Scenario: Updating Externally Created SCORM Content

Hello Articulate Community. 

I wanted to create some helpful advice for clients who want to make updates to SCORM that was created by external sources. Would you all be willing to look over the content I cobbled together from myriad sources (lots from these forums!) for accuracy and any additional information I could provide clients? Being on the LMS side of things, I bow to the experts. Hopefully the end result will be helpful to others who have come across the same situation and the answers will all be in one spot. Thanks so much!

Scenario

Client has a SCORM course developed externally and needs to make changes to the content. My specific client has the Articulate source files, but I also wanted to be able to help clients who may not have them.

Requirements

1. Client must have the source files. 
2. Client must have access the same course creation program that the source files were created in.
3. Clients may need to use the same version of a course creation program, since suites and versions can differ in output methods. For example a client may have Articulate, but the course was created using the newest version of Storyline, which can output in in TinCan and the client's older version cannot.
4. Clients must use the original creation method. For example, a PowerPoint presentation may have been created and then converted to scorm. 

If these conditions are met, then you should be able to open the files using the same program. You will need to extract them first if they are zipped. If these conditions are not met, then you will need to re-create the course from scratch. You can likely extract the images, etc. for reuse.

Might be helpful to be able to instruct uses on how they can open files meeting the criteria above. Is there an import option? I can't find it in Storyline.

Considerations

• Was the content originally created as a scorm package?
• Was the content originally created as another file type, such as PowerPoint and converted to scorm? If so, you will likely need to open the presentation and update it in PowerPoint and then convert it.

Helpful Information

Clients can edit the javascript, xml, html files without accessing the original files, if they have the technical know how. (I certainly don't)