[ARCHIVED] Captivate Learning Interactions in Canvas

[lbledsoe]

I'm curious how others have incorporated captivate learning interactions like drag and drop into canvas courses.  I've been on a rabbit trail looking specifically for how to import a drag and drop activity into one of our courses, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information that I've run into so far.  Any recommendations for resources that might be helpful for me?

[dhulsey]

Hi,  @lbledsoe ‌! I believe you would probably need to use the LTI tool that enables the use of SCORM in Canvas. Here is a tutorial: https://community.canvaslms.com/docs/DOC-10312-4152340211?sr=search&searchId=142f25c9-80a2-4af8-9375...‌

[epulham]

Hi  @lbledsoe , maybe you've already found that the SCORM tool works for your needs. I also know that h5p.com has drag and drop style interactions that you can create and then embed as an iframe in the Text Editor HTML. If you want the interactions to work on the back end with score reporting, then your institution has to have a paid subscription to h5p.com. 

[lbledsoe]

Thanks Emily, I did discover how to import the captivate interactions via SCORM and we have a paid subscription to h5p so we're on the right track.  Thanks so much for your feedback!

[etheobal]

I think that Captivate is an amazing tool to bring lively gamification and simulations into the, in my opinion, a very minimalist page layout and html5 mark up language capabilities of canvas pages. I agree with Lisa. SCROM assignment built into LTI external tool helps you leverage Captivate functionality. 

[stale_heggset]

We use Captivate a lot at our school. Drag and drop and such work nicely. We upload the Captivate into the file area in Canvas and iframe the index file into a site. ( We do not use scorm). We recommend Chrome or Firefox. It has also worked fine on Ipad. (Captivate 17 or newer.)

Recently we discovered that a Canvas update (6th January) made the Captivate not working/showing on Safari on Ipad. We have addressed the issue to Canvas. It has to be a Canvas issue, as our Captivates are still working/showing fine on Ipad, when uploaded into an ekstern server/ftp and iframed into Canvas from "outside".

We hope they can figure it out soon.

[cmmay]

Hi,

How are you getting the file into an iframe? I'm trying to get my Captivate activity to play within a page rather than on a page by itself, but I'm getting a "Page not found" message. This is how I'm writing the code..

<p><iframe src="https://tstc.instructure.com/files/course%20files/OrgChartActivity/OrgChart_DragDrop/index.html" width="95%" height="auto"></iframe></p>

Thanks!

[stale_heggset]

Hi, Caryn!

We have startet (since January 2019) to upload all of our captivates to an external server (ftp-server). From that server we are embedding the URL (unik for every captivate) into Canvas using iframe. This is our iframe code:
<iframe align="bottom" src="https://xxx.yyy"width="800" height="600"></iframe>

We have stopped uploading captivates into Canvas file area and then iframe the index file, as we found out that it didn`t work on all devises. However they work just fine on laptops and computers (Firefox and Chrome). 

Good luck!

[GideonWilliams]

Appreciate it may be of little help but I used H5P for all my drag and drop tasks. Can also embed in pages. H5P is free or a small amount to pay for institution integrating (and file sharing) within Canvas

[stale_heggset]

I could be helpful! Could you/someone please try an application (Captivate) done this way on Safari on Ipad? If this works I would be happy. 🙂 

[GideonWilliams]

We use laptops Im afraid - no ipads.

[stale_heggset]

OK, but thanks! No problems at laptops on our hand, only on IPAD. 😞