Monitor, measure, and analyze engagement with learning content
Course Companion for Adobe® Captivate® 5.5 is designed to address the need of educators and learning service providers to ascertain whether or not the learning content is well accepted by the respective community. It provides deep insight into the responses to learning content and helps you understand user behavior while they take courses.
This technology enables analysis of user behavior and engagement in a scientific manner through an array of rich reports. Without any coding, content developers and authors can view these reports in a web-based dashboard. Reports allow for easy interpretation with various pivotal parameters for analysis. Sample reports are available online, just log in using your Adobe ID credentials.
Authors can also view and share intuitive interactive dashboards that depict the most pertinent student interactions including correct answers, time on task, and progress through content. This helps in optimizing training and instructional design strategies based on measurable, actionable user engagement and success/failure rates.
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Follow these steps to get started with Course Companion for Adobe Captivate:
- If you do not have Adobe Captivate 5.5, download the free trial
- Download Course Companion for Adobe Captivate
- View sample reports with your Adobe ID login
- Review the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate documentation
- Open your Adobe Captivate course, and insert the widget that you downloaded.
- Share your feedback in the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate forum
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Adobe.com Terms of Use.
Community
Below you'll find references and links to help you participate in the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate community.
Online Forum
Ask questions and discuss ideas with other users in the discussion forums. Your participation and feedback are tremendously important to us. We would like to find out what you think of the product, what you think of the output, if additional features are required, if you find any bugs, and any other feedback you'd like to provide.
Visit the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate forum
Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Adobe.com Terms of Use.
Resources
If you want to learn more about releases on Labs as well as other Adobe technologies, visiting a user group or connecting with an Adobe Community Professional is a great place to start.
Product Details
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is Course Companion for Adobe Captivate?
- Course Companion for Adobe Captivate is basically a widget that you can insert in your Adobe Captivate projects to track, monitor, and analyze how learners engage with your learning content.
- What does it do?
- Course Companion for Adobe Captivate is invisible to learners. It transparently collects data on the usage patterns of the course by users and reports them to a central server. The data is then collated into reports and displayed on the web-based dashboard.
- Who should use Course Companion for Adobe Captivate?
- Educators (content developers/authors) and learning service providers who want to ascertain whether or not the learning content is well accepted by the learners.
- Is it a free download?
- Yes, it is available as a free download on Adobe Labs.
- With which version of Adobe Captivate can I use this widget?
- You can insert the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate widget in Adobe Captivate 5.5 projects. These projects must be published as SWF files in order to track them through the Dashboard. If you do not have Adobe Captivate 5.5 installed, you can download the trial version from here.
- How do I use Course Companion for Adobe Captivate?
- Review the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate documentation for instructions on using this technology.
- How do I access the dashboard?
- Login at http://als.adobe.com with your Adobe ID credentials. Ensure that these credentials are the ones that you used to register the course while inserting the widget.
System Requirements
Course Companion for Adobe Captivate would install on the machine where Captivate is installed.
See the Adobe Captivate 5.5 system requirements
Release Notes
Course Companion for Adobe Captivate is not a final release and is still in the testing and validation phase. We are not yet able to commit to a roadmap for this experimental technology. As this is only a technology preview, we expect the specifications and code to evolve over time.
