Publishing Engage to a PPT2Flash presentation

[Aptdoctor]

We cannot use Articulate Presenter in our new LMS because we need to include a pre and post test as seperate SCO's and after contacting Presenter support, we've been advised we can't do that in Presenter. So, we are publishing with Wondershare PPT2Flash and would like to use all of our Engage interactions. It seems the only way to include them is to add a slide with a link to the Engage files and have the Engage open in a new window. Is there any way to embed the Engage interaction so it will publish when PPT2Flash converts the PowerPoint slides?

Thanks in advance for any assistance anyone can give me! Doug

[Justin]

If your LMS supports course sequencing you can create standalone presentations/quizzes and incorporate them as separate SCOs rather than trying to track the quizzes in the same presentation and still use Articulate.

[Aptdoctor]

Hi - sorry for the delay in replying. Thanks for the suggestion; we are basically doing that now (link in a slide that spawns new window to play Engage content) - just wondering if there was a more elegant solution. Thanks again! Doug

[Justin]

That's not really what I meant. I meant if there was a way in the LMS to do course sequencing so that a course is set up (not in a presentation but in the LMS) where it's like

Log into course.
See that there are three parts.
1st quiz
Presentation
2nd quiz

That'd be the easiest way to set it up in an LMS if you can.

[Aptdoctor]

Hi and Happy Holidays!

I would love to do that, and I was told that I could not publish multiple SCOs using Articulate. We have a rather "bare bones" LMS, and while I know I can do sequencing if I publish multiple SCOs (the ONLY reason we are using PPT2Flash is that it published multiple SCOs in SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004) but I don't think I could publish an Articulate SCO and two individual Quizmaker SCOs ( a pre and a post) and then assemble them inside the LMS unless I use another tool - I think they suggested Manifest Maker?

Thanks again, Justin!

[GerryWaz]

Yes, that is one way to do it. You can use a third-party tool to create your manifest. Check these links:

Quizmaker and Manifest Maker

Repackaging Articulate content to allow multiple SCO’s? | Dave Mozealous

We use AICC and we are in the same boat. We need to hand-edit the files needed to do multiple-AUs (AICC assignable units), and it is not easy, especially when you do not do it every day. Too easy to make a silly mistake in what looks like an arcane process.

I've said this before but I'll do it again--up on my opinionated soapbox . . .

Until Articulate can give us a way, inside the tools, to easily produce multiple AU or SCO courses for AICC or SCORM, it is not a complete e-learning authoring tool. IMVHO . Other e-learning tools (e.g., Lectora) let you do this easily.

For Articulate not to provide this is not rapid e-learning development or a recognition of where most learners are today. They want short modules, easily digestible chunks. And multi-AU or multi-SCO helps developers achieve that in the context of a larger course.

We need this ability NOW! Many of us have asking for this for years. Make this easy for us and not force us to use third-party solutions that, quite frankly, may not be easy to use as your tools, or to hand code the needed files if no third-party solution is available, where it is too easy to make mistakes and spend long amounts of time trying to find some little arcane error.

Off my soapbox . . . .

I urge all developers who agree with this to file an enhancement request with Articulate for their consideration: http://www.articulate.com/support/contact/feature/

In my organization, where most of our developers are SMEs, trying to teach them to produce hand-coded AICC files is a waste of time or a lesson in frustration, so I usually end up doing it for them.

We need our users empowered by the tools, and, more importantly, we need to more easily produce small modules that work together to make it easier for Person # 1--our learners.