[Xerte] Re: Xerte Project Questions

Thu Jan 17 08:07:51 GMT 2013

Julian,

The problem with SCORM is hat people often have completely different 
expectations on what a SCORM enabled package would do.

At the moment only the quiz is 'SCORM enabled'  in the sense that it 
tries to write the sores in to the SCORM store, and you can can see and 
check the score through the Moodle Score Book.

All the rest of the pages really uses scorm only as a package format to 
be able to load it into Moodle.

In XOT 1.8 I also introduced SCORM 2004 compliant packages and I have a 
SCORM 2004 version of the quiz that stores much more than only the final 
score. It should also give you a table with the correct answers in ' 
review' mode, but I never got the MOddle SCORM player to start an LO in 
' review' mode, so for now it's a bit pointless.

So, yes, there will definitely be more SCORM enabled pages, but it is 
all a bit early to make promises.  I intend to do most of this work 
after the HTML5 work is finished.

Regards,

Tom

Op 16-1-2013 19:38, avitor training schreef:
> Thanks to Tom and Pat for that, I'll make another installation following
> those guidelines.
>
> Regarding SCORM, I did not mean to be unhelpful; incorporating by
> reference means the target, in  this case Moodle can be consulted for the
> latest support. The current version of SCORM is 2004 and this is supported
> in Moodle via a plugin. Version 1.2 is supported natively as I understand
> is the case with Xerte. Of course, the successor to the SCORM 2004 spec.
> is already at version 0.95 so a 1.0 release may appear soon.
>
> Are there plans for implimenting SCORM support in Xerte beyond version
> 1.2, and if so is there a timetable?
>
> Regards,
>
> Julian
>
>> Regarding the security:
>>
>> Even though the manual sys you have to do this, this is not necessary.
>> You only need to open up the write permissions for the ' web browser
>> user'. i.e. the owner of the web browser process needs to be able to
>> write in those folders.
>>
>> For Linux and apache this means that the files should be owned by the
>> user that runs the apache process. Hope this helps.
>>
>> Regarding SCORM: 'Keeping up with Moodle'  regrettably is not very help
>> full for me, as Moodle and Xerte are two completely different packages.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> Op 16-1-2013 13:11, avitor training schreef:
>>> Thanks for the quick reply. Re SCORM, in general, keeping up with Moodle
>>> at least, though of course SCORM/AICC is evolving (TIN CAN /CMI-5).
>>>
>>> The biggest problem currently is the publicly writable directories
>>> (chmod
>>> 0777, toolkits installation guide p19,) which is a security issue and
>>> quite correctly forbidden by some hosting services (we are talking about
>>> a
>>> potential internet not an intranet application here).
>>>
>>> Can the location of these be changed (perhaps within a config file,) to
>>> a
>>> server location that has no URL, so for example from:
>>>
>>> opt/domainname/web/html[site root]/xerte/USER-FILES
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>> opt/domainname/web/private/USER-FILES
>>>
>>> to enable test and integration of the online toolkit without the
>>> security
>>> issues?
>>>
>>> Also, as this online toolkit installation hasn't been completed for the
>>> above reasons, does it render the same as the techdis version does on
>>> some
>>> high aspect ratio laptop screens, i.e. with the 'play' icon and other
>>> page
>>> foot features of the new project dialogue out of view in a window with
>>> no
>>> scroll bar?
>>>
>>> Many thanks for any suggestions in advance.
>>>
>>>> Yes, still very actively being developed.
>>>>
>>>> Out new website has some broken links, but don't let that worry you (I
>>>> thought I'd found and fixed them all?)
>>>>
>>>> Tom has some plans for more SCORM support: what are your requirements
>>>> here?
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of avitor
>>>> training
>>>> Sent: 15 January 2013 10:50
>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Xerte Project Questions
>>>>
>>>> I have a few questions about the project.
>>>>
>>>> Is this project still being actively developed and in particular, is
>>>> there
>>>> any intention to release further versions with support for later SCORM
>>>> or
>>>> AICC standards? If so, is there a roadmap or timetable for this?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a bug list -I've has difficulties setting up the Xerte Online
>>>> Toolkits on a hosting server for test because of security issues over
>>>> publicly writable directories (could these not be relocated to a folder
>>>> path without a url?) and for example the hosted techdis version does
>>>> not
>>>> display properly in my browser?
>>>>
>>>> There are several broken links on the project site
>>>> http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/ and I'm wondering if the targets
>>>> have
>>>> been relocated or withdrawn?
>>>>
>>>> I did e-mail the developers at Nottingham over all these issues but
>>>> received no reply so far.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Julian
>>>>
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