Interesting side effect of upgrading to Articulate 2013

Jan 15, 2015

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?

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Mark Kurtz

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

Leslie McKerchie

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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