For your FLV, you should load it dynamically and keep it external. We
had lots of external assets used by our SWF (MP3, FLV, pictures) and we
kept them out of the SCOs and out of the imsmanifest.xml, it was
becoming hard to list all those files in there ! But if you only have a
few external files, then you should (as it is best practice) keep them
listed in the manifest.
As for your score handling ... Here is what we did : We kept track of
the scores inside the Flash (considering we had 1 SCO for the quiz) and
only sent out the failed, passed or incomplete status back to the LMS.
Also we used a Flash SharedObject to keep track of where the user was
last time in his answers and progress. You could send that out in your
location variable to the LMS as well, depending on how much information
you want to send. There are some limitations to string length to consider.
So it's up to you to decide how you want to track the score inside the
SCO. You just need to send the right information back to the LMS, and
get it back properly through FlashVars and / or SharedObjects.
The downside of SharedObjects is that if the user changes computers to
try again the Quiz all the previous progress saved in the last session
won't be accessible.
Alain
Dave Mennenoh wrote:
Thanks for the info, but saying I should include the files in the
manifest xml file is not saying I should need ti include them within
the SCO itself. Do I need to? I can see from the perspective of
allowing any LMS to deploy this SCO that the video files should be
"in" the SCO... but is a 50MB SCO a normal thing? Seems to negate the
whole point of using streaming files.
Also, Alain said - have all 21 questions in one SCO and send the score
at the end. This is what I have... they wanted SCORM at the end so it
was never developed for scorm compatibility in the first place... From
what I see though sending at the end only allows me to send the
min,max or core scores... so min at 0 and max at 21 and they got 18
right - so that's the core score... it works OK, but is not the best.
Without having separate SCO's for each question, is it possible to
record the answers for each question - or is it only possible to
record the fact that they got 18 right out of 21...?
Dave -
Head Developer
www.blurredistinction.com
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