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Brand Update Methods and Tools
My company is undergoing a brand update. We need to adjust our Rise 360 learning assets to reflect the new brand standards. Are there any methods or tools that can bulk-update without manually adjusting color, theme, and font standards across hundreds of courses?
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I had this pain and couldn't find a clever way around it...sounds like a great 'development opportunity' for someone who's interesting in the eLearning industry! 😀
You could add a link to a global stylesheet in all your courses. You can change fonts and theme color easily this way, but not all theme settings/options can be standardized (like setting a specific theme or cover page layout.) I've noticed some users just change their theme based on the cover page they want, all the lesson content appears to display the same across all themes.
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I wrote a ChatGPT instruction set that updates SCORM package fonts, colors, and images (.png, .jpg) to our new brand guidelines. It was somewhat difficult because these assets are not just in CSS but also in JS, JSON, etc., and are peppered throughout the SCORM. Since I am a coding Luddite, I had ChatGPT iterate the instruction set to identify additional areas where the color and font information may be located.
The simplified workflow is to add the SCORM zip file to Chat GPT and request an update. It reviews and updates all of the zip files (including image assets) and produces a zip file with an adjusted file name <SCORM FILE>-Rebrand.zip. There are other steps, including verification and error reporting but that's the heart of it.
I have run three course updates with great success. They take approximately 2 minutes per course to update. Since the bot cannot access our course asset database, I also had ChatGPT write a Python script to look through our database and automatically update all SCORM files. I will likely not implement this because of the organization's IT limitations, but it is possible.
The one issue I see is that the Rise site UI still contains the original branding. So any future changes will need to be manually updated or re-run through the rebranding bot.
Thanks for planting the seed, Phil. Hope this helps someone else.
That's an interesting Idea, Phil, but I think the manual inclusion of the style sheet and the adjustment of the index file for each individual course will take as much time as using the 360 UI. I wonder if there is a tool that could automate the adjustment of the index files? We have a catalog of folders with all of our asset files (including the production zip files). If the index file adjustment could be automated, this could be a huge time saver!
Indeed I would do that with a Python script. But you'll probably need to extract all your zip packages first, run the script, and zip them up again.
