Archive for the ‘e-learning’ Category
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 3: JavaScript
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In part two, we cleaned up the HTML file and externalized all JavaScript. Today we will clean up the JavaScript.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 2: HTML
Posted Thursday, January 12th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards, SWFObject
In part one of this series, we published a simple Captivate course and examined its file structure. In this part, we’ll take an in-depth look at the HTML generated by Captivate (using the SCORM 2004 publishing template) and clean it up as much as we can.
Cleaning up Adobe Captivate’s SCORM Publishing Template, Part 1: Introduction
Posted Wednesday, January 11th, 2012.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, best practices, e-learning, How-to, opinion, standards
In this multi-part series, I will walk through the files Captivate outputs when publishing to SCORM 2004, pointing out the bad parts and suggesting alternatives when needed. At the end of the series, I will provide a fully-functional SCORM 2004 publishing template you can use with Captivate 5.5.
HTML5, Flash, Silverlight, and your courseware
Posted Monday, November 14th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags Adobe Flash, e-learning, HTML 5, opinion, silverlight
What a busy week. Flash is dead. Sort of, but not really. In case you haven’t heard, Adobe formally announced the discontinuation of Flash Player for mobile devices (“Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5“). Adobe employees struggled to come to grips with what has undoubtedly [...]
CaptivateController Updated to Support Setting Variable Values
Posted Thursday, November 3rd, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript with the tags Adobe Captivate, Adobe Captivate Hacks, CaptivateController, e-learning, GitHub, JavaScript
The pipwerks CaptivateController now includes a set method that enables developers to set a Captivate variable’s value using JavaScript.
SCORM “Planets” Example Updated
Posted Friday, October 7th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, SCORM, SCORM actionscript class, SCORM wrapper
My “Planets” example (How to Add Basic SCORM Code to a Flash Movie) has proven to be one of the most popular items on pipwerks.com. Unfortunately, it was designed as a quick example and had a bunch of flaws and shortcomings. It’s also about 3 years old and starting to show its age. Since people frequently contact me with questions — many of which were due to the flaws in the example — I decided to update the project.
EasyCaptions and CaptivateController JavaScript Libraries now on GitHub
Posted Thursday, September 29th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, JavaScript, web design and development with the tags accessibility, Adobe Captivate, CaptivateController, EasyCaptions, GitHub, JavaScript
I’ve posted the source code for my EasyCaptions and CaptivateController JavaScript libraries to GitHub. Both are released under an MIT license and are free to use. Now that they’re on GitHub, if you have ideas for new features or suggestions for improvements, feel free to fork!
EasyCaptions on GitHub
CaptivateController on GitHub
SCORM Wrapper updated for improved Plateau support
Posted Monday, July 11th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags e-learning, JavaScript, SCORM wrapper
The pipwerks SCORM Wrapper has been updated with a small patch for handling odd behavior in the Plateau LMS. Special thanks to Joe Venditti for the patch (and sorry for taking almost 2 years to add it to the codebase!). Get the latest version here.
Is SCORM Dead?
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags ADL, e-learning, LETSI, opinion, Rant, SCORM
About a week ago I tweeted:
from what i’m reading between the lines, #SCORM is dead to the ADL. they’re moving on. interesting timing considering #TAACCCT
I had no idea how much hand-wringing and consternation my off-handed comment would cause. It apparently caused (directly or indirectly) some heated discussions about SCORM being dead.
The problem is, I never said “SCORM is dead.” I said “SCORM is dead to the ADL.” Big difference.
Abstracting Your Course’s Tracking Code
Posted Thursday, February 24th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags e-learning, How-to, JavaScript, SCORM, SCORM actionscript class, SCORM wrapper
An abstraction layer is a way of hiding complexities and maintaining cleanliness in your application. When integrating tracking support (SCORM, AICC, etc,) into an an e-learning course, it’s a good idea to abstract as much of the tracking code as possible. Here are some examples.
