Scaling Adobe Captivate Content in Moodle

Scaling in Moodle

 

 

In ADDITION to following the advice in the previous scaling post you’ll want to make some changes to the .htm file that is Published to get your content to scale properly in Moodle.  In my test case, I published for SCORM 1.2 and there were some additional tags that needed to be removed in the Captivate .htm file.  The .htm file was based off of the SCORM 1.2 publishing template… which looks very different from the default template.  Do a search for “center” and remove these two lines in addition to the advice in the previous scaling post:

document.write(‘<center>’);
document.write(‘</center>’);
When you set up your Moodle course and you’re displaying your course in the “current window” (instead of new window), then make sure you set the course window’s width to 100%.
Moodle Course Settings
Height is important too.  Since in my case, I was displaying the course in the current window, I needed to choose a height that everyone could live with.  My Captivate course was 1020 wide x 831 high which forces folks with smaller desktop resolution to scroll to see the whole course.  I decided to choose a height of 600 so everyone can view the course comfortably knowing it would scale perfectly to that size.
  • Bmeite

    Jim, Did you test this resizing technique in moodle 2.0+. I followed all the steps but when uploaded the course doesn’t even play. When I reset to original settings it plays but with the sizing issue. Any advice?

    • http://twitter.com/CaptivatePro CaptivateDev.com

      @Bmeite:  Usually when your course won’t even play, this is an indication that there’s a problem with the html markup or javascript.  Triple check that all your html tags are properly closed and that you didn’t remove any necessary JS.  

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