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Upload a published SCORM to Rise 360 to edit
I have got a published scorm file from a customer, they dont have access to the rise account it was made on and they need me to edit it for them. How can I upload the scorm file into my rise account...
I'm sure there is some highly complex reason behind this, but for Rise to be able to package up content into a scorm file but then not be able to unpack this same content makes no sense to me. I was hoping this might address the absence of any content recovery option, but alas just another monumental disappointment.
This is quite normal for authoring tools that create and publish content.
I haven't come across an authoring tool that can open and edit the published output.
I think the main reason being for this is the extra content that would need to be bundled up in the published output, and there are valid reasons for wanting to distribute the published content and not allow people to then take that content and open and edit in an authoring tool. It offers some protection to the owner of the content.
Published content is produced in a format that is optimised for deployment, whether that is a Word document, Web or for an LMS.
The source file is in a format that is optimised for the authoring tool.
Imagine if someone created the software to do this. 😏
As SamHill explained elsewhere in this thread "Published content is produced in a format that is optimised for deployment".
This means that the information that is required to make a Rise course editable, is stripped out and removed from the published version of the course.
So technically it is not possible to "unpack" a SCORM file and revert it to its editable version, as the required information to do so simply does not exist in the SCORM/Web published file.
