Course Name versus File Name

In the Player, you have the option to add a course title that will show in the course module. This field defaults to whatever the filename is, but it does not need to be the filename. So you can change the displayed course name as you wish.

If you're still having trouble, I would contact Articulate, but I would think you could name the file to be whatever you wish and the displayed course name to be unique, as well.

Hi Joe, Thank you for the response. The issue we are having is that we upload to an external LRS as a zip file and that zip file using the naming convention of 'Filename_date_version' for referencing changes in versions. When we change the title and publish it creates the zip file with that title. Would there be any issues of changing the name of the zip file to the format 'Filename_date_version'? Thank you

Since I am not familiar with the LRS you are using, I can only say that I don't think there would be any issues. I would run a test with a very small course package and see what that does.

Good luck!

There will be no issues, our LMS takes the name of the zip as well

Thank you for the replies. Seems like that works for us too. We just renamed the course when zipping the file to upload to our LMS.

Hello, I hope it's okay that I add my own question to this thread, since it seems to be related:

I also experience the problem that the title of the published scorm (title_extra_info) is also the title that appears in the player, even though I put a different player title there before publishing (title_course).

For me it would be very helpful if these titles were not related anymore. Unless someone could help me with this issue:

I only discovered the issue after uploading the scorm to an extern learning platform (aNewSpring). Because the file title I used (title_extra_info) should not be visible for the users, I changed back the title in the player (to title_course), published the scorms with this title also as a file title and afterwards changed the title of the zipfile again (to title_extra_info). But, when I uploaded this tot the learning platform, the scorm got the title from the player again (title_course) as a file title. The player title seems to overwrite the zipfile title. But the learning platform reads this as a new file instead of a replacement for the old file. Apparently, in aNewSpring you can only replace a scormfile with exactly the same title. This makes it impossible for me to change the player title as long as it's connected with the publish/zipfile title.

Does anyone have an idea what I could do?

Thanks in advance, if I have to open a new subject, please let me know!

Floortje