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Creating one LMS Scorm package from multiple projects

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February 3, 2011
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Hello.

I have two captivate 5 projects that use the "Open another project" option lo link from one project to the other. Essentially, one large project has been broken into two projects that are maintained separately and loaded into the LMS as needed.

All assets for the two courses are in one folder and everything is published to one folder. I understand that placing all the assets in one folder and using the "Open another project" option creates relative links that should be able to be resolved in an LMS.

I have published them into zip file scorm packages and then used the scorm packager to create one scorm manifest for them. Unfortunately, when running in the LMS the "Open another project" link cannot find the other project. Running the two projects from the "htm" files locally has no issues; it has something to do with how I package them for the LMS.

Has anyone successfully created multiple project captivate 5 modules that link with each other successfully in an LMS?

If so, how did you create the scorm package for the LMS please?

Cheers.

Quizzing and LMS

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This post is old and hopefully the original question has been resolved, but it is so hard to find solutions to simple problems within Adobe forums and blogs that I thought I would post a potential reply to this anyway! Someone might find it.

I actually got my solution to this same question via the Adobe forums but I have searched again for where I originally found it - without success. It uses Reload which one contributor touched on. Anyway here is the external link. Hope it helps someone. . .

http://www.caddicks.com/blog/2012/02/17/how-to-publish-a-multi-file-captivate-project-as-a-single-scorm-course/

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sinu_roy

Participant

what worked for me...

link to open file or url

then in the path type: .\filename

(i.e. dot backlsash filename)

Next drag the files into the zipped scorm file

OR publish into a folder then add the files then zip back the CONTENTS of the folder not the actual folder itself

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JudyWiessner

Known Participant

We've tested this successfully, but it depends on the LMS being able to produce "deep links" that open the course in the LMS (if you're logged in) or the login page followed by the course when you log in. Most LMSs have the ability to do this.

We use a "master' Captivate project, and have the TOC slides launch the individual courses with deep links. We set the link to 'new page.'

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JudyWiessner

Known Participant

I'm dealing with similar issues.

I tried the Aggregator, but if it publishes them as a single SCO, it's not the answer for an LMS.

I have the Technical Writing Suite, plus Captivate 5, not the E-Learning Suite, so I don't believe I have the Multi-Sco package. Does anyone have any experience with Reload and Captivate (5)? Will it track the individual SCOs and present them in a TOC?

RodWard

Community Expert

Do you still have a license for Captivate 4? If so, the Multi-SCORM Packager came standard with that.

I have heard people say that they've been able to use RELOAD to create Multi-SCORM packages from several Captivate single-SCO SCORMs, though I've never needed to resort to it myself as I've always kept my license of Cp4 and still have the SCORM packager there.

A Multi-SCO SCORM doesn't have it's own TOC for all lessons inside the SCORM. The TOC in its case is created by the SCORM player in the LMS. Typically this amounts to only a series of hyperlinks that can be clicked to launch each module with tickboxes beside each to show which ones have been done or passed. I haven't seen any LMS with a player that has a TOC as nice as the one you get with an Aggregated project.

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JudyWiessner

Known Participant

Thanks, Rod. Yes, I still have it in the Technical Comm Suite. I'll check it out...

Edit: Hmmm...can't find it. Would it have been left out of the Suite, I wonder, even if it was standard with the stand-alone Captivate 4?

Edit again: I was able to run the Aggregator with Cp4, and it included a Multi-SCO option that picked up Zip files. It appeared to work fine, though I didn't score it in the LMS to make sure.

However, the Aggregator with CP5 doesn't have that option, and the one with CP4 doesn't seem to like files zipped with Captivate 5. Are there any other options here?

lovat

Known Participant

Have you thought about using the Aggregator?

Just curious.

RodWard

Community Expert

Don't use the Open Another Project option. Use Open URL or File instead.

Ensure that your links are relative links and not absolute links (starting with a drive letter). If you've used absolute links for the chaining, these won't be valid once the content is uploaded to your LMS server.

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Anonymous

I followed your advice and used the open file option. In Captivate this means clicking on the htm file that I want to link to. I clicked on the files in my published folder, and all files reside in that one folder. I created the scorm package for each project and then combined them with the packager. When loaded to the LMS the LMS is unable to find the linked to project.

I tried another option where I deleted the drive letter that Captivate automatically placed on the file link. No success. I tried deleting everything in the link except the name of the htm file linked to, also with no success.

Any other suggestions?

RodWard

Community Expert

As luck would have it, I'm just dealing with another user with a very similar issue in another thread.

Try reading the instructions that I've given him there about relative links:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3444892#3444892

If your LMS is unable to find the link, you should be seeing some kind of error message. Can you upload a capture of it?

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