Moodle and Articulate - how best to tie Articulate productions into Moodle?

Jan 18, 2017

Juan Leon
By Juan Leon

I'm returning to working with Articulate products and Moodle after a long absence, and  I'd like to get the most from Articulate's design tools--Storyline, Engage, QuizMaker, Presenter--while avoiding too much trial and error in Moodle.  The client would also like to avoid straying much if at all from out of the box Moodle setups.  They are currently running 2.1 but will be upgrading later this year.

I wonder what thoughts are out there about the pros and cons of packing as much of a course into a single Articulate production--using Moodle structures and functionality minimally--versus using Moodle to structure a course and 'breaking up' Articulate productions into separately inserted assets?

For example, if I were designing a course module that a user could interact with for, say, three hours while working through three lessons of that module, I could build that module entirely in Articulate Presenter with embedded Engage and QuizMaker components.  Then, integrate the module with Moodle as a SCORM.

Alternatively, Moodle could provide the superstructure of the module, and each lesson of the module could have its own Presenter production, a separate Engage interaction, and a separate QuizMaker interaction.  Perhaps each lesson would begin with a lively introduction created in StoryLine.

One approach keeps the module as self-contained as possible within a single Articulate SCORM, the other has Moodle provide the structure and high-level navigation while the Articulate productions are numerous, free-standing components.

Would the main considerations in going in one direction or the other be tied to reporting and progress tracking requirements?  Or are there perhaps issues of reliability, flexibility, debugging, maintenance or others to consider?

Thank you for any guidance you may have on this admittedly very broad question.

Juan

 

 

 

6 Replies
Tristan Hunt
over 7 years ago01/18/17 at 11:51 pm (UTC)

Hi Juan,

How we use the two togeather is to create all of the courses in Storyline. Each chapter is generally a different storyline module. 

We create the majority of the quizzes in Moodle to take advantage of the built-in reporting functionality. 

This makes making updates a lot quicker and easier than having to republish huge modules and means students can complete at their own pace (we try limit chapters to 20mins max).

Also, for some courses we use grouping so one cohort of users would have say 7 chapters and another would have 9. This allows us to provide this functionality without having to duplicate the storyline files and updates required.

 

 

Melanie Mornard
almost 6 years ago05/08/18 at 9:46 pm (UTC)

You first zip the file and then add it to Moodle as a Scorm. I hope I have that right for you. I'm on vacation and don't have access to my computer. You publish as an LMS file. Once you bring the file over you will need to test it in the various ways of displaying it on screen. You may have to adjust the file dimensions. Sorry,am typing this on a small Kindle so hopefully I'm making sense.

Susan Parnell
over 5 years ago09/24/18 at 2:33 pm (UTC)

I'm looking at this issue at the moment. Articulate Rise quiz questions now have reporting functionality now too, I believe. The company that is building a new CMS for us with an LMS within it (based on a bespoke Moodle) seems to be advising us to build directly into Moodle rather than use Scorm packages such as Articulate. They mention the ability to use the search function from a 'website search' which wouldn't find the Articulate file. I'm not sure that this is relevant as you would need to 'buy' the course and be enrolled to see it anyway. Articulate Rise now has a search function too. 

Jonny Kowal
3 years ago04/15/21 at 4:25 pm (UTC)

Going back to that original question, I assume there is a way for the Articulate built course to be all the learner sees on screen, in so doing hiding the Moodle interface. And I'm hoping that's doable from the moment the learner logs in rather than having to see Moodle's interface. Are these correct assumptions and realistic hopes?!

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