What defines a scorm file.

What defines a scorm file.

by MoodleKittyCat . -
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Just wondering what is a difference between a SCORM zip file versus a normal .zip file. How does an LMS like Moodle identify SCORM zip file as SCORM? What's the file within the SCORM zip file that communicates with an LMS?

Is the answer to this as follows or is there anything else to it?

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.


Moodle 3.1.9

(Edited by Dan Marsden - fixed subject to provide useful description of post. original submission Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 4:57 PM)

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Re: What defines a scorm file.

by Matteo Scaramuccia -
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Hello,
that is correct but you'll end up with "just" an IMS Package which is not a SCORM Package: a SCORM package has extensions to that manifest file and the HTML files used as SCO - shortly, the elements in the ToC - need to implement the Run Time Engine (RTE) API, to track what the content author wants to track about the user experience while attending that content.

HTH,
Matteo

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