How to Access Engage 1. By Launching Engage Directly o You can open Engage directly from the desktop by clicking on the green Engage Icon, which is shown in the top right corner of this manual. 2. By Launching Engage from the ulate Ribbon o You can access Engage once you are already in PowerPoint by clicking on the ulate tab. Once there, you will see a menu bar with the green Engage Icon shown. Create a New Interaction with Engage 1. First, do any of the following: o On the Engage launch screen, click New interaction. 2. Click the round ulate button in the upper left corner, and choose New 3. Press Ctrl+N on your keyboard. o Then choose the type of interaction you want to create and click OK.
Engage Interaction Types Accordion Bulletin Board Checklist Circle Diagram Conversation FAQ Folders Glossary Guided Image Image Zoom Labeled Graphic Labeled Panel Media Panel Media Tour Process Pyramid Quick Choice Tabbed Image Tabs Timeline
Adding an Introduction, Content or Summary 1. To add an introduction or summary to your interaction, mark the check box for either item in the Steps panel on the left side of the screen. 2. To add content to an introduction or summary, use the text, audio, and media panels on the right side of the screen. Renaming an Introduction or Summary To change the default title for an introduction or summary, do either of the following: 1. Double-click the item in the Steps panel to open it for editing. Type a new name, and press the Enter key.
Renaming an Introduction or Summary Continued 2. Select the item in the Steps panel, and type a new name in the title field at the top of the text panel. Removing an Introduction or Summary 1. To remove an introduction or summary, uncheck the box for either item in the Steps panel on the left side of the screen. 2. Removing an introduction or summary doesn't delete any content you may have previously added. It just hides the content, so you won't see it when you preview or publish. If you change your mind about hiding an introduction or summary, just mark the box again, and your content will reappear
Adding Text 1. Select an item in the Steps panel on the left side of the screen 2. Then use the center panel to enter text for it. 3. Type your text, or copy and paste it from another source. It couldn't be easier.
Formatting Text The first tab on the Engage ribbon (which corresponds to the type of interaction you're building) includes the most common text formatting features, such as: Font Text size Text attributes (bold, italics, and underline) Text color Alignment Bullets and numbered lists Hyperlinks An expanded set of text formatting options is located on the Format Text tab. In addition to the formatting features above, you'll also find the following: Clipboard options Text attributes (strikethrough, subscript, superscript, and case) Text highlight color Symbols Line spacing
Formatting Text Continued Here are some tips for working with Engage's font tools: Hover over any button in the ribbon to see its function. You can apply formatting to a word, phrase, paragraph, or an entire step. To quickly select a word, just double-click it. To quickly select a paragraph, tripleclick any word in the paragraph. Click the Clear Formatting button to return the selected text to its default attributes. Keyboard Shortcuts To make formatting quicker, use the following shortcuts for common text-editing tasks: Key(s) F7 Ctrl + B Ctrl + I Ctrl + U Ctrl + = Ctrl + Shift + = Ctrl + Shift + > Ctrl + Shift + < Function Spell Check Bold Italicize Underline Subscript Superscript Increase Font Size Decrease Font Size
Changing Fonts for an Entire Interaction To change the font for an entire interaction all at once, do the following: 1. Go to the first tab on the ribbon, and click Interaction Properties. 2. Select the Colors and Effects tab on the left edge of the window. 3. Use the Title font and Content font drop-downs to choose your fonts. o The title font is used for the title of your interaction and the title of each individual step. o The content font is used for the details of each step in your interaction.
Changing Text Colors for an Entire Interaction To change the text color used throughout an entire interaction all at once, select a different color scheme, edit an existing color scheme, or create a new one. Go to the first tab on the ribbon, and click Colors. Then do any of the following: Left-click any color scheme to apply it to your interaction. Right-click any custom color scheme to Edit it. Choose Create New Theme Colors at the bottom of the list to create a new scheme.
Importing Audio Files Select the step where you want to import audio, and then do the following: 1. Click the Import audio file button (looks like a speaker icon) in the Audio panel on the right side of the screen. 2. Browse to the audio file you want to use, and click the Open button. The following file formats are supported in Engage: o AAC o AIF o AIFF o M4A o MP3 o OGG o WAV o WMA When a step has audio, you'll see the word Ready in the Audio panel along with the number of seconds of audio.
Recording Narration Select the step where you want to record narration, and then do the following: 1. If you'd like to use a script to help you record, click the Narration script button in the Audio panel on the right side of the screen. Enter the text for your script in the window that opens. Your script will be saved, so you can revisit it later. 2. When you're ready to record, click the red Record button in the Audio panel. 3. When you've finished recording, click the blue Stop recording button. 4. You can preview your recording, using the Play/Pause and Rewind buttons.
5. If you need to record your narration again, just click the Record button to start over. If you want to delete your narration altogether, click the Delete button. 6. If you change your mind about recording narration and would prefer to import audio instead, click the Import audio file button. Browse to the audio file you want to use, and click Open. 7. If you want to edit the audio you just recorded, click the Edit audio button to launch the built-in Audio Editor. For information on using the Audio Editor, 8. In ulate Engage, you can add one image, character, video, or Flash file to each step in your interaction. Just click one of the icons in the Media panel on the right side of the screen.
Interaction Properties Most ulate Engage interactions have one or more properties that are specific to that type of interaction. Here's how to customize them: 1. Go to the first tab on the ribbon (its name corresponds to the type of interaction you're building), and click Interaction Properties. 2. Select the second tab on the left edge of the window. Its name will correspond to the type of interaction you're building. Make your selections depending on the type of interaction you're working with: Accordion: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. Bulletin Board: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. Checklist: Choose where you want the clipboard to display and whether or not it should have a page curl effect. Circle Diagram: Choose where you want the circle to display. Conversation: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. FAQ: This interaction includes an optional search feature.
Folders: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. Glossary: Choose how wide the list of terms should be as little as 20% of the interaction's width and as much as 60%. Glossary interactions also have an optional filter. When it's enabled, a clickable alphabet will appear across the top of your published interaction. Guided Image: Choose how much screen area the image should occupy as little as 30% and as much as 75% and where you want it to display. Image Zoom: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. Labeled Graphic: Choose an animation style for your markers, and, if you'd like, add transparency to them. Labeled Panel: Choose how much screen area the image should occupy as little as 30% and as much as 75% and where you want it to display. Also, select a marker animation style. Media Panel: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. Media Tour: Specify how tall the caption area should be between 60 and 100 pixels high. Process: Choose a numbering style for steps. Pyramid: Choose where you want the pyramid to display. Quick Choice: Choose a numbering style for choices. Tabbed Image: Choose how much screen area the image should occupy as little as 30% and as much as 75% and where you want it to display. Also, select a numbering style for tabs. Tabs: Choose how wide the list of tabs should be as little as 10% of the interaction's width and as much as 70% and which side you want them to display on. Also, decide whether you want the height of each tab to be determined dynamically or statically. If you choose Dynamically, each tab will be as tall as possible, so that the list of tabs fills the entire height of your interaction. If you choose Statically, the height of each tab will be fixed at 1/8th of the overall height of your interaction. Timeline: This interaction doesn't have any specific properties. 3. Click OK to save your changes.
Preview Interaction Previewing is a great way to see the changes you've made to your ulate Engage interaction without publishing it. To preview your interaction from the beginning, do any of the following: Press F12 on your keyboard. Click the Preview button on the Engage ribbon. Click the drop-down arrow below the Preview button, and choose From beginning. To preview from the current step, do either of the following: Press Ctrl+F12 on your keyboard. Click the drop-down arrow below the Preview button, and choose From this step.
Regarding Interaction Size and Player Colors The dimensions for Engage interactions are fixed at 720 pixels wide by 540 pixels high. If your PowerPoint dimensions are anything other than 10 inches wide by 7.5 inches high, embedded interactions will be centered on the slide and, if necessary, scaled down to fit within the slide. If PowerPoint is using a different size, the slide background color from the Presenter player will show around the interaction. To change this color, do the following: 1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint. 2. Go to the ulate tab on the ribbon, and click Player. 3. Click Colors & Effects on the ribbon. 4. Click Show advanced color editing.
5. From the Edit item drop-down, choose Base >> Slide Background. 6. Use Top color, Bottom color, and Transparency to set your color options. 7. Click OK. Also, when embedding an interaction in Presenter, the player colors in Presenter take precedence over the player colors in Engage. Be sure to set your player colors in Presenter.
Publishing Here's how to publish an interaction from Engage to Presenter: 1. First, do any of the following to launch the publishing wizard: o Press F10. o Go to the Home tab, and click Publish. o From any tab, click the Preview drop-down, and choose Publish. o Click the round ulate button in the upper left corner, and choose Publish. 2. When the Publish window appears, click the ulate Presenter tab on the left edge.
3. Select the PowerPoint presentation into which you want to publish. Only presentations that are currently open will display in the list. If the presentation you want isn't listed, click the ellipsis (...) button to browse for it. 4. Next, decide how you want your interaction to appear in the course. Select either of the following: o Insert as a slide in the presentation: This option creates a placeholder slide in your presentation. When you publish your presentation, the interaction will display where indicated by the placeholder slide. 1. Tip: You can move the placeholder slide anywhere within your o presentation just as any other slide. Insert as a tab in the player: This option adds a clickable tab to the top bar of your course player. Learners can click it at any time to view your interaction. 1. Tip: You can change the location and order of tabs on the top bar of your course player. 5. 6. If you want to change your Theme Colors, click the blue text to open the Interaction Properties window where you can select a different theme. Click OK to return to the Publish dialog. 7. If you want to change the Playback Mode, click the blue text to open the Interaction Properties window. Select a different mode, and click OK to return the Publish dialog. 8. Click the Publish button in the lower right corner to complete the process. 9. When the Publish Successful dialog appears, click Close. Setting Interaction Properties in the Presenter Course After publishing an interaction to Presenter, switch over to PowerPoint. The Quizzes and Interactions window will be displayed, waiting for you to customize the properties for your newly published interaction. If you chose to insert your interaction as a slide, it'll open to the Engage interactions tab. If you chose to insert it as a tab on your course player, it'll open to the Player Tabs tab. Use the following options to customize the properties for your interaction, depending on how you chose to insert it. Slide in the presentation: Remove: Click this button if you decide to remove the interaction from your presentation. (If you've inserted more than one interaction, make sure you've selected the right one in the list before you remove it.) Edit interaction in ulate Engage: Click this button if you need to make changes to the interaction itself. It'll open in Engage. When you finish editing the interaction, click the Save and Return to Presenter button on the Engage ribbon. Show in menu as: Choose whether your interaction will display as a Single item in the player menu or as Multiple items (one for each step in your interaction).
Allow user to leave interaction: Choose whether learners will be able to jump to another slide in your course At any time or only After viewing all the steps in the interaction. Tab on the course player: Remove: Click this button if you decide to remove the interaction from your presentation. Edit Label: Click this button if you want to change the text that's used for the tab that appears on the top bar of your course player. Type the new name, and click OK. Edit interaction in ulate Engage: Click this button if you need to make changes to the interaction itself. It'll open in Engage. When you finish editing the interaction, click the Save and Return to Presenter button on the Engage ribbon. Allow user to leave interaction: Choose whether learners will be able to close the player tab and return to your course At any time or only After viewing all the steps in the interaction.
1. Open your presentation in PowerPoint. 2. Go to the ulate tab on the ribbon, and click Player. 3. Click Colors & Effects on the ribbon.
4. Click Show advanced color editing. 5. From the Edit item drop-down, choose Base >> Slide Background. 6. Use Top color, Bottom color, and Transparency to set your color options.
7. Click OK. Also, when embedding an interaction in Presenter, the player colors in Presenter take precedence over the player colors in Engage. Be sure to set your player colors in Presenter. Publishing Here's how to publish an interaction from Engage to Presenter: 1. First, do any of the following to launch the publishing wizard: o Press F10. o Go to the Home tab, and click Publish. o From any tab, click the Preview drop-down, and choose Publish. o Click the round ulate button in the upper left corner, and choose Publish. 2. When the Publish window appears, click the ulate Presenter tab on the left edge.
3. Select the PowerPoint presentation into which you want to publish. Only presentations that are currently open will display in the list. If the presentation you want isn't listed, click the ellipsis (...) button to browse for it. 4. Next, decide how you want your interaction to appear in the course. Select either of the following: o Insert as a slide in the presentation: This option creates a placeholder slide in your presentation. When you publish your presentation, the interaction will display where indicated by the placeholder slide. 1. Tip: You can move the placeholder slide anywhere within your o presentation just as any other slide. Insert as a tab in the player: This option adds a clickable tab to the top bar of your course player. Learners can click it at any time to view your interaction. 1. Tip: You can change the location and order of tabs on the top bar of your course player. 5. If you want to change your Theme Colors, click the blue text to open the Interaction Properties window where you can select a different theme. Click OK to return to the Publish dialog. 6. To change the Playback Mode, click the blue text to open the Interaction Properties window. Select a different mode, and click OK to return the Publish dialog. 7. Click the Publish button in the lower right corner to complete the process. 8. When the Publish Successful dialog appears, click Close. Setting Interaction Properties in the Presenter Course After publishing an interaction to Presenter, switch over to PowerPoint. The Quizzes and Interactions window will be displayed, waiting for you to customize the properties for your newly published interaction. If you chose to insert your interaction as a slide, it'll open to the Engage interactions tab. If you chose to insert it as a tab on your course player, it'll open to the Player Tabs tab. Use the following options to customize the properties for your interaction, depending on how you chose to insert it. Slide in the presentation: Remove: Click this button if you decide to remove the interaction from your presentation. Edit interaction in ulate Engage: Click this button if you need to make changes to the interaction itself. It'll open in Engage. When you finish editing the interaction, click the Save and Return to Presenter button on the Engage ribbon. Show in menu as: Choose whether your interaction will display as a Single item in the player menu or as Multiple items (one for each step in your interaction).
Allow user to leave interaction: Choose whether learners will be able to jump to another slide in your course At any time or only After viewing all the steps in the interaction. Tab on the course player: Remove: Click this button if you decide to remove the interaction from your presentation. Edit Label: Click this button if you want to change the text that's used for the tab that appears on the top bar of your course player. Type the new name, and click OK. Edit interaction in ulate Engage: Click this button if you need to make changes to the interaction itself. It'll open in Engage. When you finish editing the interaction, click the Save and Return to Presenter button on the Engage ribbon. Allow user to leave interaction: Choose whether learners will be able to close the player tab and return to your course At any time or only After viewing all the steps in the interaction.
1. On the Engage ribbon, click the Publish button. Or, click the small triangle under the Preview button and select Publish. 2. When the Publish window appears, click the Web tab. 3. Check the text that appears in the Title field, and customize it if you'd like. This text defaults to the type of interaction you're building. If you change it, it'll change the title text that Engage uses in the following places (but it won't change your actual file name): o The folder that Engage creates to contain your published output. For example, if the Title field contains the words MSDS Interaction, Engage creates a new folder on your hard drive called MSDS Interaction - Engage output when you publish. o The browser title bar, when learners view your published interaction in a browser window. o The top bar of your interaction player, if you've opted to include the title o as one of the player features. If you publish your content for use with the ulate Mobile Player app for ipad, the interaction title is also used on the HTML launch page and the list of content names in the mobile player library. 4. In the Description field, you can enter text about your interaction. If learners view your interaction on an ipad with the ulate Mobile Player, your description text appears below the interaction thumbnail in the ulate Mobile Player library. 5. In the Folder field, indicate where on your computer you want Engage to create your published output. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a specific location. Engage will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to play your interaction. o Important: Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can create problems with your published
output. After you publish your interaction to a local folder, upload the output to a web server to test it. Step 2: Enter additional project info for the ulate Mobile Player (optional) If learners will view content on ipads with the ulate Mobile Player, you can add more information by clicking the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field on the Publish window. The following Project Info window appears: 1. The Title and Description are the same as what you entered on the Publish window; you can change the text here if you'd like. 2. When learners browse content in their ulate Mobile Player library, the thumbnail below the Title field will appear for this interaction. By default, Engage uses an image representing the type of interaction you built, but you can
choose a different image for the thumbnail. Simply click the blue text below the image. Then click Picture from File and choose an image. 3. Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, and Version appear on the content information cards in the ulate Mobile Player library. 4. Identifier applies only to content published for LMS. 5. Keywords aren't currently used. They'll be used in a future version of the ulate Mobile Player app. When you're finished customizing the fields on this window, click OK to return to the Publish window. Step 3: Choose HTML5 and/or mobile publishing (optional) If any of your learners will access content with an ipad or any other device that doesn't support Flash, you can use the following options to make your interaction viewable in HTML5, the ulate Mobile Player, or both. Include HTML5 output: This prepares your interaction so that it's viewable as HTML5 content if a learner doesn't have the Flash Player and they view your interaction in an HTML5-compatible browser. Use ulate Mobile Player on ipad: This prepares your interaction so that learners have the best possible viewing experience on an ipad. Users view the content through ulate's free mobile player app, which they'll be prompted to install when they launch the interaction if they don't already have it. Allow downloading for offline viewing: Mark this box to let learners download your interaction to their ulate Mobile Player library. Once learners download the interaction, they can view it at any time with or without Internet access, even if you remove the interaction from the web server where you've hosted it. Your interaction stays in the learner's ulate Mobile Player library until they remove it. Step 4: Check player properties and quality settings The Properties section of the Publish window allows you to make last-minute changes to your interaction player or the compression settings Engage uses when publishing.
1. The Player field shows the name of the player that Engage will use when you publish. (The player is the interface that users see when they view your interaction.) Click the player name if you'd like to make some final adjustments to your player or switch to a different player. 2. The Quality field lets you control the compression settings Engage uses for audio, video, and pictures you've added to your interaction. The settings here default to whatever you used the last time you published an Engage project. To change the quality settings, click the blue text and change any of the fields as noted below; then click OK. o Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings. If you mark this option, the values on the window revert back to their defaults (video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 48kbps, and image quality of 80%). o Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Then click and drag the slider on any of the three values to change the compression. Using higher values gives you higher-quality output but also larger file sizes (which means longer download times). Lower values give you smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower.
3. The Theme Colors field shows the colors you've applied to your interaction. Click the link if you want to switch to a different theme or make last-minute adjustments to the colors and effects used in your interaction. 4. The Playback Mode field lets you control how learners navigate through your published interaction. To change the playback mode, click the blue text and select any of the following options: o Choose Interactive if you want to give learners the freedom to view steps in any order. If you mark this option, you can also mark the box to Show preview/next buttons to provide navigation buttons in the lower right corner of the player. Unmark this box if you'd prefer not to include previous and next buttons. o Choose Linear if you want to make sure learners view all the steps in order. o Choose Presentation if you want the interaction to advance by itself. If you choose this option, learners won't be able to interact with your published output (i.e., they won't be able to jump to different steps in the interaction, rewind videos, or launch hyperlinks). When you choose presentation mode, you can also control the default duration for steps that don't contain any audio or video by typing the desired number of seconds into the field provided. o Some interaction types also include Segment Order options. Use these options to specify where the interaction should start and in which direction the segments should proceed. Step 5: Publish When you're finished making changes to the options on the Publish window, click the Publish button. Engage creates your published output in the location you specified. When publishing is complete, you'll see the following pop-up, and you can choose the option that works for you.
View Interaction: This launches your interaction in your web browser so you can take a look at your output. Important note about viewing your published content: Since your files have been prepared for deployment over the web, in some situations you might encounter unexpected behavior if you try to view the interaction from your local hard drive. After publishing for web, it's always best to upload your published output to its final destination and test it there. Email: This opens up a new email message with a zipped file of your published output attached. This might be helpful if you need to share your interaction with a subject matter expert (SME) or other reviewer, or if you need to send it to your web server administrator to be deployed. If your audience is larger than just a few people, it's usually better to move your files to a web server, and then send your audience the link to the interaction.html file (which is the file that launches your interaction). This way, you're less likely to burden your email system with attachments, your recipients won't need to fuss with saving and unzipping your file, and you won't have to resend revised files every time you update the interaction. FTP: This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer the output to your website. ZIP: This creates a zipped file of your output in the location you specified on the Publish window. Open Folder: This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Engage just created. There will be an interaction content folder, a meta.xml file containing project info, an interaction.swf file, and a file called interaction.html (which is the file that launches your interaction). If you've opted to include HTML5 output and/or make your interaction viewable in the ulate Mobile Player, there will also be some additional files to support these options. After you move your files to a web server, send learners a link to the interaction.html file so they can view your interaction. Depending on the device and browser learners use, they'll automatically get directed to the appropriate format. What do I do with my files once I've published? Now that you've published, it's time to move your web-ready interaction to your website or server, give it a test run, and then send learners a link to the interaction.html file so they can access your interaction. If you Published for HTML5 and/or the ulate Mobile Player When learners open the interaction via interaction.html, they'll automatically see the right type of content based on the device and browser they're using:
They'll see the Flash content if their browser supports it. If they're using an ipad and if you chose the ulate Mobile Player option when you published, they'll see a launch page that allows them to view the interaction in the ulate Mobile Player. (And if they don't have the player installed on their ipad, they'll be prompted to install it.) If they're using an ipad and you didn't choose the ulate Mobile Player option when you published, but you did choose HTML5, they'll see the HTML5 output in mobile Safari. If they're using some other non-flash compatible browser and you chose to include HTML5 output, they'll see the HTML5 content. Step 1: Enter Title, Description, and Folder Location 1. On the Engage ribbon, click the Publish button. (Or, click the small triangle under the Preview button and select Publish.) 2. When the Publish window appears, click the LMS tab.
3. Check the text that appears in the Title field, and customize it if you'd like. This text defaults to the type of interaction you're building. If you change it, it'll change the title text that Engage uses in the following places (but it won't change your actual file name): o The folder that Engage creates to contain your published output. For example, if the Title field contains the words MSDS Interaction, Engage creates a new folder on your hard drive called MSDS Interaction Engage output when you publish. o The browser title bar, when learners view your published interaction in a browser window. o The top bar of your interaction player, if you've opted to include the title as one of the player features. o o Any screen in your LMS interface that contains titles of content items. If you publish your content for use with the ulate Mobile Player app for ipad, the interaction title is also used on the HTML launch page and the list of content names in the mobile player library. 4. In the Description field, you can enter some descriptive text about your interaction if you'd like. Depending on your LMS, this descriptive text may appear along with the interaction name in certain screens within your LMS environment. 5. In the Folder field, indicate the place on your computer where you want Engage to create your published output. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a specific location. Engage will create a new folder in that spot with all the files needed to play your interaction. o Important! Always publish to your local hard drive. Publishing to a network drive or a USB drive can create problems with your published output. After you publish your interaction to a local folder, upload the output to your LMS to test it. Step 2: Enter additional project info for the ulate Mobile Player (optional) If learners will view content on ipads with the ulate Mobile Player, you can add more information by clicking the ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field on the Publish window. The following Project Info window appears. 1. The Title and Description are the same as what you entered on the Publish window; you can change the text here if you'd like.
2. The thumbnail below the Title field is what will appear for this interaction when learners browse content in their mobile player library. By default, Engage uses an image representing the type of interaction you built, but you can use a different image for the thumbnail. Simply click the blue text below the image. Then click Picture from File and choose an image. 3. Author, Email, Website, Duration, Date, and Version appear on the content information cards in the ulate Mobile Player library. 4. The Identifier field is a unique string of characters assigned by Engage. Your LMS uses it to identify your content. If you're republishing an interaction that's already in your LMS, don't change the value in this field. 5. Keywords aren't currently used. They'll be used in a future version of the ulate Mobile Player app. When you're finished customizing the fields on this window, click OK to return to the Publish window. Note these important facts about mobile output:
Tracking in the ulate Mobile Player is only supported in learning management systems that support the Tin Can API specification. If your LMS doesn't yet support the Tin Can API and you need to track and report on learners results, don't include the ulate Mobile Player option when publishing. Learners will need to view your interaction in a browser that supports Flash or HTML5, so that the interaction can communicate results to your LMS. If your LMS doesn t support the Tin Can API but you don t need tracking, you might still be able to deploy your Engage content via your LMS for viewing on the ulate Mobile Player. However, not all LMSs allow content to be viewed on a mobile app, so you ll need to test this with your own LMS to confirm. Step 3: Choose HTML5 and/or mobile publishing (optional) If any of your learners will access your content on an ipad or any other mobile device that doesn't support Flash, use the following options to make your interaction viewable in HTML5, the ulate Mobile Player, or both. Include HTML5 output: This prepares your interaction so that it's viewable as HTML5 content if a learner doesn't have the Flash Player and they view your interaction in an HTML5-compatible browser. Keep in mind that not all browsers handle HTML5 content equally. Use ulate Mobile Player on ipad: This prepares your interaction so that learners have the best possible viewing experience on an ipad. Allow downloading for offline viewing: This box allows you to give learners the option of downloading your interaction to their ulate Mobile Player so that they may view it offline later. However, currently the ulate Mobile Player only supports tracking while online, so learners who attempt to view an interaction while offline will be prompted to reconnect. Step 4: Check player properties and quality settings The Properties section of the Publish window allows you to make any last-minute changes to your interaction player or the compression settings Engage uses when publishing.
1. The Player field shows the name of the player that Engage will use when you publish. Click the player name if you'd like to make some final adjustments to your player or switch to a different player. 2. The Quality field allows you to control the compression settings Engage uses for audio, video, and pictures you've added to your interaction. The settings here default to whatever you used the last time you published an Engage project. To change the quality settings, click the blue text and change any of the fields as noted below, then click OK. o Choose Standard if you want to use the default settings. If you mark this option, the values on the window revert back to their defaults (video quality of 5, audio bitrate of 48kbps, and image quality of 80%). o Choose Custom if you want to define your own quality settings. Then click and drag the slider on any of the three values to change the compression. Using higher values means higher-quality output but also larger file sizes. Lower values mean smaller file sizes and faster download times, but the visual and audio quality will be lower. 3. The Theme Colors field indicates the colors you've applied to your interaction. Click the link if you want to switch to a different theme or make any other lastminute adjustments to the colors and effects in your interaction. 4. The Playback Mode field allows you to control how learners navigate through your published interaction. To change the playback mode, click the blue text and select any of the following options:
o o o o Choose Interactive if you want to give learners the freedom to view steps in any order. If you mark this option, you can also mark the box to Show preview/next buttons to provide navigation buttons in the lower right corner of the player. Unmark this box if you'd prefer not to include previous and next buttons. Choose Linear if you want to make sure learners view all the steps in order. Choose Presentation if you want the interaction to advance by itself. If you choose this option, learners won't be able to interact with your published output. When you choose presentation mode, you can also control the default duration for steps that don't contain any audio or video by typing the desired number of seconds into the field provided. Some interaction types also include Segment Order options. Use these options to specify where the interaction should start and in which direction the segments should proceed. Step 5: Choose your tracking and reporting preferences In the Properties section of the Publish window, click the Tracking field to open the following window, where you can choose options for the way your LMS tracks and reports learners' progress.
1. Use the LMS selector to choose the standard to which you'd like to publish. Engage supports Tin Can API, SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and AICC. 2. Complete the fields in the section called LMS Course Information and the section called LMS Lesson SCORM Information (only appears if you're publishing for SCORM). Ask your LMS administrator if you need help. Some important notes about the fields on this window: o If you've chosen Tin Can API as your reporting specification, you'll see a field called Launch URL. Use this to enter the full URL of the interaction.html file if you plan to host the content on a server that's o separate from your LMS. The Identifier field is a unique string of characters assigned by Engage, and your LMS uses it to identify your content. If you're republishing an interaction that's already in your LMS, be sure not to change the value in this field. 3. If the window includes a section called LMS Reporting, use the selector to choose the wording you'd like to use when expressing learners' status with regard to this interaction. 4. In the Tracking section at the bottom of the window, select the minimum number of steps learners must view in order to register course completion in your LMS. 5. Click OK when you're finished setting up your tracking and reporting preferences. Step 6: Publish When you're finished choosing your options on the Publish window, click the Publish button. Engage creates your published output in the location you specified. When publishing is complete, you'll see the following Publish Successful dialog.
View Interaction: This launches your interaction in your web browser so you can take a look at your output. Email: This opens up a new email message with a zipped file of your published output attached. FTP: This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer the published output to a website. ZIP: This creates a zipped file of the published output in the location you specified on the Publish window. Open Folder: This opens a file viewer where you can see the files Engage just created. There will be several folders and files which are needed to play your interaction. What do I do with my files once I've published? Now that you've published, it's time to upload your content to your LMS. The steps for this are slightly different for each LMS. Ask your LMS administrator if you need help with the specifics of uploading, launching, or tracking your interaction. If you chose to publish for HTML5 and/or the ulate Mobile Player When learners launch your interaction, they'll automatically see the right type of content based on the device and browser they're using. They'll see the Flash content if their browser supports it. If they're using an ipad and you chose the ulate Mobile Player option when you published, they'll see a launch page that allows them to view the interaction in the ulate Mobile Player. If they're using an ipad and you didn't choose the mobile player option when you published, but you did choose HTML5, they'll see the HTML5 output. If they're using some other non-flash compatible browser and you chose to publish for HTML5, they'll see the HTML5 output. Publish your ulate Engage interactions to Microsoft Word for others to review, translate, or print.
Step 1: Enter title, description, and folder location 1. On the Engage ribbon, click the Publish button. Or, click the small triangle under the Preview button and select Publish. 2. When the Publish window appears, click the Word tab. 3. Check the text that appears in the Title field, and customize it if you'd like. This text defaults to the type of interaction you're building. 4. The ellipsis button (...) next to the Title field lets you open an additional window where you can enter optional project information. Note that this information is only used if you later republish your interaction for the web and your learners view it on an ipad with the ulate Mobile Player app.
5. In the Description field, enter optional, descriptive text about your interaction. This text won't appear in your Word document, but it's used in your published output if you later republish for a different format. 6. In the Folder field, indicate the place on your computer where you want Engage to create your published output. Click the ellipsis button (...) to browse to a specific location. When you publish, Engage will create a new folder in that spot that'll contain your Word document. Step 2: Choose the color scheme In the Properties section of the Publish window, you can change the theme colors applied to your interaction. Click the link if you want to switch themes or make other last-minute adjustments to the colors and effects in your interaction. Step 3: Publish! When you're finished setting your options on the Publish window, click the Publish button. Engage creates your Word document in the folder you specified. You'll see the following Publish Successful dialog. View Document: This opens your Word document in Microsoft Word, so you can view and edit it as needed. Email: This opens up a new email message with a zipped copy of your Word document attached. This makes it easy to share your content with a subject matter expert, reviewer, or translator. FTP: This opens a window where you can enter your FTP credentials and transfer your output to your website. ZIP: This creates a zipped file of your output in the location you specified on the Publish window. Open Folder: This opens a file viewer where you can see the Word document that was just created. You can move, rename, or copy it.