It appears that you are doing a lot of work, that may not be needed. You cannot create a SCORM content file using Moodle.
To create SCORM content, you need a SCORM publishing tool. You can upload SCORM content as a Moodle activity.
Hi Shirley,
Thanks for responding. I think a light went on after posting this. I now understand that SCORM objects are encapsulated, so any media files would be bundled with the module. This will greatly simplify authoring our courses. We're looking into SCORM authoring software now.
I work for a private language college and we're setting up our courses in Moodle. We're developing a number of courses and I want to be sure we're approaching this in the most portable way. At the same time we have media files that need to be accessible, so I'm wondering how best to do that. We know we want to meet SCORM compliancy, we're figuring out how best to do that for the school's curriculum.
I think my answer is to host the files, setup a quick page for simple access. We can then focus on developing SCORM modules which will be imported into the course and replace the temporary course pages. I've found notepad++ helpful in dealing with repetitive html tags, so there's a certain amount of automation in preparing the Moodle course pages once the files have been uploaded to the server.
Cheers again!
Jim
East Coast Language College
Jim,
There are quite a few content development tools that will wrap modules in SCORM - Captivate, Lectora, Camtasia, Storyline, etc. Do some research on capabilities if you want to embed external media in the SCORM package. I work with Camtasia and Storyline. Storyline will let you embed external media in the module, but Camtasia does not. With Camtasia the media file has to be inside the module.
Floyd
Thanks, Floyd. I'll look those over.
I'm looking into eXe, Jetdraft's Document Suite. We're hoping to keep costs down on this, so if we can make use of a freeware tool that'd be best. I appreciate an academic license might get us a more advanced, time saving software tool in the end, though.
I'm leaning towards full encapsulation for simplicity sake. If I can create a module containing modules, that would be best. The whole point of modularization, really.
Cheers for taking the time to respond!
Take a look at the free H5P tools:
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You'll need the H5P plugin for Moodle: https://moodle.org/plugins/mod_hvp but they can also be run through a Wordpress or Drupal site.
SCORM's encapsulation is great for being able to send courses easily to classic/traditional corporate learning systems that only can really play SCORM, but going forward it is definitely less future-proof. If you are planning for a 5-10 year timeframe, I would look more at those new tools if you are starting from scratch.
There's also an H5P object being developed that you can display a SCORM with interestingly.. see https://h5p.org/blog/march-2017-release-note#SCORM
The two biggest advantages with SCORM is the authoring environment, which you have to pay licenses for to get any real value out of (Articulate/Trivantis) and the portability to copy it over to old LMSes.
The disadvantages are the software itself and the learning curve to use the software.. You could probably pretty easily and quickly train anyone to make edits in and add content to an H5P or a Moodle Lesson. The interface is just a webpage. For SCORM files, you have to have the right program installed, make sure you are editing the right version of the module and you need to know how to use the software to edit it.
If you expect to have a dedicated elearning development team, or just develop the modules once and never touch them again (if your content rarely changes) then SCORM may work fine for you. If you expect to have it distributed across many people that do a little bit occasionally or that need to make periodic updates/tweaks, then I would avoid SCORM.
but - word of warning....
SCORM is an old standard - created before Mobile learning/modern browsers/widespread wifi availability and is fragile and easy for users to completely skip the SCORM package and use web browser tools to make it look like they have completed the SCORM and got 100%. It can also be very time consuming to develop packages that play nicely on all devices.
It can also be quite costly to develop in compared with other tools like the Lesson module in Moodle - if you are wanting to develop stand-alone learning packages without relying on your LMS (Moodle) you might consider using something else other than scorm like H5P or other html5 content authoring tools.
Hi Dan,
I really appreciate this heads up.
I'll look into the options you mentioned.
Cheers!
Jim