Tag: scorm

Safari won’t launch a Perception Quiz from the LMS, when all other browsers will

Posted on September 24, 2006 by ellen

Our SumTotal (Docent) 6.5 learning management system uses SCORM to launch learning activities and quizzes. We had a case where several Perception Quizzes would not launch using Safari, but any other browser did launch them.

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

Posted on July 24, 2006 by ellen

Reload Editor Tutorial Part I – Create a package and import resources
With an emphasis on use for SumTotal 6.5 and SCORM 1.2

| Jump to Part II >>

Once you have completed building a single learning module (called a “SCO” or “Shareable Content Object” in SCORM terms), you will probably want to link it together with a quiz or with other learning module SCO’s.

To piece together multiple SCO’s into a single learning module, you will need to replace the manifests created with each SCO with a single manifest that lists all of them. The Reload Editor is a tool which will allow you to create manifests which aggregate all types of learning modules together into a larger package.

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.

Docent, SCORM and cross-browser issues

Posted on October 24, 2005 by ellen

During our recent Docent LMS implementation, one of the most difficult tasks I was faced with was to ensure SCORM activities work if browsers other than IE were used.

The specific cross-platform issues fell into several categories:

Mozilla Live Connect Bug
Domain names not fully qualified
Query string length

Definitions of terms used in this article:

LMS – Learning Management System – a system of launching and tracking online learning content. In this article I am mainly referring to the “Docent 6.5” LMS

SCORM – Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model – a communication standard used by online learning modules to communicate scoring and interaction data to a Learning Management System and vice-versa.