In Articulate 09 all of the publish files were numbered sequentially, i.e swf/slide75.swf and we could track course usage by seeing if a particular file was accessed and hence we could verify that a learner actually took the course. In Articulate 13 you changed the naming convention to something random i.e. 6W5sLU5oi05.swf and we have no idea what 'screen' these files are associated with nor can we tell where the learner is in the course. Is there a way for us to associate these files with a particular screen so we can track progress?
I'm not sure I understand how you were tracking progress previously, but we advise that you publish and share the content as this documentation shows and it includes tracking advice as well.
In '09 the file names made sense. If you had 100 slides then there were 100 swf files named sequentially and we could track the when the files were accessed and by whom. The learners have to register and we track that info. So we could then see that they had at least accessed the first 80 slides and qualified for the completion certificate. If they only accessed 75 slides then they didn't qualify. Regardless of the number of slides we have a 80% completion rate requirement.
Now with the new random naming convention of the '13 files we have no way to know how 1q8nm49det.swf correlates to anything so it is causing us some issues in tracking completion rates.
Thanks for the update Mark! This is not functionality that we support, but I have reached out to the team for assistance and will post if we have a direct correlation that would be easily utilized.
I also wanted to mention that replying back via e-mail includes your signature and you are welcome to pop in and edit that if needed.
Go to presentation_content folder then open frame.xml in Notepad Look for the <slideid> and <displaytext> lines <slideid> is the slide filename. To map it, you have to go to presentation_content/slides folder <displaytext> is the Slide TItle On the slide ID, only the part after the period is the slide filename
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Hi Mark!
I'm not sure I understand how you were tracking progress previously, but we advise that you publish and share the content as this documentation shows and it includes tracking advice as well.
We run the course on our web server, not via LMS.
In '09 the file names made sense. If you had 100 slides then there were 100 swf files named sequentially and we could track the when the files were accessed and by whom. The learners have to register and we track that info. So we could then see that they had at least accessed the first 80 slides and qualified for the completion certificate. If they only accessed 75 slides then they didn't qualify. Regardless of the number of slides we have a 80% completion rate requirement.
Now with the new random naming convention of the '13 files we have no way to know how 1q8nm49det.swf correlates to anything so it is causing us some issues in tracking completion rates.
Mark
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Mark Kurtz
Instructional Designer
Dell | Worldwide Technical Training, Dell Software
office (630) 335-4889
Thanks for the update Mark! This is not functionality that we support, but I have reached out to the team for assistance and will post if we have a direct correlation that would be easily utilized.
I also wanted to mention that replying back via e-mail includes your signature and you are welcome to pop in and edit that if needed.
Hi again Mark!
Go to presentation_content folder then open frame.xml in Notepad
Look for the <slideid> and <displaytext> lines
<slideid> is the slide filename. To map it, you have to go to presentation_content/slides folder
<displaytext> is the Slide TItle
On the slide ID, only the part after the period is the slide filename
Here's a sample:
Hope this helps :)
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