Tips for updating xAPI content
Updating a xAPI activity on an LMS is a practice to avoid. Netex always recommends that a new activity be published to the LMS that reflects changes made to the new version.
SCORM content cannot be updated in LMS.
If you still want to update, you must make sure that the new version of the xAPI package doesn't have any change of structure compared to the previous version.
The following options are changes in structure in contents created with Author:
- Change templates (for example, switch from Basic Netex to Tokyo)
- Change the score for approval
- Modify the unit objectives
- Add/remove pages and/or popups.
- Add/remove components on those pages and/or popups
- Add/remove questionnaires
- Add/remove questions in questionnaires
- Modify questionnaires questions: Add new options or change the correct options
The option to update content depends on the LMS. Some of them will not allow you to update the activity if there is a change of this caliber. Others LMS will allow updating, but it will be possible to generate problems in the tracking of students who have already worked in the unit (e.g., if we add a page, a student who had completed it at 100% would no longer have it completed; and if we changed the right option for a question, a student could have it suspended.).
Therefore, the only changes that DO NOT AFFECT the structure (and that will be accepted by most LMS platforms) are:
- correction of existing texts
- substitution of images and/or videos