Peng Zhang on January 14th, 2010

completion of a course by a user will show up in a report run on an LC as long as the user and the course are both associated with the LC.

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Peng Zhang on January 14th, 2010

Findings:

Would courses loaded onto a Sub-LearnCenter show up in other LearnCenters? It depends. If the course is inserted into the showroom of the LC from the common storage room, then the course will appear for a LC that did not initially created or imported the course.
Courses created or imported are by default stored in a [...]

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Peng Zhang on January 14th, 2010

In preparation for setting up a sub-LearnCenter(SLC) and controlling access to it, I did some exploratory tests on Learn.com’s sub-LearnCenters to find out more about the relationships between users and LearnCenters. Here are what I found:

primary LC (PLC) and SLC reference the same user record which contains the user properties. If the company field is [...]

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Peng Zhang on July 22nd, 2009

I have been asked this question a couple of times, and I myself  ponder this question from time to time. I write this post for myself as well as to share with those facing the weighty decision in picking the right LMS.
The Terminology Soup
In the learning technology world, the different terms used to refer to [...]

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Peng Zhang on May 28th, 2009

I had some challenges with some DVDs where Any Video Converter(AVC) would fail to convert to WMV format but was able to convert to a long FLV which could not be properly handled by Adobe Media Encoder (AME would error out and fail to segment it into short video clips).
I looked into the error log [...]

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Peng Zhang on May 7th, 2009

Do not convert DVD vob file into FLV as an intermediate format.
I converted a DVD into a FLV file using the highest available bitrate 1500 and the original FPS using Any Video Converter, but Media Encoder will not properly segment the video into clips at my specified start and end times. Media Encoder CS4 would [...]

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