DaLeeMan » General Stuff http://www.daleeman.com Not just another techblog…well, yeah it is Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:18:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Learning SCORM http://www.daleeman.com/learning-scorm/ http://www.daleeman.com/learning-scorm/#comments Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:23:44 +0000 Daleeman http://www.daleeman.com/?p=30 A few weeks back I decided to finally learn about the Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM). Most of what I was able to find was either a high-level overview or some program that creates scorm code for you. That’s great, but I wanted to learn how to REALLY write a SCORM object (SCO)…meaning, by hand!

What is SCORM? SCORM is – simply put – a browser-based API for communicating between 1) course content and an LMS and 2) LMS and the end-user. This allows for content sharing between LMSs without regard for the ACTUAL system…meaning, we’re SCORM dependant, not LMS dependant.

I decided that since I was writing a tutorial (of sorts) about SCORM, I should probably do my tutorial as a SCORM compliant package. And thats what I did.

Before you do anything, be sure to take the SCORM 101 course. Otherwise, this will be pretty useless for you!

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You can see that this is a very simple no-frills SCO. And that was the point! I dont do objective tracking, I just display and navigate content. On a final note, it’s important to understand one final thing about SCORM…It is just a Javascript API that you add to your normal web content. Anything you can do with a normal webpage, you can do in SCORM…only in SCORM, the API lets you track your users/students and provides for a level of reusability (when implemented to do so).

Hopefully this has been helpful!

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