I want my website to be published as content in an LMS, one of the experts suggested me to use either SCORM and AICC. They suggested that we should make a wrapper around our website and then publish it on the LMS. Now I tried to search and read about SCROM and AICC but was not able to get any idea or how the wrapper has to be built.If someone can guide me with a blog or make steps of how should we achieve this.
Essentially, you have a few e-Learning Content Libraries out around the internet in a free and paid capacity. The primary job is to locate the LMS Runtime API. Your implementation is possible, but it would take some careful packaging and some custom work to get it done.
Every e-learning developer has to commonly build a Shareable Content Object player. This can be done using a IFRAME that loads pages. This allows the main page the LMS launches to load once, and unload once. Another route modern content takes, is to use AJAX to load in snippets of HTML and have a similar paging feel without the overhead of the IFRAME.
The next hurdle is trying to mitigate the cross-domain policy...
As you mentioned you could go AICC mainly because its cross-domain enabled. AICC is a bit more limited in what you can record though. Keep in mind this standard predates XML. So we are in the text with delimiters category of configuration.
SCORM is going to have a cross-domain security (sandbox) error associated with the JavaScript on your website trying to talk to the LMS. There is away around this, by possibly including your base index.html page which can use your JavaScript, CSS, Images on your website. But, if your website changes pages, we are back to my above comment. We need to wrap this in a IFRAME.
In the IFRAME scenario, you'd have to put your e-learning standard library there. And your sub pages in the IFRAME could talk to the parent. This ensures your main page and all sub pages have a line of sight to parent of the frame and can make calls if its present.
All of this really depends on how you built your website. We run content off media servers similarly, and have these same hurdles, but the content is meant to be activities, games, and tests/quizzes. If you adjust your website to try and communicate this way you'll have to pad it for working with and without a LMS and any runtime data.
You can still launch a website as a asset though. Not graded as a option. Some commonly do this as part of a lesson where the student can read something, then take a test on it in a subsequent assignment.
Good Luck,
Mark
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I'm a front end engineer working in e-commerce and marketing, and one of my routine tasks is finding out why client's websites are so slow. Most of them are on different CMS, most Wordpress, and a constant problem I come across is page builders ship with a ton of code that slightly bog the site down. These fall under 'render-blocking resources', see the below
screenshot of the issue.
This file is entirely minified and the website isn't even large (It's still in staging, in fact.) Is it possible to get an outstanding Lighthouse score when your site is build on a CMS and uses a small number of plugins/apps (in the case of Shopify?) The majority of the clients whose sites I gauge are on a CMS and get a bad score because of how much data that browsers have to request when loading 200,000 apps and plugins. I'm exaggerating of course, but even when a client has a small site, but was built with a page builder and has a few popular plugins like Gravity Forms, their sites still suffer a little.
In theory, yes, you can have a page builder that doesn't impact the score, in practice, all of the page builders that I have personally worked with are bad for Lighthouse/PSI scores.
The main reason is that pagespeed hasn't been a conscious priority untill google started encouraging more awareness of a site's percieved performance. So the teams that built pagebuilders didn't take that into account, and it's probably not an easy task to change their codebase so that page builders are more performant.
There would be a few rules for page builders to follow to be performant.
No redundant asset code, I noticed a few page builders that load all
the code they might need for any section that a user might add, even
if the section is not being used.All the asset code being loaded should only be loaded if they are needed.
Properly sized images. I noticed Shogun page builder for shopify to
be really bad at this, as the images are automatically oversized.
Automatically lazyload images. I noticed pagefly has lazyloading, but
it has to be enabled individually for each template.
No elements created with javascript. To reduce CLS and improve LCP,
HTML elements should not be created entirely using javascript.
If page builders followed the above rules, and you replaced the original css and js of the page, since they would be redundant, you could have a page builder that resulted in very performant pages.
I haven't found a page builder that met these standards though, maybe as page speed becomes more important, more teams will be more consicous of performance in their page builders.
I'm looking to implement search functionality in an ASP.NET MVC site.
The site is driven by a CMS. The users can add widgets to the page with meetings, documents, etc.
So the whole site is fully dynamic.
As I see it, there are 2 options:
Search all possible content directly, and then figure out what results are coupled to pages. Or the other way around, figure out what the content of a page is.
Load or construct all available pages, and make sure the content can be searched. So, basically crawling and indexing my own content.
Maybe other?
I'm not sure what the best implementation would be, all experiences and directions are welcome!
I'm not really looking for Solr or Lucene based solutions. This needs to be a simple implementation, just running a LIKE on the correct rows of the DB is suffictient.
This is kind of an odd question and I didnt know where to post it, but here it is.
I have an ASP .Net website used by internal company employees. The site pages are pretty basic and has various tables, divs, css and some sprinkles of javascript/jQuery.
Some of the site pages are often used for presentations. And sometimes, the users need to copy the content offline.
I got a request that when trying to copy certain pages off IE/Firefox and onto Word/PowerPoint, it does not carry the layout over correctly. Well, I know obviously why this is a problem but the users dont and are asking to make it possible.
I'm assuming that the easiest way to do this is have a "printable" view. But as some of these pages are still being developed, are there some techniques we could follow that would make these pages somewhat copyable to word/ppt?
There are online guides to doing this like this one.
I am about to develop a web site for data entry. It will have hundreds of data entry pages. Previously i have made extensive use of iFrames from the menuing system.
Is this now best practice, i number of developers i have mentioned this to have questioned the use of iFrames saying there are better techniques now. However no one could give me a reason not to use the iFrame.
Does anyone have some opinions on the use of iFrames and the reason i should not use them? If not an iFrame then what?
An iFrame is to embed foreign content, another site or another page of your site. Web is not only about what you see but about semantic meanings.
Using iFrames is the most effective way to kill your ranking in search engines and also to difficult web browsing since a browser cannot tell what part of the content represents what or how they are related to each other.
For instance, navigate into an iFrame based page and bookmark an internal page, then come back through the bookmark and see the results.
Do a search in Internet and there are many more explanations about this.
How would you make the contents of Flex RIA applications accessible to Google, so that Google can index the content and shows links to the right items in your Flex RIA. Consider a online shop, created in Flex, where the offered items shall be indexed by Google. Then a link on Google should open the corresponding product in the RIA.
Currently the best technique for making an RIA indexable by search engines is called progressive enhancement (or graceful degradation, depending on which way you see it). Basically you create a simple HTML version of the application using the same data as the application loads. This version should be dynamically generated by some kind of backend server technology. This HTML version can be indexed by Google, but each page also contains a check that determines if the visitor is capable of viewing the rich version, and if so replaces the HTML content with the Flash, Flex or Silverlight application, preferably in such a way that the application starts in a state where it shows the same data as the current page. "Replaces" can mean that it just embeds the application on top of the HTML content, or that it redirects the user to a page that embeds it. The former solution is preferable, because the latter can be considered cloaking.
One way of keeping the HTML and RIA versions of a shop synchronized is to decide on a URL scheme and make sure that RIA uses some kind of deep linking technique. If a visitor arrives to a specific item via a search engine, say /items/345 the corresponding pseudo-URL in the RIA should be the same, so that you can embed the RIA on top of the page and set that URL as a parameter to make the RIA display that same page as soon as it has loaded.
This summer, Google and Yahoo! announced that they would begin using a custom version of Flash Player to index Flash based applications by exploring them "in the same way that a person would". Now, two months later there is still no evidence that this is actually happening. Ryan Stweart had to cancel his Flex SEO competition because it became evident that no one could win. The problem seems to be that event though the technique may very well work (although I'm sceptical), the custom Flash Player needs some kind of network interface to be able to load any referenced resources, like XML data, other SWFs, etc., and this is currently not implemented by Google. This means that for an application that loads all it's data dynamically, like say, all that I can think of, Googlebot will not actually see anything relevant. Yahoo! ignores SWF based content altogether.
Oh, and it just so happens that I talk about Flex and SEO on the latest episode of the Flex show =)
There is a massive thread available here:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/58926
But essentially, google already indexes .SWF files (you can test this out yourself by restricting search results to just .SWF files). It can search any text content within the SWF file.
However, if the text information in your site comes from a database / web server. Then it won't be able to access this information easily.
One example of getting this to work is using an XML file as your index page, then using an XSLT transform to render it using Flex. "Ted On Flex" has good information about this.
http://flex.org/consultants