learning management systems
Think accessibility isn’t a big deal, and is only one of those issues “the other guy” has to deal with? So did Target. And now they’ve lost $6,000,000 because of it. In case you hadn’t heard, Target was sued by the National Federation for the
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For many involved in the SCORM 2.0 project, the hope is that we can transform the SCORM 1.x caterpillar into a SCORM 2.x butterfly; that the gestation period of SCORM 1.x has ended, and soon SCORM 2.0 will emerge from its cocoon and dazzle the
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After all my ruminating on SCORM 2.0 the last couple of weeks, it was interesting to read about the latest news regarding the ECMAScript standard. It was even more interesting to read some of the reactions, including those from Adobe’s Dave McAllister (link no longer available) and Yahoo’
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I submitted my white paper for SCORM 2.0 today. I don’t see it listed on the LETSI site yet, but I’m hoping they received it and that it will be added soon. I wanted to share a few things about my experience writing that paper. First of
Adobe Flash
This question came in via email. I figured I would post it (keeping the author anonymous) because these are very common questions, and maybe this post can help other people out. I also want to give others the opportunity to throw in their 2 cents! The question(s): I am
ramblings
Most e-learning developers don’t care about SCORM and only (begrudingly) learn enough to get the job done. I don’t blame them. The other day I was reading some old Drupal community posts (circa 2005) about adding SCORM functionality to Drupal. One comment stood out: SCORM was the big
e-learning
I’ve had a number of people ask me about extending my SCORM helpers (the JavaScript-based SCORM API wrapper and the two ActionScript classes) in order to completely remove the need to know any of the “cmi” calls. For instance, being able to do something like this: scorm.bookmark = "
e-learning
The SCORM API wrapper (v1.1.7) has been updated to automatically set the initial course status and the exit status. The point of my SCORM API wrapper is to make working with SCORM easier. These two new functions are intended to ensure you follow best practices with your SCORM
e-learning
Ok, I just had to write a quick blurb about this one: in about 3.5 years of using SCORM in my own course code, I had never used cmi.core.exit (SCORM 1.2) or cmi.exit (SCORM 2004). Seems incredibly daft of me now that I’ve taken
Tutorials
In my previous post, I briefly explained how to add SCORM code to an existing Flash file by using the pipwerks SCORM wrapper and SCORM ActionScript class. Today, I’m going to explain how to add SCORM code to a plain HTML file. This example uses SCORM 1.2 syntax,
SCORM actionscript class
Update 10/2011: The Planets example has been updated (almost completely rewritten) and no longer strictly adheres to the steps and screenshots in this tutorial. The general concepts are the same, but the project files have been substantially refined. To prevent confusion about which files to use, I have removed
Project Updates
Here’s a bunch of news updates regarding the pipwerks SCORM JavaScript wrapper. Time for class? A big fad these days is object-oriented JavaScript; libraries such as jQuery and MooTools make it really easy to create JavaScript “classes” (in quotes because from what I can gather, they’re really JavaScript