Adobe Flash has had a good run, but its time has come. Officially, Adobe ended support of Flash Player on December 31, 2020. This may not seem like a big deal, but it may have a negative impact on some of your tried-and-true legacy eLearning modules you’ve been using for the past decade.
You may have already started to notice the changes.
There are a few things you need to be aware of that will be impacted by this change.
LMS Flash Assets
Before you dig deep into all of your trainings, first take a look at your LMS. Does it have any Flash elements that are visible to the end user? You’ll need to test this in different non-Flash-compatible browsers to determine if there are elements not appearing, or requiring Flash enablement. Then, consider if you’ll just remove them, or replace them with non-Flash elements.
Legacy and New eLearning
Your older eLearning courses that were built for Flash or have Flash elements will have to be converted to HTML5. Unfortunately for those older courses, this will be a rebuild, but also opens the opportunity for a redesign! Take this as a positive: now you finally can bring all of your content under an overarching style to create that learning ecosystem that your organization needs.
If you’ve been publishing out your more recent courses in HTML5 with a Flash contingency, you’ll have to republish and reupload those as HTML5 only. The Flash contingency will cause the package to include swf files, which will mess with your output now that the death-date has passed.
Make sure your content is accessible to your learners! If you haven’t started looking at your assets, the time is now.
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