Lab: SCORM

SCORM is a technical standard for online courseware, and can be utilized in a course in many ways, from amazingly simple bookmarking to achingly complex sequencing and navigation. SCORM's most important contribution to elearning — in my mind, anyway — is the standardization of communication between a course and an LMS, which enables course portability between LMS systems regardless of course or LMS vendor.

 

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Adding SCORM code to an HTML file using the pipwerks SCORM wrapper

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Today, I’m going to explain how to add SCORM code to a plain HTML file. This example uses SCORM 1.2 syntax, but as I explain at the end of the tutorial, it’s really easy to edit the code to use SCORM 2004 syntax.

How to add basic SCORM code to a Flash movie

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Here’s a quick tutorial for adding basic SCORM functionality to an existing Flash file. This tutorial aims to demonstrate just how easy it can be to add SCORM functionality to an existing Flash movie.

In this tutorial, we’re going to keep things very simple; our SCORM code will only check the LMS for a prior completion, and if no completion is found, will set the course to complete at the appropriate point in the movie.

Please note that this tutorial uses ActionScript 3 and SCORM 1.2, but the same principles apply for ActionScript 2 and SCORM 2004.

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pipwerks SCORM projects

SCORM API Wrapper [JavaScript]

A revised version of the ADL SCORM API wrapper, intended to bring the wrapper more in line with the "Web 2.0" world.  [ read more ]

SCORM API Wrapper for ActionScript

A companion ActionScript class for the JavaScript-based SCORM API Wrapper. Designed to simplify working with SCORM in Flash. Comes in both AS2 and AS3 flavors. [ read more ]

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