmanifest.xml

The canvas quota can be also challenging especially when you have videos, just ask to your admin if it's possible to increase that number otherwise locate them in an external server.

Rosalie

[carrie]

Hi  @rledda ​

I have been working with a future Canvas user (yay!) who is wondering about hosting their Captivate files outside Canvas so they don't have to worry about the known course copy SCORM problem.

What type of server did you host your Captivate files? Internal, cloud or other?

Did you store other learning objects or curricular assets on the same server?

Were you able to get any user data from the server re usage of the objects?

Thanks in advance. This thread is already rich with useful info.

Carrie

[rledda]

Hi Carrie!

The server we use to host our captivate files is a cloud server. We only store the captivate files as the other elements of the curricula is better to have them in canvas.

We don't use a tracking system such as an LRS or similar as by now we don't need to. However, for some captivate activities we have created some variables that retrieves information about the performance of students and we retrieve them an use them as a feedback in a google sheet.

Let me know if you need more info 😉

Rosalie

[carrie]

Fabulous! Thank you,  @rledda ​!