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August 15, 2016
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Landing page for different language options in LMS

  • August 15, 2016
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I need to create a landing page with different language options for the same course that can be loaded as one single LMS-ready package.

My solution had been to create the same course in each of the languages, export them as .exe and then create an outstanding Captivate file with links to each of the languages as "open file/URL", but I have been experiencing errors in trying to do this.

I saw one person propose writing an HTML index page linking to each. I like the idea of this, but I do not know how this would work in an LMS.

Another idea would be to create a single Captivate project as outlined here: Multiple Language Options in a Single Course with Adobe Captivate 5.5 « Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog -- But for the inability to localize the playbar/TOC within each language, I am avoiding it.

What are my options here?

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Correct answer TLCMediaDesign

Thanks... I'm going to run some tests on a modified html launch page in the LMS I have access to. This seems the most straightforward to me, although I agree. Not knowing exactly which LMS my client is using and not being able to test within their LMS makes me worried to try this option.

I'm going to hold off on your suggestion for building a branch-aware cptx that incorporates the other languages as "chapters" that get ignored once a branch/language is chosen.

I'm going to wait for Lilybiri​'s suggestions on what settings might work for "open new project" triggers using a cptx-based "menu." I think this could work if I get the settings right. Although I'd be curious to know why she thinks linking as captivate program is better than the .exe export, which could really reduce the size


The simplest way of doing this is to create a master project folder and publish all of your specific language projects to SCORM in specific folders, do not publish to zip.

You create a non-SCORM project or html page that has the links to the specific language folders. You could call this menu.html.

Now you need some SCORM files.

You need an imsmanifest.xml to create the LMS link to your menu.html and a metadata.xml with the course title and description.

We actually already have file structures with the manifest and associated SCORM files already set up to do this.

The manifest looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no" ?>

<manifest identifier= "SYS197-MANIFEST" version= "1.0"

  xmlns= "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2"

  xmlns:adlcp= "http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_rootv1p2"

  xmlns:xsi= "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"

  xsi:schemaLocation= "http://www.imsproject.org/xsd/imscp_rootv1p1p2 imscp_rootv1p1p2.xsd

                      http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsmd_rootv1p2p1 imsmd_rootv1p2p1.xsd

                      http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_rootv1p2 adlcp_rootv1p2.xsd" >

  <metadata>

    <schema>ADL SCORM</schema>

    <schemaversion>1.2</schemaversion>

    <adlcp:location>metadata.xml</adlcp:location>

  </metadata>

  <organizations default="TOC1">

    <organization identifier="TOC1">

      <title>ENTER YOUR COURSE TITLE HERE</title>

      <item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">

      <title>ENTER THE LESSON TITLE HERE</title>

      </item>

</organization>

  </organizations>

  <resources>

    <resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="menu.html">

      <file href="menu.html" />

      <dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />

    </resource>

  </resources>

</manifest>

You can contact us if you need help putting this together.

3 replies

TLCMediaDesign
Inspiring
August 17, 2016

Maybe you could explain to them that now they will have one massive project to download instead of one small one.

Known Participant
August 17, 2016

No, they want it as one package so that they can publish to an LMS or an executable CD from one source. I get why they want it, I just am not looking forward to it

Lilybiri
Legend
August 17, 2016

You can create custom score slides and use a conditional action to jump to

the correct language. That is what I did in my blog post about Branch Aware

quiz.

Paul Wilson CTDP
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 16, 2016

When you live in a bilingual country as both Lilybiri and I do you will face this problem at some point.  A company that I do work for ultimately decided to let the LMS take care of this issue. They have published two versions of the course. French Canadian users will search for one title in the catalogue while English Canadians will search for the other. Completion of either course contributes to the same competency in the LMS. Sometimes the easiest solution is the best way to go.

Paul Wilson, CTDP
RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 16, 2016

Those of you interested in this issue might find this recent post from SCORM experts at Rustici interesting:

SCORM - Equivalencies… Language or Otherwise » SCORM -

They've added a new feature to their software that could be useful if you are willing to run with it.

Lilybiri
Legend
August 16, 2016

Of course a lot depends also on the functionality of the LMS. I would create a master Captvate file that acts as a menu, which links to published CPTX-projects, but not EXE. You can use either SWF or HTML output. Maybe it could be possible to program the LMS so that the subfiles (in the different languages) are not visible immediately, but the correct file gets visible when the user has made its choice.

Known Participant
August 16, 2016

This most closely matches what the client has requested of me, citing another firm that had done something similar for them in a previous round.

Can you help me understand what the settings of the triggers will yield the best results, though?

The client said that the one delivered before allowed the user to open the course in multiple languages at once, thereby opening a lot of incomplete test results for a single user. Is there a setting (or combination of settings) that will allow a user to choose a single language and then prevent them from choosing another once the first has been chosen?

RodWard
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 16, 2016

If you build all the different language versions into the same CPTX file then you would need to use Branch Aware so that only the quiz questions the learner actually visited (i.e. the ones in their language) were calculated in the final quiz results.

However,  there are likely to be several issues no matter which way you attack this problem.  Ideally the LMS should be selecting the language course versions for the users.  But as the article from SCORM Cloud mentions, most LMSs are not able to do this.