[Building Sakai] Sakai course on CD

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Philip,

It would be great to enhance the existing SCORM support in Sakai, this  
might do just that. Could your player be developed to run SCORM  
packages, and then enhance the SCORM export of content in Sakai?

A nice SCORM package export would be ideal for CD distribution. It  
would just be a snapshot of the content though, if you wanted it  
updated and synchronised when a user goes online, check out the  SOLO  
project : http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/x/CYAwAQ

EDIT: just noticed David's message about SOLO as well.

cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
Portal Systems Developer
Centre for e-Science
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YT

email: s.swinsburg at lancaster.ac.uk
phone: +44 (0) 1524 594870







On 5 Jun 2009, at 11:31, Philip Fedchin wrote:

> Dear Collegues!
>
> We have a rather urgent need at our university to create CD-versions  
> of our Sakai courses.
> In relation to this need we are considering a development of  
> specific tool on the basis of OCW. We would be really grateful for  
> your comments/suggestions/expressed interest to participate.  
> Although we are very much looking forward to Sakai 3, but the task  
> is much more urgent and we are forced to base the process on current  
> Sakai 2.5.4 version with the addition of couple Contrib tools. May  
> be you have some ideas concerning more productive way of realizing  
> our short term goals in terms of Sakai future.
>
> So, we have in mind the following list of tools/functions available  
> from the disk/local workstation:
> 1) modules content (Melete and Resources, perhaps Conditional  
> Release);
> 2) tests (Test&Quizzes);
> 3) glossary (glossary);
> 4) search (new tool for the search on CD).
>
> The preliminary plan is to develop the tool on the basis of OCW. The  
> tool would consist of server and client parts. The server part would  
> be fullfilled by Sakai through the creation of standard course site  
> with modules created using Resources, Melete, Test&Quizzes. The  
> client part is a player (interface), which allows to present on the  
> CD the course downloaded from Sakai.
> And we plan to use Adobe Air (Flex) as the technology behind the  
> client part.
>
> The standard scenario is the following:
> 1) Professor creates a course in Sakai using Melete, Resources,  
> Test&Quizzes and Glossary
> 2) Using the tool the course materials files are downloaded together  
> with the XML file reflecting the structure.
> 3) The files are copied to CD
> 4) The course is played from CD using Adobe Air based player.
> There will be an opportunity if needed to create client interface  
> using SWT (The Standard Widget Toolkit) as we are planning to  
> document and make available the code.
>
> Looking forward to your reaction.
> Best,
> Philip Fedchin
> Associate Director for Information Resources
> Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
> (St.Petersburg State University & Bard College)
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