Cooper E72 Loading

[Karlyn Hemmerling]

CooperFarms began their hog business in 1994 and now moves 600,000 and 700,000 pigs a year from barns to trailers to packing plants. Like most hog operations, the pigs were loaded with chutes from the barn into the back of a trailer. That changed in 2009, however, due to an innovative idea of Alan Evers, a Hog Grow-Out Manager for Cooper Farms, encouraging company to research a way to improve this daunting process and reduce stress for the pigs and the people loading them.

The loader connects the barn and the side of the trailer. It eliminates any exposure to inclement weather and offers consistent controlled lighting. The loader features three compartments: a loading bay that allows pigs to be continually moved out of the barn, a resting bay that allows time for pigs to acclimate to their new surroundings and a hydraulic lift bay that allows pigs to be loaded on the top or bottom deck of the trailer.

With the loader connecting the barn and the trailer, a group of up to 15 pigs is moved into the back bay of the loader. Once the first group is in, the next resting area in the middle of the loader is opened and the pigs move forward. The front bay of the loader is hydraulic and once the group is secured there, the pigs will be loaded through the open side of the trailer. The bay is raised if they are going on the top deck.

The hog loader system has earned attention and accolades, Huftel said. Cooper Farms sent a video of their hog loading system to Temple Grandin and received a letter back sharing how not only did she watch it, but she was also very impressed.

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Hi - we are often asked by our clients to advise on using RISE to create courses and then load them under a specific LMS. There have been many, many discussions over the years here on E-learning Heroes and I am keen to fully understand the issues. I'm hoping the community can help me.

(1) Progress tracking and course completion. To allow the RISE course to pass tracking information to the LMS, it must be published for LMS, and that means loading the course as a SCORM or xAPI module. So if your LMS doesn't support SCORM or xAPI, you are in trouble.

(2) Conflicting Course Structure and Navigation - Most LMS's have a course hierarchy including Courses which consist of Lessons which, in turn may (in some LMS's) be subdivided into Topics. So the challenge is how do you load a RISE module. If you load it as a Lesson it will appear in the LMS Course Navigation menu. But, RISE has it's own internal hierachy with a Course Overview and Lessons - PLUS it has it's own Lesson Navigation menu. This can lead to a situation where you have two navigation menus on screen. Here the options appear to be either (a) load the RISE module in a separate window or (b) disable the RISE navigation which, fortunately, is an optional setting.

(3) Display Frame Size Issues - One of the main reasons why people like RISE is it's free format visual display, unlike Storyline it is not 'frame-based' it behaves much more like a responsive website which is great for touch screens and smaller screen devices. If you want to include a RISE module in your LMS but you don't want to open it in a separate window, then it will be displayed in an iframe. And the size of that iframe is likely to be dictated by the LMS lesson template. Hence people report problems with small frame sizes and fixed height frames which result in horizontal or vertical scroll bars (or both) leading to two vertical scroll bars on the page and not the free format display which is RISE's great strength.

"Publishing to web will only create an HTML5 version of your course with no capabilities of tracking user progress. This format is mostly reserved for when you would like to host a course on a web server to distribute your course with no intention of tracking who views the courses."

A very common problem reported here, is related to when a student starts a course, and then quits halfway through. When the student resumes the course later, there is no record or bookmarking regarding their previous session, so they cannot resume where they left off before, and they have to restart the course from the beginning.

Our LMS is setup to open the course in a new window, and if a student exits the course by closing the window, NO data is sent to the LMS. In our case, we need to publish with the course Exit link turned on, and students MUST exit the course using the link.

A lot of our work is with what I would describe as 'Commercial' LMS's i.e. their main purpose is to offer courses for sale. In this situation, detailed tracking and in-course assessment is not so important. All the LMS needs to know is that the learner has completed a given lesson or course so it can mark that fact in the learner's membership record.

If there is an assessment it is normally a separate quiz or exercise at the end of the course which can easily be handled by the LMS's own functionality and is often linked to some form of certification.

So we decided to take a look at how you might load RISE modules using an LMS without SCORM or xAPI support (of which there are quite a few in the commercial LMS space!) - meaning we would be publishing the RISE course for the web.

We have recently completed a couple of LearnDash/WordPress projects so this was an obvious one for us to try. There is xAPI support available for LearnDash - BUT it is a plug-in. LearnDash itself does not have any support for SCORM nor xAPI.

We didn't like the idea of launchng the RISE web course in a new window because of the problems of getting notification of completion back to LearnDash (not insurmountable but quite complex involving server-side coding). But I think we succeeded pretty well in overcoming the conflicting course structure and navigation issues and were able to load RISE modules successfully as lessons within a LearnDash course AND we overcame the frame size and scrolling issues to a more than acceptable extent where everyone agreed the course looked good!

However, SPOILER ALERT!!... having got it working we couldn't actually see ANY advantage or reason to use RISE... We could achieve exactly the same 'look and feel' just using LearnDash. And RISE features such as flipcards, process flows, timelines etc, were achieved just as easily by using the huge number of widgets available with modern WordPress visual page builders. In fact we had a far greater choice of interactions with far greater control over the visual display elements.

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