SCORM & PowerPoint Upload

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In addition to creating courses directly in SafetyNow, you can also upload SCORM courses and PowerPoints. Let's talk about PowerPoint first.

PowerPoint Upload

You have the option of uploading a PowerPoint into SafetyNow and starting your course with that. Keep in mind that this is fairly basic. The converter will take the PowerPoint file and convert it into images. Each image will be placed into an individual content slide, which you can then add audio, text, or video to. 

In fact, other than starting from a PowerPoint, these are exactly the same as starting from scratch. You can add quizzes, new content slides, and enable Retain functionality.

So let's upload your PowerPoint. First, use the Application Switcher to go to the Author tab. From there, click on the Upload Course link in the upper right:

This will bring you to a page where you can upload your SCORM file. Simply drag it from your desktop or file explorer, or click the link to browse your computer and upload it that way.

Once you've uploaded the course, it will take a few minutes to process everything. After it's done, you can edit the course just like any other SafetyNow course, adding audio, videos, quizzes, etc.

SCORM Course Upload

For a list of Best Practices related to SCORM uploads, see this document.

SCORM courses are built in outside tools, then uploaded into SafetyNow. Typically, these are created using programs like Articulate, Captivate, or iSpring, although there are many others. If you have a SCORM course ready, you can simply upload it and it should work just fine. 

The downsides to this are that you cannot change the course from within SafetyNow - you have to use the original tool to make modifications. Additionally, Retain functionality does not work with SCORM courses. Finally, we cannot usually troubleshoot SCORM courses - since they are created by outside tools or other vendors, it is very difficult and sometimes impossible for us to fix issues. However, if you do have issues, we'll do our best to get these resolved.

Here's a quick chart comparing the features of SCORM and SafetyNow native courses:

	SCORM Course	SafetyNow Course
Can be assigned to learners and groups	✓	✓
Videos, audio, images, etc.	✓	✓
Multiple types of quizzes	✓	✓
Shows on reports	✓	✓
Doesn't require 3rd party software	X	✓
Report on each quiz question individually	X	✓
Retain functionality	X	✓
Custom-built interactions	✓	X
Branching paths	✓	X

If you have SCORM courses or plan on making them, the best practices for uploading them are:

• Use SCORM 2004 (4th edition) or SCORM 1.2 when creating projects to upload into Bridge
• SCORM packages will only open a new window in Bridge. Currently, SCORM packages cannot open in an iframe in Bridge
• Enable grade/score passback (quiz results tracking or slide view tracking)
• Upload and test the SCORM package file as an end user

Finally, as far as uploading a course, it's very simple. First, use the Application Switcher to go to the Author tab. From there, click on the Upload Course link in the upper right:

This will bring you to a page where you can upload your SCORM file. Simply drag it from your desktop or file explorer, or click the link to browse your computer and upload it that way.

Once you've uploaded the course, it will take a few minutes to process everything. During this time it will pull the course name and description from your SCORM file, assuming it was provided internally. It will also calculate an estimated duration for the course, which you can change if you like. 

Once it is done, you will be able to publish your course and start assigning it to learners!