The files for a direct course deployment was lost after the project. Can the web-version file be manipulated to work in an LMS? If so, please advise what can be done to avoid recording the audio again.
So I think what you are saying is that all of the source files are lost and you only have a published web version, correct?
When you published for the Web, you should have ended up with a folder named something like YourModuleName - Presenter Output. Hopefully you have the whole folder?
Inside that folder will be another folder called presentation_content. Your source images and sound files will be in that folder. They will all have unrecognizable names that are just long strings of characters, but the file type will tell you if it's a sound file (MP3) or an image file (JPEG). You should at least be able to recover your MP3 sound files and save them someplace safe, as well as the images you used in your slides. It's going to be slow, ugly work, though, as you'll have to listen to/look at each file to determine what it is.
You don't say how much interaction there is in the course, but if it's just a module they need to watch and you want to track the people who have completed it, you could just post it on a website somewhere and point to it as an external object from your LMS. In this case you would set the content to be marked complete when launched. We use this option at my worksite for modules that are hosted on external vendors' sites. It doesn't allow us to capture quiz results, but it would be a quicker and easier way to make the course work than trying to reconstruct it.
Thanks Jennifer for popping in with suggestions here!
Darlene- Thanks for taking the time to reach out here. This isn't something we can support as it involves making changes to the published output itself. Unfortunately, you would need the project files themselves to republish for LMS or export audio to ensure that everything functions properly. Jennifer's idea of hosting the published web version in a web environment and using a web object to make it accessible in a new course may be a good workaround for you. As she mentioned, however, you won't have the ability to track quiz results in the web course.
Good luck with everything and please don't hesitate to reach out here again if you have further questions! :)
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So I think what you are saying is that all of the source files are lost and you only have a published web version, correct?
When you published for the Web, you should have ended up with a folder named something like YourModuleName - Presenter Output. Hopefully you have the whole folder?
Inside that folder will be another folder called presentation_content. Your source images and sound files will be in that folder. They will all have unrecognizable names that are just long strings of characters, but the file type will tell you if it's a sound file (MP3) or an image file (JPEG). You should at least be able to recover your MP3 sound files and save them someplace safe, as well as the images you used in your slides. It's going to be slow, ugly work, though, as you'll have to listen to/look at each file to determine what it is.
You don't say how much interaction there is in the course, but if it's just a module they need to watch and you want to track the people who have completed it, you could just post it on a website somewhere and point to it as an external object from your LMS. In this case you would set the content to be marked complete when launched. We use this option at my worksite for modules that are hosted on external vendors' sites. It doesn't allow us to capture quiz results, but it would be a quicker and easier way to make the course work than trying to reconstruct it.
Thanks Jennifer for popping in with suggestions here!
Darlene- Thanks for taking the time to reach out here. This isn't something we can support as it involves making changes to the published output itself. Unfortunately, you would need the project files themselves to republish for LMS or export audio to ensure that everything functions properly. Jennifer's idea of hosting the published web version in a web environment and using a web object to make it accessible in a new course may be a good workaround for you. As she mentioned, however, you won't have the ability to track quiz results in the web course.
Good luck with everything and please don't hesitate to reach out here again if you have further questions! :)
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