So I’ve saw a wonderful screenr from Jeanette Brooks about the reasons why a PPTA file is created when you are producing a course using Articulate Presenter, but I didn’t really get it until today.
Last Friday my work computer crashed, AGAIN, but this time it was fatal and my computer had to be reimaged. Essentially anything on my hard drive was gone. This has happened to me before at work. Not a large problem normally because I save most of my files onto a network server. That was until I discovered that with each of the courses I created using Articulate, the colour schemes, player templates, etc. are also stored on my hard drive. The crash wiped them all out.
Being instructional designers using rapid instructional tools I’m sure you can appreciate the need to use the same if not similar templates. So what’s a girl to do when they are no more.
ENTER the ARTICULATE FORUM. What a wonderful and joyful thing!!!!
I searched the Articulate Forum for a solution…couldn’t find one….posted the question….searched some more assuming I’m can’t possibly be the only person with this issue….and voilà there it was….my solution….hiding in the middle of someone else’s question.
There post: http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-presenter/18335-s-weird-day-articulate-land.html and in one of the responses MY SOLUTION.
ENTER the PPTA file. What a wonderful and joyful thing!!!!
So, one needs only to open a previously published course. Navigate to the Publish area and resave the Player Template (In Project) as a new name. The same can be done with the colour scheme by navigating to the Player Template area, Colors, Edit Color Schemes, New and enter in a new name for the scheme. Both are now resaved into your Articulate presenter to be used over again in a new project.’
Many thanks to Brian Batt (@articulatebrian), Jeantte Brooks (@jeanettebrooks), Justin Wilcox (@justinawilcox), and JP Redman (Articulate User) for all helping me solve my issue of the day.