Techniques to publish a course in Multi-Languages..!!

Purely a thought experiment but you could do this:

1. Have variable that captures a language string.
2. Have the user select a language to set the language variable.
3. On each slide create a layer that contains the subtitles and voiceover.
4. When the user visits the slide, check the language variable and show the appropriate layer. Be sure to allow the user to interact with the base layer.

Some notes:

• I'm not sure how well this will work with quizzing.
• You will be locking yourself out of using layers for anything but the languages.

Hey Steve,

Thank you so much for your response. I'm fairly a new user on Articulate Storyline, is there a way you can help me with a "Demo file" that shows how to create variables that captures a language string.

For example, you can consider as if you're creating courses in two different languages. I don't need actual language translation, I just need the concept of creating language string and creating a layer for subtitles and voiceover.

Is that possible for you to do that?

Regards,

Alfred

Alfred:

Unfortunately I'm up to my neck in projects. But the two articles that should get you on your way are:

• Understanding variables
• Evaluating text variables

Good luck!

Hi Alfred. Steve's definitely got you pointed in the right direction in terms of getting up to speed on working with variables. You may also find some nuggets of wisdom in this discussion thread and in this one, as well. 

If you're still not seeing what you need, feel free to reply here and we'll help you out!

Hi Alfred, be mindful when you are using subtitles based on timed variables they might go out of sync if a user has some bandwidth issues. e.g. the video might just take a little longer to load on the page but the timeline with your variables based subtitles will start running the moment your slide starts.

I tend to create a separate module for each language. This way I can make minor tweaks to the layout if necessary and have full control over each language. The export captions feature makes translation super easy.

Hi Alfred,

once you manage to have a language variable and use it to make your training language depending, you also can get the user language from your LMS

A little javascripting will be needed:

var player=GetPlayer();

player.SetVar("sLearnerLanguage", SCORM_GetLanguagePreference());

This will make the users language from the LMS to the variable "sLearnerLanguage"

Have fun with it

Bruno

Thanks Bruno. I will certainly try that. I appreciate your response.

Regards,

Alfred

Thanks Jeff. I'm going to try this now. 

Regards,

Alfred

Thanks Steve, My Friend. I'll try this now.

Regards,

Alfred

Thanks Trina and I appreciate your response too.

Regards,

Alfred