How to Identify Courses that Contain Flash & What to Do About It

Why you should care

Adobe plans to stop supporting Flash by 2020.  As of this writing Chrome and Edge block Flash. In 2019, Microsoft plans to push an update to block Flash in Internet Explorer.

If your eLearning depends on Flash it won't work in Chrome, Edge and according to Microsoft's plans, soon it won't work in Internet Explorer either.  By not working, we mean it will not play properly or it will not report completions to UniversitySite.

How you can identify courses that contain Flash

Use the filter in InstructorSite to display all courses that contain Flash

Important Note: If you uploaded content prior to June 2018 it's possible you won't see those courses detected by the "Contains flash" filter since this capability was introduced afterward.  If you think that's affecting you please contact support@profiscience.com

Note: When viewing any individual course that contains flash you will see this warning notice in InstructorSite

You will also be given a warning if you try to upload eLearning content to UniversitySite that contains Flash.

Recommendations for eLearning that contains Flash

1. Retire courses that contain Flash.  You may find it helpful to sort by Created date and change from Ascending to Descending sort.
2. Request a new version that does not contain Flash from the content provider
3. Publish a new version that does not contain Flash
4. Determine if eLearning that contains Flash depends on Flash

Contact Lawren Finley about professional services that we can provide for identifying courses that depend on Flash and fixing them.