SCORM?

[lingle]

Does course builder support SCORM?

Can you embed external dynamic content?

[Chad LaFarge]

Please do tell... is it SCORM conformant and can content be moved onto SCORM-conformant LMS?

[Course Builder Staff]

The Course Builder code does not currently support SCORM.  We are generally interested in supporting open standards, though, and would love to hear more about SCORM and how something like Course Bulder could support it.  We're also very interested in hearing from users about their use of SCORM and whether it's important to them.

Thanks.

Mark, representing the Course Builder Staff

[Jean-Sebastien Gasse]

I would love to have SCORM and AICC support. Our customer use LMS to track the course they ask us to make for them, and need to have a way to track users pass/fail for future audit. They are not ready to relinquish the control and change LMS and since they all support these standards, that is what they are asking for.

[Aaron Bridges]

Corporate consumers of content with their own LMS (Learning Management System) will care about SCORM and AICC because these standards allow them to track course activity and completions within their own system. At http://www.OpenSesame.com we provide the ability to launch content that is hosted on our system via a SCORM wrapper that is loaded into the LMS. This technique (which AICC does by design) is widely used by content providers to maintain control over course assets while allowing interoperability with LMS systems. The Google Course Builder could achieve interoperability with SCORM and AICC LMS systems by providing an AICC or SCORM wrapper that could be loaded into the LMS. If Course Builder adoption among content providers is high enough, we may implement this to allow courses created in Course Builder to be sold in our eLearning marketplace.

Also there is a successor to SCORM which has been developed by the ADL and Rustici Software called Tin Can. Tin Can resolves many of the difficulties that SCORM presents content creators, content tool providers, and LMS providers. For the curious, here are some links to relevant topics: SCORM standard: http://adlnet.gov/ AICC standard: http://www.aicc.org Project Tin Can: http://scorm.com/tincan/

[Justin Edwards]

I agree, a scorm output would allow institutes to develop and track student assessment results and integrate back into multi-course systems. LMS compatibiity is a must, unless you want to build a full LMS google?

Justin

[Robert Bradley, VDH]

SCORM is very important for government agencies as most have to track completion data for employees in their own LMS.  As an example, the Virginia Department of Health links to SCORM courses from their LMS and the course sends back completion data to the LMS.  This should support SCORM 1.2, 2004 and the newest version called Tin Can.

[Chad LaFarge]

I've built both a SCORM conformant authoring tool and a SCORM conformant LMS, and all of our clients went with us because SCORM allows them to use any other SCORM conformant content in our LMS as well as the ability for their content from our LMS to be used on any other conformant LMS.

It is considered to be the industry standard object model reference.

Incidentally, SCORM = Sharable Content Object Model Reference. The wiki does a good of summarizing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharable_Content_Object_Reference_Model

[Marco De Toni]

In Italy SCORM is the industrial standard.
It could be useful understand the Course Builder model for courses.
I mean as it is it very useful when you use videos as training material, so for me the point is:
Will CB a "generic LMS" or is better to evolve CB as strong LMS platform  with strong specific functionalities?

[Jeannie Crowley]

I think if we remove the term "LMS" from the conversation, Course Builder might make more sense (and its development pathway). It is open courseware, designed to be used freely by anyone. Its features support open learning (free from registration systems, open to any student, open to any user, freely shareable content, etc.). Once you start bringing in LMS to the conversation, it shifts to a conversation about closed uses (restricting to specific matriculated students, restricted to a specific institution, restricted to specific paid individuals, restricted to a specific format as determined by the developers of the tool).