topic Re: Use for managing training course materials in Alfresco Archive

Use for managing training course materials

mlarkinmn — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 14:38:02 GMT

I am wondering if anyone has used Alfresco to manage web-based courseware. The basic problem is that we would like to manage the materials at the course level not the file level. Courses are developed in Captiva and Articulate and also often developed as linked Microsoft Office files. Often a cour

Re: Use for managing training course materials

norgan — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:21:07 GMT

How about your own content type, derived from cm:folder ? Do you management on the folder, containing all the source files etc.

Re: Use for managing training course materials

mlarkinmn — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 13:27:00 GMT

That appears to be a good solution. Would that allow me to do workflow on the folder and its content as well? The folder would be the course name. the content of the folder would be the course and its source materials.

Re: Use for managing training course materials

vidya_r — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:16:26 GMT

Sorry for following you but I have exactly similar situation where the folder may be any kind of course which may be some in-house courses which launch in our own launcher. Other courses may include specific package types like ims-cp (SCORM) or simple folders with html. Each of these folders may be in MBs. 200 MB is an average size for our courses since most of them have flash simulation files.
One of our main requirement is to launch these courses in their respective launchers during review for preview and editing. Can this be done?

Also we have our content on a remote server which will be standalone. We intend to have alfresco on a separate server. Is this achievable? Webservices can make this possible as per some post. But is workflow available through web service calls?

Re: Use for managing training course materials

mlarkinmn — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:17:19 GMT

If you use Explorer you can actually launch the course.. either via the file share (CIFS) or from within the repository. The way I brought in courses was to zip them with the file structure intact (folders) and imported then. This preserves the correct structure and makes them viewable. My problem continues to be to manage then at the space (folder) level.