As you probably know, Rapid Intake Unison outputs courses that can be run on any browser in the Flash Player. The Flash Player is widely supported in all major browsers and allows for a consistent web-based media experience for your learners regardless of the browser or operating system they are using. Using Flash output is the best way to build interactive, media-rich content for web deployment today.
Flash movies are built on a programming language called ActionScript. Normally you don't have to worry about this, as knowledge of ActionScript and how to use Adobe Flash itself is not required to build courses in Unison. Still, you should understand some basic concepts to be able to better understand some new features rolling out to Rapid Intake e-learning software soon.
The Flash Player that all Rapid Intake courses run in comes in different versions, such as Player 7, Player 8, Player 9, and Player 10, and so on (right now Player 10 is the latest). Flash content created for Players 7 and 8 were programmed in ActionScript 2 (AS2). Then Adobe released ActionScript 3 (AS3). AS3 is dramatically different from AS2, and much more powerful. Coupled with the latest Player 10, it offers the best possible experience and flexibility for interactive content available anywhere today.
Many new Flash movies are exported in ActionScript 3 and cannot be played inside AS2 movies. Since Rapid Intake tools load external Flash movies dynamically, courses created in AS2 may become limiting over time.
That's why we are nearing release of a new feature that allows you to build courses that have a foundation (the course style, or skin) in AS3. With the course style in AS3, you can load either AS2 or AS3 content, offering you the choice of either.
Making the move to AS3 is not trivial, and a lot of things, including complex SCORM communication with the LMS, as well as changes to the architecture that we've been wanting to make for a long time, have gone into this foundational project. We'll announce when it is released into Beta, so you can try it out yourself.
1 comments:
Yes, this is great news!
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