One lesson in the languages your people read, on the same page when they switch

Adding a language to a lesson

Open Edit Lesson on a video, audio, PDF, SCORM or text lesson and tick Add another language. Pick the language, then upload the file, paste a video link or embed code, choose an item from the Media Library, or write the text. Add more puts further languages in the same form, and Save languages uploads each one with its own progress bar. Language of the content above records which language the lesson’s own content is in, English unless you change it. Urdu and Arabic text lessons are written and shown right to left. Removing a language deletes its file, and learners who had chosen it go back to the main language.

What learners see

The Lesson language picker appears in the course panel once a lesson has two or more languages. On phones and tablets, and on a desktop with the panel hidden, it sits in one line above the content. Choosing a language swaps the lesson content and leaves the site language alone, so a learner can keep the menus in English and read the lesson in Marathi. The choice is remembered for that lesson and becomes the learner’s default for other lessons that offer the same language.

Keep the same page in every language

On the Languages tab of Edit Lesson, the setting Keep the same page in every language decides what a switch does. With it on, the learner’s place moves with them: the position inside a SCORM package (bookmark, saved state and open unit), the page of a PDF, the time in a video or audio file, and how far down a text lesson they had read. A learner on slide 3 in English who picks Hindi opens the Hindi package on slide 3, goes on to slide 5, and switches back to English on slide 5. With the setting off, each language keeps its own place. A link under the switch applies the setting to every lesson with languages in the course in one step.

Only the place moves. Status, score, answers and time spent stay with the language they were earned in.

Making sure the pages match

Carrying a place only helps when page 5 means the same thing in every language, so the setting comes with a check. LMS Advisor counts the slides of iSpring packages, the units of multi-unit SCORM packages and the pages of each PDF, and the Languages tab lists every language next to the main one, for example English 12 pages, Hindi 12 pages, Tamil 10 pages. While the setting is on, a package or PDF with a different number of pages is refused at upload with a message that names both counts, and the setting cannot be switched on while a saved language differs. You fix the version, and nothing mismatched reaches learners.

Continue where you left off

When a learner reopens a SCORM lesson they had started, or a video or audio lesson with at least 5 seconds watched, LMS Advisor asks whether to continue or start from the beginning, and Continue opens their place in the language they last chose. The question comes when the lesson opens, never on a language switch. Start from the beginning clears the place only, so status, score and completion are kept.

Completion, copies and exports

A lesson keeps one completion whatever language it is taken in, and a completion is never taken back. Rules such as watching a share of a video or spending a minimum time are measured on the language the learner chose. Copying a lesson or a course copies its languages, and a course export carries each language version with its own videos and packages, together with the page setting.