Tips and Tricks
When developing web pages, I use MAMP.app or my Mac’s built-in Apache. Viewing the page means using an address such as http://localhost/mypage.html. If you use custom host names (especially easy with the excellent VirtualHostX.app), you may wind up with a localhost address such as
AppleScript
SCORM requires all of the course assets to be listed as a <file> item in the <resource> node. This is not evenly enforced — some LMSs don’t care of you do it or not — but is still a good practice. If you’re anything like me,
ADL
Anyone who works with SCORM 2004 has seen something like this: With just a little effort, you can make it look like this, and still be perfectly valid: SCORM manifests are required to specify a slew of schema files via the schemaLocation attribute. Here’s what you’d typically see:
e-learning
Made a minor update: scorm.quit() was setting a value (cmi.exit) but not invoking scorm.save() prior to termination. This could lead to failure to persist the value of cmi.exit in the LMS. View the latest update on GitHub Comments Bard Dale wrote on March 4, 2014 at
Tips and Tricks
I was reading the SCORM 1.2 reference docs today. I wanted to copy a passage for my notes, but the PDF is password-protected and prevents anyone from copying text. (REALLY irritating, considering the ADL is a quasi-government organization and the docs should be open to all.) What to do?
ramblings
I received a question from Bob (no, really), who wrote: I have a question about the newest version of Flash and its HTML publishing option using CreateJS. What do you think of that approach going forward? I started to write an email response but figured I should probably post it
Apple
iTunes vexes me. For better or for worse, we’re an Apple household and own an Apple TV, so I’m kind of stuck with iTunes for managing my media files. My wife and I have also purchased a significant amount of DVDs over the years, which I ripped to
AppleScript
I recently changed jobs (Hello, FireEye!) and was issued a new MacBook Air. I spend a lot of time looking at the screen and was getting bored with the supplied desktop pictures. I also start work very early most days (7am-ish), and thought it would be nice to have a
ramblings
Back in 2011, I mentioned that Microsoft was about to halt development of the Silverlight plugin, that Flash mobile was being discontinued, and that Adobe recommended HTML5 for enterprise RIA development instead of Flex, which was being open-sourced. My post was a little long-winded, but the short version was: whoa,
Adobe Captivate
Over the last few weeks, I received a few reports that scores were not being saved in the LMS when using my template. Turned out to be a simple oversight on my part, which I have just fixed. Please download the latest version of scorm_support.js (v1.20120328) from
Adobe Captivate
Adobe Captivate currently ships with a 3rd-party JavaScript utility named RightClick.js, which enables the Captivate SWF to detect when a user right-clicks the SWF. While upgrading the Captivate publishing templates, I realized RightClick.js wasn’t built to work with SWFObject 2.x and suffered from a few shortcomings.
Adobe Captivate
By popular demand, the SCORM 1.2 edition of my revised SCORM publishing templates for Adobe Captivate 5.x is now available on GitHub. Instructions can be found here. While testing the SCORM 1.2 revisions, I noticed Captivate sometimes sends invalid data to the LMS, specifically for cmi.interactions.