MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

by Asterion Daedalus -
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I am trialing a couple of OSS LMS tools (Moodle being one).  Moodle is one that fails to upload the content of OpenCourseWare from MIT.  There are others.  All the same problem.  The course structure appears.  The resource names appear but when you try to open the resources the LMS system claims it can't find them.

I am in contact with MIT to sort issues like SCORM/IMS version supported etc.  However, being new to OSS LMS and OpenCourseWare (or similar public offerings) I may quickly become disheartened.

Is there any test bank of data used by OSS LMS tools to support claims of compliance to interchange formats or are we in for a bitchy battle for blaim?

So far MIT claims Moodle and the other tools as not compliant.  I expect this post will receive a counter claim.  What organisation is there to arbitrate on compliance to interchange standards?

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Re: MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

by Matt Gibson -
Moodle currently does not support SCORM 2004, which is probably why you have this problem. Its work in progress and you can find the issue in the tracker if you search. I think it is scheduled for completion in version 2.0.
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Re: MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

by Michael Penney -
The MIT OCW course I tested seemed to come in fine--to the Moodle 1.8.2 IMS CP Resource type (add resource: IMS CP). This one at least was listed as IMS Content in the ims manifest schema, and seemed to work well.

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Anthropology/21A-217Fall-2004/DownloadthisCourse/index.htm

In Moodle here:
http://ciscobeta.mroomsdev.com/mod/resource/view.php?r=192&frameset=ims&page=1

Are some of the OCW courses SCORM?

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Re: MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

by Asterion Daedalus -

Michael,

Hmmm.

I have tried importing it as IMS and SCORM to see how to get around the problem.

Looks like I will have to keep looking.

I did find (last night) information at a US Defence site talking about how SCORM content (and probably IMS too) had problems being displayed behind some of the stricker browser settings (because of the multiple linkages ... or sum'n like that).

I generate SCORM and then IMS material out of eXe which works fine on the same box with the same settings which confuses me a tad.

I may have to just sit down and read a bit deeper.

Cheers,

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Re: MOODLE and external SCORM and ISM content providers.

by Michael Penney -
So far MIT claims Moodle and the other tools as not compliant.

As far as I can tell, MIT is using IMS Content:

http://ocw.mit.edu/NR/rdonlyres/CE685493-38F2-4340-A7AB-4C8BCD47886F/0/9CDIF_Specifications.pdf

From the above PDF:

This document details the Common Data Interchange Format (CDIF) OCW will use for importing /exporting content from / to external LMS systems. The CDIF specifications represent a pedagogically neutral means for exchanging course contents between OCW and external systems. The CDIF specification follows the IMS content packaging model (http://www.imsglobal.org).

This seems to work fine in the MIT course I tested when using the Moodle IMS Content resource type.

What organisation is there to arbitrate on compliance to interchange standards?

In this case I'd guess it would be IMS.
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