Proposal for SCORM Cloud XBlock

[Nate Aune]

Open edX currently doesn’t have native support for SCORM content, but using a third party SCORM package hosting service such as SCORM Cloud, makes it possible to embed such content in an edX course.

This is a proposal for building an XBlock that would give a course author an easy way to choose which SCORM package (SCO) to embed in the edX course. Quiz results from SCORM Cloud can be reported back to edX for grading purposes.

As per the recommended architecture review process, we are circulating this document to get feedback before beginning the development of this XBlock. If you're interested in SCORM functionality in edX, please review the document and comment on the proposed architecture and features list. We'd like to get a broad range of opinions to make sure whatever we build will be generic enough to handle most use cases.

The document is viewable by anyone who has the link, but if you wish to comment on it, please email me or reply to this thread, so that I can add you as an commenter on the doc.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AnNBcTH8Fs98Ck1pzX5RulWHwQ9HNjbAOrw-rqVD5JQ/edit

thanks!

Nate

[David Ormsbee]

FWIW, I needed to request permission even to see the doc.

Take care.

Dave

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[Nate Aune]

That's weird. I had set it to allow access for anyone with the link, and it said "no sign-in required". But now i've made it public, so can you check and see if you can access it now when you're logged out?

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[David Ormsbee]

Yup, works fine now, even when I'm logged out. Thank you. :-)

Dave

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[Leeane Miller]

Hi Nate,

I was a bit confused after reading the document, is this xblock mainly (i) a way to easily choose SCO's given an AppID (from an authors point of view) and (ii) then display that content in an iframe to students to make it a more seamless experience, and report final grade to EdX?

Will this still require the use of (B)LTI and Dispatch in the background?

The document mentions a current way to display SCORMCloud content via LTI & Dispatch but says there are disadvantages to this, so was unsure if this is a whole new way of achieving this, or more improvements in the author and student experience.

Regards,

Leeane

[CBC Training]

Hi, Did anything come of this proposal? 

I'd love to move from a Wordpress LMS to Open EDX but embed Storyline 2 content into Wordpress and need that functionality in the LMS I move to.

Thanks

Jon

[Nate Aune]

Hi Jon,

The project has been delayed, but we hope to get the contract with the
customer signed this week, and then we will begin work on adding
native SCORM functionality to Open edX.

What file formats can you export Storyline content into?


Nate

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[Tim Robinson]

Hi Nate,

Any update on your project - I'm struggling to find a way of importing Storyline content into Edx. Something that is reliable and does not require uploading of content to a 3rd party server such as AWS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Tim

[Nate Aune]

Hi Tim,

I'm happy to report that there is now a SCORM XBlock that provides native SCORM support in Open edX!

http://bit.ly/25LixEG

Nate