Best way to upload to moodle

Aug 27, 2012

Greetings,

I'm looking for best way to upload articulate presentation to moodle.  The only things I've done are:

1. Upload articulate folder to my own web server and link to it from within moodle.  What I don't like about this is that any of my students could simply copy paste all of my links into a Word doc or something and have them forever...even if they're not in moodle anymore.

2. SCORM.  The only way SCORM seems to work requires student to enter a clunky looking page and find the 'enter' button.  My students just won't take that step...they need to be able to just click and go.

Guess I'm hoping there's a better way to get articulate content into moodle than the two options I described.

Thanks

Jerry

18 Replies
Astrid Davine

Hi Jerry,

We haven't used SCORM much in the past because we usually want to record student's responses to free text (essay questions) that can be passed as complete without grading (we use Questionmark Perception for this capability, but would love to hear other suggestions!).

Anyway, sorry for the rambling, but in response to your question, I:

  • Publish my Articulate interaction for the Web
  • Zip up the files
  • Go into Moodle and 'Add a resource... File'
  • Add the Zip file as the Content (using File picker)
  • Once the Zip file is uploaded, click the icon next to the file and select 'Unzip'
  • Once unzipped (in Moodle), then click on the icon next to the main file (e.g. engage.html, player.html, story.html) and select 'Set main file'.
  • Complete all the other Moodle file options (give it a name, choose your display - I normally select 'In pop-up') and save.

Hope this is helpful!

Astrid

jerry stapleton

Astrid

Thank you so much.  I'm just reengaging with articulate after a few years away, so a little rusty.  When you say 'zip the files' do you mean publish for web directly to a zip from articulate or do you publish to a folder then  manually zip up the folder containing all the files?

Second...and maybe stupid question...but once your presentation is in moodle and playing, could someone (in moodle, of course) simply capture the hyperlink to the articulate presentation and save it somewhere to access later outside of moodle?

Thanks,
Jerry

jerry stapleton

Astrid

Incredibly (incredible only because these things never seem to work as smoothly as they should for me), the file worked EXACTLY as you suggested!  Also, I was able to answer my own question about security...users can't keep links for later access...can only be played in moodle.

awesome!  thanks again.

Jerry

Astrid Davine

Hi Jerry,

So glad it worked well for you, and that Julie was able to answer your question about zipping (Don't worry I'm a bit rusty in some areas too - I usually forget that there is the zip option within Articulate and end up doing it manually!)

Happy to discuss any other Moodle related interactions as this is what I'm using the most at the moment...

Cheers,

Astrid

Astrid Davine

Actually I've had a lot of trouble with moodle Pages (linking files, not Articulate in particular)! It was earlier in the year so I don't remember the exact circumstances, but the main problem was that Moodle converted the links or images into 'draftfile' php links when you were in edit mode, which made it unworkable.  (I think we had existing html pages with links that had been transferred into Moodle from WebCT.)

At that point I gave up on a Moodle Page, as using the file upload in a similar way to above seemed to be much easier.

eLearning Development

Jerry;

I have used iframes to embed into a moodle page with no problems.

This comes from a moodledoc;

To create an iframe,

  • edit a section header, label, web page or forum post
  • turn on the HTML code display
  • paste the following code somwhere
Your browser does not diplay iFrames

just replace the src with the location of your file in moodle and you can change the height and width to fit your presentation.  I tend to close all the blocks on the right to give me more room for this.

Tim

Kim Taylor

this solution worked realy well for me also.

the down side is you have to upload like this for every course,

i am using 2.3 so had hoped i would be able to use the alias/shortcut system in the file picker and just upload only once but use the same resource for many courses.

if you have a solution for this i would love to hear it.

Kim

Kim Taylor

just answered my own question on how to make a non scorm storyline resource available to many moodle courses without having to upload it into each course.

1. create a specific course for the storyline resource

2. upload the storyline resource to this course as a file resource using the instructions above

3. play the file and make a note of the moodle url.

4 add a play graphic to the other courses  - such as a play button or text such as play now

5. add a link to the text/play button in the html editor pasting in the url above

NEXT

Go back to the specific storyline resource course and in the settings / course users - enrolment methods add metacourse from the drop down list and select the course you want the resource to appear in. students will automaticall be enroled to the course

rinse and repeat for all courses that need the resource.

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