Hello and welcome to my blog. My name is Dave Mozealous and I am the Quality Assurance Engineer for Articulate. Some of you might remember me from my past position as Quality Assurance Lead for Macromedia for another eLearning content development application (Captivate) and as a Product Support Engineer for various Macromedia products as well.
My goal for this blog is to share some information that I have learned, discovered, or stumbled into over the years while working with various eLearning products. I will try to use this blog to post information that would usually be considered "outside the scope" of normal uses of the program.
I have a heavy background in Learning Management System integration so I will also be posting topics on interesting eLearning information as it comes along.
Please feel free to comment on anything that I post on this site as I welcome all types of feedback.
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I just noticed I'm your first post so it must be fate for us to catch up:)
Where is your rss feed for your blog? I can't seem to find it on this page.
David,
You posted the below message to the Captivate forum in March 2005. You mentioned you could send a copy of the HTML/ASP you created to capture Captivate quiz data. Do you still have a copy of that file? If so, could you send to me at suemcgreevy@yahoo.com? Thanks!
Forum message:
Hello All,
I don't know if anyone is interested but I was able to produce an ASP page that would take the results from the email results page and dump it into a database.
Basically I just modified the ColdFusion page that Tim Mushen created in the Dev Network to work with ASP
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/captivate/articles/store_cpresults.html
This does use a popup so you could potentially run into problems if you run XP SP2.
If anyone wants it just send me a Private Message with your email address.
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David Mozealous
http://www.mozealous.com
Hello Sue,
Unfortunately I no longer have that example...I wish I did, but unfortunately I and Macromedia parted ways several months ago and I left that example with company.
You might want to post on that forum and see if anyone I sent it to in the past still has it...
Sorry bout that.
Yes, this is from another posting on my blog somewhere:
I recorded silent audio that matched the length of the FLV. I did this by muting my microphone and then recording. Then I played the FLV, and used the Sync Animation Timings option to sync the animations with the video. Hope this helps.
We would like to use Articulate for some online training on our software product. What is the best way to create and insert screen recordings into Articulate? I have tried using screen-recording applications to create .swf files to import into slides, but they import larger than the powerpoint slides.
As of right now, probably the best tool for creating screen recordings is Captivate my Macromedia.
Thanks Dave. I went to Adobe.com and downloaded a demo of Captivate. Very slick.
However, I still have the same problem I had with the other screen-recording applicatiosn I have used. When I import the .swf recording, it usually is too large for the powerpoint slide. To accomodate, I try to resize the recording to fit onto the slide, however when I publish to Articulate, the video comes out too big for the slide. Please advise.
Thanks.
Ok, what you are going to have to do is cut down your recording size so it matches the size of a slide in PPT. See the following articles written by me about what can be done in Captivate to reduce your screen recoring size:
File Size
and:
Blog post
Those should get you through the basics of how to avoid the problem with file dimensions being to large for the PPT slide size with Captivate.
Dave,
Dumb question, I know, but I used/am using Dreamweaver to build my website: www.professionalservicespr.com. I want visitors to launch an Articulate presentation from my home page by clicking a flash button.
I've created the presentation and published it to my hard drive using the web option. Can you tell me which files I copy into a dreamweaver flash folder, please? There are flash files for each slide, a player, etc.
Thanks!
Hey Bill,
You will want to copy all the files that are published to your ouput folder. If you go to Articulate>Publish>Web you should see the publish location listed. The folder you want to copy to your website is going to be the same name as your 'Published Title' also listed in this same dialg.
Also, I would recommend using the 'Launch Presentation in new window' option in the Player Template builder. This will create a launch page which should give you the code for creating a launch button. Also, I would suggest turning on the option to 'Display window with no browser controls'. This will ensure that the player will launch at the optimal size.
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Dave,
Sorry about the delete, i had a typo on that one...
Wonder if you could help me out here. I have been trying to unsuccessfully put an articulate presenter SCORM output to work in moodle 1.8 hosted on godaddy. Not sure what the problem is - i have provided the url below - it appears to be a situation where moodle is not able to find the location of the flash file and therefore is throwing this blank page - could this be similiar to the query posted on the moodle forum http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=41568 ?
The weblink of the error is http://www.shantipark.com/ibe/mod/scorm/player.php?a=1¤torg=Merchant_Acquiring_Business_ORG&scoid=2
Or should i try to change the webhosting provider - maybe it is a godaddy issue...
Thanks for your time,
Hello Pankaj,
Actually I am not too sure. I haven't worked with Moodle much since 1.5. I tried upgrading to 1.6 at one point and it didn't work, and I could never get moodle running with my hosting provider (Dreamhosts) with any version of moodle.
You might do a search on the moodle forums and see if anyone has any recommendations for hosting providers that moodle works with.
Sorry I can't be of more assistance on this one.
Hi Dave,
I've already asked Articulate support about this, but the response I got wasn't helping much. I really like the output and ways to customize the interface, but my problem is that I need one (or very few) SWF file(s) instead of the chunk of files that Articulate generates. If that req can't be met, it's a no-go, which would be a shame. Any idea? Compiling into an EXE was the suggestion from support, but that didn't sound too appealing ... thanks.
Hello Ralph,
Unfortunately what you are looking for is not possible. Flash has a 16,000 frame limit, so if you tried to bundle an AP presentation in one single SWF your max presentation size could only be about 9 minutes.
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Hi Dave,
I'm trying to upload an articulate presentation to youtube, how is this done?
Thanks for the great blog on the live presentor, this will be valuable to use for the on-line courses that we do!
Thanks again