Placing Engage into Lectora

I have used this method:

Publish the Engage file for Web. this will give you one swf, one html, and one folder in your published engage folder.

in Lectora, import the main swf file as an animation.

After publishing the course, your swf animation will be placed in the Images folder. Copy the engage_output folder into the images folder so it is in the same location and folder level as the swf file. That should allow it to run.

Works like a champ. Thanks!

Jack, Just one thing you should keep. engage.swf and engage_output folder are the default names that Engage gives to all published Engage interactions.  If you are placing more than one Engage interaction into Lectora you are going to have to give the swf files and their corresponding output folders unique names.

Here are the steps to use if you are planning to add more than one engage interaction to your Lectora title.

1. Create your Engage interaction.
2. Export your Engage interaction to web output.
3. In the folder where Engage exports your interaction, rename the “engage.swf” to .swf
4. Also rename the “engage_contents” folder to _contents (the same name  you chose for the .swf. We do the above two steps in order to differentiate between multiple Engage interactions that we include in our Lectora title. It would simplify things if Articulate named these other files uniquely (it always names them “engage.swf ” and”engage_content”) but that is a subject for our future product review.
5. On the Lectora page where the Engage Interaction will go, add an Animation to the page either by selecting the Animation icon at the top or by going to Add>Object>Animation.
6. Place the Engage Interaction .swf on the page.
7. When embedding a .swf file to a Lectora page,  put the following parameter in the flash animation properties: wmode=opaque. This ensures that any menu that you create on the page will appear on top of this flash movie (see earlier post on adding a slide-out menu to Lectora). This applies to engage movies, flash movies and any Camtasia or Captivate flash videos that are embedded directly on the page.
8. Important: Place the folder named _content in the /images folder so that you can preview the interaction while working in Lectora.
9. Important: After publishing the Lectora title, place the interaction folders also in html/images (or in scorm/html/images for SCORM titles.) for each Engage interaction.

Hi Nancy

I have just tried to load a .swf from in the exact way that you have described. When I import and choose the file it previews in the small window. When it is loaded it appears as just a white box and when I open preview mode I just get the revolving circle.

I am running a trial version of Lectora at the moment but would that really have an effect.

Looking for advice.

Thanks in advance.

Vincent

Hi Vincent, it won't work in the preview mode unless you place the files I mentioned in the images folder that the preview uses. If you publish the title and follow the instructions it should work.

I've been successful at embedding Engage and Quizmaker interactions into my Lectora courses. However, is there any idea why the "Finish" button on my embedded Quizmaker quizzes do nothing? I usually end up having to click the 'x' to close the quiz. In the Quizmaker properties, I have setup the Finish button to go to the next slide when clicked. I don't really need it so if there is a way for me to disable it, I will.

Thanks,

Sandi.

Hi Sandi and welcome to Heroes! If you wanted to remove the Finish button you could try the steps outlined here, though this is not something we support.

Help Anyone!

I thought I had this procees down but I don't. It's been a while sice I have used Lectora...

Now I seem to be having the same problem as Vincent.

I have went through all of the instructions given earlier and still just get a preloader page in both preview and published mode.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

I have not done this is ages either.  What version of Lectora are you using? It worked with and older versions but I have have not attempted this with more recent versions.

Look's like the 2008 version....

We did this using Version 9 so you are using an even earlier version. It should work for you. Without seeing your published files, it is hard to say what the issue is. I assume that the Engage interaction plays correctly when you play it outside of Lectora? All I can say is double check your published folder to make sure that you have placed the engage_content folder in the correct place, that if you changed the name of the engage.swf that your have renamed the content folder accordingly,  and that all of the files in the content folder have copied over correcly.

How does this process change with Lectora Publisher? When I try to add the file as an animation, it only searches for .GIF files. There is an option to add a flash file now and I try that and that adds the file, but uploading the *_content folder to the images file doesn't seem to work. I can't view it in Preview mode and when I publish it, I can't view it there either.