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Howdy folks! Hope all has been well since our last exciting installment in our ongoing Captivate entomology series.

Since my last post back in May, I’ve had the mixed experience of upgrading to the latest version of my *favorite* software package in the world. I would be ready to give our faithful readers a full run-down of the new features and enhancements in v.3, if it weren’t for the fact that I’ve been tied up troubleshooting what I considered to be a show-stopping issue with the new version: an apparent inability to capture full-motion recordings.

Don’t have much time to spend on this post today but I thought I would put something up regarding some Captivate bugs that I’ve experienced recently, and how I’ve worked either with them or around them:

Click boxes that can’t do simple math

Captivate click boxes give you the ability to specify an action to perform when a user clicks outside of the box a certain number of times. While building a quiz-type activity, I thought this would be a good way to invoke an error message whenever the student clicked on not-the-right-answer enough times (I set it to 2 times). The error message would then take the student back to the start of the activity to try again. Well, it worked, except that after getting a wrong answer on the first slide and cycling back through to the same slide, the click box reacted to clicking on not-the-right-answer a single time (instead of twice, like I specified in the click box’s properties). I haven’t figured out how to work around this – if you did, tell me about it in the comments!

My current Shoap Technical Services assignment requires me to work with Captivate extensively. We use the tool to create walk-throughs of new systems and software, as well as web-based training packages that students can study independently, and at their own pace.