[Xerte] Xerte SCORM communiactions

[Julian Tenney]

-first I need to know how Xerte opens the communication with the SCORM,
is it automatic or I have to initialize something? I am using Moodle as
platform if this helps. 

 

It's automatic. Pulish to SCORM 1.2 and deploy those files.

 


-second, my L.O. is a simple guided exercise to help children to do
maths and all I need is that my last button (that is a save button) will
send to the SCORM the input to write the "complete" status on the
exercise. How is it wise to do? My button has a name off course in the
SWF file. I can't just replace it with a Xerte button because it is
animated and hidden o not active untile the last step. So I really need
to know how to open paths inside SWF files to use Xerte functions on
them. 

 

First of all get the SCORM test suite for scorm 1.2, and install it on
your computer. Verify it works using the test packages.

 

Then use it to load and run your LO.

 

The code to set the lesson_status is
_level0.engine.setValue('cmi.core.lesson_status', 'completed'); call
that either from your Flash swf or from Xerte directly. You'll be able
to see the result in the test suite.


Secondly I will need to do some other things with Xerte in a more
complicated way. A sort of test steps by steps in which I will have a
lot of presentations and interactive objects. 
I think I can do easily the interface with Flash and take it inside
Xerte. I saw the example interface and I think I can figure out what are
the components that Xerte uses to create forward and back button and so
on. 
Question is: If I won't create all the components in the interface (I
don't need text to speech and changing fonts or colors for istance) does
Xerte replace them with standard objects or the absence of this kind of
components can be an issue to make recognize the interface as Xerte
like? 

 

If you choose to use a custom interface, then Xerte lets you do whatever
you want to do. Some of that functionality is still available, but
you'll have to call it from your code.

Second question is: to change the dimension of the interface I have to
edit the HTML code of the page or is there a way to set it in Xerte
parameters? 

 

Set the stageSize on the LearingObject icon to, say, 500,400, and then
publish the piece,

 

J

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