Authoring options

Authoring options

por Zero G -
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Hello, not sure if this is right place to ask ...

I'm new to e-learning/SCORM, and am now the design lead of a team creating an e-learning course.

Very frustrated with Lectora/Captivate/Storyline/etc. Too much like Powerpoint, and can't use modern web design tools like CSS, JS, etc.

So I would love to know if there's a way to create a SCORM file from a CSS file, a template system (like Handlebars), and an XML file without using any of these "rectangle" based authoring tools – preferably with a modern static site generator (like Jekyll or Hugo), or a CMS like MODx.

I'm more of a designer than a developer (with some knowledge of JS, PHP, etc.) so I was hoping that from a design perspective there would be a more "modern" way to design this course, using CSS to control the page layout, make it responsive, use CSS hover states and animations, etc. And allow us to separate the content (XML or JSON) from the template and CSS.

Thanks!

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Re: Authoring options

por Derek Chirnside -

Zero, this is an interesting challenge.

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SCORM in Moodle has some deployment problems to look good in both mobile and desktop, at least as far as I have been able to go:

See https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=339315 for instance.  At present I have given up.  There is a special window proposal here: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46563

Totara (a Moodle fork) has implemented this, or something like this.

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Have you checked:

Evolve content authoring tool: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=339172
Other links: https://www.appitierre.com/ I have got nice looking evolve SCORMS but there are Moodle deployment issues I could not solve.  I suspect they CAN be solved.  But the issue is "do they look beautiful when implemented in Moodle?"
Bloom is their CMS.  https://www.appitierre.com/#bloom 

Grav "Flat file responsive CMS".  http://hibbittsdesign.org/blog/posts/2016-02-03-why-I-chose-Grav
Mother ship: https://getgrav.org/  Educational use: http://hibbittsdesign.org/blog/posts/2017-01-30-grav-cms-edtech-demo-linked-post
Why I like this:

  1. It is beautiful
  2. It can be created with Markup
  3. Plugins mean you can set up access quite easily
  4. Nice community https://discourse.getgrav.org/

There are some other options (eg H5P, a Moodle implementation of Reveal.js, slideshows . . .) but as far as I can find, all suffer from the problem you mention.

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Good luck.

-Derek

Who is fully aware beautiful is a subjective term.  But I know it when I see it.  sonrisa


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