How to handle versioning of a SCORM file-3 - Hiding the old, showing the new

Video Transcription

Keep in mind that when you update an existing SCORM file with a new content and you don't preserve the progress, the user have to do everything again and all the existing report  which is available under this report icon will be wiped out. This may or may not be a desired outcome.  With that said, you can try to make your new version of the SCORM backward compatible, but OASIS does not know what degree of changes will become incompatible.  So sometimes changing a word, fixing a typo, fixing a link might be small enough that it doesn't break the compatibility, whereas adding a new question, removing a slide will  break the backward compatibility. Now if keeping the existing report is important, what we also recommend is you can change this to say this is a version 1, right?  You change the name and then what you can do is you can click on the eye icon so that this become invisible so that any user's progress made against the old version is not deleted.  Then you can essentially add a new version of the SCORM file. You can add a new version of the SCORM file. And I'm just going to upload another silly SCORM file right here.  So now what I have done is I have said I want my cake and eat it too, right? I want to say I don't want to lose any old progress so that I'm going to hide it.  And clicking on the eye will hide it. But I will have a new one so that the old one is still in the system, just nobody can see it.  So now if I'm going to refresh the learner site, you will see that when I click on it, it's a completely different SCORM file, right? This is a completely different SCORM file.  But the old version of the SCORM file, which is SCORM file V1, is nowhere to be seen. So the user don't see the old version, but the admin sees it and admin still have access  to who completed the old SCORM file and what did they do inside the SCORM file. So hide the old version and introduce a new version allows you to have the best of both worlds.  Thank you.

Video Summary

Updating a SCORM file without preserving progress resets user data, including reports. Changes may vary in compatibility impact, with minor edits often safe. To maintain previous data, create a new version while hiding the old one with an "eye" icon. This way, users won't lose progress, but admins can access both versions. Refreshing the learner site reveals the new SCORM file, keeping the previous version hidden from users. This method enables the retention of data while introducing new content for users and admins, achieving the best of both worlds.

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Creation Year 2024

Keywords

SCORM file

progress

user data

compatibility impact

version control