[Xerte] Re: Scorm and VLE's

[Tom Reijnders]

There are many different ways of being SCORM compliant...

What Xerte does out of the box, is provide you with SCORM compliant 
packaging.
It has all the features and ingredients to make great SCORM packages, 
but you need to be able to script, and you need a fairly good knowledge 
of the SCORM  RTE (Run time Environment) and the way that RTE is 
implemented by your specific LVE.

Basically all interaction between an RLO and SCORM is done through two 
API calls that set and/or get SCORM data elements. So you have to know 
the data elements and how to use them and also which data elements are 
picked up by your specific LVE to make it work.

A further complication is, that the RTE of SCORM 1.2 is different from 
the RTE of SCORM 2004, so you need to decide which you want to use.

In the Page templates there is some support for SCORM (1.2) in the quiz 
page. If you enable the (optional) Scorm tracking parameter, it will 
track the final score in SCORM.

I have a more elaborate example of the quiz for Scorm 2004 that also 
records the learners answers, and in review mode will show you a summary 
of the answers given, and the correct answers. However, it's only in 
Dutch at the moment.

We are in the process of providing the quiz in English, and also 
enabling Xerte Online Toolkits to package for Scorm 2004.

For an example of how SCORM is handled, install Xerte Standalone, start 
a new Page Templates project, go to the directory of the new project, go 
in to the model directory and double-click on quiz.rlm.

This is the standard Scorm enabled Page. For an example of how the score 
is sent to scorm, check the scorm script icon at the end.

Hope this helps a bit. There is not much concrete documentation, but 
Xerte is in potential really great software for SCORM. It is the only 
package that I, as a programmer, can provide elaborate SCORM enabled 
templates to non-programmers.

Op 17-5-2011 12:09, Janine Dantzie schreef:
> We are very interested in producing some learning objects that are SCORM
> compliant to use within our VLE.
> Can anyone point me towards any tutorials on how to do this, so that
> SCORM picks up on the users actions.
>
> Thanks
>
> Janine
>
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