Visvanath Ratnaweera

To the SCORM people

This is not strictly a Moodle-SCORM question. It came up in a Moodle-based team and I think the technology needed is very much that of SCORM.

Here's the deal:

A team produces reports in the form of mini-sites. We know that mini-sites can be nicely embedded in Moodle. But the problem is that the recipients are not in a Moodle site. The initial thought was to host the mini-sites in the web and distribute username/passwords to the recipients. Apart from the complications of creating and maintaining the credentials, we don't want to leave the reports on the web - even if password protected. They are confidential in the sense that they are meant for the recipients are they can in turn share them with others they trust.

The next idea is to package each mini-site together with a simple web server binary. Upon unpacking the the package the web server binary will spawn a web server and open the mini-site in it. It should work on MS Windows and for the sake of completeness also on Linux.

Do you have ideas, hints or even examples of this scenario? The information I found on the Web depend on some sort of a programming language in the target machine, say Python, which can spawn a small web server on demand. That condition is not given in our recipients' machines.