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need help with multiple packages that make up one course
Where I work, we are creating training courses that are multiple modules long, anywhere between four modules to ten modules. We create each module as a separate .story file and publish that .story file from Storyline. This is because some of the .story files are reused across different courses. Then we have multiple published packages from Storyline that need to be combined to create the final course.
The ways I know how to do this are two-fold
1 - use the features of an LMS to build a curriculum using the published packages
2 - create a multi-sco https://support.scorm.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051563253-Combining-Multiple-SCOs-Into-One-SCORM-Course
What we want to do is take our Storyline files and publish them such that we can have one cmi5 package at the end of publishing.
For example, if I have the course called Course 101 which consists of the following
Introduction.story
module-1.story
module-2.story
conclusion.story
I want to publish all these .story files such that I get one Course 101 cmi 5 file which will contain all four pieces of the course.
For those of you who are creating separate Storyline files that make up a course, how are you combining these files? Is anyone managing to use Storyline to take separate files and merge them into one final published file?
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I've had a large course with multiple sub courses experience as well. Initially I organized it into one big Storyline file. But it was harder to manage. Later I separated them down into sub courses/files.
I had different SMEs for each sub course topic, so it was easier to have each SME review their own course topic. So creating their own file, I could send to review 360 and they just see their own.
So how we organized in our LMS, we had the overall name of the course, then each "lesson" was it's own sub topic course.
Example:
Safety and Emergency Preparedness (over arching course name in LMS)
1 - Security (as a lesson under the over arching topic, it's own Storyline file)
2 - Hazard Communication (as a lesson under the over arching topic, it's own Storyline file)
3 - Safety (as a lesson under the over arching topic, it's own Storyline file)
4 - Emergency Preparedness (as a lesson under the over arching topic, it's own Storyline file)
Etc...
Hi - can you tell me more about your process? What LMS are you using? And what standard are you publishing from Storyline as?
If I'm understanding correctly, you're using the LMS functionality to combine your sub-topics into one course, is that correct?
