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SCORM overwrite issues
We are noticing that Storyline SCORMs don't overwrite properly in the sense that even simple changes to slides are causing learners that are mid course to lose their progress entirely.
It used to be that if changes were made within slides, as long as slides aren't added or deleted, that we could overwrite a CORM and learners will keep their progress and bookmarking.
we tested it in our LMS and also it SCORM cloud and got similar results - no bookmarking and the course restarts without retaining progress.
Any thoughts?
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What you are describing sounds to me like expected SCORM behavior: republish the module and the LMS automatically resets anyone in progress to the start of the course. Not sure which LMS you are using that would have permitted a republished SCORM package that did not have that behavior, but it's always been clear that republishing any course package and reloading it to the LMS would thus clear anyone's progress unless the user had registered a completion.
Thanks for your reply.
Our experience with several LMS's including when testing in SCORM Cloud was that as long as scenes or slides aren't modified in ways that alter the menu or reducing or augmenting the slide count, that any viewed slides and progress was retained even after overwriting the course.It always made sense to me since that progress is saved in the LMS, as long as the SCORM wasn't changed in terms of size or menu indexing, that progress should be retained. And it was working just like that until recently :)
So either our LMS changed something or something changed in Storyline.. So I am doing some process of elimination :)
I think you're extremely lucky to have an LMS that worked like that. The systems I've used (Cornerstone, Skillsoft, and a few others) always wiped the progress when you uploaded a new version, so saving up your changes to upload as few versions as possible was always the approach.
