Publish to CD - Security and Using Module
Jun 14, 2011
Hello,
We are designing a course that wil be accessed via Moodle, but we also need to publish it to CD because the client does not have a reliable and speedy internet connection.
How can we secure the CD from being copied and/or passed around? We need to maintain some level of security.and hamper people from copying it and passing it to their work buddies.
The second part of the this is that the course is split into 5 modules. Is there a way to make the CD load by itself to a screen where the people have the option of what module they go into? For example, have a table of contents or images with hyperlinks to the specific modules? On the backside of that, how could we send the user back to the splash screen after completing a module?
I hope I have covered this enough to get my point across....any direction would be appreicated!
Chees,
Dave
1 Reply
Hi Dave,
You can create a single presentation that links to several other presentations:
http://daveperso.mediaenglishonline.com/2009/05/12/create-a-menu-for-multiple-presentations/
I think you would still run into potential Flash security issues if you did things that way, though, as outlined here:
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb/000699.php
I'm not really that familiar with software that can lockdown a CD.
Rather than going the CD route, which would certainly be problematic, here's what I would try.
Publish a second presentation that is geared specifically towards low bandwidth users and place it on Moodle. In Presentation Options -> Quality you can knock down the quality factor for the SWF files and also reduce the audio bitrate of the audio. This will allow lower bandwidth folks to view the presentation.
If you have inserted video, use a calculator to redo the videos for lower bandwidth folks:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/apps/flv_bitrate_calculator.html
Some people will actually extract the audio from a video and just use that, especially if it's a talking head video. Another thing you could do would be to create a transcript of the video and provide that.
You can also use a tool like NetLimiter to test playback on low bandwidth environments:
http://www.netlimiter.com/
I would really use CDs as a very last resort. I would also not place more than one presentation on one CD unless you can figure out a way to avoid the Flash player security issues, which I honestly don't know how.
Here's an article on how you can create more than one version of the same presentation:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=2673
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