Tag: Learning Management Systems

SCORM in 5 minutes or less, with pictures!

Disclaimer: This is intended only to provide only the most basic understanding of what SCORM is.

SCORM (Shareable Content Object Reference Model) is a world-wide standard set of specifications for communication between elearning content and learning management systems.

A learning module using SCORM version 1.2 can communicate the following:

  • the instruction to launch an elearning module and start communicating.
  • scoring and tracking information – student data, timing, lesson status, scores, interactions, “pass/fail”
  • proprietary information that only the module understands. The Learning Management System (LMS) stores and retrieves such data without understanding it.
  • bookmarking information
  • the instruction to close communication.

Additionally, a manifest packaged with the module tells the LMS (Learning Management System)

  • what, if any, modules come next.
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