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How can I use the same source code in different courses
Hi,
We use a lot of courses which refer to the same texts.
What we want is 1 location where we can maintain these texts.
Preferably live without having to rebuild the Scorms.
If that’s not possible, the same question but for slides.
I.e. is it possible for two or more courses to use the same slide.
thnx.
Twan
8 Replies
Twan,
Have you considered placing the texts on a webpage and using the Web Object?
This would allow you to update the text anytime without having to republish your SCORM package.
Richard
Hi Richard,
Thanks, I’ll give it a try.
Twan
Richards tip is great. And you can use images the same way. Add them on a Html page and use that as WebObject.
Another solution for text is using custom variables. Get the values for them by either Google Sheets or using a database and you can update them whenever needed.
As i do have plans for adapting some games i did in Storyline for reuse for other teachers and clients i will make a sample showing this...
Hi Math,
Looking forward to it.
I’m now looking for a suitable (cloud-based) web object database tool for storing text, html, H5P, video, etc.
Should be easy to maintain, index and search.
Any suggestions?Twan
Yeah, a combination of Google Firebase/Firestore and maybe for assets Cloudinary. I use that combo. I guess you can use Google for the images/video too... the sample i mentioned will use Google Firebase and Cloudinary.
Great.
Keep me posted please :-)
Hi Math,
'Another solution for text is using custom variables. Get the values for them by either Google Sheets '
Do you have a Google sheet example?
And how do you invoke these variables?Thanks.
Twan
;-) Just made a sample for it. Both Image and text can be saved and read.
https://360.articulate.com/review/content/3f505dc1-f51d-4185-bf5a-4cc886ffea54/review
I cannot share the Storyline publicly because it has passwords in it to access both my Google account and my Cloudinary... however if this is what you need ( or similar ) i can make it happen.
As you can see there is still shorty a blink visible of the original image before it is replaced by the uploaded one. Can solve this, but for this demo its fine. Also all images will be scaled to 370 x 460px. Cloudinary has quite some options for this including Artificial Intelligence that always picks a face if wanted.
Contact me at m.l.notermans@tilburguniversity.edu
Kind regards,Math
