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ellenwill
ellenwill
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February 12, 2009
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LMS Query

  • February 12, 2009
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Hi,

In our current design we have buttons down the side of an e-leaning module that take you to separate topics/slides. My thoughts are that when we do get LMS system it will only be able to pick up or refer to the whole file and not to individual topics within the file as publishing one swf. I am therefore thinking i need to make a new design that publishes each topic as one swf file and then the LMS can be configured to bring together the relevant files into one e-learning modules. The topics can then be re-used in different modules as required. Was hoping someone could let me know if thinking along right tracks?

Thank you, Ellen
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Correct answer Newsgroup_User
Some LMS products support 'multiple-SCO packages' - so you can load
multiple SCOs into one .zip file, upload it, and the LMS will see that
one 'course' or 'lesson' contains different SCOs to navigate between and
score. These are often launched in a window frameset, one frame being
the list of SCOs (a menu) and the other showing the selected lesson).

Other LMS products do not support this and encourage uploading single
lesson SCOs and allowing the menuing/navigation to happen through the LMS.

The LMS I use (Inquisiq) is one of the latter. You upload each 'Lesson'
as an individual SCO which puts them in your lesson library.
Then you create a Course, at which point you select which Lessons you
want to include in that Course. This allows you to reuse Lessons across
however many Courses you'd like.

If you import a multiple-SCO package, Inquisiq will see them but will
load them all as individual lessons. It will not retain any sort of
linkage between them.
Erik

ellenwill wrote:

> I am therefore
> thinking i need to make a new design that publishes each topic as one swf file
> and then the LMS can be configured to bring together the relevant files into
> one e-learning modules. The topics can then be re-used in different modules as
> required.

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Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - eLearning
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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Newsgroup_UserCorrect answer
Inspiring
February 12, 2009
Some LMS products support 'multiple-SCO packages' - so you can load
multiple SCOs into one .zip file, upload it, and the LMS will see that
one 'course' or 'lesson' contains different SCOs to navigate between and
score. These are often launched in a window frameset, one frame being
the list of SCOs (a menu) and the other showing the selected lesson).

Other LMS products do not support this and encourage uploading single
lesson SCOs and allowing the menuing/navigation to happen through the LMS.

The LMS I use (Inquisiq) is one of the latter. You upload each 'Lesson'
as an individual SCO which puts them in your lesson library.
Then you create a Course, at which point you select which Lessons you
want to include in that Course. This allows you to reuse Lessons across
however many Courses you'd like.

If you import a multiple-SCO package, Inquisiq will see them but will
load them all as individual lessons. It will not retain any sort of
linkage between them.
Erik

ellenwill wrote:

> I am therefore
> thinking i need to make a new design that publishes each topic as one swf file
> and then the LMS can be configured to bring together the relevant files into
> one e-learning modules. The topics can then be re-used in different modules as
> required.

--
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - eLearning
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/
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ellenwill
ellenwillAuthor
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February 13, 2009
Thank you for your help :->
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