Uploading content packs to Moodle

The default limits placed on the size of content packages and the time allowed for their upload by Moodle may mean that some of the full-title content packs that users generate from Dynamic Learning may not upload into the VLE successfully.

There are two solutions to this:

• increase the permitted upload file-size limit and/or the upload timeout limit of your version of Moodle using the administrative tools provided by Moodle
• use the easy-to-follow instructions below to reduce the size of the content pack by removing resources, uploading to Moodle, then re-inserting the resources
  

How to alter Moodle's upload and time limitations

Please note that the following information is provided by Moodle.org, not Hodder Education and users make these changes at their own risk. Hodder Education takes no responsibility for any inaccuracies in the information provided.

How to change the maximum upload file size
How to change the maximum upload time limitation

How to upload larger SCORM packages without adjusting Moodle's upload limit or timeout settings

1. Create the SCORM 2004 content pack using Dynamic Learning's Admin Console.  See the Technical Help document for details.
   
   
2. Once you have generated the SCORM 2004 content pack, extract the contents of the resultant .zip folder to a folder of your choice on your computer.
   
   
3. Move the majority of the resource files (Word documents, Powerpoints, Flash files and so on) – but not the files and folders required by the SCORM pack – into a separate folder outside the folder created in step 2.  The image below shows the SCORM 2004 files which must remain.
   
   
   
   You should also keep at least one resource in this folder so that you can later discover the location to which Moodle extracts the pack.  (See step 5 for information on why this is important.)
   
   
4. Zip up the contents of the folder that you created in step 2 (which is a lot smaller now that you have removed most of the resource files).
   
   N.B. It is important to zip the contents of the folder, not the folder itself, so that the imsmanifest.xml file is still at the 'root' of the zip file.  On a PC with Winzip, you can do this by opening the folder, selecting all of the content, then right-clicking and selecting 'Add to .zip'.
   
   
5. Import this smaller zip file into Moodle in the usual way.  Moodle will show the links to the pack's resources, but at this stage most of the links will be broken because you removed the majority of the actual resource files from the original pack in step 3.
   
   
6. On the server where Moodle is installed browse to the location where Moodle stores its data (on our server, this is in a folder called 'moodledata').  Either by manually browsing, or by searching for one of the resources that you left in the uploaded pack, you'll be able to locate the folder to which Moodle has extracted the contents of the zipped pack.
   
   Now just copy back into the relevant Moodle folder all the resource files you removed in Step 2.  The pack will now work normally, with all links in the course finding the correct resource files.