Question on Merging Filmstrips from Several Captivate 2019 Files

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April 20, 2021
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I have inherited Captivate courses that have several modules per course in separate Captivate (.cptx) files. I would like to copy all of the filmstrips into one course to publish to 1 SCORM object without sacrificing the design and programming from each slide on the timeline. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance,

Andrew

Branching

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RodWard

Community Expert

Another consideration before you start should be that if you merge all contents into a single CPTX file and publish as a single SCO SCORM then you can only have a single quiz result at the end when you deliver this course from your LMS. You lose the ability to get separate scores for each module in the course. A SCO only has one result. If you need more granular reporting, keep the modules as separate CPTX files and use the MultiSCORM Packager to bundle them. Make sure your LMS can handle multi-SCORMs first though.

andrew_gAuthor

Participating Frequently

Rod, you make a good point. Also, we are moving away from Pathlore, which does allow multi-SCO objects to make up an individual course, to CornerStone, which I believe does not. That is the perdicament we are in right now.

RodWard

Community Expert

You mentioned earlier that the previous version of the course was divided into several different modules that were loaded into the LMS separately. The main reason for doing things that way is to get the more granular reporting I mentioned.

Before you go to all the trouble of restructuring the course, at least check with Cornerstone about whether or not it supports multi-SCORM courses. You may be surprised. Cornerstone is one of the bigger LMSs around, used by many thousands of large companies. The current version may have multi-SCORM capability.

Here's the HELP file section:

https://help.csod.com/help/csod_0/Content/Content/Course_Publisher/Create_New_Publication.htm?Highlight=multi%20scorm

You also mention that you had problems with the Multi-SCORM Packager not allowing you to "move from file to file". If you are referring to not allowing you to link directly from one module to the next, this is because the SCORM standard forbids a SCO from directly calling another SCO. All SCO's need to be launched by the LMS.

Lilybiri

Legend

All depends on the discipline and the good practice of the orignal developer.

To combine them in one file (with copy/paste using the filmstrip) without issues, it is required that:

All courses use the same Preferences
All courses have the same size in pixels
Most important for the design: they all use the same Theme and do not have overridden Object Styles.

You still will have to do some editing, especially if you want to use a main menu slide, branching etc...

Did you not think about using the SCORM packager? In that case you do not need to fulfull the requirements I mentioned but it will less look like 'one course'.

andrew_gAuthor

Participating Frequently

We did look to the SCORM Packager, but ran into issues moving from file to file. Also, some of these courses are a several years old and have published Flash elements. We were hoping that combining the SCOs and publishing them to HTML5 would make them anew.

Lilybiri

Legend

I must have misunderstood, but combining the files will not take out old SWF elements at all. That needs other approaches and workflows.

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