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Well it is far from a perfect solution, but I have developed this userscript for eXe 2.5 which is called cBuilder 0.12.1. There is an accompanying script called cScraper which can scrape an HTML file (assuming, for example, that you converted a MS Word file to HTML and set all headings as H1, H2, etc) and produces output in the form of two arrays that you can save into your cScraper script. Note: The cScraper script must be modified and setup before it can build a particular course – you must change the @match line as well as add in the course data arrays myStructure and myStructureText.

We are still working on both improving cBuilder (it just barely works) as well as developing a new method of automating course creation in line with Ignacio’s suggestion where we simply generate the output of eXe on our own without using the eXe web interface at all. That being said, even this early rudimentary automation script has saved my team hundreds if not thousands of labor hours.

To get it to work, you need to save an eXe project in Advanced Mode and then change this line to match that name:
// @match http://localhost:51235/SAMPLE_COURSE
For example, if your elp was saved as “DOGS_ARE_AWESOME” then the line above would read:
// @match http://localhost:51235/DOGS_ARE_AWESOME

Next you simply add the script to Greasemonkey (firefox add-on) or Tampermonkey (Chrome add-on) and enable it. Save and refresh your elp in the eXe web editor and the automation script should activate automatically.

There are a few known issues and limitations.. cBuilder does not recognize the hierarchical structure of courses and instead promotes each unit at the “Chapter” level – this is actually due to a limitation in the LMS that we use. For now please report any issues or improvements in this thread and do give credit if you use this in your own project. Also feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the script.

See attached file(s).

Well it is far from a perfect solution, but I have developed this userscript for eXe 2.5 which is called cBuilder 0.12.1. There is an accompanying script called cScraper which can scrape an HTML file (assuming, for example, that you converted a MS Word file to HTML and set all headings as H1, H2, etc) and produces output in the form of two arrays that you can save into your cScraper script. Note: The cScraper script must be modified and setup before it can build a particular course – you must change the @match line as well as add in the course data arrays myStructure and myStructureText.

We are still working on both improving cBuilder (it just barely works) as well as developing a new method of automating course creation in line with Ignacio’s suggestion where we simply generate the output of eXe on our own without using the eXe web interface at all. That being said, even this early rudimentary automation script has saved my team hundreds if not thousands of labor hours.

To get it to work, you need to save an eXe project in Advanced Mode and then change this line to match that name:
// @match http://localhost:51235/SAMPLE_COURSE
For example, if your elp was saved as “DOGS_ARE_AWESOME” then the line above would read:
// @match http://localhost:51235/DOGS_ARE_AWESOME

Next you simply add the script to Greasemonkey (firefox add-on) or Tampermonkey (Chrome add-on) and enable it. Save and refresh your elp in the eXe web editor and the automation script should activate automatically.

There are a few known issues and limitations.. cBuilder does not recognize the hierarchical structure of courses and instead promotes each unit at the “Chapter” level – this is actually due to a limitation in the LMS that we use. For now please report any issues or improvements in this thread and do give credit if you use this in your own project. Also feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the script.

See attached files.

Well it is far from a perfect solution, but I have developed this userscript for eXe 2.5 which is called cBuilder 0.12.1. There is an accompanying script called cScraper which can scrape an HTML file (assuming, for example, that you converted a MS Word file to HTML and set all headings as H1, H2, etc) and produces output in the form of two arrays that you can save into your cBuilder script. Note: The cBuilder script must be modified and setup before it can build a particular course – you must change the @match line as well as add in the course data arrays myStructure and myStructureText.

We are still working on both improving cBuilder (it just barely works) as well as developing a new method of automating course creation in line with Ignacio’s suggestion where we simply generate the output of eXe on our own without using the eXe web interface at all. That being said, even this early rudimentary automation script has saved my team hundreds if not thousands of labor hours.

To get it to work, you need to save an eXe project in Advanced Mode and then change this line to match that name:
// @match http://localhost:51235/SAMPLE_COURSE
For example, if your elp was saved as “DOGS_ARE_AWESOME” then the line above would read:
// @match http://localhost:51235/DOGS_ARE_AWESOME

Next you simply add the script to Greasemonkey (firefox add-on) or Tampermonkey (Chrome add-on) and enable it. Save and refresh your elp in the eXe web editor and the automation script should activate automatically.

There are a few known issues and limitations.. cBuilder does not recognize the hierarchical structure of courses and instead promotes each unit at the “Chapter” level – this is actually due to a limitation in the LMS that we use. For now please report any issues or improvements in this thread and do give credit if you use this in your own project. Also feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the script.

See attached files.
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Well it is far from a perfect solution, but I have developed this userscript for eXe 2.5 which is called cBuilder 0.12.1. There is an accompanying script called cScraper which can scrape an HTML file (assuming, for example, that you converted a MS Word file to HTML and set all headings as H1, H2, etc) and produces output in the form of two arrays that you can save into your cBuilder script. Note: The cBuilder script must be modified and setup before it can build a particular course – you must change the @match line as well as add in the course data arrays myStructure and myStructureText.

We are still working on both improving cBuilder (it just barely works) as well as developing a new method of automating course creation in line with Ignacio’s suggestion where we simply generate the output of eXe on our own without using the eXe web interface at all. That being said, even this early rudimentary automation script has saved my team hundreds if not thousands of labor hours.

To get it to work, you need to save an eXe project in Advanced Mode and then change this line to match that name:
// @match http://localhost:51235/SAMPLE_COURSE
For example, if your elp was saved as “DOGS_ARE_AWESOME” then the line above would read:
// @match http://localhost:51235/DOGS_ARE_AWESOME

Next you simply add the script to Greasemonkey (firefox add-on) or Tampermonkey (Chrome add-on) and enable it. Save and refresh your elp in the eXe web editor and the automation script should activate automatically.

There are a few known issues and limitations.. cBuilder does not recognize the hierarchical structure of courses and instead promotes each unit at the “Chapter” level – this is actually due to a limitation in the LMS that we use. For now please report any issues or improvements in this thread and do give credit if you use this in your own project. Also feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the script.

I have also attached the accompanying cScraper 0.1.5 script mentioned above. This one isn’t a userscript, you simply paste it into the console in your web browser after converting your entire course to a single HTML file.

See attached files.

The objective is to automatically build an eXe course out of an existing document.

In my case we have a course book in the form of an MS Word document. We save the MS Word document as HTML and then open that HTML file in our web browser and paste in the cScraper script. cScraper returns its output which are two variables consisting of all of the contents of the book in the form of two arrays which can be plugged into the cBuilder script so that it can convert the book into an eXe course.

We then setup and run the cBuilder script which automatically builds the entire course in eXe.

I created a video/turorial going over this process which may be easier to understand:
https://youtu.be/nkWAeSaz580

(I apologize that the screen ended up a bit cut off.)
(At the time of posting, the video is still processing but it should be available soon.)

If you like that I would also like to show you some of the various mod scripts I have made to extend some features of eXe to meet our requirements. For example we made a script to add features to the SCORM QUIZ iDevice, such as:
– Do not let the user go on until they achieve a passing score.
– Display Feedback for each question after the user submits the review quiz (correct feedback in green and incorrect feedback in red).
– Ask the user a set number of questions from a question bank (for example, display 4 out of 10 questions).
– Shuffle the order of questions.

And another which is simpler.. it displays a countdown timer for the user and will not allow the user to advance until the timer reaches zero. The countdown time for an individual unit can either be determined automatically based on the word count or manually set to a specific duration.

I will probably create a GitHub sooner or later to put some of this stuff on.