Yes, it helps a lot, but
doesn’t that mean that you’ll have a scorm-manifest tree on the left of the
screen, and then in our flash player again a tree on the left with on the right
the rendering of exercises/items?
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From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Aaron Silvers
Sent: donderdag 27 april 2006
16:25
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: Re: [osflash] SCORM
This reminds me a lot of
when I first started working with Flash and SCORM.
Technically, if your "player" is going to handle all the loading of
other .swf content inside it, then (again, technically) your player .swf, all
the content .swfs, its own manifest.xml and the html page and any _javascript_
associated with it all make up ONE SCO.
Now, if you want to break out the .swfs out of the "player", then you
could make them each a SCO, and turn the navigation over to the LMS. That
would be more in the "spirit" of SCORM. This would allow you to
only focus on content development and leave the navigation on the Learning
Management System. In doing so, however, you'll lose the seamless
transitions from one piece of content to another that is probably the reason
why you built your flash "player" to begin with.
Working off the imsmanifest.xml for your Flash player is a bad idea because the
LMS is going to flow from one activity to the next. My advice would be
that if you're going to have a Flash "player" that will display all
your content, you're going to want a separate .xml (or any other sequencing
solution) strictly for your Flash content.
Does that help?
-a-
On 4/27/06, Lieven Cardoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
I will sketch you a little bit what i'm doing. In
the company I work, we've made a player in flash. On the left-side there's a
tree with the structure of the course. This structure is gotten from a
manifest.xml, a bit like the scorm-manifest. When a user clicks on a leaf, the
xml of the exercise is loaded and the proper module is rendered (there's about
15 modules in our system, dragndrops, fillin's, crosswords, …).
Now I would like to make this SCORM-compatible.
My first question is this :
Do I make a scorm-manifest with one item which
then loads our swf. Problem here is I guess that there will be a tree on the
left wich represents the scorm-manifest and then on the right our swf with
again a tree.
Other option is to let the scorm-manifest handle
the structure. For this I made a miniplayer that doesn't load our manifest.xml,
but gets directly the xml from one exercise. So then I have one tree on the
left and an swf on the right (which will be loaded each time a user clicks on
an item).
Other questions will follow… thx Lieven Cardoen
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Aaron Silvers
Sent: woensdag 26 april 2006 16:02
To: Open Source Flash Mailing List
Subject: Re: [osflash] SCORM
Exactly... which is why I like using the Flash/JS
Integration Kit. The getURL works great for passing calls to the SCORM
API from Flash, but it doesn't really allow for a return value, and
traditionally the real pain in working with SCORM and Flash has been in getting
information from the LMS back into your Flash content. Even Initialize()
and Terminate() calls return a boolean.
The Flash/JS kit works great for that kind of thing... though it would be nicer
if the queuing was fixed once and for all. There are often instances
where you need to be creative in getting multiple SCORM API calls to work with
the current Flash/JS code.
-a-
On
4/26/06, Tim Scollick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Unfortunately,
a lot of enterprise customers are still locked to Flash 7 which leaves you
using _javascript_ getURL calls (which is a more elegant solution and better
across browsers than fscommand, in my opinion).
On
4/26/06, Aaron Silvers <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
wrote:
The
Rustici Software poster is pretty good. Mike Rustici is very
knowledgeable about SCORM.
As for the sample API Wrapper... eek! I'd *really* shy away from anything
to do with FSCommand unless you're absolutely certain you're not going to be
deploying on anything other than Windows and IE (and before Flash 8
player). But going back to 2001 when it was created, I can't imagine that
there was any better solution.
As far as Flash-to-_javascript_ communication goes, FSCommand is a shrewd
mistress, and an unpleasant crutch (imho). Now, with the Flash/JS
Integration Kit and ExternalInterface post-Flash 8 -- you have a wealth of
better options.
On
4/25/06, l u c h y x <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A few months ago, I was working on a "Situation
Based E-learning Game". And the SCORM api on moodle and angel.
Look the resources here, now we are using the same code in our e-learning projects
if they need scorm integration.
But all code is for Flash Player 7.0, no External interface is used by
now.
Don�t
miss the SCORM poster ;)
http://riaevolution.com/applications/elearning/
I look
forward to it, Justin. I put out some code on the site last November
using the Flash/JS Integration Kit working with SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004.
It should provide some insight as to how one can work with SCORM and Flash
projects pre-Flash 8.
Shows how often I've been on my own blog since moving to Chicago.
The site is up now, complete with a bunch of information on SCORM 2004, SCORM
1.2 and Flash. Thanks for kicking me in the butt to look into it. I
have a bunch of new stuff I'm readying to post. This helped to clear the
road.
http://flashforlearning.com
Thanks
Aaron. Once the first prototype is available and gives a good
idea of what it'll take for a Real Implementation (i.e. version 2), then
I'll buzz you too.
Prolly about a month away, as I'm working on it after hours. :)
Regards and best wishes,
Justin Clift
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