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Demo of Some New Features in Adobe Captivate 4
Adobe® Captivate® 4 has some new features that instructional designers and developers are excited about but, generally, do not really know how to use them in their projects. Some of the new features in Captivate 4 are user/system variables, text-to-speech, swf commenting, widgets, and PDF output format.
One of the consistent feature request has been how to associates quiz results with participant information. Adobe Captivate can email quiz results but does not provide any means to associate the results with information about the quiz taker like name, department, employee id, etc. If you are using a Leaning Management System (LMS), this is usually not an issue but for those not using an LMS, it has been a problem for a long time. Also, developers have been looking for better ways to store quiz results since email is very problematic. Posting quiz results to a database seems to be the optimal solution but required too much programming support to implement.
Using the new user variables feature in Captivate 4 with a little JavaScript programming, designers and developers can now satisfy both of these requirements. Since Adobe has not done a good job in showing users/developers how to use these features, I have created a proof-of-concept demo to show how this can be done. The demo illustrates how you can collect user information before a quiz, use the user information to customize question feedback messages, display user information on a quiz completion certificate, use JavaScript to display quiz results and other information, and give the participant the option to post their quiz results to a database.
You can test to demo here (http://www.myshbp.com/captivate/cap4demo.htm) and let me know what you think. Do the new features justify the $299.00 upgrade price? That is for you to decide :- )
Thanks…
One of the consistent feature request has been how to associates quiz results with participant information. Adobe Captivate can email quiz results but does not provide any means to associate the results with information about the quiz taker like name, department, employee id, etc. If you are using a Leaning Management System (LMS), this is usually not an issue but for those not using an LMS, it has been a problem for a long time. Also, developers have been looking for better ways to store quiz results since email is very problematic. Posting quiz results to a database seems to be the optimal solution but required too much programming support to implement.
Using the new user variables feature in Captivate 4 with a little JavaScript programming, designers and developers can now satisfy both of these requirements. Since Adobe has not done a good job in showing users/developers how to use these features, I have created a proof-of-concept demo to show how this can be done. The demo illustrates how you can collect user information before a quiz, use the user information to customize question feedback messages, display user information on a quiz completion certificate, use JavaScript to display quiz results and other information, and give the participant the option to post their quiz results to a database.
You can test to demo here (http://www.myshbp.com/captivate/cap4demo.htm) and let me know what you think. Do the new features justify the $299.00 upgrade price? That is for you to decide :- )
Thanks…
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