Tag: elearning

Create multi-sco learning modules using the Reload Editor: Part III

Posted on July 24, 2006 by ellen

Reload Editor Tutorial Part III – Adding Attributes

Once you have added some resources, they become available to select in the Referenced elements menu in the Item’s Attributes.
To associate an item with its resource, under Organization, select the item. Its Attributes appear below.
You may change the item name at the top of the attributes area to the title of the SCO.
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Captivate and SumTotal 6.5: Part 1. Setup

Posted on July 20, 2006 by ellen

Part 1. Setup | Jump to Part 2: Enable SCORM output>>

I’m involved in producing some Captivate-based assessments for use with SumTotal 6.5. There are many settings and variables that must be set correctly to get everything working to our specifications, so it took some serious testing to figure out the best settings.

Hopefully this will shorten the time for anyone with similar needs.

The requirements: We are producing competency-based learning modules and assessments. Users must complete the multi-SCO assessment with a score of 100%. They aren’t that easy, so it is expected that they will need several if not many tries to complete one SCO. Each interaction within any given SCO will allow three tries before the slide moves on.
Each SCO will allow an infinite number of tries.

Getting Questionmark Perception to work with Docent 6.5

Posted on October 29, 2005 by ellen

Making Questionmark Perception quizzes SCORM-compliant, AND compatible with Docent 6.5 LMS was a big piece of our recent Docent implementation project, since we had many legacy quizzes.

Here are the steps involved:

Install QMWise (available from Questionmark.com) on the Perception server.
Install Content packager (available from Questionmark.com) on your workstation
( tip, do NOT have SSL enabled on the server – it blocks QMWise communication if the certificate is slightly misnamed).
Read the Knowledgebase article “How can I call Perception from a SCORM-compliant Learning Management System?”
Get the files scorm.pip and perceptionSCO.htm from Questionmark.com.

Troubleshooting Coursebuilder installation in Dreamweaver MX 2004

Posted on February 14, 2005 by ellen

Coursebuilder is a Dreamweaver extension that creates learning interactions, like quiz questions. When I installed the extension in Dreamweaver MX 2004, it seemed to work fine, until I got to the point of using the

Troubleshooting Questionmark Perception database connections

Posted on February 1, 2005 by ellen

We’ve had just about every sort of database connection issue with our two Questionmark Perception servers, so in the interest of saving someone else the kind of struggles we’ve gone through, here are some things to look for.

tnsnames.ora issues:
There is a file that lives in a subdirectory of the Oracle folder – this directory may be called Oracle_Home, Oracle9 etc, and is often but not always in the root directory of the server.

A typical path to the tnsnames.ora file on a server is

E:\Oracle_HomenetworkAdmintnsnames.ora

There are a variety of things that could be incorrect in this file.
1. Hidden control characters brought in during copy and paste:
  If you copy and paste the settings from some email programs into this file, you may be adding hidden control characters to the tnsnames.ora file. You won’t be able to see them but they’re there, and they’re screwing things up.
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