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Janet Weldon
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July 14, 2016
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A simple guide to launching courses from a main course

  • July 14, 2016
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Hi there

I have read lots of posts about Multiple SCO, Aggregator packaging and linking HTML files but confess I am not following them.

Is it possible to have a main course with buttons that will allow a user to launch another course, take a test and then close everything and get their score recorded?

I have a main course that has 14 buttons on it, each with a different language i.e French, German, Spanish etc.

All users will open the main course, but then from this slide choose which language they want to take the course in.  I'd then like my LMS to launch the relevant course, allow the user to take the assessment and then record the score for reporting.

I gather from the other posts that using open another project won't work, and have been trying to use the open file or URL without success.  Do I still need to publish the main course and the other courses as zip files, do they all get published into one file and then zipped up again or something else.

I am publishing using SCORM 1.2 in HTML not SWF, does that make a difference?

Sorry to sound so dense, it seems on the surface such a simple thing to do but is obviously not the case!

Many, many thanks for any help you can give me.  Oh, I am using Captivate 8.

Yours gratefully

J

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    Erik Lord
    Erik Lord
    Inspiring
    July 14, 2016

    Essentially, no, it's not likely possible to do what you want when an LMS is involved.

    You would have to publish as SCORM 2004.

    Your LMS would have to support the SCORM 2004 'sequencing' function.

    You would have to setup your multi-scorm package with a proper sequencing manifest.

    Take a look at the second page of this PDF for an idea on the complexity of sequencing:

    http://scorm.com/wp-content/assets/scorm_ref_poster/RusticiSCORMPoster.pdf

    Better approach:

    Setup the various language-specific lessons as separate courses in your LMS.

    Rework your 'pass/complete' expectations so completing one allows full course completion.

    Or better yet, allow users to enroll only in courses that match their preferred language.

    Or have the LMS, if it supports such, automatically enroll users in the proper course based on their LMS language preference.

    Alternatively, find a Javascript programming who can edit the JS functions for the various modules to redirect various SCORM calls/posts to a different, custom location for tracking the results.

    Ultimately the issues is - per SCORM - the LMS can only launch and 'talk to' one file at a time. So once you launch your main menu, launching another CP lesson breaks that communication. It may work - you may get that second lesson to launch...but since the CP main menu piece launched it, the LMS has no idea it exists and can't gather the quiz results.

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