I am involved in an exciting project with the European Union (I am one of 3 teachers form the UK selected to be part of a Europe-wide group) in which we have to create Learning Objects associated with Citizenship and the European Union. I want to use my Moodle environment to host the LOs I create, but does anyone know of any good (which can be, but need not be FREE) software packages with which you can create interactive Learning Objects which could then be embedded in Moodle environments in SCORM form?
Presumably you mean more than just quiz software but my lack of knowledge lets me down somewhat?
Respondus Captivate are SCORM compliant (quizzes)
Macromedia Captivate is SCORM compliant and can do all manner of fancy things so their blurb tells me...
Would be interested to find out if you get any more
Thanks Gideon - yes, I *DID* mean more than quizzes eg. an interactive simulation showing the water cycle, or Brownian motion, or a tour of a Roman villa...or whatever.
You could use:
- the eXe editor or
- the Reload /CP / Scorm editor
to create SCORM packages that run In Moodle.
(Not the Reload / LD editor, that is for Learning Design)
One possibility is to use a UK product called coursegenie (from a company called horizonwimba) this takes word docs and outputs SCORM and does the odd question as well. You can also add flash animations to develop your interactive simulations.
Alternatively you can, as Ger and Helen mentioned, use Reload, downloadable from www.reload.ac.uk where you can add your pages individually.
Chris
Thanks for the advice Chris - it's REALLY appreciated 
Simulation, etc opens a can of worms... If you want to get into that realm you will probably want to go with Flash. Here's what I suggest:
For "page turners" or "slide shows" where the user clicks next and back through a series of screens: Articulate Presenter -it integrates with PowerPoint and makes the mundane SCORM functionality automagic. If you buy their studio product, you get the QuizMaker too. People have been having trouble with it in Moodle, but I think Bobo is on it, and Moodle will soon be able to handle the industry standard authoring tools.
For stand alone quizzes, if you're dedicated to Moodle, I would create the quizzes in Moodle.
For application simulations: walking people through using a piece of software, I would recommend Macromedia Captivate. It's easy and very powerful.
To illustrate the water cycle, complete with billowing smoke stacks and black ooze squishing out of storm drains, nothing compares to Flash.
Hope this helps. These are all products that I use, so if you have specific questions, fire away.
mike
Also while I think about it there must be loads of NlN material available to colleges (only as far as I know) that could be SCORM compliant.
Regular conrtibutor Helen Foster would know more as she is at a 6th form and has started the nln course (see her profile for a link in)
Question for Helen: I show the NLN demo (Object module) to people and now they wonder, if a SCORM example in this catalog will be attached as a black box or uses the Moodle scormplayer?
Hi Ger,
I'm not sure I understand your question, anyway I'll attempt an answer!
The Scorm and Object modules are completely separate i.e. the Scorm module could be deleted and the Object module would still display Scorm packages.
However, both modules display Scorm packages according to information contained in a top-level file in the package, called the imsmanifest.
Please let me know if this answers your question.
I'm not sure I understand your question, anyway I'll attempt an answer!
The Scorm and Object modules are completely separate i.e. the Scorm module could be deleted and the Object module would still display Scorm packages.
However, both modules display Scorm packages according to information contained in a top-level file in the package, called the imsmanifest.
Please let me know if this answers your question.