Securing e-Learning
May 14, 2012
We’re trying to develop e-learning courses using our content to license them to companies. These companies will put the courses on their web sites and let their employees access the courses. Our concern is that the viewers of the courses could capture the courses and “share” them freely. So we have several questions. Although we want some control, we understand that we can only control so much.
1. How hard is to capture and replay a course made with Storyline (or Studio 09) given the segmented structure of the output that includes Flash and HTML files?
2. Is it possible to obfuscate the Flash files in the output? Has anybody done it? Does it play reliably? What are the drawbacks of this approach?
3. Is there any way to add a limit of time and/or views to a course that will reside in our customer server (not in ours)?
4. Is there any other ways to let the clients have the courses, but we control until when they can play it, how many times they view it and that the users can’t copy and redistribute the course?
We’re new to e-learning, so maybe I’m asking the wrong questions. Please feel free to redirect me if so.
Thank you for any help you give us on any of my questions.
3 Replies
Bayardo, are these courses going to be published as simple Flash-objects in a web page or tucked away in an LMS?
Hi Simon,
They will be published in a webpage.
Thanks!
Hmmm - I did reply to this earlier, however it seems to have gone. Strange.
In essence I said:
1> You are asking the right questions.
2> I've been asking the same question for about 12 years.
3> Someone could just buy one copy of course, then play it over a projector to a room of 200 people with the PC linked up to an amplifier - if they really wanted to.
There's no real way to tie down course "security" that I have ever come across that is 100% guaranteed, I guess qwe just go on trust a lot of the time.
Hope you get a solution that works for you.
Bruce
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