Hi, great news. Will Articulate be providing any “off the shelf” API solutions or do we need to go to third-party providers for these to code?

Hi Andrew- Yes, you’d need to work with your own developers or third-party providers to leverage the API. Trigent is a company that’s already worked with one of our customers to integrate e-commerce with Articulate Online.

We have client interested in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese online learning.

How is the Articulate Studio and Online system handling the international language issue.

Please advise.

Hi Alex- Our products support all languages. Studio ’09 even includes 11 language packs to customize your player templates. You can learn more here.

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I love the idea of a self registration. Here is one thing that I don’t see, and I am curious about the possibilities. Can the self registration process also allow the user to select the group in which they belong?

Hi Eric – yeah, that is certainly possible with the API. On my blog (www.mozealous.com) I give an example of how to do self registration. It wouldn’t be super difficult to add the ability to chose a group as well.

Is there a way to do single sign on?

Hi Beverley- Take a look at item #2 on this page about creating a self-registration page. Is that what you’re looking for?

It’s somewhere in these solutions I’m sure!

Is there a way to change the Articulate Online user interface to different languages? I have learners in several different countries and would like to make their learning experience as easy as possible.

Hi Rachel- that’s currently not possible, but depending on your requirements, you could essentially create your own website — in whatever languages you needed — to launch the content via your Articulate Online account.

Well, with the API it would be possible to re-create most of the Articulate Online UI to support different languages, but not explicitly change the text strings or anything like that.

The only part you couldn’t recreate of the UI in the API is the reporting section.

That being said, we are looking into the possibility of making the Articulate Online user interface support localization in a future update to Articulate Online.

The AO is a step in the right direction.

However: It would be even better if I could implement the backend-API myself, so that I would not have to have my data on Articulate’s site, and pay fees for using the API.

The API url should be a pr project configurable variable.
The different API calls could also be configurable.
The XML used to read/write data should be an open specification.

Thanks for the feedback, James. I’d encourage you to share all feedback via our feature request form.

The API is included free of charge with all Premium level Articulate Online plans and higher. For other plans, there is a one-time activation fee (the price depends on whether you subscribe monthly or annually).

I’d like to know if I can use the API to import data into our Saba LMS system. What is the best way to create that data feed? Does Articulate-Online offer consulting/design service to help set this up?

Hi Gabriel- what data are you looking to import into Saba?

We do not offer consulting services, but here’s a blog entry on a customer who does.

I would need to import or feed the following fields to my Saba LMS:
- Saba/Student Username
- Course ID
- Course version
- Course completion date
- Course score

If Articulate-Online allows you to create the student username, then we could use the same name to match the data. I could also use the same Course ID if Articulate allowed for an ID field in addition to the Course Name.

Can you create any custom fields for this purpose in Articulate-Online? I’d like to use Articulate-Online, but we need to keep all employee training records housed within our validated LMS to comply with FDA regulations.

A really useful step to integrate an e-learning platform with our e-comerce site.

Is it possible to access Student data from my LMS, such as Student Name, email address, course ID, course name, score, etc.? I need to build a Flash component that uses this information.

Hi Bob,

Currently the Articulate Online API doesn’t allow you to access any of the reporting data (score/status). The API can however be very useful in user management (automating adding/removing users, deleting courses, etc).

-Dave

How about Sharepoint integration? Could user results and reports be exported from Articulate Online to Sharepoint via the API?

Hi Andre- As Dave noted above, the Articulate Online API does not currently give you access to any reporting data, so you would not be able to extract that to SharePoint. You can do a number of other things with the API, though

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Is there any storage or bandwidth limitation in the Articulate Online account? A lot of the content in our customers courses is video. Will it work?

Hi Devendra- you’re limited to hosting the number of content items that your plan allows (compare plans – we also offer separate content packs if you need to host and deliver additional content items). There’s a 500 MB limit per content item that you upload, which is really big, even if you have a lot of video.

As long as your bandwidth usage is reasonable, you shouldn’t run into any issues, though we do have the following text in the Articulate Online Terms of Service:

“If your bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average bandwidth usage (as determined solely by Articulate) of other Articulate Online customers, we reserve the right to immediately disable your account or throttle your account until you can reduce your bandwidth consumption.”

Most customers will never have to worry about this, though – even with a lot of video. That statement is primarily there to prevent abuse of the service.