A Practical Hands-on Guide to SCORM
Detailed Outline
- Introduction to SCORM 2004
- Basic ADL/SCORM Concepts and Definitions
- Overview of SCORM 2004
- Differences and similarities between SCORM 1.2 and 2004
- The Role of SCORM in Modern Courseware Development
- Modern Courseware Technologies
- Course Development Media: Images, Audio,Video, Simulations, Mobile Code
- Course Development/Instructional Design Tools:
- How to choose the right tools
- Courseware Delivery Technologies: Current State, Trends and Issues
- SCORM Essentials
- Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs): What constitutes Assets and Sharable Content Objects (SCOs)?
- Repositories: Melting pots of reusable content
- Learning Management Systems (LMS): How to choose one?
- Expanding your options via a Learning Content Management System (LCMS)
- What is Metadata?
- ADL Registry: Discovery of specific content resources
- Metadata
- How to read Metadata files
- How to develop Metadata using tools and templates
- LAB: Developing Metadata With Metadata Generator Pro
- LAB: Developing Metadata With Reload
- Content repositories definition and usage
- What is the future vision for Metadata use? CORDRA, IMR, Cybrarian, and N-SCORM
- Rights Management: Whose asset is it anyway?
- Runtime SCORM: What makes a SCO a SCO?
- Introduction to SCORM 2004 API and related 3rd party APIs
- LAB: The Handshake - Connecting Your SCO to the LMS
- LAB: Connecting to LMS API using FLASH
- Bookmarking using navigation and browser events
- LAB: Creating Bookmarks and Responding to Bookmark Events
- Completion status and session time within a SCO
- LAB: Create a SCO that Sets Completion Status and Session Time
- Tracking student performance and assessment scoring
- LAB: Scoring Using Score.raw and Objectives
- Manifest and Sequencing
- What is the course manifest?
- Reading a 2004 manifest file
- Simple Sequencing: Control, Rules, and Objectives
- The Activity Tree: Activity Path, Roll-up, and Clusters
- LAB: Create a Manifest Using Reload
- How to influence sequencing outside of the SCO
- Advanced Content Issues
- Mobile code and Security issues
- How to get content signed and by whom
- Cross-domain scripting issues and solutions
- FLASH(TM) and SCORM 2004 S1000D and SCORM
- Designing for SCORM
- Creating a SCORM-conformant course: A sample blueprint
- Key Design Considerations: Breaking down the content without “breaking it”
- SCORM Tools and Development Packages
- Redesigning for SCORM: Things to consider
- Service specific requirements for SCORM
- SCORM Testing and Certification: Let us walk you through the process!
- Building a Sample Course:Putting it all Together!
- LAB: Creating a Multiple Sco Course
- Directory structure and assigning Metadata
- LAB: Assembling and Sequencing Scos
- LAB: Connecting the Scos to the Lms
- LAB: Tracking the Student’s Progress and Score
- Testing your SCORM Package
- What does the test suite test?
- Known issues and workarounds
- LAB: Installing and Using the Scorm Test Suites
- LAB: Reading the Test Log
