How to Export SCORM from Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate is a full-featured e-learning authoring tool that supports SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 export. Here's how to publish your finished project as a SCORM package, first in the all-new Adobe Captivate (version 12 and later), then in Adobe Captivate Classic.
Before you start
- Your Captivate project is complete
- You know which SCORM version to export (if unsure, use SCORM 2004 — see our comparison)
The all-new Adobe Captivate (version 12 and later)
- Open Preferences: Adobe Captivate → Preferences on a Mac, or Edit → Preferences on Windows.
- Go to Quizzing → Reporting and turn on Enable Reporting.
- Choose SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 as the standard.
- Set the status representation (Incomplete to Complete, or Incomplete to Passed/Failed) and what counts as complete: slides viewed, or the quiz attempted or passed.
- Fill in the manifest details: course identifier, title and version.
- Click the … icon next to Preview, then Publish. Captivate creates a .zip with an
imsmanifest.xmlinside, ready to upload.
Projects made in Captivate Classic have to be imported into the new Captivate before you can publish them this way. Adobe's help page for the new version is Publish projects in Adobe Captivate.
Adobe Captivate Classic: publishing to SCORM
1. Enable LMS reporting
By default, Captivate projects don't report data. To change this, go to Edit → Preferences (Windows) or Adobe Captivate Classic → Preferences (Mac).
In the Preferences dialog, select Quiz → Reporting from the left menu.
- Check the box for Enable reporting for this project.
- Under Standard, select SCORM 2004 (we recommend the 4th Edition) for the best tracking capacity.
2. Configure the SCORM manifest
Still in the Reporting preferences, click the Configure button next to the Standard dropdown. In the manifest dialog that appears:
- Course Identifier — a unique ID that the LMS uses to track this specific course.
- Course Title — the human-readable name of the training.
- Description — optional context about the course.
Click OK when finished.
3. Set completion and success criteria
Back in the Reporting preferences window, set the completion and success criteria. You must explicitly tell Captivate what counts as a completed course:
- Slide Views — the learner must view a specified number or percentage of slides (100% suits training with no quiz).
- Quiz — for example Quiz is passed, so the learner must reach the passing score on the embedded quiz.
- For SCORM 2004, you set the completion criteria and the success criteria separately.
Click OK to save your preferences and close the dialog.
4. Publish the SCORM package
Now that tracking is configured, go to File → Publish.
- Choose HTML5 (or HTML5/SWF in older versions).
- Enter a Project Title and set the destination folder.
- Ensure the Zip Files option is checked so Captivate automatically creates the final SCORM ZIP for you.
- Click Publish.
Your SCORM package is ready to upload.
What counts as complete in Ethica
Ethica marks the course complete when it reports completed or passed. With SCORM 2004, a course that reports completed but failed isn't complete, so the learner can try again.