We would like to be able to have multiple courses in one published item in our LMS (Success Factors). SF is asking us to reach out to see if content can be developed as several courses in one Articulate file. If anyone using SF as your LMS has experience with this I would appreciate it. Due to errors that occurred in February / March of this year we are trying to import our content as a content package. I would love to hear from someone else who has experience with Success Factors.
Great question! I understand you'd like to know if you can develop multiple courses as one Story file. I'd be happy to get you some information about that. To have multiple courses in one Story file, you'll want to create a new Story file, import all the courses into that one file, and then republish the file. We don’t currently have an option to automatically combine courses into one content package, but that sounds like an interesting idea that I can share with our product team.
The concern with publishing multiple courses within one Storyline file is how to track completion. Potential options:
Have a final slide with a completion trigger that the user could only access after they successfully complete all the courses.
Have a Results of Results slide that scores the quiz results from all the courses (assuming they all have quizzes).
Either option limits what info would be sent to the LMS.
With special coding (e.g., JavaScript), it's possible to combine multiple SCORM packages into one big SCORM package. I've seen this done to combine multiple translations of a course into one package, with a front "page" that lets the user decide what language they want to see. I assume something similar could be done to present a set of courses that all have to be completed. Unfortunately, I don't know any companies that do this, so I can't provide a recommendation.
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Hi Sharrilyn,
Great question! I understand you'd like to know if you can develop multiple courses as one Story file. I'd be happy to get you some information about that. To have multiple courses in one Story file, you'll want to create a new Story file, import all the courses into that one file, and then republish the file. We don’t currently have an option to automatically combine courses into one content package, but that sounds like an interesting idea that I can share with our product team.
Thanks for reaching out!
The concern with publishing multiple courses within one Storyline file is how to track completion. Potential options:
Either option limits what info would be sent to the LMS.
With special coding (e.g., JavaScript), it's possible to combine multiple SCORM packages into one big SCORM package. I've seen this done to combine multiple translations of a course into one package, with a front "page" that lets the user decide what language they want to see. I assume something similar could be done to present a set of courses that all have to be completed. Unfortunately, I don't know any companies that do this, so I can't provide a recommendation.
Another option would be what is known as a Multi-SCO course, which is multiple SCOs (courses) bundled into a single course package.
Adobe offers the Multi-SCORM Packager as part of Adobe Captivate 2019; it can create Multi-SCOs for both SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 content.
Ryan Donnelly of Rustici Software (stewards of the SCORM standard) posted Combining Multiple SCOs Into One SCORM Course, which describes how to manually bundle multiple SCORM content packages into a single SCORM course.