I'm a beginner in the world of Scorm. I try to communicate between the SCO and the LMS via the API Wrapper. Where can I download SCORM Runtime Wrapper Extension Dreamweaver. I have not found.
There's a few options in the top five results on Google. Why Don't you try one of those?
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I've been asked to make a course that is available in one cloud-based learning management system (brightspace) available in other learning management systems. The intent is that someone would open the course in the third party learning management system (LMS), like Moodle, and then from what I've read, an iframe would load that would contain the course as hosted by the original LMS (Brightspace).
I've been researching this all day and I haven't made any headway. It seems like there is oauth between the LMS' but I can't work it out.
How can I create a SCORM package that will contain an iframe to a central LMS? And, is there any standardised LMS/SCORM protocol that handles authentication or something like that?
Thanks!
Embedding a SCORM package inside another SCORM package is not the way to go. The solution for this problem as intended by the makers of SCORM would be to export the SCORM package and import it in the third party LMS, because thats what SCORM is all about. However, this is obviously not what you want to achieve.
In general, a SCORM package is simply a packaged website (with a manifest), which requires a JS API to be provided by the embedding LMS. So basically, you can do "anything" inside a SCORM package, e.g. creating an iframe, calling functions in the parent browsing context, open a popup etc., as long as it is not prohibited by web security mechanisms such as the same origin policy.
In theory, if your LMS would serve the content of the package "as is" and without authentication, i.e. you have a deep-link to the start page (think index.html) inside the scorm package (and the LMS would not send protective headers such as X-Frame-Options), you would be generally able to embed this page in any iframe in the web, thus within another SCORM package. The remaining problem would be the same origin policy, which would prevent the package sitting in the child frame from calling the API in the parent frame. There might be some tricks to work around this, e.g. by using a reverse proxy under the same origin that forwards to the other domain, but this will most likely be not practical or prohibited by other mechanisms. If you can work around this, you would still have to manually pass-through/forward the API calls from the embedded package up to your LMS's API adapter. Overall, this approach is not really practical/feasible.
In general, the SCORM does not deal with authentication. Please have a look at the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) specification for that purpose. It allows to launch a Tool/Content hosted by another party and provides backchannels for e.g. grades.
I think the guys from Rustici Software provide a hosted SCORM RTE that can be launched via LTI, you may want to have a look at that, too...
Cross domain fun with SCORM
Another quick work around to "my content is on another domain" is to reference the JS/CSS on the media / content server, but include an index (player or launch) html file on the intended LMS which can bring those in without the cross-domain issues.
So your re-packaged SCO would just have the necessary launch file but inside that instead of the "css/styles.css" you're pointing to "//domain.com/path/to/css/styles.css". Repeat the same for JavaScript files.
It may be possible the content is a little more complicated than just statically defined assets in a HTML document. If that is the case it may take some further adjustments.
Wiki here has some extra tips https://github.com/cybercussion/SCOBot/wiki
I'll also update I added a cross domain feature to the SCOBot RTE which utilizes IFRAME postMessage api's to enable cross domain communication from domain A to domain B. You would have to be able to place the controller on domain B with the content.
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I want to validate if a scorm package supports resuming or not once it has been uploaded into my content library. How to validate that without launching the scorm package and accessing the cmi.suspend_data?
There isn't a way to determine this because there is no way to know which of the SCORM RTE calls will be made by a piece of content simply from the manifest, or even the included code. This is effectively the halting problem.
I'm very new to SCORM and i'm not entirely sure if i'm even asking this question correctly so please pardon my newness. I have been tasked with implementing a SCORM "previewer" functionality into a website we're building.
I won't need any of the extended features that i understand are provided by the SCORM wrapper such as LMS integration and testing, but simply the ability to preview the images and flash files as they were created by the author of the SCORM package.
We have additional requirements that prevent us from using an external cloud-based solution.
Is this possible? Am i completely misunderstanding the way this works?
The SCORM specification defines a Content Aggregation Model (CAM) and RunTime Environment (RTE). The CAM isn't relevant to your question but the RTE might. The RTE defines how SCORM content communicates with an LMS.
It sounds like in your 'previewer' application, you don't want to store any data in the LMS. For some SCORM packages, this will mean there is no work to do at all as you don't need to implement anything to store no data!
Other SCORM packages will expect a response from the LMS and will error if they don't receive one. I suspect this is what is happening in your case and why you have been tasked with creating a previewer application. You will therefore need to work out which SCORM data the package is sending, catch those requests and return the expected response. See scorm.com for an overview of the Run Time Environment.
If you need a more generic solution that will work with any SCORM package, I fear you will need a complete SCORM implementation. This will be a LOT of work to do yourself. I would normally recommend SCORM Cloud but you say you need an internally hosted solution. If this preview application is likely to be well used and/or customer facing, you should take a look at SCORM Engine. If not, perhaps consider hosting an Open Source LMS such as Moodle?
Could you please help me how to call/invoke plain C API from DLL file with JavaScript or Python or PHP language with TideSDK?
Thanks and best regards,
Phuong Tang Khai,
Can you elaborate how exactly that you wanna call the APIs. and what kind of APIs you are talking about. There are already various modules available which provides decent functionality available already.
However if you don't find required functionality, you can create your own custom module and plug it in with TideSDK.
The call to APIs needs to be wrapped up as custom modules of Tide and has to be built along with TideSDK.
I have some IIS logs with header information I'd like to be parsed by pre-existing frameworks. Can I leverage the part of ASP.NET that uses Browser Definition Files perhaps in tandem with the 51 Degrees mobi tools.
What is the right .NET API (or similar) that I should use to analyze log files?
I'm doing some open source work for 51Degrees at the moment. I wrote an article recently about parsing W3C log files using the C implementation of the API. You can find the article here. Is this the kind of thing you were looking for? Hope this helps.