practical tips for sharing articulate course content between 5 instructional designers

Dec 12, 2014

With newer versions of articulate software, you are no longer able to install presenter in a server environment - it appears as though articulate has concerns regarding licensing (prevents presenter ribbon from activating).

regardless, i am needing practical advice on how to implement and manage course development for hundreds of studio projects which up to 5 instructional designers will work on and share.  

In a perfect world, i would simply have a file server, each designer will have their own copy of articulate on their pc, and they can work on the files across the network.    HOWEVER, articulate files are well known to become corrupt and lose audio/etc when saving across a network.   An alternative would be to have each user rdp into a terminal server and work on the files through their own account.  However, articulate does not support this.

So, i need advice, how does one manage this?   Simply having users work on their own files, then drag back to a file server OR packing a file and sending it to a user is NOT practical OR efficient.  Not only is this more time consuming, files will become duplicated and you might not know whom has the latest version.

There must be a better way - i can't imagine i'm the only one who has this issue.

Any thoughts or advice?

Mark

1 Reply
Allison LaMotte

Hi Mark,

Other than having them work locally and then copy the files to a server, I'm not sure what other solution there could be.

However, to avoid having duplicate files/not knowing which one is the oldest, I would suggest having them name the files according to the date. For example: YY.MM.DD_project1.ppt. That way, you can be sure which version is the most recent, and delete any older versions. 

Hope that helps!

Allison

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