Converting from Captivate to SL

Nov 20, 2012

Hi,

I just wanted to share with you something - during the past few days I've been converting a course we have in Captivate into SL. The reason for the conversion was our mobile audience.

Initially I tried to use CP 6 with the HTML5 ability, but it didn't prove to be a good solution. I have to say that I was reluctant at first, because I'd worked a lot with CP and loved it. BUT after working for the past few months with SL and after the current conversion I've converted as well (-:

The ease of creating quizzes is amazing and when I compare the time I invested and the bugs/issues I had with CP, I'm so happy we've made the decision to choose SL.

To complete this positive picture all I need now is some best practices/additional capabilities to use on Smartphones, and we're good (-:

Have a nice day,

Shanee

4 Replies

Christine Hendrickson
Staff

over 11 years ago11/20/12 at 10:00 am (UTC)

Hi Shanee,

Thank you for the feedback! We're always happy to hear about our customers' positive experiences. I'm glad you've made the decision to move to Storyline - we have a wonderful community that's always ready to share brilliant ideas and help out.

Storyline content may work on some Android devices. However, Articulate does not officially support Android devices or browsers. Click here to review the system requirements for authoring and viewing Storyline content.

If you'd like to see official support for a particular mobile device, we welcome your feature requests.

Here's some additional information:

Our newest product, Articulate Storyline, allows you to publish content to Flash, HTML5, and the Articulate Mobile Player app for iPad. To learn more about Storyline, click here:

http://www.articulate.com/products/storyline-overview.php

To learn more about publishing Storyline content for HTML5 and the iPad app, click here:

http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/products/publishing-a-project-for-ipad-or-html5.aspx

The next version of the Articulate Studio products will also publish to HTML5 and run on iOS devices. Although we can't confirm the release date of future products and upgrades, you can stay informed by subscribing to the Articulate Word of Mouth Blog here:

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Efrat Maor

over 11 years ago01/06/13 at 2:12 am (UTC)

Dear,

Do you mean you re-creted them in SL, or did you convert and existing file in CP to SL?

After hearing your previous take of SL, I was reluctant to use it :-P

(We just ordered 2 licenses).

Shanee Kraus
Author

over 11 years ago01/07/13 at 6:37 am (UTC)

Hi Efrat!

Great to see you here (-

As you know in the beginning I wasn't a big fan of SL (I think I was too much at ease in my PPT comfort zone), but after a few days of using it for creating new modules, I learned how good it is for creating a variety of different content types (mobile content, demonstration movies etc.).

As for the conversion - I re created the pages from scratch. As far as I know there's no way to import CP to SL.

The good thing about it as I've already mentioned that it was so quick and hassle-free. As you know in the past I really enjoyed working with CP, but now I wouldn't get near it because SL provides me all the functions I need in a much easier way.

So a good call to buy SL - tell me if you need some pointers.

BTW - are you going mobile or even considering it?

Take care,

Shanee