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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By : Damien Bruyndonckx
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Enterprise LMS with Adobe Captivate Prime

By: Damien Bruyndonckx

Overview of this book

Adobe Captivate Prime is an enterprise learning management system (LMS) that enables organizations to deliver, manage, and track engaging learning experiences for employees, partners, and customers. This book will help you unlock the full potential of this platform to deliver world-class learning experiences. Complete with walkthroughs, examples, and strategies to fully understand Captivate Prime, this book will set you on the path to becoming an administrator, author, or teacher and see you experiment with Captivate Prime from different perspectives. You'll gain an in-depth understanding of how the features relate to one another and to your business. After setting up the platform, you'll learn how to push learning content online and arrange it to build an online course that provides a blended learning experience. You'll be able to deploy your content to different devices and explore Captivate Prime's features for monitoring your students' progress on a daily basis. Finally, you'll see how to organize and maintain your course catalog and take the learner experience to the next level. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to implement your organization’s training strategy and provide engaging learning experiences while building meaningful reports to monitor their effectiveness.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Publishing Learning Content
6
Section 2: Managing and Tracking Students' Learning
13
Section 3: Enhancing the Learner Experience
17
Section 4: Administering the Platform

Configuring Login Methods

One thing you may have noticed when creating users in the previous sections is that Captivate Prime does not ask for the user's password upon creation. This is because Captivate Prime does not have any authentication mechanism of its own (except for authenticating external users).

When an internal user tries to log in to Captivate Prime, the system relies on an external authentication mechanism to authenticate that user. By default, the authentication mechanism that's used by Prime's Internal Users is the Adobe ID.

Relying on an external authentication service to authenticate users has several advantages:

  • As an organization, you can use the same external authentication service to grant a user access to an unlimited number of applications. This technique is called SSO. The idea is to authenticate once against a central authentication service, which, in turn, gives the user access to all the services for which he/she is authorized...