Known Engage performance issues?
Jun 13, 2011
Hello, I am getting ready to build a course by inserting most of my content in Engage interaction templates. The course is modular and will be about an hour long. I mentioned my plan to use Engage to my client and she expressed concern about this idea (she is also a novice Articulate user). She's had problems in the past with courses (that included many Engage interactions), e.g. interactions took too long to load, interactions did not play correctly, problems with presenter player etc.).The instructor in her Articulate training class also suggested that e-learning developers limit the number of Engaged interactions in each course/file. Is this a known problem? Do you recommend a maximum number of Engage interactions for each published Articulate presenter file? Thanks!! - Joanne
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Hi Joanne,
Engage interactions should serve a specific purpose for the course. I don't think you would need to pepper a course with many interactions as simply a matter of maintaining simplicity in your course design. There is no right answer in terms of how many interactions you use. It completely depends on the course.
If someone was experiencing excessive loading times it was probably due to inserted Flash movies that were too large for real world use. A standalone interaction should not have any problems loading in even a low bandwidth situation.
Without really knowing any of the details of the other author's issue, I wouldn't really be concerned about their experience. Consider what's right for your particular presentation. If you want to use an interaction, the first thing I would ask is why? What would be the advantage to an interaction that PowerPoint doesn't offer?
Since you are a novice user, I would spend a little time in the Building Better Courses tutorials as they will give you a good start in how to create an entertaining and interactive course:
http://community.articulate.com/tutorials/courses/about-the-quot-building-better-courses-quot-tutorials.aspx
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