Multi course question
Jan 20, 2017
Hello! I am looking for a way to publish my 6 storyline modules into one single course on Articulate Online.
I explain. My first module is an introduction containing 5 thumbnails of each 5 other modules. I guess the trigger of each thumbnails would lead to the Articulate Online's links of each corresponding module.
The issue is that learner would probably not do all the 5 modules in a single day (30 minutes per module). So when they would leave the course, there would be no way to track where they left, so they could not continue at this point.
Is there a way to make this all works?
3 Replies
You can group multiple courses into a multi-SCO package that can be recognized by any SCORM compliant LMS (see Adobe Multi SCO Packager), although I've never used Articulate Online.
However, using the thumbnails in one course to launch the others independently probably won't work.
I would consider combining all the content of the other courses into the same Storyline file, but each "course" as separate "scenes."
Then your thumbnail navigation would just jump to that scene's first slide. At the end of each scene, you could create a trigger to change a variable (e.g., course2_complete = true) and links back to your thumbnail slide, where it would change the state of #2 thumbnail to something like "completed" state if course2_complete = true when timeline starts.
Once all thumbnails are completed, you could show a button to navigate to a final slide that could contain a single choice quiz / result slide combo that would set completion of the course.
Just an idea off the top of my head, but I've successfully used this method in the past.
Good luck.
Hi Scott, thanks for the info but I already thought of this. Tstoryline file would be impossible to work with because of his weight. It would have about 200 slides (question, animation and images) and I fear a suspent data saturation. You are right on the fact that I will probably need to look for another LMS...
Regardless of LMS, if you are publishing to SCORM, and if published as a multi-sco as suggested, each module needs to be completed to mark the course completed.
The LMS should show a menu to allow users to open modules in any order, or auto-launch in a sequence upon completing and closing the first one. At least I assume this is common functionality to all LMS platforms in course settings mode.
Either way, you probably can't open other courses in the package from the first course in the package. So you might consider just using the thumbnails as visual indications of what to expect in the other modules in the course, but not to link to them.
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