Copying an Articulate course woes

I'd guess that the thing you changed was either an Engage interation or a quiz. It seems that moving files into a new folder doesn't break the linkage.

Here's what I'd do... after you make the copy to the new folder, open Presenter and select the Articulate tab, and then click the icon for Engage Interaction. You'll see all the interactions there, but they're still linked to the ones in the original folder. Remove all the entries there, and then re-insert them, making sure that you point to the interactions in the new folder you created.

Do the same for any quizzes.

Alternatively, you could create a Presenter package from the original course, and unzip that in a new folder. I think that's break the linkages too.

I hope that helps!

Dave

Hi Dave,

It took me all day to fix all the files up. I was a linkage issue which defaults to remember linkages to the old project even though its a new folder. It effected all files both Engage and Quizzes. I have advised our people here to watch out for this problem. So far everyone was quite surprised that the linkages remain.

I suggest an improvement to the software be made called 'Copy Project'. This copy feature should then ask you where the new files will be stored.

Ash that would be a great solution - so even if you happened to forget about the issue, you couldn't accidentally ruin your original project by assuming a copy paste is possible. 

Ashley if you send to an articulate package that will "copy the project" and do what you want, it will only do it once though as second generation packages do not include engage, quizes

Hi Phil,

Not quire sure what you mean by 'send to an articulate package' ?

Do you mean use Pubish to 'Articulate Online' ?

Could you expand on this please

Hey Ashley!

Here you go:

http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=457

Thanks Peter, missed this one

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the tip.

I will try the 'send' thing today.

But I am a bit paranoid  that if I make any changes to the new 'sent' project that these changes will effect the original project.

Are you sure this will work OK?

"Should work" why not do it then only change one thing in the new project and check

I tried it and it worked fine.

I have advised our team on how to do this.

Thanks Guys.