Editing the AICC Files
Mar 02, 2012
Obviously when you publish to AICC you get 4 "course" files. .au, .crs, .cst and .des.
After opening all of these files in notepad, it appears that I need to edit the course.au file. I know I need to paste in the path to my index_lms.html file, but beyond that. I'm not sure what (if any) of this data needs to be updated.
Here is what i got for my course.au:
"System_ID","type","file_name","command_line","Max_Time_Allowed","time_limit_action","Max_Score","Core_Vendor","System_Vendor","Mastery_Score","Web_Launch","AU_Password"
"A001","presentation","http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/encompass/index_lms.html","","","","","","Articulate Presenter","","",""
Is there a roadmap somewhere out there describing what each "field" in these comma delimited files are? How do i know what i need to edit????
Thanks in advance,
24 Replies
You shouldnt need to edit these files, they should just work with your lms
So all you need to change is the server url for where your course files live?
Hi Marc and welcome to Heroes! You actually don't need to edit those files. When you publish your presentation for LMS, you simply need to click the Reporting and Tracking options in Presenter and fill out the information there and you only really need to do this if your LMS requires it:
That seems easy enough. And there won't be anything our LMS team will need to edit in those files either?
There really shouldn't be. You should just be able to update the Reporting and Tracking options to what you want and then upload to the LMS.
Ok I've read that my content server needs to be AICC Compliant, but I can't find any documentation on what that is.
Are you hosting your content on a separate server than your LMS or inside your LMS? Not really sure what the reference is. You might want to touch base with your LMS folks.
Basically on a cloud server. Was much much (did i say much?) cheaper to host it externally as our file size grew and our audience grew. Our LMS guy is just as naive to AICC as I am.
Be nice if somewhere out there we could find a description for all of those comma delimited fields in those 4 AICC files.
Hi Marc. If your content is on a different domain, you may experience some issues. Here's an article that can help you out.
should be able to find it here http://www.aicc.org/joomla/dev/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=64&Itemid=28
Thanks Phil!
On a completely different note, I'm totally friends with this guy.
<--That's not really completely different note is it?
My course will launch successfully from the LMS but it does not mark complete (or bookmark). Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? Working with our LMS "team" and both of us are stumped.
Any help is appreciated.
I'm guessing this is the issue.
I tried that but our course would not play using the relay.php file to launch.
I'll republish it again and see if that works.
Are you in a cross domain environment? That article is only relevant if you are.
Yes.
OK. Hopefully one of those solutions will help. If your LMS supports SCORM, you may want to consider using that instead.
Everything works - except bookmarking. Does bookmarking work with Articulate and AICC?
Do you have resume enabled in your content? If you do and bookmarking is not working then that is likely due to not using one of the relay files to get your content to play. Unfortunately, bookmarking in a cross domain environment does not work. Using one of the relay files should allow you to bookmark, though.
Where do you enable "resume" in Articulate Presenter? I know where it is in Engage, but can't seem to find it in Articulate.
You can enable/disable resume in Player Templates -> Player Controls:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/?p=31
Just make sure you publish with your updated template.
Thanks - CrApticulate likes to put all of it's varioussettings in 19 different places it seems. Totally makes sense that bookmarking would be in player controls.
Thanks again, let's hope this one works.
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