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Best Practices for Multilingual Courses
Does anyone has experience creating courses with multiple languages?
As of now, I have courses in: English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, and Japanese. What I've done in the past is have an or...
The issue with having multiple languages within one .story file is this: You can only designate one language for the Text Labels (that is, the text used for system messages, such as the invalid-answer and prompt-to-resume messages).
Thus, it's better to use a separate .story file for each language, and publish those to separate SCORM packages. Those could be handled with one of these methods:
- Combine the separate "courses" into a "curriculum" in the LMS, and indicate that only one course has to be completed to successfully finish the curriculum. The user chooses the appropriate course to launch. (Obviously, the ability to do this depends on the LMS.)
- Have a programmer "wrap" all the SCORM packages into one SCORM package. That package starts with a language-selection page, which then links to the appropriate files for the chosen language. (Sorry, I don't have any recommendations for who does this sort of programming. I do know it can done, because one of my clients did this.)
