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You may have answered your own question. When you "upload a new version of the course," you will replace the existing version. So the LMS would in fact see the new version as essentially a new object, unless your LMS is set up differently than most LMSs I am familiar with. It would be quite unusual for the LMS to "stop recognising" your course, I think.
Thank you. We have had an issue before when a course was changed and the LMS stopped recognising it. It was partly because of having a new idientifier generated, and partly because the information had changed enough that it failed to recognise it as the same course leading to it not saving progress data for those learners who were part way through. It's not uncommon, I don't think. It depends on the level of change.
Our LMS has the option to replace an existing SCORM if there are only minor changes, even if the identifier is different. Or, you can choose to treat the updated SCORM as a totally new version of the course. This is the only LMS that I have worked with that has this option.
What we have learned is that if you add or delete Lessons in a previously published Rise course, you should always treat it as a new course, as the suspend data will not work for students that have already partially completed the course.
That's what we found previously. It made perfect sense once we thought about it. It's like taking a book off someone at a certain page and then ripping the page out and expecting them to carry on reading it. It's just, if it's a minor change, it's that borderline worry of would we or would we not lose data. I think we've got it sorted now though. Thank you for responding.
