Online course / Local Content question

Jan 30, 2012

Joe Jones
By Joe Jones

I’m trying to create an online course for my internal LMS, but the course contains several gigabytes of video.

Streaming this video would murder our network, so I would like to install the videos on to the local PCs in our training room.

Consider having 30 people simultaneously taking a training course with 2.8 gigs of video in the course and the amount of network traffic that would create.

So to clarify I want to have my course online in our LMS, so I can have the users log on to our intranet and track their results, but I want to host the video files on the users local PC to save on bandwidth.

I’ve tried to edit the IMSmanifest.xml and Presentation.xml  to point to the local hard drive. Is there something in the articulate core programing that effects the ability to link to a local file?

4 Replies
Justin Wilcox
12 years ago01/31/12 at 11:20 am (UTC)

Hi Joe.

It's not really possible to do what you are trying to do. Viewing active content locally nowadays is really not an option. I would recommend a couple of things:

  1. Make your videos smaller by decreasing dimensions and/or audio/video bitrate. Here's a handy calculator for that: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator.html
  2. I would break the videos up into smaller chunks over several presentations. So if you have one 3 hour video, break it up into half hour or smaller videos.

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