Can't import courses to Adapt.

[Rahulc24]

Hi,

I'm currently trying to make some textual updates to a Adapt course that was developed by someone else a few years ago. Unfortunately, I do not have access to the original Adapt authoring instance used to create it. All I have are a few ZIP files, which I believe are the source packages. I attempted to import these ZIP files into my current Adapt authoring tool instance but encountered the following error:
“This course can't be imported.”
(Screenshot attached)

After investigating, it seems that the original course may have been built using custom or local plugins that are no longer available in the public Adapt plugin library. I suspect this is causing compatibility issues, especially since the framework and plugins used at that time appear to be outdated compared to the current Adapt version.

I also searched the Adapt public plugin library for the missing plugins referenced in the course files but was unable to find them.

Could you please advise on:

1. Whether there’s a workaround to import such older courses?
2. Please suggest ways to solve this.

Please note that I’ve only recently started using the Adapt authoring tool- just a few days ago- so I’m still learning the platform. I would really appreciate your guidance on how best to proceed. I would really appreciate your guidance at the earliest, as I’m on a tight deadline to update and redeploy this course.

[barryjenkin]

The jump from fw2 to fw5 is a big one fraught with breakages. It might be worth running a separate instance if possible using fw2 until you get through all the plugin workarounds. I've had to do similar as there's a significant amount of re-work to get some of my older courses working in the latest. Alternatively I can publish as scorm for you in my older version AT and you can edit the text in the zip if it's needed urgently.