[Using Sakai] Sakai SCORM Player (based upon UC Davis implementation) - news

[Ricci, Margaret P]

Mark,
This is very exciting news! I just whipped up a SCORM object in SoftChalk and ran it through your SCORM player. I was very happy to see the results for every question and the total score. My only question was with the Gradebook connection. I told it to synchronize with the gradebook, but my results didn't show up there when I looked. It is not at all clear to me what my role is in your demo site. It seems like I'm a student in some tools and an instructor in others. This may be why  it isn't showing me the results (score) in the Gradebook. If I could get that figured out, I'd be pretty happy.

Thanks,
Maggie


Margaret P. Ricci
Principal Instructional Technology Specialist
Teaching and Learning Technology Centers
Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning
Office of the Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education /
University Information Technology Services
307 Ballantine Hall
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington, IN  47405
812-855-8355
mricci at indiana.edu<mailto:mricci at indiana.edu>



From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Mark van de Haar
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:15 AM
To: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [Using Sakai] Sakai SCORM Player (based upon UC Davis implementation) - news

We have some news regarding the Edia SCORM player that is based upon the UC Davis implementation.


Edia has been awarded the 100% score with the Sakai SCORM player at the Dutch NOiV Plugfest. During this event, organized by NOiV and Kennisnet, experts on education show how open-source eLearning can be employed within different eLearning platforms and Authoring environments. Edia's version became first in the ranking of the eLearning category which also featured It's Learning and N at tschool. The Sakai SCORM player works within the Sakai architecture, and it a continuation of the work of UC Davis. An independent panel of experts lauded the potential of the Sakai product in a competition in which it had to compete with both Moodle and Blackboard.More information on the NoiV Plugfest (in Dutch) can be found here:https://noiv.nl/onderwijsplugfest/. It is possible to test the SCORM player by going to http://scormplayer.edia.nl<http://scormplayer.edia.nl/>.

The major functional improvement of the Edia SCORM player is that it is now able to publish the learners' results to the Sakai gradebook. In the player's configuration one can select which SCO (Shareable Content Object) should be synchronized with the grade book. The results in percents will be transformed to a scale from 0 to 100.

The majority of bug fixes are related to the player's navigation:
- Resume/Suspend. Within SCORM's datamodel the status of the package is saved in the datafield cmi.exit. In the old version saving within this datafield resulted in the SCORM player not resuming properly.
- Quit. When qutting SCORM packages the status was not saved correctly, which resulted in invalid status. This has also been fixed in the updated version.
- Back/Next. The back and next button were never active during the playback of SCORM packages. This was due to the absence of the Simple Sequencing Rule. This rule contains a Control Mode with the Flow property, if this rule is enabled with the Flow property 'True' then the navigational buttons are available.

This blog entry can be found on: http://www.edia.nl/en/scorm-plugfest


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Mark van de Haar
mark at edia.nl<mailto:maarten.vanhoof at edia.nl>
Edia has been awarded the 100% score for their Sakai SCORM player at the Dutch NOiV Plugfest.

Edia - Educatie Technologie
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Mark van de Haar
mark at edia.nl<mailto:maarten.vanhoof at edia.nl>
Edia has been awarded the 100% score for their Sakai SCORM player at the Dutch NOiV Plugfest.

Edia - Educatie Technologie
Korte Prinsengracht 42 hs | 1013 GT Amsterdam
T 020 716 36 12 | F 020 716 36 13 |
www.edia.nl<http://www.edia.nl/>

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