We have many discontinued SCORM classes in our LMS that are taking up a lot of space on our server. We need to keep the completion status on a persons transcript but on the back-end delete the SCORM files and replace it with a small SCORM file that says the course has been discontinued if they try to launch it again but it won't be treated as a new attempt and overwrite the current status on the users transcript. Does that make sense?
That does make sense. I am guessing the answer is no, but why not just upload a course published for the web? Do you have to have the imsmanifest.xml for the course to launch?
Can we assume that your learner's status at this point is "completed"? If so then you could just make a single page course that would just report back the the LMS a status of completed.
Have you asked your LMS provider if there is a way to lock the status of a course as a way to archive the data?
The other thing to do would be to take the existing imsmanifest.xml file and create a dummy index_lms.html file that would tell the learner that is course is no longer available. I am guessing this would give you an LMS communication error but it should keep the data from being changed.
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Can you tell us more about why you would want to do this?
We have many discontinued SCORM classes in our LMS that are taking up a lot of space on our server. We need to keep the completion status on a persons transcript but on the back-end delete the SCORM files and replace it with a small SCORM file that says the course has been discontinued if they try to launch it again but it won't be treated as a new attempt and overwrite the current status on the users transcript. Does that make sense?
That does make sense. I am guessing the answer is no, but why not just upload a course published for the web? Do you have to have the imsmanifest.xml for the course to launch?
Can we assume that your learner's status at this point is "completed"? If so then you could just make a single page course that would just report back the the LMS a status of completed.
Have you asked your LMS provider if there is a way to lock the status of a course as a way to archive the data?
I do need the imsmanifest.xml to launch the course.
I didn't think it would be possible, but it never hurts to ask.
The other thing to do would be to take the existing imsmanifest.xml file and create a dummy index_lms.html file that would tell the learner that is course is no longer available. I am guessing this would give you an LMS communication error but it should keep the data from being changed.
I'll give that a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
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