I'm wondering if anyone has any good ideas on how to build a course that delivers the content in multiple languages.
I have a client that wants to build one course and deliver it to their global workforce (with one or two additional languages in addition to English). Is it just as simple as building a button(s) on the intro screen that will allow learners to choose their language? This would then branch to the language version of their choice.
My only concern is that the couse would become too large in file size.
Couldn't agree more. Can I ask the vendor you are buying the landing page workaround from? Is it a packaged solution or a custom piece they did for you? We run into this all the time when clients want to add languages and then get upset when they are in multiple SCOs.
Hi Jennifer. I would like to commend you for giving this examples! Would you happen to know the ID or classname for "Start", "Resume" and the LMS goodbye message? We're planning to update those as well for a certain project using JS trigger.
I am still struggling with this as my client cannot have individual courses for the LMS to count them as one course. I looked a previous answers especially one about having mutliple SCORMs that you combine into one file. Have not tried that. This year my client included a half hour video that made the file almost a Gigabyte in size.
The issue I ran into was the client wanted the feedback slides in the individual languages and that is another challenge.
That video link appears to be broken. Here is a quick recording to give you the essence of the idea. It's not perfect and needs some forethought before you start down that path, but it can be viable.
Tom, thanks for the update. I like this idea and will experiment with the examples I have from a project I just completed.
The biggest issue I faced was getting the quiz feedback layers to be in the same language as the text. I had English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese and the client wanted the feedback slides in those languages.
Would this work for that issue? My client provided the translations as they were very specific about wording. The Spanish and Chinese were very different than Google Translate so I left that up to them. I just copied and pasted.
It will take a few weeks for me to do this but I will report back what worked.
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Hi Nicole -
Couldn't agree more. Can I ask the vendor you are buying the landing page workaround from? Is it a packaged solution or a custom piece they did for you? We run into this all the time when clients want to add languages and then get upset when they are in multiple SCOs.
Thanks!
Mark
Hi Jennifer. I would like to commend you for giving this examples! Would you happen to know the ID or classname for "Start", "Resume" and the LMS goodbye message? We're planning to update those as well for a certain project using JS trigger.
Hi Joe. Same objective here. Were you able to make this work?
Hey Tom, I know your post was aeons ago but did you ever build that tutorial?
Alex, if you go back one page in the comments Tom has a video http://artco-temp.s3.amazonaws.com/tom/localize_idea.mp4.
I am still struggling with this as my client cannot have individual courses for the LMS to count them as one course. I looked a previous answers especially one about having mutliple SCORMs that you combine into one file. Have not tried that. This year my client included a half hour video that made the file almost a Gigabyte in size.
The issue I ran into was the client wanted the feedback slides in the individual languages and that is another challenge.
That video link appears to be broken. Here is a quick recording to give you the essence of the idea. It's not perfect and needs some forethought before you start down that path, but it can be viable.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b64d0228-f2b2-4d94-9803-c5bd61c50d93/review
Here is the original idea, a bit different but same concept.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/b760bc10-6f32-48cb-9008-65fcd0442366/review
Tom, thanks for the update. I like this idea and will experiment with the examples I have from a project I just completed.
The biggest issue I faced was getting the quiz feedback layers to be in the same language as the text. I had English, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, and Vietnamese and the client wanted the feedback slides in those languages.
Would this work for that issue? My client provided the translations as they were very specific about wording. The Spanish and Chinese were very different than Google Translate so I left that up to them. I just copied and pasted.
It will take a few weeks for me to do this but I will report back what worked.