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SCORM FAQ

2013-05-08T01:14:16Z

Danmarsden: /* Supported Versions */ SCORM 2004 no longer being supported/developed further.

{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Should I make my Moodle courses as SCORM or use Moodle's features?==
It depends how you intend to use it. If you are planning on exporting and using in another LMS then SCORM would make this easier. If you want something shiny, then a SCORM package can fit the bill. However, reporting and grading work better in Moodle and for many educators the standard features do the job perfectly and do not require learning a new program. There is a useful form post discussing the pros and cons of SCORM in Moodle here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200242

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Upload a copy of your SCORM object to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_hosting_service File Hosting Service] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.
* Read Dan Marsden's blog post [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle here] (Maintainer of SCORM Module in Moodle)

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not supported in Moodle. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing have not. Development on native SCORM 2004 support in Moodle [https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=227906 has stopped]. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher.

* Moodle does not support Tin Can at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

See [[SCORM settings]]

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
SCORM is designed to allow a learner to exit and return at a later date to the same point they left from. This means that each time they enter the SCORM they are using the same single attempt. Some SCORM packages are intelligent about handling re-entry, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten by a lower score, confusing the learner.

When a SCORM sets the cmi.core.lesson_status value to 'completed', 'passed' or 'failed' then Moodle allows the user to create a new attempt by adding a '''Start new attempt''' checkbox to the entry page. If cmi.core.lesson_status is set to 'incomplete', 'browsed' or 'notattempted' the learner can only re-enter the existing attempt. If you are using the setting 'Student skip content structure page', this checkbox will never be shown to the user.

Moodle provides a range of settings to allow this to be controlled, some of these settings are hidden by default as advanced options.
* Number of attempts
:This allows the teacher to set how many SCORM attempts the learner may create - this is not how many times a learner can re-enter a SCORM attempt.
* Attempts grading
:This allows the teacher to set how multiple SCORM attempts(not re-entries) are graded. It is important to note that a 'failed' cmi.core_lesson_status allows a new attempt to be generated but the attempts grading setting "last completed attempt" only includes 'completed' and 'passed' values in it's calculations.
* Display attempt status
:This displays a users SCORM attempts and how their final grade is calculated on the SCORM entry page and the My Moodle page for the learner.
* Force completed
:This is a setting that can be used to force a SCORM package to report a 'completed' cmi.core.lesson_status if it doesn't currently set the value.
* Force new attempt
:This hides the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox and will force a new attempt if the previous attempt has cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' - this setting can also be used to make sure a new attempt is generated when the 'Student skip content structure page' setting is used.
* Lock after final attempt
:This prevents access to the SCORM after the total number of attempts have been used - if this is not set the learner can re-enter their last attempt and potentially change/overwrite their score each time depending on how the SCORM package supports multiple re-entries.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle SCORM doesn't work] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

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IMS Enterprise

2013-04-24T01:47:22Z

Danmarsden: /* Format overview */ fix url

{{Enrolment}}
Location: IMS Enterprise file edit settings link in ''Site administration > Plugins > Enrolments > Manage enrol plugins''

'''IMS Enterprise''' is an international standard XML file format which may be used to specify enrolments/unenrolments in courses, as well as course information and user information.

==Format overview==

Below is a simple guide to the basic structure of a typical IMS Enterprise data file. Much more information is available on the [http://www.imsglobal.org/enterprise/ IMS Enterprise official website].

You may like to read the [https://github.com/moodle/moodle/blob/master/enrol/imsenterprise/entv1p1_conformance_summary.html conformance summary] which describes which IMS data elements this plugin can process.

==Basic guide to IMS Enterprise file format==

For any IMS-style enrolment you need a <group> tag which specifies the course, a <person> tag which specifies the user account, and a <membership> tag containing <member> tags which specify a person's role within a given course.

Remember that the numeric keys used in the Moodle databases are not the interoperable data - a student data system is never going to know in advance that Joe is the 20th user added to the Moodle database - so those aren't the keys exchanged in this type of data.

Typically a course would have a reference code as well as a name, so let's assume its code is MOODLE101. To define your course you could use

<group>
<sourcedid>
<source>MyDataSystem</source>
<id>MOODLE101</id>
</sourcedid>
<description>
<short>Moodle 101</short>
</description>
</group>

The enrolment script will look for a course with code MOODLE101, and (optionally) create it if it doesn't exist. Similarly for the person - let's assume it's "jmoodle":

<person>
<sourcedid>
<source>MyDataSystem</source>
<id>jmoodle</id>
</sourcedid>
<userid>jmoodle</userid>
<name>
<fn>Joe Moodle</fn>
<n>
<family>MOODLE</family>
<given>JOE</given>
</n>
</name>
</person>

If Joe doesn't already have an account, the script can (optionally) create an account for him.

Let's now look at the membership, adding the person to the course:

<membership>
<sourcedid>
<source>MyDataSystem</source>
<id>MOODLE101</id>
</sourcedid>
<member>
<sourcedid>
<source>MyDataSystem</source>
<id>jmoodle</id>
</sourcedid>
<role roletype="01">
<status>1</status>
<extension><cohort>unit 2</cohort></extension>
</role>
</member>
</membership>

The IMS Enterprise specification does offer a facility for specifying start/end dates for enrolments, so those can be included using the <timeframe> tag if needed.

If a person is already added to a group within the course, the script won't actually modify that. If they are not grouped, however, then the specified grouping will be applied.

==Automatic creation of new courses==

If required, the IMS Enterprise enrolment plugin can create new courses for any it finds in the IMS data but not in Moodle's database.

Courses are first queried by their "idnumber" - an alphanumeric field in Moodle's course table, which can specify the code used to identify the course in the Student Information System (for example). If that is not found, the course table is searched for the "short description", which in Moodle is the short course identifier as displayed in the breadcrumbs etc. (In some systems these two fields may well be identical.) Only when that search has failed can the plugin optionally create new courses.

Any newly-generated courses are HIDDEN when created. This is to prevent the possibility of students wandering into completely empty courses that the teacher may be unaware of.

==Unenrolling students/teachers==

If required, the Enterprise data can add as well as remove course enrolments - for students and for teachers. If this setting is turned on, then Moodle will carry out unenrolments when specified in the data.

There are three ways of unenrolling students within the IMS data:

* A <member> element which specifies the given student and course, and with the "recstatus" attribute of the <role> element set to 3 (which means "delete"). THIS IS NOT YET IMPLEMENTED IN THE MOODLE PLUGIN.
* A <member> element which specifies the given student and course, and with the <status> element set to 0 (which means "inactive").

The third method is slightly different. It does not require this config setting to be activated, and can be specified well in advance of the unenrolment date:

* A <member> element which specifies a <timeframe> for the enrolment can specify the begin and/or end dates for enrolment of this particular student. These dates are loaded into Moodle's enrolment data table if present, and so after the end-date, a student will no longer be able to access that particular course.

==See also==

* [http://www.imsglobal.org/enterprise/ IMS Enterprise specification] - the official site
* [http://cvs.moodle.org/contrib/plugins/enrol/imsenterprise/entv1p1_conformance_summary.html?view=co Conformance summary] - summarises the parts of the specification which Moodle makes use of
* [https://studydirect.sussex.ac.uk/downloads/imsenterprise.php Minted IMS Enterprise enrolment plugin] - An extension of the ims enterprise enrolment plugin developed in the [http://www.sussex.ac.uk/minted minted project]

[[fr:Fichier IMS Enterprise]]

SCORM FAQ

2012-11-28T07:46:58Z

Danmarsden: /* Handling of Multiple Attempts */ add information about 'failed' lesson_status

{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Should I make my Moodle courses as SCORM or use Moodle's features?==
It depends how you intend to use it. If you are planning on exporting and using in another LMS then SCORM would make this easier. If you want something shiny, then a SCORM package can fit the bill. However, reporting and grading work better in Moodle and for many educators the standard features do the job perfectly and do not require learning a new program. There is a useful form post discussing the pros and cons of SCORM in Moodle here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200242

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Upload a copy of your SCORM object to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_hosting_service File Hosting Service] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.
* Read Dan Marsden's blog post [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle here] (Maintainer of SCORM Module in Moodle)

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher.

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

See [[SCORM settings]]

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
SCORM is designed to allow a learner to exit and return at a later date to the same point they left from. This means that each time they enter the SCORM they are using the same single attempt. Some SCORM packages are intelligent about handling re-entry, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten by a lower score, confusing the learner.

When a SCORM sets the cmi.core.lesson_status value to 'completed', 'passed' or 'failed' then Moodle allows the user to create a new attempt by adding a '''Start new attempt''' checkbox to the entry page. If cmi.core.lesson_status is set to 'incomplete', 'browsed' or 'notattempted' the learner can only re-enter the existing attempt. If you are using the setting 'Student skip content structure page', this checkbox will never be shown to the user.

Moodle provides a range of settings to allow this to be controlled, some of these settings are hidden by default as advanced options.
* Number of attempts
:This allows the teacher to set how many SCORM attempts the learner may create - this is not how many times a learner can re-enter a SCORM attempt.
* Attempts grading
:This allows the teacher to set how multiple SCORM attempts(not re-entries) are graded. It is important to note that a 'failed' cmi.core_lesson_status allows a new attempt to be generated but the attempts grading setting "last completed attempt" only includes 'completed' and 'passed' values in it's calculations.
* Display attempt status
:This displays a users SCORM attempts and how their final grade is calculated on the SCORM entry page and the My Moodle page for the learner.
* Force completed
:This is a setting that can be used to force a SCORM package to report a 'completed' cmi.core.lesson_status if it doesn't currently set the value.
* Force new attempt
:This hides the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox and will force a new attempt if the previous attempt has cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' - this setting can also be used to make sure a new attempt is generated when the 'Student skip content structure page' setting is used.
* Lock after final attempt
:This prevents access to the SCORM after the total number of attempts have been used - if this is not set the learner can re-enter their last attempt and potentially change/overwrite their score each time depending on how the SCORM package supports multiple re-entries.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle SCORM doesn't work] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

SCORM settings

2012-10-02T00:18:32Z

Danmarsden: /* Other Important Settings */ typo

{{Improve}}
{{SCORM}}

To add a SCORM package to a course, or to edit the SCORM activity settings, turn on the course edit mode as a teacher with editing privileges.

The SCORM activity can also be used to add AICC content running using AICC HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol "Appendix A"), see CMI001 - AICC/CMI Guidelines For Interoperability [http://www.aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001]

==Creating==
Moodle '''does not''' generate SCORM content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package. See [[Tools for creating SCORM content]]

==Adding==
# While logged in as a teacher, select [[Image:Turn edit on button.JPG]] at the top right of a course homepage or in the course admin menu. See [[Turn_editing_on]].
# in one of the '''Add an activity...''' drop down menus that appear, select '''SCORM package'''.

==Editing==
If the SCORM/AICC package has already been added, you can edit it by clicking the edit icon (pen) in the resource/activity list on front page of the course. If you are in the SCORM page, you can click the '''Update this SCORM''' button. Both these methods bring you to the settings page.

==Settings==
On the Setting page, the teacher can view the 3 settings areas, along with the save options buttons.
[[Image:M2-blank-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Setting Page ]]

===General settings===
*'''Name''' field records the short name of the activity. This appears in the navigation breadcrumb.
*'''Description''' text is only seen after the name in the list shown when you choose "activities > Scorm"
*'''Package file''' setting determines what SCORM package is used by this SCORM activity. To select the SCORM package, first select the '''Choose''' button to launch the file picker.
[[Image:M2-scorm-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
With the file picker launched, you can navigate to an existing file, or select the '''Choose''' button in the file picker to upload a new file.
[[Image:M2-scorm-file-picker-choose.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
Browse to the new SCORM package on your local machine and select it. When you are returned to the file picker, select '''Upload'''.
[[Image:M2-scorm-upload-file-to-site.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
If selecting files is difficult, you might want to learn more about the [[File picker]].

:''Tip:'' Additional '''Package file''' settings are available when configured globally. See '''Admin settings''' below.

===Other settings===
Pressing the advance button will reveal all the choices below.
[[Image:SCORM_settings_other_19.png|thumb|300px|right|Moodle 1.9 SCORM Other Settings block - advanced shown ]]
*'''Grading method'''
** Learning Objects - This mode shows the number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity. The max value is the number of Package's Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.lesson_status, and does not report cmi.core.score.raw, then you should use this setting.
** Highest grade - The grade page will display the highest score obtained by users in all passed Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.score.raw, and does not report cmi.core.lesson_status, then you should use this setting, Average grade, or Sum grade.
** Average grade - If you choose this mode Moodle will calculate the average of all scores.
**Sum grade - With this mode all the scores will be added.
*'''Maximum grade''' - Not applicable if Grading Method is Learning objects. Usual setting is 100. If your SCO 's high score is something other than 100, you should adjust this value appropriately. When grading Method is one of the score settings, then the gradebook grade is package score divided by this number.
*'''Number of attempts''' - Defines the number of attempts permitted to users. It works only with SCORM 1.2 and AICC packages. SCORM2004 has its own max attempts definition.
** The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
** An attempt is not complete until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
*'''Attempts grading''' - When you permit multiple attempts for students, you can choose how to record the result in gradebook by first, last, average or highest settings.
*'''Width''' - Stage size width as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 100%. You can change to a different percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Height''' - Stage size height as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 500 pixels. You can change to a percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Display package''' - in current or new window
*'''Options''' - There are a series of check boxes for:Allow the window to be resized ad scrolled, displaying directory links, location bar, menu bar, toolbar and/or status.
*'''Student skip content structure page''' - never, first access, always
*'''Disable preview mode''' - If this option is set to Yes, the Preview button in the view page of a SCORM/AICC Package activity will be hidden. The student can choose to preview (browse mode) the activity or attempt it in the normal mode. When a Learning Object is completed in preview (browse) mode, it's marked with browsed icon
*'''Course structure display''' - Table of Contents display
*'''Hide navigation buttons'''
*'''Auto-Continue''' - If Auto-continue is set to Yes, when a Learning Object calls the "close communication" method, the next available Learning Object is launched automatically.If it is set to No, the users must use the "Continue" button to go on.
:''TIP:'' Auto-Continue will only to move from one SCORM to the next in the same topic.

*'''Display package''' - Allow the window to be resized, Allow the window to be scrolled, Show the directory links, Show the location bar, Show the menu bar, Show the toolbar, Show the status bar.
* Display attempt status
* Display course structure
* Force completed
* Force new attempt
* Lock after final attempt

===Common module settings===
See [[Common module settings]]

===Save settings===
As in most activities there are 3 save button choices. '''Cancel''', '''Save and return to course''' and '''Save changes''' buttons. The Save changes button will take the teacher back to the SCORM "stage" page.

==Site administration settings==
[[Image:M2-scorm-admin-nav.png|thumb|163px|right|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Admin Settings]]
These options are available to the site admin in the '''Settings''' menu: ''Site administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package''.

===Default Value Settings===
Many of the settings available in the SCORM Package administration simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. Edit these settings to save yourself time when adding large numbers of packages, or to establish a standard for presentation across the site.

===Other Important Settings===
The following options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

* '''Synchronization time:''' For SCORM packages that have the auto-update setting to 'Every Day' this defines what time the process should run.
* '''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.
* '''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.
* '''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository
* '''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!
* '''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.
* '''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==See also==

* [[:dev:SCORM_schema |SCORM Schema]] for developers

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[[Category:SCORM]]

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To add a SCORM package to a course, or to edit the SCORM activity settings, turn on the course edit mode as a teacher with editing privileges.

The SCORM activity can also be used to add AICC content running using AICC HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol "Appendix A"), see CMI001 - AICC/CMI Guidelines For Interoperability [http://www.aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001]

==Creating==
Moodle '''does not''' generate SCORM content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package. See [[Tools for creating SCORM content]]

==Adding==
# While logged in as a teacher, select [[Image:Turn edit on button.JPG]] at the top right of a course homepage or in the course admin menu. See [[Turn_editing_on]].
# in one of the '''Add an activity...''' drop down menus that appear, select '''SCORM package'''.

==Editing==
If the SCORM/AICC package has already been added, you can edit it by clicking the edit icon (pen) in the resource/activity list on front page of the course. If you are in the SCORM page, you can click the '''Update this SCORM''' button. Both these methods bring you to the settings page.

==Settings==
On the Setting page, the teacher can view the 3 settings areas, along with the save options buttons.
[[Image:M2-blank-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Setting Page ]]

===General settings===
*'''Name''' field records the short name of the activity. This appears in the navigation breadcrumb.
*'''Description''' text is only seen after the name in the list shown when you choose "activities > Scorm"
*'''Package file''' setting determines what SCORM package is used by this SCORM activity. To select the SCORM package, first select the '''Choose''' button to launch the file picker.
[[Image:M2-scorm-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
With the file picker launched, you can navigate to an existing file, or select the '''Choose''' button in the file picker to upload a new file.
[[Image:M2-scorm-file-picker-choose.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
Browse to the new SCORM package on your local machine and select it. When you are returned to the file picker, select '''Upload'''.
[[Image:M2-scorm-upload-file-to-site.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
If selecting files is difficult, you might want to learn more about the [[File picker]].

:''Tip:'' Additional '''Package file''' settings are available when configured globally. See '''Admin settings''' below.

===Other settings===
Pressing the advance button will reveal all the choices below.
[[Image:SCORM_settings_other_19.png|thumb|300px|right|Moodle 1.9 SCORM Other Settings block - advanced shown ]]
*'''Grading method'''
** Learning Objects - This mode shows the number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity. The max value is the number of Package's Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.lesson_status, and does not report cmi.core.score.raw, then you should use this setting.
** Highest grade - The grade page will display the highest score obtained by users in all passed Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.score.raw, and does not report cmi.core.lesson_status, then you should use this setting, Average grade, or Sum grade.
** Average grade - If you choose this mode Moodle will calculate the average of all scores.
**Sum grade - With this mode all the scores will be added.
*'''Maximum grade''' - Not applicable if Grading Method is Learning objects. Usual setting is 100. If your SCO 's high score is something other than 100, you should adjust this value appropriately. When grading Method is one of the score settings, then the gradebook grade is package score divided by this number.
*'''Number of attempts''' - Defines the number of attempts permitted to users. It works only with SCORM 1.2 and AICC packages. SCORM2004 has its own max attempts definition.
** The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
** An attempt is not complete until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
*'''Attempts grading''' - When you permit multiple attempts for students, you can choose how to record the result in gradebook by first, last, average or highest settings.
*'''Width''' - Stage size width as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 100%. You can change to a different percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Height''' - Stage size height as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 500 pixels. You can change to a percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Display package''' - in current or new window
*'''Options''' - There are a series of check boxes for:Allow the window to be resized ad scrolled, displaying directory links, location bar, menu bar, toolbar and/or status.
*'''Student skip content structure page''' - never, first access, always
*'''Disable preview mode''' - If this option is set to Yes, the Preview button in the view page of a SCORM/AICC Package activity will be hidden. The student can choose to preview (browse mode) the activity or attempt it in the normal mode. When a Learning Object is completed in preview (browse) mode, it's marked with browsed icon
*'''Course structure display''' - Table of Contents display
*'''Hide navigation buttons'''
*'''Auto-Continue''' - If Auto-continue is set to Yes, when a Learning Object calls the "close communication" method, the next available Learning Object is launched automatically.If it is set to No, the users must use the "Continue" button to go on.
:''TIP:'' Auto-Continue will only to move from one SCORM to the next in the same topic.

*'''Display package''' - Allow the window to be resized, Allow the window to be scrolled, Show the directory links, Show the location bar, Show the menu bar, Show the toolbar, Show the status bar.
* Display attempt status
* Display course structure
* Force completed
* Force new attempt
* Lock after final attempt

===Common module settings===
See [[Common module settings]]

===Save settings===
As in most activities there are 3 save button choices. '''Cancel''', '''Save and return to course''' and '''Save changes''' buttons. The Save changes button will take the teacher back to the SCORM "stage" page.

==Site administration settings==
[[Image:M2-scorm-admin-nav.png|thumb|163px|right|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Admin Settings]]
These options are available to the site admin in the '''Settings''' menu: ''Site administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package''.

===Default Value Settings===
Many of the settings available in the SCORM Package administration simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. Edit these settings to save yourself time when adding large numbers of packages, or to establish a standard for presentation across the site.

===Other Important Settings===
The following options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

* '''Synchronization time:''' For SCORM packages that have the auto-update setting to 'Every Day' this defines what time the process should run.
* '''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.
* '''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.
* '''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository
* '''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!
* '''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.
* '''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==See also==

* [[:dev:SCORM_schema |SCORM Schema]] for developers

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:SCORM]]

[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un SCORM]]
[[ja:SCORMを追加/編集する]]
[[de:Lernpaket anlegen]]

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{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Should I make my Moodle courses as SCORM or use Moodle's features?==
It depends how you intend to use it. If you are planning on exporting and using in another LMS then SCORM would make this easier. If you want something shiny, then a SCORM package can fit the bill. However, reporting and grading work better in Moodle and for many educators the standard features do the job perfectly and do not require learning a new program. There is a useful form post discussing the pros and cons of SCORM in Moodle here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200242

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Upload a copy of your SCORM object to a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_hosting_service File Hosting Service] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.
* Read Dan Marsden's blog post [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle here] (Maintainer of SCORM Module in Moodle)

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher.

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

See [[SCORM settings]]

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
SCORM is designed to allow a learner to exit and return at a later date to the same point they left from. This means that each time they enter the SCORM they are using the same single attempt. Some SCORM packages are intelligent about handling re-entry, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten by a lower score, confusing the learner.

When a SCORM sets the cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' then Moodle allows the user to create a new attempt by adding a '''Start new attempt''' checkbox to the entry page. If cmi.core.lesson_status is set not set to 'completed' or 'passed' the learner can only enter the existing attempt. If you are using the setting 'Student skip content structure page', this checkbox will never be shown to the user.

Moodle provides a range of settings to allow this to be controlled, some of these settings are hidden by deafult as advanced options.
* Number of attempts
:This allows the teacher to set how many SCORM attempts the learner may create - this is not how many times a learner can re-enter a SCORM attempt.
* Attempts grading
:This allows the teacher to set how multiple SCORM attempts are graded - It's important to note each time a learner enters a single SCORM attempt they can achieve a grade, but only the final grade achieved after cmi.core_lesson_status is set to 'completed' or 'passed' will be kept and used in the calculations.
* Display attempt status
:This displays a users SCORM attempts and how their final grade is calculated on the SCORM entry page and the My Moodle page for the learner.
* Force completed
:This is a setting that can be used to force a SCORM package to report a 'completed' cmi.core.lesson_status if it doesn't currently set the value.
* Force new attempt
:This hides the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox and will force a new attempt if the previous attempt has cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' - this setting can also be used to make sure a new attempt is generated when the 'Student skip content structure page' setting is used.
* Lock after final attempt
:This prevents access to the SCORM after the total number of attempts have been used - if this is not set the learner can re-enter their last attempt and potentially change/overwrite their score each time depending on how the SCORM package supports multiple re-entries.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle SCORM doesn't work] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

SCORM FAQ

2012-08-08T22:51:42Z

Danmarsden: add links to my scorm doesn't work blog post

{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Should I make my Moodle courses as SCORM or use Moodle's features?==
It depends how you intend to use it. If you are planning on exporting and using in another LMS then SCORM would make this easier. If you want something shiny, then a SCORM package can fit the bill. However, reporting and grading work better in Moodle and for many educators the standard features do the job perfectly and do not require learning a new program. There is a useful form post discussing the pros and cons of SCORM in Moodle here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200242

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.
* Read Dan Marsden's blog post [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle here] (Maintainer of SCORM Module in Moodle)

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

See [[SCORM settings]]

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
SCORM is designed to allow a learner to exit and return at a later date to the same point they left from. This means that each time they enter the SCORM they are using the same single attempt. Some SCORM packages are intelligent about handling re-entry, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten by a lower score, confusing the learner.

When a SCORM sets the cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' then Moodle allows the user to create a new attempt by adding a '''Start new attempt''' checkbox to the entry page. If cmi.core.lesson_status is set not set to 'completed' or 'passed' the learner can only enter the existing attempt. If you are using the setting 'Student skip content structure page', this checkbox will never be shown to the user.

Moodle provides a range of settings to allow this to be controlled, some of these settings are hidden by deafult as advanced options.
* Number of attempts
:This allows the teacher to set how many SCORM attempts the learner may create - this is not how many times a learner can re-enter a SCORM attempt.
* Attempts grading
:This allows the teacher to set how multiple SCORM attempts are graded - It's important to note each time a learner enters a single SCORM attempt they can achieve a grade, but only the final grade achieved after cmi.core_lesson_status is set to 'completed' or 'passed' will be kept and used in the calculations.
* Display attempt status
:This displays a users SCORM attempts and how their final grade is calculated on the SCORM entry page and the My Moodle page for the learner.
* Force completed
:This is a setting that can be used to force a SCORM package to report a 'completed' cmi.core.lesson_status if it doesn't currently set the value.
* Force new attempt
:This hides the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox and will force a new attempt if the previous attempt has cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' - this setting can also be used to make sure a new attempt is generated when the 'Student skip content structure page' setting is used.
* Lock after final attempt
:This prevents access to the SCORM after the total number of attempts have been used - if this is not set the learner can re-enter their last attempt and potentially change/overwrite their score each time depending on how the SCORM package supports multiple re-entries.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/08/08/scorm-doesnt-work-in-moodle SCORM doesn't work] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] - allows uploading/downloading shared Objects
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

SCORM FAQ

2012-07-24T21:58:22Z

Danmarsden: /* Handling of Multiple Attempts */ rewrite faq to give more detail

{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Should I make my Moodle courses as SCORM or use Moodle's features?==
It depends how you intend to use it. If you are planning on exporting and using in another LMS then SCORM would make this easier. If you want something shiny, then a SCORM package can fit the bill. However, reporting and grading work better in Moodle and for many educators the standard features do the job perfectly and do not require learning a new program. There is a useful form post discussing the pros and cons of SCORM in Moodle here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=200242

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

See [[SCORM settings]]

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
SCORM is designed to allow a learner to exit and return at a later date to the same point they left from. This means that each time they enter the SCORM they are using the same single attempt. Some SCORM packages are intelligent about handling re-entry, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten by a lower score, confusing the learner.

When a SCORM sets the cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' then Moodle allows the user to create a new attempt by adding a '''Start new attempt''' checkbox to the entry page. If cmi.core.lesson_status is set not set to 'completed' or 'passed' the learner can only enter the existing attempt. If you are using the setting 'Student skip content structure page', this checkbox will never be shown to the user.

Moodle provides a range of settings to allow this to be controlled, some of these settings are hidden by deafult as advanced options.
* Number of attempts
:This allows the teacher to set how many SCORM attempts the learner may create - this is not how many times a learner can re-enter a SCORM attempt.
* Attempts grading
:This allows the teacher to set how multiple SCORM attempts are graded - It's important to note each time a learner enters a single SCORM attempt they can achieve a grade, but only the final grade achieved after cmi.core_lesson_status is set to 'completed' or 'passed' will be kept and used in the calculations.
* Display attempt status
:This displays a users SCORM attempts and how their final grade is calculated on the SCORM entry page and the My Moodle page for the learner.
* Force completed
:This is a setting that can be used to force a SCORM package to report a 'completed' cmi.core.lesson_status if it doesn't currently set the value.
* Force new attempt
:This hides the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox and will force a new attempt if the previous attempt has cmi.core.lesson_status value to either 'completed' or 'passed' - this setting can also be used to make sure a new attempt is generated when the 'Student skip content structure page' setting is used.
* Lock after final attempt
:This prevents access to the SCORM after the total number of attempts have been used - if this is not set the learner can re-enter their last attempt and potentially change/overwrite their score each time depending on how the SCORM package supports multiple re-entries.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] - allows uploading/downloading shared Objects
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin

2012-06-04T02:00:46Z

Danmarsden: /* Plagiarism Plugin */ add deprecated info

{{Plagiarism prevention}}
Turnitin is a commercial plagiarism detection system which requires a paid subscription to use - there are currently 3 different options available to use Turnitin in Moodle 2.0.

===Plagiarism Plugin===
A [[Plagiarism Prevention]] plugin written by [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=21591&course=5 Dan Marsden] from [http://www.catalyst.net.nz Catalyst IT] which allows existing Modules to "call" the plagiarism service. It has been added to the upload and uploadsingle assignment types, but eventually support will be added to other Moodle modules. This is a generic plugin system and other Plagiarism products are also available preventing an institution from being "locked in" to a Plagiarism Tool vendor.
* ''' NOTE: this plugin will be deprecated by a new plugin currently under development - see [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2012/03/06/future-of-moodle-turnitin-plugins future-of-moodle-turnitin-plugins]'''
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings|Turnitin Installation and Settings]]

===Moodle Direct Plugin===
The [[Turnitin's Moodle Direct Integration|Moodle Direct Integration]] was developed by [http://www.nlearning.co.uk nlearning Ltd] (now iParadigms Europe Ltd) - This is a standalone Moodle module that is similar to the advanced assignment type, however it adds a range of Turnitin specific functionality. The current version is available from [[http://www.moodle.org/modules Modules and Plugins]]. The key aim of the development is to represent all features of Turnitin within the Moodle workflow as and when they become exposed through the Turnitin API.

The Direct Plugin works on the principle of mapping a Turnitin Assignment in Moodle with an assignment in Turnitin, once mapped all submissions made on either side are synchronised reflecting any changes on both platforms. It is therefore possible to access the assignments created using the plugin by logging in to either system. There is the option to disable emails sent out to students which means login details and welcome emails are not sent which encourages students to submit only through Moodle. GradeMark grades are represented in the Moodle gradebook and originality scores are displayed in the Moodle Turnitin Assignment Inbox.

For more detail see: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149575

===Moodle Basic Plugin===
This is an assignment type plugin (support for this may be dropped in 2.3 as the assignment module is planned for a rewrite) it just provides Single Sign on to the turnitin.com website keeping moodle in a frame at the top.

==See also==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Turnitin Turnitin Plugins for older Moodle versions]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/en/Turnitin_errors Turnitin Error states]

[[Category:Turnitin]]

SCORM FAQ

2012-03-07T08:40:59Z

Danmarsden: /* Unzip issues */ update details related to php zip

{{SCORM}}
==What is SCORM?==

SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* Moodle 1.9.5 is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://support.scorm.com/entries/20394726-scorm-cloud-moodle-module Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

Beginning in Moodle 2.0 there are new site administration options which impact the setup options available to SCORM activities in Moodle courses. These options are accessed as an admin user, in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

Many of the settings available here simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. This page will cover the options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

'''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.

'''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.

'''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository

'''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!

'''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.

'''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely you haven't installed the PHP-zip lib which is required for Moodle 2.x for more info see [[admin/environment/php_extension/zip]]

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
* The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
* An attempt is not defined until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
* Some scorm packages are intelligent about new attempts, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten, even though the attempt was 'completed' or 'passed'.
* SCORM content created with Adobe Captivate has been observed to overwrite these values, though it was not determined whether Captivate provides a publishing setting to override this.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] - allows uploading/downloading shared Objects
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

How to rebuild context paths

2012-01-23T01:44:24Z

Danmarsden: /* Step A: Create the script */ remove old 1.9 code references.

{{Performance}}{{Update}}

Sometimes, if something has gone wrong in your database, you will get an error like:

[Thu Jan 15 16:20:59 2009] [error] [client 144.32.148.21]
PHP Notice: Context id 113 does not have valid path, please use build_context_path()
line 375 of lib/accesslib.php: call to debugging()
line 125 of mod/forum/index.php: call to has_capability()
in /lib/weblib.php on line 6923, referer: mod/forum/index.php?id=2

This page explains how to follow the instruction to "please use build_context_path". You will need to create a simple PHP script to do this, then run it.

== Before you start==

This error should never happen, so the fact that it has may be a symptom of something more serious being wrong. If you are paranoid, you may wish to [[How to check your database for corruption|check your database for corruption]] before running the repair script below.

On the other hand, sometimes these things happens, so you could just run the script below then forget about it.

== Step A: Create the script ==

On your server, create a file in the '''/admin''' folder called '''rebuildcontextpaths.php''' with the following content:
<code php>

<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . '/../config.php');

require_login();
require_capability('moodle/site:config', get_context_instance(CONTEXT_SYSTEM));

$strRebuildContextPath = "Rebuild Context Path";

$PAGE->set_url('/admin/rebuildcontexpath.php');
$PAGE->set_title($strRebuildContextPath);
$PAGE->set_heading($strRebuildContextPath);
$PAGE->navbar->add($strRebuildContextPath);

echo $OUTPUT->header();
echo 'Rebuilding context paths ...';
build_context_path(true);
echo 'Done';
echo $OUTPUT->footer();
?>
</code>

(You can either create this file on your own computer using a text editor like Notepad, then upload it to Moodle's /admin folder. Or you can edit the file directly on the server. It does not matter how you do it, just that you end up with the file there, with those contents.)

== Step B: Run the script ==

Go to the URL .../admin/rebuildcontextpaths.php in your web browser (for example, if your Moodle site is at <nowiki>http://example.com/moodle/, then go to the URL http://example.com/moodle/admin/rebuildcontextpaths.php</nowiki>). You need to log in as an administrator. The script will run, and immediately print 'Rebuilding context paths ...'. Some time later (depending on how big your Moodle site is) it will print 'Done'.

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings

2012-01-04T22:53:26Z

Danmarsden: move content to latest wiki only.

{{Plagiarism prevention}}
The up-to-date information for configuring Dan Marsden's Turnitin plugin is available in the latest Moodle Docs wiki: [[:en:Plagiarism_Prevention_Turnitin_Settings]]
[[Category:Turnitin]]

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings

2012-01-04T20:44:08Z

Danmarsden: /* Activation of your Turnitin Account */

{{Plagiarism prevention}}
[[Image:Turnitin_admin.gif|thumb|Turnitin administration]]

==Activation of your Turnitin Account==
# obtain a Turnitin Subscription from [http://www.turnitin.com www.turnitin.com]
# Email your Turnitin Account rep or the Turnitin helpdesk and paste this text into the e-mail:
Please manually enable our Turnitin account to use the integration SRC=14 to allow the use of the Turnitin Plagiarism plugin
for Moodle 2.0 written by Dan Marsden from Catalyst IT.

We are aware of the Turnitin Basic and Turnitin Direct plugins but wish to trial the plug-in provided from Dan Marsden/Catalyst IT.
If you have seen previous Turnitin integrations/plugins you will know that there is an interface that allows you to enable the Open API, Basic, Direct API plugins for Moodle in your Turnitin Administration screen - unfortunately none of these options work with the new Plagiarism plugin for Moodle 2.0

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using Git ===
from the root of your install:
git clone git://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin.git plagiarism/turnitin
then add plagairism/turnitin to your .gitignore
Visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/zipball/master
or the tar.gz:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/tarball/master

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/turnitin and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
==Global Configuration of Turnitin==
# Ensure Admin > Server > Environment indicates you have curl installed
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked.
# In the page ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Turnitin''
set the following:
## Tick the box "Use Turnitin Submission"
## Enter your Turnitin Account ID
## Enter your Turnitin Secret Key as obtained from your Turnitin Account Rep
## Elect whether to send students an e-mail to allow them to login to the turnitin.com site to view their submissions (this isn't necessary, and will likely cause your students more confusion, as all the information available in the website is available from your moodle site.) - even if no e-mail is sent, students can visit turnitin.com and use the forgotten password functionality on the turnitin site to get their password sent via e-mail. Admins can disable this by adding a prefix to all email accounts created - see below for details.
## Set the Student Disclosure statement. - this is displayed to all students on the upload screen to notify them that the Turnitin system is in use.

==Configuration of Turnitin inside Moodle Activity Modules==
===Assignment Module===
(currently only available with the advanced file upload and single upload types)
* Create a new Assignment within your course.
* Enable Turnitin Submission

==Advanced Configuration==
The ability to enable/disable Turnitin within a Moodle module such as an assignment is managed using a capability that is by default given to all managers and editing teachers on the site. If you want to force all assignments on your site to use Turnitin and prevent your teachers from changing these settings you can set the defaults above and then remove the capability “moodle/plagiarism_turnitin:enable” from your teacher roles.

You can also use this capability to selectively allow certain teachers to use Turnitin by setting the default above “Enable Turnitin” to “No” - and giving the capabiltiy “moodle/plagiarism_urkund:enable” only to the teachers you want to be able to use Turnitin

==Debugging==
* when testing the turnitin integration you should make sure debugging is turned on, as it will provide information regarding the process.
* error codes recieved from the turnitin API are also logged in the mdl_tii_files table, so you can view issues with a production system.
* each file that is going to be submitted to turnitin is added to the table mdl_tii_files - the field tiicode gives the "status" of the file, - there are 3 "good" states for this field:
# "pending" - this is a new file that has been uploaded to an activity module, and needs to be submitted to Turnitin (will happen next time cron runs)
# "51" - this is the turnitin API code for Successful upload - this means the file has been uploaded to Turnitin and we are waiting on an originality score,
# "success" - this is a file that has been submitted, and a score has been provided for it.
Any other response code in this field indicates an error state, see the [[Turnitin errors]] page for a complete list of codes.
<math>Insert formula here</math>

[[Category:Turnitin]]

SCORM module

2011-09-23T23:53:10Z

Danmarsden: add back short note about supported SCORM versions

{{Activities}}
The SCORM module enables you (the teacher) to upload any SCORM or AICC package to include in your course.

'''SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle but SCORM 2004 is not - see [[SCORM_FAQ#Supported_Versions|supported versions]] in the SCORM FAQ for more information.'''

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM.

* [[SCORM settings]]
* [[Using SCORM]]
* [[Creating SCORM Content]]
* [[SCORM FAQ]]

[[Image:SCORM_activity_homepage_student_19.png|thumb|center|300px|Student view of SCORM activity 1.9]]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

[[es:SCORM]]
[[fr:SCORM]]
[[ja:SCORM]]
[[de:Lernpaket (SCORM)]]

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin

2011-09-08T21:37:32Z

Danmarsden:

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}

==Turnitin==
Turnitin is a commercial plagiarism detection system which requires a paid subscription to use - there are currently 3 different options available to use Turnitin in Moodle 2.0.

===Plagiarism Plugin===
A [[Plagiarism Prevention]] plugin written by [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=21591&course=5 Dan Marsden] from [http://www.catalyst.net.nz Catalyst IT] which allows existing Modules to "call" the plagiarism service. It has been added to the upload and uploadsingle assignment types, but eventually support will be added to other Moodle modules. This is a generic plugin system and other Plagiarism products are also available preventing an institution from being "locked in" to a Plagiarism Tool vendor.
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings|Turnitin Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using Turnitin|Using Turnitin]]

===Moodle Direct Plugin===
The [[Turnitin's Moodle Direct Integration|Moodle Direct Integration]] was developed by [http://www.nlearning.co.uk nlearning Ltd] (now iParadigms Europe Ltd) - This is a standalone Moodle module that is similar to the advanced assignment type, however it adds a range of Turnitin specific functionality. The current version is available from [[http://www.moodle.org/modules Modules and Plugins]]. The key aim of the development is to represent all features of Turnitin within the Moodle workflow as and when they become exposed through the Turnitin API.

The Direct Plugin works on the principle of mapping a Turnitin Assignment in Moodle with an assignment in Turnitin, once mapped all submissions made on either side are synchronised reflecting any changes on both platforms. It is therefore possible to access the assignments created using the plugin by logging in to either system. There is the option to disable emails sent out to students which means login details and welcome emails are not sent which encourages students to submit only through Moodle. GradeMark grades are represented in the Moodle gradebook and originality scores are displayed in the Moodle Turnitin Assignment Inbox.

For more detail see: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149575

===Moodle Basic Plugin===
This is an assignment type plugin (support for this may be dropped in 2.3 as the assignment module is planned for a rewrite) it just provides Single Sign on to the turnitin.com website keeping moodle in a frame at the top.

==See Also==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Turnitin Turnitin Plugins for older Moodle versions]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/en/Turnitin_errors Turnitin Error states]

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings

2011-09-04T08:10:12Z

Danmarsden: /* Activation of your Turnitin Account */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
[[Image:Turnitin_admin.gif|thumb|Turnitin administration]]
Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Turnitin''

==Activation of your Turnitin Account==
# obtain a Turnitin Subscription from [http://www.turnitin.com www.turnitin.com]
# Email your Turnitin Account rep or the Turnitin helpdesk and paste this text into the e-mail:
Please manually enable our Turnitin account to use the integration SRC=14 to allow the use of the Turnitin Plagiarism plugin
for Moodle 2.0 written by Dan Marsden from Catalyst IT.

We are aware of the Turnitin Basic and Turnitin Direct(Nlearning Module) plugins but wish to trial the other plug-in provided from Catalyst IT.
If you have seen previous Turnitin integrations/plugins you will know that there is an interface that allows you to enable the Open API, Basic, Direct API plugins for Moodle in your Turnitin Administration screen - unfortunately none of these options work with the new Plagiarism plugin for Moodle 2.0

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using Git ===
from the root of your install:
git clone git://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin.git plagiarism/turnitin
then add plagairism/turnitin to your .gitignore
Visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/zipball/master
or the tar.gz:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_turnitin/tarball/master

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/turnitin and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
==Global Configuration of Turnitin==
# Ensure Admin > Server > Environment indicates you have curl installed
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked. [[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]
# in the page Admin > Modules > Activities > Turnitin set the following:
## Tick the box "Use Turnitin Submission"
## Enter your Turnitin Account ID
## Enter your Turnitin Secret Key as obtained from your Turnitin Account Rep
## Elect whether to send students an e-mail to allow them to login to the turnitin.com site to view their submissions (this isn't necessary, and will likely cause your students more confusion, as all the information available in the website is available from your moodle site.) - even if no e-mail is sent, students can visit turnitin.com and use the forgotten password functionality on the turnitin site to get their password sent via e-mail. Admins can disable this by adding a prefix to all email accounts created - see below for details.
## Set the Student Disclosure statement. - this is displayed to all students on the upload screen to notify them that the Turnitin system is in use.

==Configuration of Turnitin inside Moodle Activity Modules==
===Assignment Module===
(currently only available with the advanced file upload and single upload types)
* Create a new Assignment within your course.
* Enable Turnitin Submission

==Advanced Configuration==
The ability to enable/disable Turnitin within a Moodle module such as an assignment is managed using a capability that is by default given to all managers and editing teachers on the site. If you want to force all assignments on your site to use Turnitin and prevent your teachers from changing these settings you can set the defaults above and then remove the capability “moodle/plagiarism_turnitin:enable” from your teacher roles.

You can also use this capability to selectively allow certain teachers to use Turnitin by setting the default above “Enable Turnitin” to “No” - and giving the capabiltiy “moodle/plagiarism_urkund:enable” only to the teachers you want to be able to use Turnitin

==Debugging==
* when testing the turnitin integration you should make sure debugging is turned on, as it will provide information regarding the process.
* error codes recieved from the turnitin API are also logged in the mdl_tii_files table, so you can view issues with a production system.
* each file that is going to be submitted to turnitin is added to the table mdl_tii_files - the field tiicode gives the "status" of the file, - there are 3 "good" states for this field:
# "pending" - this is a new file that has been uploaded to an activity module, and needs to be submitted to Turnitin (will happen next time cron runs)
# "51" - this is the turnitin API code for Successful upload - this means the file has been uploaded to Turnitin and we are waiting on an originality score,
# "success" - this is a file that has been submitted, and a score has been provided for it.
Any other response code in this field indicates an error state, see the [[Turnitin errors]] page for a complete list of codes.
<math>Insert formula here</math>

Plagiarism prevention

2011-08-28T21:02:02Z

Danmarsden: /* Plagiarism prevention plugins */ typo (administration -> administrator)

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}Plagiarism prevention is a method that tries to detect when users cheat by submitting content they have copied instead of writing it themselves.

==Enabling plagiarism prevention==

To make use of plagiarism prevention, the feature must be enabled by an administrator by checking the enable plagiarism plugins box in ''Site administration > [[Advanced features]]''.

[[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]

==Plagiarism prevention plugins==

Moodle doesn't come with pre-installed Plagiarism plugins but they are very easy to install, Plagiarism Prevention plugins currently include:

*[[Plagiarism Prevention Crot 2.0|Crot]] - Open source tool
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin|Turnitin]] - Commercial tool requires subscription
*[[Plagiarism Prevention URKUND|URKUND]] - Commercial tool requires subscription

A site administrator can configure installed plagiarism prevention plugins in ''Settings > Site administration > Plugins > Plagiarism prevention > Plagiarism settings''.

==See also==
* [[Development:Plagiarism API]]

[[Category:Site administration]]

SCORM FAQ

2011-08-16T05:35:53Z

Danmarsden: /* Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum */ re-order items - make scorm version first point.

{{SCORM}}
==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* Moodle 1.9.5 is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://scorm.zendesk.com/forums/52358/entries/72650 Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

Beginning in Moodle 2.0 there are new site administration options which impact the setup options available to SCORM activities in Moodle courses. These options are accessed as an admin user, in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

Many of the settings available here simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. This page will cover the options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

'''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.

'''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.

'''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository

'''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!

'''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.

'''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely that the file you are trying to upload is too big for the php zip library to handle - you must use external zip/unzip binaries For help setting the zip and unzip system paths, see here: https://docs.moodle.org/en/System_paths#Path_to_zip
For discussion of this issue: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=119194#p522513

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
* The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
* An attempt is not defined until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
* Some scorm packages are intelligent about new attempts, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten, even though the attempt was 'completed' or 'passed'.
* SCORM content created with Adobe Captivate has been observed to overwrite these values, though it was not determined whether Captivate provides a publishing setting to override this.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

IMS content package

2011-08-04T21:37:42Z

Danmarsden: /* IMS content package repository */ no longer supported directly in 2.0

{{Resources}}

IMS is a body which helps define technical standards for various things, including e-learning material. The [http://www.imsglobal.org/content/packaging/ IMS Content Packaging specification] makes it possible to store chunks of material in a standard format which can be re-used in different systems, without having to convert the material into new formats.

The IMS content package in Moodle 1.6 enables such content packages to be uploaded and included in Moodle courses. There are various options for displaying content in a pop-up window, with a navigation menu or buttons etc. In addition, the resource type supports an optional repository, enabling content packages to be shared between courses.

==IMS content package repository==

1.9 contained a feature called the IMS Repository - this feature had a range of bugs and has not been ported to Moodle 2.0 at this stage.

For more details see MDL-28579

==See also==

* [http://www.nln.ac.uk/?p=Moodle NLN Materials - Support: Using the NLN Materials in Moodle]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=31011 New resource type: IMS CP]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=86101 What is an IMS package?]
* [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48684 Trying to add NLN Materials via IMS CP]

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Resource]]

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[[eu:Baliabidea:IMS]]
[[es:Recurso: IMS]]

SCORM FAQ

2011-08-02T21:15:02Z

Danmarsden: /* SCORM Administration Options */ remove old setting (sync time)

{{SCORM}}
==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* Moodle 1.9.5 is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://scorm.zendesk.com/forums/52358/entries/72650 Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

Beginning in Moodle 2.0 there are new site administration options which impact the setup options available to SCORM activities in Moodle courses. These options are accessed as an admin user, in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

Many of the settings available here simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. This page will cover the options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

'''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.

'''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.

'''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository

'''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!

'''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.

'''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely that the file you are trying to upload is too big for the php zip library to handle - you must use external zip/unzip binaries For help setting the zip and unzip system paths, see here: https://docs.moodle.org/en/System_paths#Path_to_zip
For discussion of this issue: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=119194#p522513

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
* The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
* An attempt is not defined until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
* Some scorm packages are intelligent about new attempts, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten, even though the attempt was 'completed' or 'passed'.
* SCORM content created with Adobe Captivate has been observed to overwrite these values, though it was not determined whether Captivate provides a publishing setting to override this.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.docebo.org/doceboCms/page/29/Scorm_standard_tutorial_elearning.html Scorm tutorial and samples]
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

[[Category:FAQ]]
[[de:Lernpaket FAQ]]

Plagiarism Prevention Using URKUND

2011-08-02T11:21:33Z

Danmarsden: /* Creating a Moodle Assignment */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
The Urkund Plagiarism Plugin for Moodle 2.0 currently only supports the Moodle Assignment
Module – support for further Moodle modules may be added in future.

==Creating a Moodle Assignment==
#Turn editing on inside your course: https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Turn_editing_on
#in the drop lists provided select either the “upload a single file” or “Advanced uploading of files” assignment types. For more information on the generic settings of this page please see: https://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Assignment_settings
# Configure Urkund settings for this assignment using the receiver address provided by URKUND and setting other options as required and save the assignment.
[[File:UrkundAssignmentSettings.png]]

==Viewing the URKUND generated reports==
After a student has uploaded a file to Moodle, the file is passed to URKUND behind the scenes and
it can take some time before a report is available.
# click on the link to view submitted assignments [[File:ViewSubmittedAssignments.png]]
# on the submissions page all the students are listed – beside each file is the response from URKUND [[File:UrkundSubmissions.png]]

Plagiarism Prevention Using URKUND

2011-08-02T11:21:13Z

Danmarsden: /* Creating a Moodle Assignment */

File:UrkundAssignmentSettings.png

2011-08-02T11:19:52Z

Danmarsden: uploaded a new version of "File:UrkundAssignmentSettings.png": change default drop list options to "never"

Settings displayed to a teacher when creating a Module that allows URKUND

File:Urkunddefaults.png

2011-08-02T11:16:03Z

Danmarsden: uploaded a new version of "File:Urkunddefaults.png": change default drop list values to "never"

The Defaults settings page for URKUND

Plagiarism Prevention URKUND Settings

2011-08-01T09:32:37Z

Danmarsden: /* Global Configuration of URKUND */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > URKUND''

==Activation of your URKUND Account==
# obtain a URKUND Subscription from [http://www.urkund.com www.urkund.com]

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using Git ===
from the root of your install:
git clone git://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_urkund.git plagiarism/urkund
then add plagairism/urkund to your .gitignore
Visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_urkund/zipball/master
or the tar.gz:
https://github.com/danmarsden/moodle-plagiarism_urkund/tarball/master

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/urkund and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
==Global Configuration of URKUND==
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked.[[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]
# Go to Admin > Modules > Activities > URKUND [[File:UrkundAdminsetting.png]]
# set the following:
## Tick the box "Use URKUND"
## Enter your URKUND UIS username
## Enter your URKUND UIS password
## Set the Student Disclosure statement. - this is displayed to all students on the upload screen to notify them that the URKUND system is in use. [[File:Urkundsettings.png]]
# in the page Admin > Modules > Activities > URKUND click on the tab "URKUND Defaults"
## Configure the default settings to be used inside a Moodle module when creating/editing a new module. [[File:Urkunddefaults.png]]

==Advanced Configuration==
The ability to enable/disable URKUND within a Moodle module such as an assignment is managed using a capability that is by default given to all managers and editing teachers on the site.
If you want to force all assignments on your site to use URKUND and prevent your teachers from changing these settings you can set the defaults above and then remove the capability “moodle/plagiarism_urkund:enable” from your teacher roles.

You can also use this capability to selectively allow certain teachers to use URKUND by setting the default above “Enable URKUND” to “No” - and giving the capabiltiy “moodle/plagiarism_urkund:enable” only to the teachers you want to be able to use URKUND

Tools for creating SCORM content

2011-07-28T20:26:16Z

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SCORM settings

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{{SCORM}}
'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#SCORM|these notes]] before editing this page.'''
To add a SCORM package to a course, or to edit the SCORM activity settings, turn on the course edit mode as a teacher with editing privileges.

The SCORM activity can also be used to add AICC content running using AICC HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol "Appendix A"), see CMI001 - AICC/CMI Guidelines For Interoperability [http://www.aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001]

==Creating==
Moodle '''does not''' generate SCORM content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package. See the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] for a list of existing SCORM packages or [[Tools for creating SCORM content]]

==Adding==
# While logged in as a teacher, select [[Image:Turn edit on button.JPG]] at the top right of a course homepage or in the course admin menu. See [[Turn_editing_on]].
# in one of the '''Add an activity...''' drop down menus that appear, select '''SCORM package'''.

==Editing==
If the SCORM/AICC package has already been added, you can edit it by clicking the edit icon (pen) in the resource/activity list on front page of the course. If you are in the SCORM page, you can click the '''Update this SCORM''' button. Both these methods bring you to the settings page.

==Settings==
On the Setting page, the teacher can view the 3 settings areas, along with the save options buttons.
[[Image:M2-blank-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Setting Page ]]

===General settings===
*'''Name''' field records the short name of the activity. This appears in the navigation breadcrumb.
*'''Description''' text is only seen after the name in the list shown when you choose "activities > Scorm"
*'''Package file''' setting determines what SCORM package is used by this SCORM activity. To select the SCORM package, first select the '''Choose''' button to launch the file picker.
[[Image:M2-scorm-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
With the file picker launched, you can navigate to an existing file, or select the '''Choose''' button in the file picker to upload a new file.
[[Image:M2-scorm-file-picker-choose.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
Browse to the new SCORM package on your local machine and select it. When you are returned to the file picker, select '''Upload'''.
[[Image:M2-scorm-upload-file-to-site.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
If selecting files is difficult, you might want to learn more about the [[File picker]].

:''Tip:'' Additional '''Package file''' settings are available when configured globally. See '''Admin settings''' below.

===Other settings===
Pressing the advance button will reveal all the choices below.
[[Image:SCORM_settings_other_19.png|thumb|300px|right|Moodle 1.9 SCORM Other Settings block - advanced shown ]]
*'''Grading method'''
** Learning Objects - This mode shows the number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity. The max value is the number of Package's Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.lesson_status, and does not report cmi.core.score.raw, then you should use this setting.
** Highest grade - The grade page will display the highest score obtained by users in all passed Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.score.raw, and does not report cmi.core.lesson_status, then you should use this setting, Average grade, or Sum grade.
** Average grade - If you choose this mode Moodle will calculate the average of all scores.
**Sum grade - With this mode all the scores will be added.
*'''Maximum grade''' - Not applicable if Grading Method is Learning objects. Usual setting is 100. If your SCO 's high score is something other than 100, you should adjust this value appropriately. When grading Method is one of the score settings, then the gradebook grade is package score divided by this number.
*'''Number of attempts''' - Defines the number of attempts permitted to users. It works only with SCORM 1.2 and AICC packages. SCORM2004 has its own max attempts definition.
** The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
** An attempt is not complete until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
*'''Attempts grading''' - When you permit multiple attempts for students, you can choose how to record the result in gradebook by first, last, average or highest settings.
*'''Width''' - Stage size width as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 100%. You can change to a different percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Height''' - Stage size height as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 500 pixels. You can change to a percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Display package''' - in current or new window
*'''Options''' - There are a series of check boxes for:Allow the window to be resized ad scrolled, displaying directory links, location bar, menu bar, toolbar and/or status.
*'''Student skip content structure page''' - never, first access, always
*'''Disable preview mode''' - If this option is set to Yes, the Preview button in the view page of a SCORM/AICC Package activity will be hidden. The student can choose to preview (browse mode) the activity or attempt it in the normal mode. When a Learning Object is completed in preview (browse) mode, it's marked with browsed icon
*'''Course structure display''' - Table of Contents display
*'''Hide navigation buttons'''
*'''Auto-Continue''' - If Auto-continue is set to Yes, when a Learning Object calls the "close communication" method, the next available Learning Object is launched automatically.If it is set to No, the users must use the "Continue" button to go on.
:''TIP:'' Auto-Continue will only to move from one SCORM to the next in the same topic.

*'''Display package''' - Allow the window to be resized, Allow the window to be scrolled, Show the directory links, Show the location bar, Show the menu bar, Show the toolbar, Show the status bar.
* Display attempt status
* Display course structure
* Force completed
* Force new attempt
* Lock after final attempt

===Common module settings===
See [[Common module settings]]

===Save settings===
As in most activities there are 3 save button choices. '''Cancel''', '''Save and return to course''' and '''Save changes''' buttons. The Save changes button will take the teacher back to the SCORM "stage" page.

==Admin Settings==
[[Image:M2-scorm-admin-nav.png|thumb|163px|right|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Admin Settings]]
These options are available to the site admin in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

===Default Value Settings===
Many of the settings available in the SCORM Package administration simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. Edit these settings to save yourself time when adding large numbers of packages, or to establish a standard for presentation across the site.

===Other Important Settings===
The following options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

* '''Synchronization time:''' For SCORM packages that have the auto-update setting to 'Every Day' this defines what time the process should run.
* '''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.
* '''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.
* '''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository
* '''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!
* '''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.
* '''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==See also==
[https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema SCORM Schema]
[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:SCORM]]

[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un SCORM]]
[[ja:SCORMを追加/編集する]]
[[de:Lernpaket anlegen]]

SCORM FAQ

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{{SCORM}}
==SCORM Information==

Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) is the organization that wrote the SCORM standard. You can download documentation and samples form ADL's Web site. Documentation for SCORM 1.2 in several languages is available [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201.2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View={4D6DFFDE-3CFC-4DD9-A21A-4B687728824A} here].

Philip Hutchison provides an AS3 and JavaScript wrapper, as well as a sample package:
http://pipwerks.com/downloads/

==SCORM Package Contents==

A SCORM package must contains in the root of zip a file named imsmanifest.xml which defines SCORM course structure, resource location and many other things. Other files used in the package, such as HTML files, XML files, multimedia files, and JavaScript for the SCORM API must be listed in this file. The LMS parses the manifest, and provides the files listed there to the content package during runtime.

==AICC Package Contents==

An AICC package is defined by several files (from 4 to 7) with defined extensions as follows:

* CRS - Course Description file (mandatory)
* AU - Assignable Unit file (mandatory)
* DES - Descriptor file (mandatory)
* CST - Course Structure file (mandatory)
* ORE - Objective Relationship file (optional)
* PRE - Prerequisites file (optional)
* CMP - Completition Requirements file (optional)

==Basic Troubleshooting==

* Make sure you are running Moodle 2.1 or higher, a large number of SCORM related bugs are present in previous versions.
* Make sure your SCORM object is SCORM compliant - check it in an external SCORM player like [https://docs.moodle.org/en/Tools_for_creating_SCORM_content#Reload Reload] to see if it works there.
* Post a copy of your SCORM object in the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository] and post a message asking for help in the forums, linking to your SCORM object explaining exactly what you expect to happen, and what is happening instead.

==Does Moodle Generate SCORM Content?==

Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

==Supported Versions==

* Moodle 1.9.5 is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

* SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 2.1(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2.7 for SCORM 1.2. The best place for information on SCORM 1.2 conformance is the [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Previous%20Versions/SCORM%201.2/Conformance%20Test%20Suite%20(SCORM%201.2)/SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf SCORM Comformance Requirements documentation (PDF 3.4MB)].

* SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://scorm.zendesk.com/forums/52358/entries/72650 Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.
:''Moodle Core SCORM 2004 development requires funding!'' See [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] for details.

* AICC objects are supported in Moodle 2.1 and higher - unfortunately the availability of publicly accessible AICC objects is limited, so testing has been rather difficult. If you have any AICC objects you are willing to share, please upload them to the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=50 SCORM Repository]

* SCORM 2.0 has not been released yet by ADL, and Moodle does not support any of it at this stage.

==Asking for Help in the SCORM Forum==

When trying to engage the community to help with a problem you are facing, you will get a better response if you follow a few simple guidelines:

* Be prepared to '''provide the SCORM package''' that illustrates your problem - if you don't then it will be very difficult for anyone offering assistance to recreate your situation - a real barrier to help.

* Always start your report with '''version information''' - preferably the information displayed on the Admin -> Environment panel eg. http://localhost/moodle/admin/environment.php where http://localhost/moodle is your particular prefix. With this it will be clear how you are running your Moodle instance, on what platform, and at which version. This will quickly expose issues where a simple upgrade will solve your problem.

* '''Screenshots''' are very helpful. Provide a screenshot of all error messages, and any instance where something seems to go wrong in the interface.

* Run your problematic SCORM package through '''debugging''' (see below) and include the text of that API log with your post. That way we can see right away if the right function calls are not taking place.

* If you're using a content development suite which publishes to SCORM, such as Articulate, Captivate, Lectora, LessonBuilder, Udutu, or some other product, then include that in your post. Every authoring software has its ticks, and if you've run into one, it's likely that someone else has also dealt with it, and will recognize it. However, please keep in mind that '''this is a place to get help with Moodle issues, not help with your SCORM package authoring suite'''.

==Debugging ==

# Debugging settings are located at Settings > Site Administration > Plugins > Activities > Scorm.
# Check the checkbox for '''Activate API debug...'''
# Set the api mask. You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: <cite>admin.*</cite> Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is <cite>.*</cite>

==What does the debugging log mean?==

The SCO commonly sends the following communications through the API:

* '''LMSInitialize();''' opens the connection between the SCO and Moodle
* '''LMSGetValue( 'valuename' );''' gets a value from Moodle
* '''LMSSetValue( 'valuename' , 'value' );''' sends a value to Moodle
* '''LMSCommit();''' saves values sent to Moodle via LMSSetValue() and should be called after every LMSSetValue()
* '''LMSFinish()''' saves values sent to Moodle and closes the connection between the SCO And Moodle

Red lines in the debugging log means there was an error in the communication through the API.

If LMSInitialize() fails, returns an error, then no subsequent values sent to Moodle will be saved.

Click through the entire SCORM package. Then access the scorm report for your attempt, and compare the saved values in the debugging log with Moodle's report of the attempt. If the values set in the debug log do not match the values saved to Moodle, then there may be a problem with Moodle. Otherwise it's likely to be an issue with the SCO or the SCORM activity settings not giving you the functionality you need.

==SCORM and the Gradebook==
Please see [https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#My_SCORM_Module_doesn.27t_function_properly FAQ:My SCORM Module doesn't function properly]

Some SCORM packages report both cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw. Others report only cmi.core.lesson_status, or only cmi.core.score.raw. The '''Grading Method''' setting for SCORM objects is meant to account for that.

If you have the '''Grading Method''' set to '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and your learning object does not report a score, only, cmi.core.lesson_status, then there will be no numerical score to pass to the gradebook.

If your SCOs do not report cmi.core.score.raw, then the best '''Grading Method''' setting is '''Learning Objects'''. This reports either a 1 or a 0 as a score for each learning object. The gradebook value for that SCORM activity is the percent of scos in the package for which learners got a 1.

On the other hand, if your SCOs do not report a lesson_status, then select one of the score-based '''Grading Method''' options, such as '''Highest grade''', '''Average grade''', or '''Sum grade''', and not '''Learning Objects'''.

If you do not know what your SCOs are reporting to the LMS, then run them through to completion with debugging on.

Much of the way SCORM objects are graded is controlled inside the SCORM Authoring process before it is packaged for use in an LMS like Moodle - make sure all your grading settings are set correctly. Moodle 2.0 contains some new controls that allow a teacher to override the behaviour as set by the SCORM object to allow for greater, more flexible control. (see MDL-11501 for more information on this)

==SCORM Administration Options==

Beginning in Moodle 2.0 there are new site administration options which impact the setup options available to SCORM activities in Moodle courses. These options are accessed as an admin user, in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

Many of the settings available here simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. This page will cover the options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

'''Synchronization time:''' [TODO]

'''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.

'''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.

'''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository

'''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!

'''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.

'''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==Common Solutions==

===Difficulty Displaying a SCORM Package===
If you have difficulty displaying a SCORM, try loading the SCORM in [http://www.reload.ac.uk Reload] and re-saving it, then save the folder as a .zip package and try again.

===Character Display Errors===
When you notice there is a problem displaying characters correctly, it could be a misconfiguration of your server. Make sure that both httpd.conf (when using Apache) and php.ini are set to DefaultCharacterset = utf8 or switch the sending of a default character set off.

===slash arguments warning when I add/update SCORM obects in my course===
SCORM forces what is referred to as "slash arguments" - Unfortunately, some PHP servers don't allow this method and your SCORM objects may not display. This affects IIS 5 and earlier, and some Apache servers. Under IIS 5 and earlier, a workaround using an [http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI re-write] tool can be used, Apache users should look at this link: https://docs.moodle.org/en/Installation_FAQ#Uploaded_files_give_.22File_not_found.22 - A check on the admin/health.php page is also made to see if slasharguments is supported - visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php to check to see the status of slasharguments on your server.

===SCORM doesn't work on Godaddy Host===
Godaddy hosts give a 404 file not found error - this is because by default they do not allow slash arguments which SCORM requires. The best way to test this is to visit http://yourmoodlesite/admin/health.php - but the fix involves adding a php.ini or php5.ini file with the following text:
AcceptPathInfo
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

===Zlib warning when I add/update SCORM objects in my course===
Zlib is a php compression setting made in a websites PHP configuration - unfortunately some browsers don't handle this well (especially Internet Explorer 6) Some webhosts enable this setting, but it will likely cause issues for your users when they attempt to view/use the SCORM object. You will need to contact your server administrator to turn this off. The setting to change in php configuration is "zlib.output_compression"

===Incorrect file package - missing imsmanifest.xml or AICC structure===
This means that Moodle cannot find a file called imsmanifest.xml inside the SCORM object. Reasons for this could be:
* imsmanifest.xml needs to be immediately inside the scorm directory, NOT inside a directory inside of that. So if the zipped scorm package is package.zip, the unzipped package directory should contain immediately inside of it the imsmanifest.xml. This is a common mistake and normally occurs when a SCORM author creates a package themselves and then selects that folder to compress. This places the content folder inside of another folder, The imsmanifest.xml is there, but it is 2 directories deep. To avoid this problem when zipping scorm content into a package, go INSIDE of the exported scorm folder, select all files inside, and compress them while all are selected. The resultant compressed directory has the imsmanifest.xml file in the first directory, immediately available to the moodle scorm loading process.
* when using linux based systems the filename imsmanifest.xml must be all in lowercase not IMSmanifest.xml or Imsmanifest.XML
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate sometimes fails to create the imsmanifest.xml -Try exporting the package again and see if the manifest is generated.
* The SCORM authoring tool Articulate Presenter will publish packages where the imsmanifest.xml file is in the correct place, but there are several lines of white space in the manifest file if you do not fill out the Reporting and Tracking Options in Articulate Presenter for Keywords and LMS Description. Moodle will give a "Manifest not found" error when encountering this. To fix this problem select the Reporting and Tracking Options in the Articulate Presenter publish dialog and fill in the LMS Description and Keywords.

===File not found error===
You have this error if the scorm package is created in moodle, and the scorm menu loads, but inside of the viewing area for the scorm content, you get a page with a 404 file not found error, usually showing the current Moodle theme.

What this means is that one of the files listed in the imsmanifest.xml is not in the scorm package or not in the correct directory.

Download and unzip the package, open up imsmanifest.xml. At the bottom of the xml file, below any metadata, you'll find a place where organizations and resources for those organizations are designated:

<code xml>

<organizations default="TOC1">
<organization identifier="TOC1">
<title>SCORM Test</title>
<item identifier="I_SCO0" identifierref="SCO0">
<title>Library Quiz</title>
<adlcp:masteryscore>0</adlcp:masteryscore>
</item>
</organization>
</organizations>
<resources>
<resource identifier="SCO0" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="sco" href="scorm.html">
<file href="scorm.html"/>
<dependency identifierref="ALLRESOURCES" />
</resource>
<resource identifier="ALLRESOURCES" type="webcontent" adlcp:scormtype="asset">
<file href="scorm.html" />
<file href="scorm.js" />
<file href="swfobject.js" />
<file href="scorm.swf" />
<file href="scormwrapper.js" />
</resource>
</resources>
</manifest>
</code>

In this xml, we have a single organization, and in that organization is a single resource, a single sco. There are 5 files necessary for that resource to work correctly. The scorm.html file is loaded first. It loads 3 external js files and a swf.

What you need to do now is go to the directory containing imsmanifest.xml, and check that all of those listed files are available at the correct path from imsmanfiest.xml, as listed in imsmanifest.xml. If any one of those files is missing (especially the html file or the swf), or if the paths in imsmanifest.xml are incorrect, then it's very likely that the scorm object won't be able to load at all.

Sometimes the files aren't missing, but are simply misnamed in the manifest, or placed in the wrong directory. You can fix this by moving the files to the correct places, or updating their names so that the imsmanifest and the actual file names match up. In the case of a misnamed file, change the manifest rather than the actual file names, since the the files also reference one another in other places!

===Unzip issues===
If you get a blank page after filling in the title, description, and selecting a large SCORM file, it's likely that the file you are trying to upload is too big for the php zip library to handle - you must use external zip/unzip binaries For help setting the zip and unzip system paths, see here: https://docs.moodle.org/en/System_paths#Path_to_zip
For discussion of this issue: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=119194#p522513

===Clear an Attempt===
To clear attempts by a student:

# Go to the SCORM activity and select the link "View reports for x users"
# Select the attempt or attempts you want to clear using the checkbox
# Select Delete in the drop-down box at the bottom of the page

===Handling of Multiple Attempts===
* The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
* An attempt is not defined until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
* Some scorm packages are intelligent about new attempts, many are not. What this means is that if the learner re-enters an existing attempt, if the SCORM content does not have internal logic to avoid overwriting cmi.core.lesson_status and cmi.core.score.raw, they can be overwritten, even though the attempt was 'completed' or 'passed'.
* SCORM content created with Adobe Captivate has been observed to overwrite these values, though it was not determined whether Captivate provides a publishing setting to override this.

===Reducing Load Time with Captivate===
* Modify the percent that must be downloaded before the content starts to play. In Captivate 4, there's a setting in: Preferences / Project / Start and End / Preload. Reduce that to 50%.
* If you use audio in your Cp file (as background or element attachment), try to put a gap of 0,1 second at the beginning of each element including audio on your slides. If you don't do that, Cp merge all the audio files in one big audio file it need to download before playing the project. This problem have been report many times from the Cp community.

===Moodle changes cmi.core.lesson_status from "completed" or "passed" to "failed"===
Many SCORM authorware suites generate a masteryscore node in the imsmanifest.xml by default. This node is not necessary to the XML file. But when it is there, the SCORM standard designates specific behavior with regard to the value set there.

Here's what is in the scorm standard, on page 35 of 155 in SCORM_1.2_ConformanceReq.pdf, numbered page 2-19 ([http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/SCORMSDocuments/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fTechnologies%2fscorm%2fSCORMSDocuments%2fPrevious%20Versions%2fSCORM%201%2e2%2fDocumentation%20Suite%20%28SCORM%201%2e2%29&FolderCTID=0x0120007F801FCD5325044C89D91240519482D7&View=%7b4D6DFFDE%2d3CFC%2d4DD9%2dA21A%2d4B687728824A%7d SCORM Version 1.2 Conformance Requirements Version 1.2]):
<blockquote>
If the value for this element is not set to “incomplete” by the SCO, then the LMS shall re-evaluate and change the value based on the following:<ul>
<li>If there is no mastery score in the Manifest, and the SCO sets a score (cmi.core.score.raw) and the lesson_status (cmi.core.lesson_status) then the LMS shall not override the SCO determined status.</li>
<li>If there is a mastery score in the Manifest, the LMS can change the status to either passed or failed depending on the student's score (cmi.core.score.raw) compared to the mastery score.</li>
<li>If the student is taking the SCO for no-credit, (cmi.core.credit = “no-credit”) there is no change to the lesson_status, with one exception. If the lesson_mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) is "browse", the lesson_status may change to "browsed" even if the cmi.core.credit is set to no-credit.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
This can result in some functionality you don't intend. You can fix the problem by removing the mastery score node from your imsmanifest.xml file. You will also want to find out what options you have, within your authorware suite, for the writing of that node into the manifest file, and change your authoring process accordingly.

===Player Look 'n Feel===
You should be able to adjust height and width settings for the SCORM player window '''so long as''' your theme is based on/not too much of an aberration from one of the standard themes which ship with Moodle 2.

If your site or course theme isn't closely based on one of the standard M2 themes, then it's possible that your theme CSS is overriding local height and width settings for the SCORM player. Have a Web developer (or a Moodle Partner) examine how your theme is interacting with the player layout, and make changes to your theme as needed.

'''Why can't I just change it locally?''' You can change height and width per individual SCORM package, and you can set defaults for these local height and width values ( [[SCORM Admin Options]] ). Other things, such as colors, shading, borders, backgrounds, are controlled by CSS, just like everything else on the site.

==See also==

* Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=1951 SCORM forum]
* [http://danmarsden.com/blog/2009/05/23/scorm-2004-in-moodle/ SCORM 2004 in Moodle] blog post from developer Dan Marsden
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]

Online resources
* [http://www.scormcourse.com/ SCORMCourse.com] serves the SCORM and ADL community as an educational resource for SCORM technology.
* [http://www.docebo.org/doceboCms/page/29/Scorm_standard_tutorial_elearning.html Scorm tutorial and samples]
* [http://www.eduworks.com/index.php/Publications/Learning-Object-Tutorial.html Learning Object Tutorial]
* [http://elearningweekly.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/tutorial-build-scorm-compatible-lesson-templates-for-your-lms/ Tutorial: Build SCORM-Compatible Lesson Templates for Your LMS]

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SCORM module

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{{SCORM}}
'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#SCORM|these notes]] before editing this page.'''

The '''SCORM/AICC''' module is a course [[Teacher_documentation#Activity_modules|activity]] which allows you (the teacher) to upload any SCORM or AICC package to include in your course.

SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) is a collection of specifications that enable interoperability, accessibility and reusability of web-based learning content. SCORM content can be delivered to learners via any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS) using the same version of SCORM.

==What is SCORM==
SCORM was developed as a result of collaboration in the public and private sectors. The President of the United States, Bill Clinton issued an Executive Order that created an agency (ADL) to oversee the standard for developing and distributing online learning. All Federal agencies are mandated to use programs that meet those standards. SCORM is one result of that order.

There's a really simple "What is SCORM" introduction here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757#p18828

A slightly more detailed introduction here: http://www.rusticisoftware.com/resources/whatisscorm/What%20Is%20SCORM.htm

==Compatibility with Moodle==
SCORM 1.2 is supported in Moodle 1.9.3(or higher) and Moodle 1.8.7(or higher) and passes all the tests in the ADL Conformance test suite 1.2..7 for SCORM 1.2. Moodle 1.9.5 is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

SCORM 2004 is not completely supported in Moodle Core at this stage. Parts of the API have been implemented, but others such as Navigation and Sequencing are not yet supported. If you require a fully certified SCORM 2004 Player in Moodle, [http://www.scorm.com Rustici Software] have a [http://scorm.zendesk.com/forums/52358/entries/72650 Moodle plugin] which connects to their commercial [http://www.scorm.com/scorm-solved/scorm-cloud/ SCORM Cloud] service turning Moodle into a fully compliant SCORM 2004 LMS.

[[Image:SCORM_activity_homepage_student_19.png|thumb|center|300px|Student view of SCORM activity 1.9]]

==See also==
* [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] - allows uploading/downloading shared Objects
* The official standard: [http://www.adlnet.gov/Technologies/scorm/default.aspx Advanced Distributed Learning - SCORM]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema Internal SCORM Schema]

Using Moodle forum discussions:
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3757 Simple introduction to SCORM]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=95946 Is SCORM worth it?]

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{{SCORM}}
'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#SCORM|these notes]] before editing this page.'''
To add a SCORM package to a course, or to edit the SCORM activity settings, turn on the course edit mode as a teacher with editing privileges.

The SCORM activity can also be used to add AICC content running using AICC HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol "Appendix A"), see CMI001 - AICC/CMI Guidelines For Interoperability [http://www.aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001]

==Creating==
Moodle '''does not''' generate SCORM content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package. See the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] for a list of existing SCORM packages or [[Tools for creating SCORM content]]

==Adding==
# While logged in as a teacher, select [[Image:Turn edit on button.JPG]] at the top right of a course homepage or in the course admin menu. See [[Turn_editing_on]].
# in one of the '''Add an activity...''' drop down menus that appear, select '''SCORM package'''.

==Editing==
If the SCORM/AICC package has already been added, you can edit it by clicking the edit icon (pen) in the resource/activity list on front page of the course. If you are in the SCORM page, you can click the '''Update this SCORM''' button. Both these methods bring you to the settings page.

==Settings==
On the Setting page, the teacher can view the 3 settings areas, along with the save options buttons.
[[Image:M2-blank-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Setting Page ]]

===General settings===
*'''Name''' field records the short name of the activity. This appears in the navigation breadcrumb.
*'''Description''' text is only seen after the name in the list shown when you choose "activities > Scorm"
*'''Package file''' setting determines what SCORM package is used by this SCORM activity. To select the SCORM package, first select the '''Choose''' button to launch the file picker.
[[Image:M2-scorm-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
With the file picker launched, you can navigate to an existing file, or select the '''Choose''' button in the file picker to upload a new file.
[[Image:M2-scorm-file-picker-choose.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
Browse to the new SCORM package on your local machine and select it. When you are returned to the file picker, select '''Upload'''.
[[Image:M2-scorm-upload-file-to-site.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
If selecting files is difficult, you might want to learn more about the [[File picker]].

:''Tip:'' Additional '''Package file''' settings are available when configured globally. See '''Admin settings''' below.

===Other settings===
Pressing the advance button will reveal all the choices below.
[[Image:SCORM_settings_other_19.png|thumb|300px|right|Moodle 1.9 SCORM Other Settings block - advanced shown ]]
*'''Grading method'''
** Learning Objects - This mode shows the number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity. The max value is the number of Package's Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.lesson_status, and does not report cmi.core.score.raw, then you should use this setting.
** Highest grade - The grade page will display the highest score obtained by users in all passed Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.score.raw, and does not report cmi.core.lesson_status, then you should use this setting, Average grade, or Sum grade.
** Average grade - If you choose this mode Moodle will calculate the average of all scores.
**Sum grade - With this mode all the scores will be added.
*'''Maximum grade''' - Not applicable if Grading Method is Learning objects. Usual setting is 100. If your SCO 's high score is something other than 100, you should adjust this value appropriately. When grading Method is one of the score settings, then the gradebook grade is package score divided by this number.
*'''Number of attempts''' - Defines the number of attempts permitted to users. It works only with SCORM 1.2 and AICC packages. SCORM2004 has its own max attempts definition.
** The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
** An attempt is not complete until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
*'''Attempts grading''' - When you permit multiple attempts for students, you can choose how to record the result in gradebook by first, last, average or highest settings.
*'''Width''' - Stage size width as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 100%. You can change to a different percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Height''' - Stage size height as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 500 pixels. You can change to a percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Display package''' - in current or new window
*'''Options''' - There are a series of check boxes for:Allow the window to be resized ad scrolled, displaying directory links, location bar, menu bar, toolbar and/or status.
*'''Student skip content structure page''' - never, first access, always
*'''Disable preview mode''' - If this option is set to Yes, the Preview button in the view page of a SCORM/AICC Package activity will be hidden. The student can choose to preview (browse mode) the activity or attempt it in the normal mode. When a Learning Object is completed in preview (browse) mode, it's marked with browsed icon
*'''Course structure display''' - Table of Contents display
*'''Hide navigation buttons'''
*'''Auto-Continue''' - If Auto-continue is set to Yes, when a Learning Object calls the "close communication" method, the next available Learning Object is launched automatically.If it is set to No, the users must use the "Continue" button to go on.
:''TIP:'' Auto-Continue will only to move from one SCORM to the next in the same topic.

*'''Display package''' - Allow the window to be resized, Allow the window to be scrolled, Show the directory links, Show the location bar, Show the menu bar, Show the toolbar, Show the status bar.

{{Moodle 2.0}}In Moodle 2.0 onwards, the following additional settings influencing player/package interaction are available:
* Display attempt status
* Display course structure
* Force completed
* Force new attempt
* Lock after final attempt

===Common module settings===
See [[Common module settings]]

===Save settings===
As in most activities there are 3 save button choices. '''Cancel''', '''Save and return to course''' and '''Save changes''' buttons. The Save changes button will take the teacher back to the SCORM "stage" page.

==Admin Settings==
[[Image:M2-scorm-admin-nav.png|thumb|163px|right|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Admin Settings]]
These options are available to the site admin in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

===Default Value Settings===
Many of the settings available in the SCORM Package administration simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. Edit these settings to save yourself time when adding large numbers of packages, or to establish a standard for presentation across the site.

===Other Important Settings===
The following options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

* '''Synchronization time:''' For SCORM packages that have the auto-update setting to 'Every Day' this defines what time the process should run.
* '''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.
* '''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.
* '''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository
* '''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!
* '''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.
* '''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==See also==
[https://docs.moodle.org/dev/SCORM_schema SCORM Schema]
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{{SCORM}}
'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#SCORM|these notes]] before editing this page.'''
To add a SCORM package to a course, or to edit the SCORM activity settings, turn on the course edit mode as a teacher with editing privileges.

The SCORM activity can also be used to add AICC content running using AICC HACP (HTTP AICC Communication Protocol "Appendix A"), see CMI001 - AICC/CMI Guidelines For Interoperability [http://www.aicc.org/pages/down-docs-index.htm#cmi001]

==Creating==
Moodle '''does not''' generate SCORM content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package. See the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] for a list of existing SCORM packages or [[Tools for creating SCORM content]]

==Adding==
# While logged in as a teacher, select [[Image:Turn edit on button.JPG]] at the top right of a course homepage or in the course admin menu. See [[Turn_editing_on]].
# in one of the '''Add an activity...''' drop down menus that appear, select '''SCORM package'''.

==Editing==
If the SCORM/AICC package has already been added, you can edit it by clicking the edit icon (pen) in the resource/activity list on front page of the course. If you are in the SCORM page, you can click the '''Update this SCORM''' button. Both these methods bring you to the settings page.

==Settings==
On the Setting page, the teacher can view the 3 settings areas, along with the save options buttons.
[[Image:M2-blank-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Setting Page ]]

===General settings===
*'''Name''' field records the short name of the activity. This appears in the navigation breadcrumb.
*'''Description''' text is only seen after the name in the list shown when you choose "activities > Scorm"
*'''Package file''' setting determines what SCORM package is used by this SCORM activity. To select the SCORM package, first select the '''Choose''' button to launch the file picker.
[[Image:M2-scorm-settings.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
With the file picker launched, you can navigate to an existing file, or select the '''Choose''' button in the file picker to upload a new file.
[[Image:M2-scorm-file-picker-choose.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
Browse to the new SCORM package on your local machine and select it. When you are returned to the file picker, select '''Upload'''.
[[Image:M2-scorm-upload-file-to-site.png|thumb|400px|center|Launch file picker]]
If selecting files is difficult, you might want to learn more about the [[File picker]].

:''Tip:'' Additional '''Package file''' settings are available when configured globally. See '''Admin settings''' below.

===Other settings===
Pressing the advance button will reveal all the choices below.
[[Image:SCORM_settings_other_19.png|thumb|300px|right|Moodle 1.9 SCORM Other Settings block - advanced shown ]]
*'''Grading method'''
** Learning Objects - This mode shows the number of completed/passed Learning Objects for the activity. The max value is the number of Package's Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.lesson_status, and does not report cmi.core.score.raw, then you should use this setting.
** Highest grade - The grade page will display the highest score obtained by users in all passed Learning Objects. ''Tip:'' If your SCORM package does report cmi.core.score.raw, and does not report cmi.core.lesson_status, then you should use this setting, Average grade, or Sum grade.
** Average grade - If you choose this mode Moodle will calculate the average of all scores.
**Sum grade - With this mode all the scores will be added.
*'''Maximum grade''' - Not applicable if Grading Method is Learning objects. Usual setting is 100. If your SCO 's high score is something other than 100, you should adjust this value appropriately. When grading Method is one of the score settings, then the gradebook grade is package score divided by this number.
*'''Number of attempts''' - Defines the number of attempts permitted to users. It works only with SCORM 1.2 and AICC packages. SCORM2004 has its own max attempts definition.
** The option to start a new attempt is provided by a checkbox above the '''Enter''' button on the content structure page, so be sure you're providing access to that page if you want to allow more than one attempt.
** An attempt is not complete until the cmi.core.lesson_status for the attempt is set to either 'completed' or 'passed'. After that, the '''Start new attempt''' checkbox is available to the learner.
*'''Attempts grading''' - When you permit multiple attempts for students, you can choose how to record the result in gradebook by first, last, average or highest settings.
*'''Width''' - Stage size width as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 100%. You can change to a different percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Height''' - Stage size height as a css value, either % or pixels. Default is 500 pixels. You can change to a percentage by putting a % symbol after the number (ex. 80%). You can also set to a pixels value by entering a number higher than 100 (ex. 800).
*'''Display package''' - in current or new window
*'''Options''' - There are a series of check boxes for:Allow the window to be resized ad scrolled, displaying directory links, location bar, menu bar, toolbar and/or status.
*'''Student skip content structure page''' - never, first access, always
*'''Disable preview mode''' - If this option is set to Yes, the Preview button in the view page of a SCORM/AICC Package activity will be hidden. The student can choose to preview (browse mode) the activity or attempt it in the normal mode. When a Learning Object is completed in preview (browse) mode, it's marked with browsed icon
*'''Course structure display''' - Table of Contents display
*'''Hide navigation buttons'''
*'''Auto-Continue''' - If Auto-continue is set to Yes, when a Learning Object calls the "close communication" method, the next available Learning Object is launched automatically.If it is set to No, the users must use the "Continue" button to go on.
:''TIP:'' Auto-Continue will only to move from one SCORM to the next in the same topic.

*'''Display package''' - Allow the window to be resized, Allow the window to be scrolled, Show the directory links, Show the location bar, Show the menu bar, Show the toolbar, Show the status bar.

{{Moodle 2.0}}In Moodle 2.0 onwards, the following additional settings influencing player/package interaction are available:
* Display attempt status
* Display course structure
* Force completed
* Force new attempt
* Lock after final attempt

===Common module settings===
See [[Common module settings]]

===Save settings===
As in most activities there are 3 save button choices. '''Cancel''', '''Save and return to course''' and '''Save changes''' buttons. The Save changes button will take the teacher back to the SCORM "stage" page.

==Admin Settings==
[[Image:M2-scorm-admin-nav.png|thumb|163px|right|Moodle 2.0 SCORM Admin Settings]]
These options are available to the site admin in the '''Settings''' menu: Site Administration > Plugins > Activity Modules > SCORM Package.

===Default Value Settings===
Many of the settings available in the SCORM Package administration simply set the default value for the SCORM activity module setup options provided within courses. Edit these settings to save yourself time when adding large numbers of packages, or to establish a standard for presentation across the site.

===Other Important Settings===
The following options provided which '''do not''' simply set a default value for the SCORM activity editing page view.

* '''Synchronization time:''' For SCORM packages that have the auto-update setting to 'Every Day' this defines what time the process should run.
* '''Enable external package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remote imsmanifest.xml (in an unzipped remote SCORM package), as well as the file picker option provided by default. Note that the content is played from the designated location, and not unpacked into the Moodle file system. So any reporting data will not be saved via the SCORM API in to Moodle.
* '''Enable downloaded package type:''' If selected, presents a text field to paste a URL to a remove package.zip SCORM package. Package is downloaded and unzipped into the Moodle file system.
* '''Enable IMS package type:''' Enables a package to be selected from within an IMS repository
* '''Force users to enable JavaScript:''' Since the SCORM API uses JavaScript to save data to Moodle, this is a great idea!
* '''Activate API debug and tracing (set the capture mask with apidebugmask):''' Turns on debugging for SCORM activities. In Moodle 2 you no longer have to also turn on debugging in the developer options.
* '''API debug capture mask - use a simple regex on <username>:<activityname> e.g. admin:.* will debug for admin user only:''' You can use the mask to enable debugging under certain conditions. For example, if you are logged in using the admin user (username admin) you can set the api mask to: '''admin.*''' Users not logged in as admin will not see the debugging log. The "Default" api mask is '''.*''' which translates roughly to '''everybody'''.

==See also==

[[Category:Teacher]]
[[Category:SCORM]]

[[fr:Ajouter/modifier un SCORM]]
[[ja:SCORMを追加/編集する]]
[[de:Lernpaket anlegen]]

Creating SCORM Content

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{{SCORM}}

==Creating SCORM Content==
Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

Some people hand-code SCORM objects using HTML, JavaScript, and sometimes SWF files. There are some templates provided by ADL and by others, which make this process easier.

Others use SCORM authoring software to generate SCORM packages. This process is easier for non-technical users, but not as foolproof.

==Find existing SCORM packages==
There is a [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] which allows sharing of SCORM packages - this repository is moderated however the quality of packages is varied; some make correct use of the SCORM API and others may not perform as expected.

==Before Investing in SCORM Authoring Software==
Please be aware that vendors can edit entries on this wiki page. No SCORM authoring software is without bugs, and some have significant issues when used with Moodle. Just because products are listed on this page does not mean that Moodle.org either supports or endorses them. Be sure to test all products extensively before purchase, and be sure that the built-in Moodle authoring tools will not meet your needs. Also take the time to search for past issues with a particular product in the Using Moodle SCORM forum, and read the rest of the Moodle SCORM documentation.

Many of these products piggyback on Powerpoint®, or present talking head video to a learner. Powerpoint presentations and talking heads do not promote social learning. It is valuable to consider, before embarking upon SCORM development, whether your organization wants to limit itself to the pedagogical approaches provided by the SCORM API.

It is also important to know that one does not need to purchase or obtain any product in order to produce SCORM content. SCORM content is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and multimedia files, all of which can be produced by regular humans. Humans are, in addition, capable of testing your content in your LMS and writing code which addresses the nuances of your LMS, a valuable service which authorware does not provide.

In addition, an authorware production model, in which non-programmers produce content using graphical user interfaces, can present issues because non-programmers do not understand some of the basic tenets of the Web. It is a good idea to educate authorware users about best practices with regard to issues such as file size, file naming conventions, how to publish images for the Web, and so forth, before turning them loose with an authorware product.

==Tools for Authoring==
Here is a list of tools to create SCORM packages, both open source and commercial. Moodle is a modular authoring tool for courses but at this time does not create SCORM packages.

==Free OpenSource==
=== eXe OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package ===
The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages.

http://exelearning.org/

=== ScenariChain Opale / OpaleSup ===
Website and community : http://scenari-platform.org/projects/scenari/en/pres/co/

=== Xerte OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package ===
The Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials.

Standalone tool: Xerte http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/

Online tool: Toolkits http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.htm

==Freeware not OpenSource==
=== Content Shaper Authoring Tool===
Content Shaper - free authoring tool oriented at assembly, updates and
maintenance of learning content across it's lifecycle.

Content Sharer utilizes a separation of content and presentation idiom, so
it's suitable for adaptive learning, different delivery formats, content re-purposing.

http://www.c-shaper.com/

=== Courselab ===
CourseLab is a free program but is not open source. Feb 2009 current version is 2.4. Received an eLearnings Best of 2007 award.

CourseLab version 2.4 has a few bugs. First is with audio. Sometimes (for some reason not known to CourseLab) the audio will restart, creating an echo effect. You will need to un-check the "autostart" mark of the Video object (vidoe object is used to insert audio too)and then define an action on some event that fits the case (for example on the slide's afterdisplay event) choose METHOD (yourvideoobject, PLAY. this will play the audio after the slide is displayed.

Another issue is with FireFox browsers displaying graphics with CourseLab. It is stated in user's manual that some objects utilize Explorer-specific features and author should avoid using them, if he wants to use the course in multi-browser environment. These are: Gradient Box and all AutoShapes. AutoShapes are VML-objects and VML (Vector Markup Language) is not supported by FireFox. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics - another vector format) could be the good alternative, but there are still problems with displaying inline SVG-objects in both Gecko-family and IE. (from CourseLab Support)

If these FireFox/Image display problems are not an issue then be sure to install the latest browser plug-ins. If you present content to non-IE users, do not use this authoring package.

There are some problems with Moodle configuration see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96338#p425335

[http://www.courselab.com/ CourseLab home page]

=== iSpring Free ===
[[Image:Ispring-free-toolbar.jpg|thumb|iSpring PowerPoint add-in]]

iSpring Free is freeware for creating SCORM-compliant e-learning courses that can be integrated with Moodle CMS. Being a very handy e-learning authoring tool, iSpring Free works as a PowerPoint add-in, accurately converting PowerPoint presentations into Flash courses.

Along with supporting virtually all PowerPoint animations and transitions, iSpring Free preserves PowerPoint’s most advanced effects like trigger animations and hyperlinks. Additionally iSpring Free provides an opportunity to enrich the course with Flash objects and YouTube videos.

iSpring Free with its ease of use, conversion accuracy and established SCORM 2004 r3 compliance appears to be a great choice considering that it can be used free of charge for all commercial and non-commercial use.

[[Image:ispring-free.jpg‎ |thumb|iSpring Free publish window]]

iSpring Free is compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 (32/64-bit) and comes in both 32 and 64-bit versions. The freeware can be downloaded on [http://free.ispringsolutions.com/ iSpring website].

See how easily iSpring Free produced courses are [http://free.ispringsolutions.com/articles/ispring_free_and_moodle.html uploaded to Moodle].

=== MOS Solo ===
SCORM 2004 authoring tool. Entirely free.

http://www.mindonsite.com/en/produits/mos-solo/

=== MyUdutu ===
Free software for creating elearning courses with flash interactivity. Website here: http://www.udutu.com/ and an explanatory video here: http://www.udutu.com/my_udutu_video.html It is free to sign up and make the courses - there are many customisable templates enabling users to import images/video/audio/etc and incorporate them into scored questions of varying formats. The finished course can be exported as SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 compliant -again for free and then hosted on a Moodle or other site. (The courses can also be hosted on the udutu site, either for free but with a watermark or for a fee) Quite intuitive to use and offering many features, it is however dependent on good connection to the site as it is created online. Also doesn't seem to like working in Opera.

=== Reload ===
Reusable eLearning Object Authoring and Delivery - NB it is rather technical and may only be suitable for those with an understanding of HTML and the underlying SCORM specification.

One problem with Reload is that it sometimes places the imsmanifest file 2 directories deep in the published SCORM package. For the solution to this issue, see https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#Manifest_not_found_error

http://www.reload.ac.uk/

==Commercial==
===ActivePresenter===
ActivePresenter is a useful tool supports for IT training operation, software demonstration, creating software manual. Notable outputs are Ajax Simulation and Flash Simulation. ActivePresenter supports both SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004.
More information can be found at http://www.atomisystems.com.

===Articulate===
Articulate Presenter '09, coupled with Articulate Quizmaker '09, is a solution in developing SCORM content for Moodle. Both Articulate Presenter '09 and Articulate Quizmaker '09 are SCORM certified by an independent ADL certification expert (both SCORM 1.2 AND SCORM 2004). This means that Articulate Presenter '09 and Quizmaker '09 will seamlessly report results to Moodle by uploading the published project as a SCORM package. With the complete suite of products from Articulate, you'll be able to quickly create e-learning courses from PowerPoint and develop interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and surveys.

Here is a screencast [http://screenr.com/RON] to show you how to upload and track from Articulate Quizmaker '09 in Moodle.

To learn more about the products from Articulate, go to http://www.articulate.com and download a 30 day trial of any of the products including: Articulate Presenter '09, Articulate Quizmaker '09, Articulate Engage '09, and Articulate Video Encoder '09.

===Atlantic Link===
The Atlantic Link product suite is a rapid, collaborative eLearning tool that creates Flash based eLearning content. This can export SCORM compliant modules which will run smoothly within moodle. It allows the creation of quizes, slideshows and software emulation.

You can find out more information about the Atlantic Link products at http://www.atlanticlinkglobal.com/

===Camtasia===
This is a commercial screen-recording product for producing demonstrations and tutorials. It has SCORM compliant output as an option, and permits quizzing and branching. The SCORM output option creates a single .zip file that is appropriate for uploading into a SCORM activity for Moodle. Retail price for Camtasia is US$299, but non-profit educational discounts of about 50% are offered. 30 day trials are also available.

More information can be found at http://www.techsmith.com/products.asp

=== Captivate ===
Adobe's Captivate software allows you to create fully functioning interactive lessons with quizzes, scoring, and integration (via SCORM) with Moodle. You can create anything from a simple slide show, to a complete branching software simulation or evaluation, all delivered via Flash without learning any code. It is the most straight-forward package and makes it a lot of fun to work with - even adding closed-captioning is really easy! Adobe have a page on Captivate here: [http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/] - the latest version is Captivate 4.

One difficulty with Captivate is that it tends to save important reporting values to a string in suspend_data, rather than in lesson_status, lesson_location, and the like. This makes it more difficult to write custom reports, or to debug interactions.

===Composica===
Composica is a social e-learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members and provides a powerful programming- free WYSIWYG environment to create and deliver high-quality interactive e-learning content with embedded social media.

Composica offers extensive multimedia support, including central repository, thousands of media files, customizable media player, built-in audio recording, automatic narration synchronization and mashups with leading external services such as YouTube, Google, Twitter, Facebook and more.

The system provides large variety of fully customizable e-Learning interactions which can be integrated into a test or a game and communicated to the LMS via SCORM 1.2 / 2004.

Composica encourages authoring teams to share knowledge and remove development bottle-necks through a unique groupware environment, powerful tasks system and task reports, project blog, comments, community dashboards and built-in chats.

In addition, Composica includes Social Media tools, to create a real learning community around each course - learners can share knowledge with others, learn from each other, comment on anything, rate everything and more.
For more information see: http://www.composica.com/features/

=== ContentGenerator.net SCORM functionality ===
Software was successfully used at the CambsMoodle.org conference on July 10th 2008 - every teacher at the workshop was able to get their SCORM game uploaded and working. The software doesn't create extensive courses, but instead trackable interactive Flash games such as Fling the Teacher and Teacher Invaders.

* Free software (+ some pay for) at http://www.contentgenerator.net/ - need to register on forum, but downloads free from there.
* Select SCORM option within software
* Generates single .zip file
* Select 'Add SCORM / AICC' from add resource option in your course
* Edit SCORM settings - copy settings from <nowiki>http://www.contentgenerator.net/images/scorm/16_settings_mostimportant.png</nowiki>
* Some overly detailed instructions available here: http://www.contentgenerator.net/scorm/

===Coral Presenter===
With Coral Presenter, a plugin for PowerPoint, users can easily add audio and video files, as well as quizzes to create more engaging and interactive e-learning presentations. A ribbon menu, slide-level call-outs, attachments and links, custom tabs and one-click publishing are just some of the unique features of Coral Presenter. Coral will convert your content to Flash format and bundle all neccessary files and data for publishing to Moodle or any other SCORM 1.2 compliant LMS. Completion tracking can be set either by number of slides viewed or by quiz scores.

Coral Presenter was developed to work with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint XP and PowerPoint 2003. Download a free trial at http://www.coral-learning.com/downloads.

=== DemoCreator ===
DemoCreator is a Flash-based screen recording software which allows users to generate screencast by recording computer screen. It's mainly used to create desktop tutorials and Web-based presentation for distance learning and training. The SCORM or AICC output package for LMS is also available. More information can be found at http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html.

===Helius Presenter===
Helius Presenter (previously PointeCast Publisher) is a PowerPoint plug-in that automatically converts your PowerPoint XP/2002, 2003 and 2007 presentations into a highly compressed Flash presentation. The Pro version allows you to import and edit audio, import video, and create quizzes and surveys. It's SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. It seems close to Articulate Presenter in terms of functionality but at considerably less cost. Free 15 day trial available from site:
http://www.helius.com/products/scorm.php

=== iSpring PRESENTER ===
[[Image:Elearning_course_sample.jpg|thumb|Sample iSpring-created Flash course]]

iSpring Presenter is a professional software for streamlied e-learning content authoring. It works as a PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 add-in and transforms regular PowerPoint presentations into SCORM-compliant Flash courses ready for integrating with Moodle CMS. iSpring Presenter is super easy-to-use that allows to stay focused on content creation instead of software mastery.

iSpring Presenter produces quality Flash courses that preserve the most advanced effects and interactivity of your original PowerPoint presentations like action buttons and trigger animations.

iSpring Presenter features a built-in quiz authoring tool iSpring QuizMaker to enhance a course with interactive quizzes with multimedia (10 question types). Plus, iSpring Presenter provides unique Flash content protection feature that includes adding watermark to slides, password protection and Flash course playback restriction on set domains only. Engage learners with quizzes, presenter video, audio narrations, fully customized player navigation and look-and-feel.

[[Image:ispring_presenter_toolbar.jpg|thumb|iSpring Presenter toolbar]]

iSpring Presenter transforms PowerPoint into an e-learning authoring wizard.

Visit [http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_presenter.html iSpring website] to learn more about iSpring Presenter, view demo courses and download a 30-day fully functional trial version.

Here is a [http://www.ispringsolutions.com/articles/presenter/upload_to_moodle.html step-by-step instruction] on how to integrate iSpring-made Flash courses to Moodle CMS.

=== iSpring QuizMaker ===
[[Image:ispring_quizmaker.jpg|thumb|iSpring QuizMaker main window]]

Whether you are experienced or new to quiz creation, with iSpring QuizMaker you'll find it easy to create captivating Flash-based quizzes. Creating quizzes of 10 question types are as easy as filling out the form. It's possible to accompany quiz question with image, audio and video. The question answers can be randomized, and questions can be delivered in a different order for each quiz taker. You can check your work instanty with a live preview option and publish your quiz into SCORM-compliant package ready to be uploaded and tracked with Moodle CMS.

* Accompany quiz questions with images, audio and video
* Organize questions in question pools
* Randomize answers and questions in a quiz
* Set specific feedback based on user's result
* Control testing time and number of attempts
* Choose player color scheme and customize text labels
[[Image:ispring_made_quiz.jpg|thumb|Sample Flash quiz‎ created with iSpring QuizMaker]]
* Preview a question and an entire quiz
* Have a single Flash (.SWF) file for each quiz
* Receive quiz results via email or web server
* Upload your quiz to any SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 or AICC LMS

Even though iSpring QuizMaker has a lot to offer, all its features are intuitively designed into a single window for your hassle-free quiz authoring experience.

To learn more about iSpring QuizMaker and test drive a full-functional 30-day trial, visit http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_quizmaker.html.

=== Knowledge Anywhere's ICE Tool - Instructional Content Editor Tool ===
Create and publish SCORM-compliant courses with WYSIWYG tool, that are ready to be uploaded into any LMS.
The Instructional Content Editor Tool offers many features including streaming video, pre-made page templates, storyboard export to Word function, language translation and many more. Anyone can create a high quality learning course easily. Learn more at http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com/ShowPage.aspx?pkContentID=102
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=== Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office ===
Works with licensed Microsoft Office and is a free add on, last upgraded 2007.

"With Learning Essentials, educators and students can get started, stay organized, and successfully complete high-quality work. Educators can create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies. Using the Content Development Kit, educators can create additional templates and tutorials that integrate with familiar Microsoft Office applications. And students can use templates with project assistance to coach them through a variety of assignments.

"The English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish versions of Learning Essentials also support SCORM standards. SCORM Tools seamlessly convert Microsoft Office documents into standards-based e-learning content that can be managed and reused by any SCORM-conformant learning management system.

"Learning Essentials is a free download for schools that license Microsoft Office."

:Note, someone with personal experience should update the overview to explain how this tool really works)

[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5f4f9c7-1a6a-484b-99fd-c231442deaa4&displaylang=en Microsoft's Learning Essentials homepage]

=== Microsoft Learning Development System ===
Free tool from Microsoft that allows you to create SCORM resources using drag and drop.

"The LCDS is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses. The LCDS allows anyone in the Microsoft Learning community to publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactive activities, quizzes, games, assessments, animations, demos, and other multimedia."

This is an internal Microsoft tool. Has a few bugs and can crash.

NOTE READ the Help info. To upload to Moodle you will need to zip up your working directory then upload using the 'Add SCORM / AICC' from add resource option in your course

[http://www.microsoft.com/learning/tools/lcds/default.mspx Microsoft's page for LCDS updated to 2.2 on Jan 2009]

===PowerPointForce===
PowerpointForce is a MS windows program, which converts PowerPoint(2003/2007) slides into flash with different additional features and brings to you professional rapid flash-based presentations in the matter of minutes.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/PowerPointForce.aspx

=== PowerQuizPoint - Quiz Creator ===
Create a Flash-Based Quiz from PowerPoint in two steps. PowerQuizPoint easily create interactive Macromedia Flash Quizzes from within PowerPoint. PowerQuizPoint is a convergence of power features in PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash. Flash Quizzes created with PowerQuizPoint is web ready. Insert interactive Quiz slides directly into PowerPoint presentations and Publish them to Macromedia Flash format.

[[Image:powerquizpoint-question.jpg|thumb|PowerQuizPoint question]]

PowerQuizPoint PowerPoint Quiz Maker provides options like insert your questions with up to 4 choices per Questions, Separate slides for correct and incorrect answers and Question Bank facility.

[http://www.digitalofficepro.com/powerpoint/quiz-creator.html www.digitalofficepro.com/powerpoint/quiz-creator.html]

=== QuizCreator ===
QuizCreator is a powerful Flash quiz maker that enables trainers and educators to easily create SCORM compliant Flash quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations to engage learners through the learning process and offers flexible results tracking and score reporting toolkit.

It supports 9 question types:True/ False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Response,Fill in the Blank, Drag and Drop-Matching,Drag and Drop-Sequences,Word Bank,Click Map and Essay. You could publish you quiz for Flash, Word, Excel or LMS.

[http://www.quiz-creator.com/ QuizCreator]
[[Image:Quizcreator.png|thumb|QuizCreator]]

===QuizForce===
QuizForce is a MS Windows program that provides a comprehensive but easy-to-use set of tools for creating highly customized Flash-based quizzes and surveys for non-programmers.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/Quizforce.aspx

=== STT Trainer===
STT Trainer from Kaplan IT Learning is a complete solution for creating software simulations, electronic user performance support, and documentation to train employees on critical web-, windows, and java-based business software. It can create SCORM compliant packages that can be used withing the moodle system.

You can find out more details about STT Trainer at http://www.stt-trainer.com/

=== ToolBook ===
[Moodle 1.9 / ToolBook Instructor 9.01] Tracking and bookmarking work well. The content should be exported using the SCORM 1.2 option; AICC and SCORM 2004 do not seem to work properly. Scoring works and is viewable within the tracking details, but does not transfer correctly into the Gradebook. see http://www.toolbook.com

=== TutorAuthor NG ===
TutorPro's TutorAuthor NG is a professional software application for quickly creating interactive lessons, training, demonstrations, and simulations. Anyone who needs to develop online product demonstrations, software simulations for e-learning, or online tutorials for user support will find TutorAuthor NG an ideal solution. TutorAuthor NG includes everything you need to capture actions in any application and instantly create a 3D life like simulation. The application is equally at home creating 'soft-skill' tutorials such as new employee introductions, company policy, in fact anything that can be taught electronically.

If you use TutorAuthor NG to create e-learning content, you can add realistic, fully interactive question slides, buttons, click boxes, and text entry boxes, and much more. TutorAuthor NG is SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC compliant, allowing effortless integration with any compliant Learning Management System (LMS).

More information can be found at http://www.tutorpro.com/Products/TutorAuthor_Next_Generation_

=== ViewletBuilder Enterprise ===
Qarbon's ViewletBuilder is cost-effective, comparatively easy to learn, and used by many thousands of corporate, educational, and government professionals since 1999. On Mac OSx and Windows PCs, it is used to create compelling, interactive online tutorials for distance learning and user support. ViewletBuilder Enterprise includes ViewletQuiz, for creating interactive assessments and surveys.

ViewletBuilder Pro, ViewletQuiz, and ViewletBuilder Enterprise are fully SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC compliant.

Qarbon.com provides the highest level of support and training for its customers.

More information and fully functional evaluation downloads are available at:
http://forum.qarbon.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1007&p=3118#p3118

=== Wimba Create (formerly Course Genie) ===
A commercial tool allowing you to convert Word documents into CMS ready content. It's particularly suited for non-technical teachers who have large documents to display on Moodle and allows embedding of video, sound etc. When downloaded to your computer it generates a toolbar in Word giving options to enable easy conversion of the file to clean html pages which include navigation and interactive features. It claims to work on Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista
Word 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007 and the official site is: http://www.wimba.com/products/wimbacreate/ .

Wimba Create documentation can be found at: http://www.wimba.com/services/support/documentation#wCr

=== Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional ===
Convert PowerPoint to Flash and upload the courses to Moodle.
Note that this is not a free tool, rather there is a free '''trial''' version of the full software. Output from the trial version has a watermark on it.
* Download the trial version of the software from http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html
* There is a plug-in menu in PowerPoint, click "Publish" button and select "LMS"
* Select "SCORM 1.2" or "SCORM 2004"
* Click "Convert" button
* Select "Open output folder" after conversion is completed
* Choose the output .zip file and upload to Moodle
* Done!

Some overly detailed instructions available here: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/howto3.html

===WordForce===
WordForce is a MS Windows program. The main feature of the program is the conversion of MS Word (2007/2003) documents into web sites.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/Wordforce.aspx

==See also==
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft (MS-M$) word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?] forum discussion

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Creating SCORM Content

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'''Please refer to [[TOC_with_notes#SCORM|these notes]] before editing this page.'''

==Creating SCORM Content==
Moodle '''does not''' generate scorm content. Moodle presents the content in SCORM packages to learners, and saves data from learner interactions with the SCORM package.

Some people hand-code SCORM objects using HTML, JavaScript, and sometimes SWF files. There are some templates provided by ADL and by others, which make this process easier.

Others use SCORM authoring software to generate SCORM packages. This process is easier for non-technical users, but not as foolproof.

==Find existing SCORM packages==
There is a [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?id=7198 SCORM Repository] which allows sharing of SCORM packages - this repository is moderated however the quality of packages is varied; some make correct use of the SCORM API and others may not perform as expected.

==Before Investing in SCORM Authoring Software==
Please be aware that vendors can edit entries on this wiki page. No SCORM authoring software is without bugs, and some have significant issues when used with Moodle. Just because products are listed on this page does not mean that Moodle.org either supports or endorses them. Be sure to test all products extensively before purchase, and be sure that the built-in Moodle authoring tools will not meet your needs. Also take the time to search for past issues with a particular product in the Using Moodle SCORM forum, and read the rest of the Moodle SCORM documentation.

Many of these products piggyback on Powerpoint®, or present talking head video to a learner. Powerpoint presentations and talking heads do not promote social learning. It is valuable to consider, before embarking upon SCORM development, whether your organization wants to limit itself to the pedagogical approaches provided by the SCORM API.

It is also important to know that one does not need to purchase or obtain any product in order to produce SCORM content. SCORM content is a collection of HTML, JavaScript, and multimedia files, all of which can be produced by regular humans. Humans are, in addition, capable of testing your content in your LMS and writing code which addresses the nuances of your LMS, a valuable service which authorware does not provide.

In addition, an authorware production model, in which non-programmers produce content using graphical user interfaces, can present issues because non-programmers do not understand some of the basic tenets of the Web. It is a good idea to educate authorware users about best practices with regard to issues such as file size, file naming conventions, how to publish images for the Web, and so forth, before turning them loose with an authorware product.

==Tools for Authoring==
Here is a list of tools to create SCORM packages, both open source and commercial. Moodle is a modular authoring tool for courses but at this time does not create SCORM packages.

==Free OpenSource==
=== eXe OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package ===
The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. Resources authored in eXe can be exported in IMS Content Package, SCORM 1.2, or IMS Common Cartridge formats or as simple self-contained web pages.

http://exelearning.org/

=== ScenariChain Opale / OpaleSup ===
Website and community : http://scenari-platform.org/projects/scenari/en/pres/co/

=== Xerte OPEN SOURCE SCORM Development Package ===
The Xerte Project provides a full suite of open source tools for elearning developers and content authors producing interactive learning materials.

Standalone tool: Xerte http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/

Online tool: Toolkits http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/xerte/toolkits.htm

==Freeware not OpenSource==
=== Content Shaper Authoring Tool===
Content Shaper - free authoring tool oriented at assembly, updates and
maintenance of learning content across it's lifecycle.

Content Sharer utilizes a separation of content and presentation idiom, so
it's suitable for adaptive learning, different delivery formats, content re-purposing.

http://www.c-shaper.com/

=== Courselab ===
CourseLab is a free program but is not open source. Feb 2009 current version is 2.4. Received an eLearnings Best of 2007 award.

CourseLab version 2.4 has a few bugs. First is with audio. Sometimes (for some reason not known to CourseLab) the audio will restart, creating an echo effect. You will need to un-check the "autostart" mark of the Video object (vidoe object is used to insert audio too)and then define an action on some event that fits the case (for example on the slide's afterdisplay event) choose METHOD (yourvideoobject, PLAY. this will play the audio after the slide is displayed.

Another issue is with FireFox browsers displaying graphics with CourseLab. It is stated in user's manual that some objects utilize Explorer-specific features and author should avoid using them, if he wants to use the course in multi-browser environment. These are: Gradient Box and all AutoShapes. AutoShapes are VML-objects and VML (Vector Markup Language) is not supported by FireFox. SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics - another vector format) could be the good alternative, but there are still problems with displaying inline SVG-objects in both Gecko-family and IE. (from CourseLab Support)

If these FireFox/Image display problems are not an issue then be sure to install the latest browser plug-ins. If you present content to non-IE users, do not use this authoring package.

There are some problems with Moodle configuration see http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=96338#p425335

[http://www.courselab.com/ CourseLab home page]

=== iSpring Free ===
[[Image:Ispring-free-toolbar.jpg|thumb|iSpring PowerPoint add-in]]

iSpring Free is freeware for creating SCORM-compliant e-learning courses that can be integrated with Moodle CMS. Being a very handy e-learning authoring tool, iSpring Free works as a PowerPoint add-in, accurately converting PowerPoint presentations into Flash courses.

Along with supporting virtually all PowerPoint animations and transitions, iSpring Free preserves PowerPoint’s most advanced effects like trigger animations and hyperlinks. Additionally iSpring Free provides an opportunity to enrich the course with Flash objects and YouTube videos.

iSpring Free with its ease of use, conversion accuracy and established SCORM 2004 r3 compliance appears to be a great choice considering that it can be used free of charge for all commercial and non-commercial use.

[[Image:ispring-free.jpg‎ |thumb|iSpring Free publish window]]

iSpring Free is compatible with PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 (32/64-bit) and comes in both 32 and 64-bit versions. The freeware can be downloaded on [http://free.ispringsolutions.com/ iSpring website].

See how easily iSpring Free produced courses are [http://free.ispringsolutions.com/articles/ispring_free_and_moodle.html uploaded to Moodle].

=== MOS Solo ===
SCORM 2004 authoring tool. Entirely free.

http://www.mindonsite.com/en/produits/mos-solo/

=== MyUdutu ===
Free software for creating elearning courses with flash interactivity. Website here: http://www.udutu.com/ and an explanatory video here: http://www.udutu.com/my_udutu_video.html It is free to sign up and make the courses - there are many customisable templates enabling users to import images/video/audio/etc and incorporate them into scored questions of varying formats. The finished course can be exported as SCORM 2004 or SCORM 1.2 compliant -again for free and then hosted on a Moodle or other site. (The courses can also be hosted on the udutu site, either for free but with a watermark or for a fee) Quite intuitive to use and offering many features, it is however dependent on good connection to the site as it is created online. Also doesn't seem to like working in Opera.

=== Reload ===
Reusable eLearning Object Authoring and Delivery - NB it is rather technical and may only be suitable for those with an understanding of HTML and the underlying SCORM specification.

One problem with Reload is that it sometimes places the imsmanifest file 2 directories deep in the published SCORM package. For the solution to this issue, see https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#Manifest_not_found_error

http://www.reload.ac.uk/

==Commercial==
===ActivePresenter===
ActivePresenter is a useful tool supports for IT training operation, software demonstration, creating software manual. Notable outputs are Ajax Simulation and Flash Simulation. ActivePresenter supports both SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004.
More information can be found at http://www.atomisystems.com.

===Articulate===
Articulate Presenter '09, coupled with Articulate Quizmaker '09, is a solution in developing SCORM content for Moodle. Both Articulate Presenter '09 and Articulate Quizmaker '09 are SCORM certified by an independent ADL certification expert (both SCORM 1.2 AND SCORM 2004). This means that Articulate Presenter '09 and Quizmaker '09 will seamlessly report results to Moodle by uploading the published project as a SCORM package. With the complete suite of products from Articulate, you'll be able to quickly create e-learning courses from PowerPoint and develop interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and surveys.

Here is a screencast [http://screenr.com/RON] to show you how to upload and track from Articulate Quizmaker '09 in Moodle.

To learn more about the products from Articulate, go to http://www.articulate.com and download a 30 day trial of any of the products including: Articulate Presenter '09, Articulate Quizmaker '09, Articulate Engage '09, and Articulate Video Encoder '09.

===Atlantic Link===
The Atlantic Link product suite is a rapid, collaborative eLearning tool that creates Flash based eLearning content. This can export SCORM compliant modules which will run smoothly within moodle. It allows the creation of quizes, slideshows and software emulation.

You can find out more information about the Atlantic Link products at http://www.atlanticlinkglobal.com/

===Camtasia===
This is a commercial screen-recording product for producing demonstrations and tutorials. It has SCORM compliant output as an option, and permits quizzing and branching. The SCORM output option creates a single .zip file that is appropriate for uploading into a SCORM activity for Moodle. Retail price for Camtasia is US$299, but non-profit educational discounts of about 50% are offered. 30 day trials are also available.

More information can be found at http://www.techsmith.com/products.asp

=== Captivate ===
Adobe's Captivate software allows you to create fully functioning interactive lessons with quizzes, scoring, and integration (via SCORM) with Moodle. You can create anything from a simple slide show, to a complete branching software simulation or evaluation, all delivered via Flash without learning any code. It is the most straight-forward package and makes it a lot of fun to work with - even adding closed-captioning is really easy! Adobe have a page on Captivate here: [http://www.adobe.com/products/captivate/] - the latest version is Captivate 4.

One difficulty with Captivate is that it tends to save important reporting values to a string in suspend_data, rather than in lesson_status, lesson_location, and the like. This makes it more difficult to write custom reports, or to debug interactions.

===Composica===
Composica is a social e-learning authoring system that offers real-time collaboration among team members and provides a powerful programming- free WYSIWYG environment to create and deliver high-quality interactive e-learning content with embedded social media.

Composica offers extensive multimedia support, including central repository, thousands of media files, customizable media player, built-in audio recording, automatic narration synchronization and mashups with leading external services such as YouTube, Google, Twitter, Facebook and more.

The system provides large variety of fully customizable e-Learning interactions which can be integrated into a test or a game and communicated to the LMS via SCORM 1.2 / 2004.

Composica encourages authoring teams to share knowledge and remove development bottle-necks through a unique groupware environment, powerful tasks system and task reports, project blog, comments, community dashboards and built-in chats.

In addition, Composica includes Social Media tools, to create a real learning community around each course - learners can share knowledge with others, learn from each other, comment on anything, rate everything and more.
For more information see: http://www.composica.com/features/

=== ContentGenerator.net SCORM functionality ===
Software was successfully used at the CambsMoodle.org conference on July 10th 2008 - every teacher at the workshop was able to get their SCORM game uploaded and working. The software doesn't create extensive courses, but instead trackable interactive Flash games such as Fling the Teacher and Teacher Invaders.

* Free software (+ some pay for) at http://www.contentgenerator.net/ - need to register on forum, but downloads free from there.
* Select SCORM option within software
* Generates single .zip file
* Select 'Add SCORM / AICC' from add resource option in your course
* Edit SCORM settings - copy settings from <nowiki>http://www.contentgenerator.net/images/scorm/16_settings_mostimportant.png</nowiki>
* Some overly detailed instructions available here: http://www.contentgenerator.net/scorm/

===Coral Presenter===
With Coral Presenter, a plugin for PowerPoint, users can easily add audio and video files, as well as quizzes to create more engaging and interactive e-learning presentations. A ribbon menu, slide-level call-outs, attachments and links, custom tabs and one-click publishing are just some of the unique features of Coral Presenter. Coral will convert your content to Flash format and bundle all neccessary files and data for publishing to Moodle or any other SCORM 1.2 compliant LMS. Completion tracking can be set either by number of slides viewed or by quiz scores.

Coral Presenter was developed to work with Microsoft PowerPoint 2007, PowerPoint XP and PowerPoint 2003. Download a free trial at http://www.coral-learning.com/downloads.

=== DemoCreator ===
DemoCreator is a Flash-based screen recording software which allows users to generate screencast by recording computer screen. It's mainly used to create desktop tutorials and Web-based presentation for distance learning and training. The SCORM or AICC output package for LMS is also available. More information can be found at http://www.sameshow.com/demo-creator.html.

===Helius Presenter===
Helius Presenter (previously PointeCast Publisher) is a PowerPoint plug-in that automatically converts your PowerPoint XP/2002, 2003 and 2007 presentations into a highly compressed Flash presentation. The Pro version allows you to import and edit audio, import video, and create quizzes and surveys. It's SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. It seems close to Articulate Presenter in terms of functionality but at considerably less cost. Free 15 day trial available from site:
http://www.helius.com/products/scorm.php

=== iSpring PRESENTER ===
[[Image:Elearning_course_sample.jpg|thumb|Sample iSpring-created Flash course]]

iSpring Presenter is a professional software for streamlied e-learning content authoring. It works as a PowerPoint 2003/2007/2010 add-in and transforms regular PowerPoint presentations into SCORM-compliant Flash courses ready for integrating with Moodle CMS. iSpring Presenter is super easy-to-use that allows to stay focused on content creation instead of software mastery.

iSpring Presenter produces quality Flash courses that preserve the most advanced effects and interactivity of your original PowerPoint presentations like action buttons and trigger animations.

iSpring Presenter features a built-in quiz authoring tool iSpring QuizMaker to enhance a course with interactive quizzes with multimedia (10 question types). Plus, iSpring Presenter provides unique Flash content protection feature that includes adding watermark to slides, password protection and Flash course playback restriction on set domains only. Engage learners with quizzes, presenter video, audio narrations, fully customized player navigation and look-and-feel.

[[Image:ispring_presenter_toolbar.jpg|thumb|iSpring Presenter toolbar]]

iSpring Presenter transforms PowerPoint into an e-learning authoring wizard.

Visit [http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_presenter.html iSpring website] to learn more about iSpring Presenter, view demo courses and download a 30-day fully functional trial version.

Here is a [http://www.ispringsolutions.com/articles/presenter/upload_to_moodle.html step-by-step instruction] on how to integrate iSpring-made Flash courses to Moodle CMS.

=== iSpring QuizMaker ===
[[Image:ispring_quizmaker.jpg|thumb|iSpring QuizMaker main window]]

Whether you are experienced or new to quiz creation, with iSpring QuizMaker you'll find it easy to create captivating Flash-based quizzes. Creating quizzes of 10 question types are as easy as filling out the form. It's possible to accompany quiz question with image, audio and video. The question answers can be randomized, and questions can be delivered in a different order for each quiz taker. You can check your work instanty with a live preview option and publish your quiz into SCORM-compliant package ready to be uploaded and tracked with Moodle CMS.

* Accompany quiz questions with images, audio and video
* Organize questions in question pools
* Randomize answers and questions in a quiz
* Set specific feedback based on user's result
* Control testing time and number of attempts
* Choose player color scheme and customize text labels
[[Image:ispring_made_quiz.jpg|thumb|Sample Flash quiz‎ created with iSpring QuizMaker]]
* Preview a question and an entire quiz
* Have a single Flash (.SWF) file for each quiz
* Receive quiz results via email or web server
* Upload your quiz to any SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 or AICC LMS

Even though iSpring QuizMaker has a lot to offer, all its features are intuitively designed into a single window for your hassle-free quiz authoring experience.

To learn more about iSpring QuizMaker and test drive a full-functional 30-day trial, visit http://www.ispringsolutions.com/products/ispring_quizmaker.html.

=== Knowledge Anywhere's ICE Tool - Instructional Content Editor Tool ===
Create and publish SCORM-compliant courses with WYSIWYG tool, that are ready to be uploaded into any LMS.
The Instructional Content Editor Tool offers many features including streaming video, pre-made page templates, storyboard export to Word function, language translation and many more. Anyone can create a high quality learning course easily. Learn more at http://www.knowledgeanywhere.com/ShowPage.aspx?pkContentID=102
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=== Learning Essentials 2.0 for Microsoft Office ===
Works with licensed Microsoft Office and is a free add on, last upgraded 2007.

"With Learning Essentials, educators and students can get started, stay organized, and successfully complete high-quality work. Educators can create effective instructional resources, complete administrative tasks, and implement new teaching strategies. Using the Content Development Kit, educators can create additional templates and tutorials that integrate with familiar Microsoft Office applications. And students can use templates with project assistance to coach them through a variety of assignments.

"The English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Spanish versions of Learning Essentials also support SCORM standards. SCORM Tools seamlessly convert Microsoft Office documents into standards-based e-learning content that can be managed and reused by any SCORM-conformant learning management system.

"Learning Essentials is a free download for schools that license Microsoft Office."

:Note, someone with personal experience should update the overview to explain how this tool really works)

[http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e5f4f9c7-1a6a-484b-99fd-c231442deaa4&displaylang=en Microsoft's Learning Essentials homepage]

=== Microsoft Learning Development System ===
Free tool from Microsoft that allows you to create SCORM resources using drag and drop.

"The LCDS is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses. The LCDS allows anyone in the Microsoft Learning community to publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactive activities, quizzes, games, assessments, animations, demos, and other multimedia."

This is an internal Microsoft tool. Has a few bugs and can crash.

NOTE READ the Help info. To upload to Moodle you will need to zip up your working directory then upload using the 'Add SCORM / AICC' from add resource option in your course

[http://www.microsoft.com/learning/tools/lcds/default.mspx Microsoft's page for LCDS updated to 2.2 on Jan 2009]

===PowerPointForce===
PowerpointForce is a MS windows program, which converts PowerPoint(2003/2007) slides into flash with different additional features and brings to you professional rapid flash-based presentations in the matter of minutes.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/PowerPointForce.aspx

=== PowerQuizPoint - Quiz Creator ===
Create a Flash-Based Quiz from PowerPoint in two steps. PowerQuizPoint easily create interactive Macromedia Flash Quizzes from within PowerPoint. PowerQuizPoint is a convergence of power features in PowerPoint and Macromedia Flash. Flash Quizzes created with PowerQuizPoint is web ready. Insert interactive Quiz slides directly into PowerPoint presentations and Publish them to Macromedia Flash format.

[[Image:powerquizpoint-question.jpg|thumb|PowerQuizPoint question]]

PowerQuizPoint PowerPoint Quiz Maker provides options like insert your questions with up to 4 choices per Questions, Separate slides for correct and incorrect answers and Question Bank facility.

[http://www.digitalofficepro.com/powerpoint/quiz-creator.html www.digitalofficepro.com/powerpoint/quiz-creator.html]

=== QuizCreator ===
QuizCreator is a powerful Flash quiz maker that enables trainers and educators to easily create SCORM compliant Flash quizzes with images, sounds, narrations and Flash animations to engage learners through the learning process and offers flexible results tracking and score reporting toolkit.

It supports 9 question types:True/ False, Multiple Choice, Multiple Response,Fill in the Blank, Drag and Drop-Matching,Drag and Drop-Sequences,Word Bank,Click Map and Essay. You could publish you quiz for Flash, Word, Excel or LMS.

[http://www.quiz-creator.com/ QuizCreator]
[[Image:Quizcreator.png|thumb|QuizCreator]]

===QuizForce===
QuizForce is a MS Windows program that provides a comprehensive but easy-to-use set of tools for creating highly customized Flash-based quizzes and surveys for non-programmers.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/Quizforce.aspx

=== STT Trainer===
STT Trainer from Kaplan IT Learning is a complete solution for creating software simulations, electronic user performance support, and documentation to train employees on critical web-, windows, and java-based business software. It can create SCORM compliant packages that can be used withing the moodle system.

You can find out more details about STT Trainer at http://www.stt-trainer.com/

=== ToolBook ===
[Moodle 1.9 / ToolBook Instructor 9.01] Tracking and bookmarking work well. The content should be exported using the SCORM 1.2 option; AICC and SCORM 2004 do not seem to work properly. Scoring works and is viewable within the tracking details, but does not transfer correctly into the Gradebook. see http://www.toolbook.com

=== TutorAuthor NG ===
TutorPro's TutorAuthor NG is a professional software application for quickly creating interactive lessons, training, demonstrations, and simulations. Anyone who needs to develop online product demonstrations, software simulations for e-learning, or online tutorials for user support will find TutorAuthor NG an ideal solution. TutorAuthor NG includes everything you need to capture actions in any application and instantly create a 3D life like simulation. The application is equally at home creating 'soft-skill' tutorials such as new employee introductions, company policy, in fact anything that can be taught electronically.

If you use TutorAuthor NG to create e-learning content, you can add realistic, fully interactive question slides, buttons, click boxes, and text entry boxes, and much more. TutorAuthor NG is SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC compliant, allowing effortless integration with any compliant Learning Management System (LMS).

More information can be found at http://www.tutorpro.com/Products/TutorAuthor_Next_Generation_

=== ViewletBuilder Enterprise ===
Qarbon's ViewletBuilder is cost-effective, comparatively easy to learn, and used by many thousands of corporate, educational, and government professionals since 1999. On Mac OSx and Windows PCs, it is used to create compelling, interactive online tutorials for distance learning and user support. ViewletBuilder Enterprise includes ViewletQuiz, for creating interactive assessments and surveys.

ViewletBuilder Pro, ViewletQuiz, and ViewletBuilder Enterprise are fully SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC compliant.

Qarbon.com provides the highest level of support and training for its customers.

More information and fully functional evaluation downloads are available at:
http://forum.qarbon.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1007&p=3118#p3118

=== Wimba Create (formerly Course Genie) ===
A commercial tool allowing you to convert Word documents into CMS ready content. It's particularly suited for non-technical teachers who have large documents to display on Moodle and allows embedding of video, sound etc. When downloaded to your computer it generates a toolbar in Word giving options to enable easy conversion of the file to clean html pages which include navigation and interactive features. It claims to work on Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows Vista
Word 2000, XP, 2003 or 2007 and the official site is: http://www.wimba.com/products/wimbacreate/ .

Wimba Create documentation can be found at: http://www.wimba.com/services/support/documentation#wCr

=== Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional ===
Convert PowerPoint to Flash and upload the courses to Moodle.
Note that this is not a free tool, rather there is a free '''trial''' version of the full software. Output from the trial version has a watermark on it.
* Download the trial version of the software from http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash-pro.html
* There is a plug-in menu in PowerPoint, click "Publish" button and select "LMS"
* Select "SCORM 1.2" or "SCORM 2004"
* Click "Convert" button
* Select "Open output folder" after conversion is completed
* Choose the output .zip file and upload to Moodle
* Done!

Some overly detailed instructions available here: http://www.sameshow.com/powerpoint-to-flash/howto3.html

===WordForce===
WordForce is a MS Windows program. The main feature of the program is the conversion of MS Word (2007/2003) documents into web sites.
SCORM 1.2 or 2004 compatible. Free 14 days trial, tutorials, examples are available from site:
http://www.elearningforce.com/products/Pages/Wordforce.aspx

==See also==
*Using Moodle [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=57059 Are there any sugestions for scorm authoring with Microsoft (MS-M$) word / or any other easy (maybe free) scorm authoring tool?] forum discussion

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SCORM reports

2011-07-27T03:36:55Z

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SCORM reports

2011-07-27T03:36:12Z

Danmarsden: moved to Using SCORM page - thanks Amy

{{SCORM}}
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Plagiarism prevention

2011-07-27T03:27:34Z

Danmarsden: /* Plagiarism Prevention Plugins */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
'''Please refer to [[Page_notes#Plagiarism prevention|these notes]] before editing this page.'''

Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism prevention''

Plagiarism prevention is a method that tries to detect when users cheat by submitting content they have copied instead of writing it themselves.

==Enabling plagiarism prevention==

To make use of plagiarism prevention, the feature must be enabled by an administrator by checking the enable plagiarism plugins box in ''Site administration > [[Advanced features]]''. [[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]

==Plagiarism Prevention Plugins==

Moodle doesn't come with pre-installed Plagiarism plugins but they are very easy to install, Plagiarism Prevention plugins currently include:

*[[Plagiarism Prevention Crot 2.0|Crot]] - Open source tool
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin|Turnitin]] - Commercial tool requires subscription
*[[Plagiarism Prevention URKUND|URKUND]] - Commercial tool requires subscription

==See also==
* [[Development:Plagiarism API]]

Copyright and plagiarism

2011-07-27T03:24:00Z

Danmarsden: some basic intro text

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
'''Please refer to [[Page_notes#Copyright and plagiarism|these notes]] before editing this page.'''
Moodle offers a range of ways to manage copyright and plagiarism.
This section '''Copyright and plagiarism''' contains information and resources about:
:* [[Licences]] - types of Licences that you can [[Publish a course|publish your course]] with when using [[Community hubs]]
:* [[Plagiarism Prevention|Plagiarism prevention]] - a method that tries to detect when users cheat by submitting content they have copied instead of writing it themselves.

Blackboard migration

2011-07-11T23:12:32Z

Danmarsden: /* Moodle Course Restore */

==Blackboard systems==

The way [[Blackboard]] and [[WebCT]] named their products is confusing!

For the purpose of migration to Moodle, Blackboard can be categorised into 3 different systems, each with a different migration procedure.
* CE 4.0/CE 4.1 (rebranded WebCT)
* Standard Blackboard (5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.1)
* Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 (rebranded WebCT)

==CE 4.0/CE 4.1==
CE 4.0, 4.1(rebranded WebCT) can use the webctimport tool with the "IMS Content Migration Utility" here:
https://docs.moodle.org/en/WebCT_migration - This tool has not been updated to work with 2.0, you must use it in a 1.9 site, backup the courses and restore the 1.9 Moodle backups on a Moodle 2.1 site (1.9 backups are not supported in 2.0)

==Standard Blackboard==
* Moodle 1.9 (NOT SUPPORTED IN 2.0 YET) has a restore function built into the standard backup/restore process which will restore Blackboard Archive/Export files with mixed results
* An Alternative solution is to use the LSU converter here: http://moodleconverter.lsu.edu/ (code available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/pcali1/moodlecct/index.html) see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)
** Note: Archive/Export files from Windows-based Blackboard servers are not handled correctly by MoodleConverter (see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147348) but the archives can be reformatted with minimal effort (more details will soon be posted or linked here, but the essence of the process is to unzip the archive file, rename certain files with Blackboard-encoded file names, and then zip the archive file on a Linux-style [forward-slash] file system)
* A new LSU Converter is available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/rrusso/cct2.zip see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)

==Moodle Course Restore==

From Moodle 1.5- 1.9,(Not yet supported in 2.0) Moodle's "course restore" facility can import courses from Blackboard 5.5 and 6.0 -- you have to use the 'export' facility in BB to get the files in the correct format from BB. For question pools, there is a dedicated import facility in the Quiz Module.

There's a screen-by-screen walk-through by Matt Campbell - he says:

:: We recently migrated about 200 courses from Blackboard 6 to Moodle 1.5+, and I made a [http://instructor.metrotech.org/~mcampbell/Converting%20Blackboard%20to%20Moodle.ppt PowerPoint] for this routine. I've been asked to make a Captivate just on the import routine and will work on that.

For the above to work, you will need to have the XSLT and Sablotron extensions.

Some question types are not supported by Moodle directly -- see below for contrib question types that add that support.

For Moodle 1.4.x [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard content conversion tool] is available. It was designed to migrate Blackboard 6.1 to Moodle 1.4+ - it may be possible to make it work with other versions.

According to Michael Penney in the forum discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1565 Migrating 10000 students from Blackboard to Moodle?]

:''"It works pretty well with a couple of caveats:''

:''1) It doesn't import all Blackboard question types: at CSU H, we wrote an essay question type and a 'rendered match' question type and a BB pool importer, we'd like to work with SF and others to get our qtype importer into theirs.''

:''2) SF's tool is designed to make you think about your course when you import it and redesign it. That is a nice idea, however it can be pretty time consuming when you have hundreds of documents in a course (<rant>Blackboard's poor content development tools encourage what I call the 'datadump' course format, instead of delivering information in an effective elearning tool like Moodle's lesson, with BB folks tend to post hundreds of office documents and then massive quizzes about them</rant>).''"

===Example Migration of One Test Course===
'''by [[User:Jeffrey Silverman|Jeff Silverman]], The Johns Hopkins University'''
''(Note: I am a novice Moodler. This is a description of what I did to move a single exported BlackBoard course to my out-of-the-box Moodle test installation. I had a number of questions about the process and I hope this example helps answer them for someone else.)''

====When====
This test procedure was performed during the week of 20-Aug-2007

====Versions====
* Moodle 1.8
* BlackBoard 7.1 "basic" (unconfirmed)

====Procedure====
# Export course content from Bb. This step was done by someone else! I do not know how to do this, what options were chosen, etc. I do know that I got a .zip file that I think is a "Course Archive".
# Import course into Moodle. (Needs to be done by a user with the necessary privileges. I have only one user in my Moodle installation, the "Admin" user, and he (she?) is the "Site Administrator").
## Create new course
## Go to "Restore" under the course administrative tools
## Choose a file to upload; upload the Bb .zip file
## Choose "Restore" (in the Action column) -- in another page or two you will get to say to restore this as a "New Course"

====Questions====
Some of my questions were as follows:

# Do you have to create a new course?
## Aparent answer: YES. Personally, I found this very counter-intuitive, as "importing a course" or "restore from backup" or other similar administrative tasks seem to me to be on a level outside a specific course. For example, having the "Restore" feature only available in the admin tools for a particular course makes it seem like the restoration will only work for that course -- but that is not true. You can use any course's "Restore" link in the admin tools and choose "Create a New Course" mid-way through the retoration procedure. But creating a new course from backup that has nothing to do with the course in which one has clicked the "Restore" link is, like I said, counter-intuitive. And, to top it off, I could find no mention of this until I had already clicked on "Restore". Looks like I need to add some information to the "administrative tools" or "backup/restore" docs, hm? :)
# Is there a specific "Bb-to-Moodle" conversion tool?
## Answer: NO. Unlike the WebCT-to-Moodle conversion, [[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 which requires a specific add-on]], Bb conversion is now built in.
# What format does the Bb export have to be in?
##The Bb "export" should be an ''archive'' of the Bb course, rather than an export; otherwise you can't restore the course because it it missing a name (and possibly other fields).
# What versions of Bb and Moodle will this work for?
# There is a tool floating around called "[[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard Content Conversion Tool (CCT)]]" that sounds useful for converting Bb to Moodle. Do I need it?
## Answer: NO. Actually, I had a bunch of questions about that tool, too, but ultimately I did not need it.
### Does the CCT run on the server where Bb is running?
### Does it interact, somehow, directly with the Bb instance?
### Or does it run on the Moodle server and do the import from Bb into Moodle?

==Vista CE 6/CE 8==
Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 unfortunately encrypt their backup files and there isn't currently any open source method to convert the full courses yourself.
* Learning Modules can be exported as IMS packages by going to Learning Modules and choosing Export in Bb Vista. However, Moodle does not recognize these via it's standard Resource > Add an IMS Package feature. The Bb Vista manifest must first be converted. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152587 John Tutchins has written an IMS converter] for this purpose in PHP.

* Bb Vista IMS packages might be importable using the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 WebCT CE 4 Import].
* Files for each course can be extracted as a zip then placed inside the new course, however they require manual re-linking (Another option would be to move to a digital repository, such as Equella, which can move the files from CE8 to Equella, and add links to the files into the Moodle courses) See videos on moving files here: Part 1 (files): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XX5beOLKKA] Part 2: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIFPVgKcb4]
* Quiz questions can be exported as IMS packages by going to Assessments in Bb Vista. They can also be extracted with Respondus and you can create an IMS QTI file to import into Moodle.
**If you use Respondus version 4 or later (download 30 day free demo here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/respondus.shtml], you can retrieve the quizzes and publish to Moodle directly from Respondus if the Moodle server has the "Respondus Web Service Extension for Moodle" (download here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/moodleserver.shtml]. See a video on how to do this here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXG3BeyBQAI&feature=related] and here: [http://mygermanclass.blip.tv/file/3428598/]
* Newer versions have some useful Database views inside the Blackboard database that allow retrieving of some of the information. It's really easy to get course names/users/enrolments and grades directly out using the DB Views "RPT_PERSON", "RPT_MEMBER","RPT_LEARNING_CONTEXT" and "RPT_GRADEBOOK"
doing it manually also gives you the forced opportunity for your lecturers/staff to clean things up a bit and learn a bit more about the differences between Blackboard and Moodle
*Assignments can be set up manually, copied/pasted. Migrating assignments video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwW778nF4iE&feature=related]
*Migrating a discussion topic video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUlNASbGhww&feature=related]

==See also==
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2531 Final 2009 Report of the University of North Carolina LMS Evaluation Committee] describing the results of an evaluative comparison of Moodle with the University’s current Blackboard system (Vista)
*[http://oscmoodlereport.wordpress.com The Open Source Collaborative: Moodle Assessment Report] This report is the accumulation of two years of experimentation and evaluation of Moodle by the North Carolina Community Colleges System.
*[http://www.move2moo.com/Webct-Moodle-Converter.aspx Blackboard CE8/Vista8 to Moodle 2 content conversion tool (Commercial)] This website provides a free preview of a Blackboard course conversion, good to get some ideas on where/how to move content.
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2606 The Whole Kit and Caboodle on Moodle] presentation introducing Moodle and sharing experiences of migrating from Blackboard
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2620 An LMS By Any Other Name...] presentation helping transition Blackboard users to Moodle terms
*[http://jsweetin.wordpress.com/resources/ Blackboard to Moodle resources] including a Blackboard 7.3 to Moodle 1.8 Cross-Reference
*[https://docs.moodle.org/en/Import_questions#Blackboard Import_questions: Blackboard format]
*[http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ bFree - Blackboard™ Course Content Extractor] - extract selected content from Blackboard Archive/Export files into a local filesystem, allowing them to be cleaned, manipulated, zipped, and uploaded for use in Moodle. This does not create course objects but does transfer the documents and descriptions into a Moodle course's Files for creating resources. This is useful for those faculty who will be reorganizing their courses or for complex courses which don't convert well.

===Using Moodle forum discussions:===
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=78521 Migrate a course from Blackboard to Moodle]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=92477 Moodle 1.9 Blackboard Import - contains some troubleshooting]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 If you are having problems with Blackboard to Moodle read this]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117876 Examview (Blackboard) Quiz Plugin]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 Blackboard archive file name conversion] A thread which contains information on hexified Blackboard archive file names (BB archiving converts filenames to hex when they contain spaces)

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Developer]]

Blackboard migration

2011-07-11T23:11:04Z

Danmarsden: /* CE 4.0/CE 4.1 */

==Blackboard systems==

The way [[Blackboard]] and [[WebCT]] named their products is confusing!

For the purpose of migration to Moodle, Blackboard can be categorised into 3 different systems, each with a different migration procedure.
* CE 4.0/CE 4.1 (rebranded WebCT)
* Standard Blackboard (5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.1)
* Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 (rebranded WebCT)

==CE 4.0/CE 4.1==
CE 4.0, 4.1(rebranded WebCT) can use the webctimport tool with the "IMS Content Migration Utility" here:
https://docs.moodle.org/en/WebCT_migration - This tool has not been updated to work with 2.0, you must use it in a 1.9 site, backup the courses and restore the 1.9 Moodle backups on a Moodle 2.1 site (1.9 backups are not supported in 2.0)

==Standard Blackboard==
* Moodle 1.9 (NOT SUPPORTED IN 2.0 YET) has a restore function built into the standard backup/restore process which will restore Blackboard Archive/Export files with mixed results
* An Alternative solution is to use the LSU converter here: http://moodleconverter.lsu.edu/ (code available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/pcali1/moodlecct/index.html) see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)
** Note: Archive/Export files from Windows-based Blackboard servers are not handled correctly by MoodleConverter (see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147348) but the archives can be reformatted with minimal effort (more details will soon be posted or linked here, but the essence of the process is to unzip the archive file, rename certain files with Blackboard-encoded file names, and then zip the archive file on a Linux-style [forward-slash] file system)
* A new LSU Converter is available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/rrusso/cct2.zip see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)

==Moodle Course Restore==

From Moodle 1.5 onwards, Moodle's "course restore" facility can import courses from Blackboard 5.5 and 6.0 -- you have to use the 'export' facility in BB to get the files in the correct format from BB. For question pools, there is a dedicated import facility in the Quiz Module.

There's a screen-by-screen walk-through by Matt Campbell - he says:

:: We recently migrated about 200 courses from Blackboard 6 to Moodle 1.5+, and I made a [http://instructor.metrotech.org/~mcampbell/Converting%20Blackboard%20to%20Moodle.ppt PowerPoint] for this routine. I've been asked to make a Captivate just on the import routine and will work on that.

For the above to work, you will need to have the XSLT and Sablotron extensions.

Some question types are not supported by Moodle directly -- see below for contrib question types that add that support.

For Moodle 1.4.x [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard content conversion tool] is available. It was designed to migrate Blackboard 6.1 to Moodle 1.4+ - it may be possible to make it work with other versions.

According to Michael Penney in the forum discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1565 Migrating 10000 students from Blackboard to Moodle?]

:''"It works pretty well with a couple of caveats:''

:''1) It doesn't import all Blackboard question types: at CSU H, we wrote an essay question type and a 'rendered match' question type and a BB pool importer, we'd like to work with SF and others to get our qtype importer into theirs.''

:''2) SF's tool is designed to make you think about your course when you import it and redesign it. That is a nice idea, however it can be pretty time consuming when you have hundreds of documents in a course (<rant>Blackboard's poor content development tools encourage what I call the 'datadump' course format, instead of delivering information in an effective elearning tool like Moodle's lesson, with BB folks tend to post hundreds of office documents and then massive quizzes about them</rant>).''"

===Example Migration of One Test Course===
'''by [[User:Jeffrey Silverman|Jeff Silverman]], The Johns Hopkins University'''
''(Note: I am a novice Moodler. This is a description of what I did to move a single exported BlackBoard course to my out-of-the-box Moodle test installation. I had a number of questions about the process and I hope this example helps answer them for someone else.)''

====When====
This test procedure was performed during the week of 20-Aug-2007

====Versions====
* Moodle 1.8
* BlackBoard 7.1 "basic" (unconfirmed)

====Procedure====
# Export course content from Bb. This step was done by someone else! I do not know how to do this, what options were chosen, etc. I do know that I got a .zip file that I think is a "Course Archive".
# Import course into Moodle. (Needs to be done by a user with the necessary privileges. I have only one user in my Moodle installation, the "Admin" user, and he (she?) is the "Site Administrator").
## Create new course
## Go to "Restore" under the course administrative tools
## Choose a file to upload; upload the Bb .zip file
## Choose "Restore" (in the Action column) -- in another page or two you will get to say to restore this as a "New Course"

====Questions====
Some of my questions were as follows:

# Do you have to create a new course?
## Aparent answer: YES. Personally, I found this very counter-intuitive, as "importing a course" or "restore from backup" or other similar administrative tasks seem to me to be on a level outside a specific course. For example, having the "Restore" feature only available in the admin tools for a particular course makes it seem like the restoration will only work for that course -- but that is not true. You can use any course's "Restore" link in the admin tools and choose "Create a New Course" mid-way through the retoration procedure. But creating a new course from backup that has nothing to do with the course in which one has clicked the "Restore" link is, like I said, counter-intuitive. And, to top it off, I could find no mention of this until I had already clicked on "Restore". Looks like I need to add some information to the "administrative tools" or "backup/restore" docs, hm? :)
# Is there a specific "Bb-to-Moodle" conversion tool?
## Answer: NO. Unlike the WebCT-to-Moodle conversion, [[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 which requires a specific add-on]], Bb conversion is now built in.
# What format does the Bb export have to be in?
##The Bb "export" should be an ''archive'' of the Bb course, rather than an export; otherwise you can't restore the course because it it missing a name (and possibly other fields).
# What versions of Bb and Moodle will this work for?
# There is a tool floating around called "[[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard Content Conversion Tool (CCT)]]" that sounds useful for converting Bb to Moodle. Do I need it?
## Answer: NO. Actually, I had a bunch of questions about that tool, too, but ultimately I did not need it.
### Does the CCT run on the server where Bb is running?
### Does it interact, somehow, directly with the Bb instance?
### Or does it run on the Moodle server and do the import from Bb into Moodle?

==Vista CE 6/CE 8==
Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 unfortunately encrypt their backup files and there isn't currently any open source method to convert the full courses yourself.
* Learning Modules can be exported as IMS packages by going to Learning Modules and choosing Export in Bb Vista. However, Moodle does not recognize these via it's standard Resource > Add an IMS Package feature. The Bb Vista manifest must first be converted. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152587 John Tutchins has written an IMS converter] for this purpose in PHP.

* Bb Vista IMS packages might be importable using the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 WebCT CE 4 Import].
* Files for each course can be extracted as a zip then placed inside the new course, however they require manual re-linking (Another option would be to move to a digital repository, such as Equella, which can move the files from CE8 to Equella, and add links to the files into the Moodle courses) See videos on moving files here: Part 1 (files): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XX5beOLKKA] Part 2: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIFPVgKcb4]
* Quiz questions can be exported as IMS packages by going to Assessments in Bb Vista. They can also be extracted with Respondus and you can create an IMS QTI file to import into Moodle.
**If you use Respondus version 4 or later (download 30 day free demo here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/respondus.shtml], you can retrieve the quizzes and publish to Moodle directly from Respondus if the Moodle server has the "Respondus Web Service Extension for Moodle" (download here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/moodleserver.shtml]. See a video on how to do this here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXG3BeyBQAI&feature=related] and here: [http://mygermanclass.blip.tv/file/3428598/]
* Newer versions have some useful Database views inside the Blackboard database that allow retrieving of some of the information. It's really easy to get course names/users/enrolments and grades directly out using the DB Views "RPT_PERSON", "RPT_MEMBER","RPT_LEARNING_CONTEXT" and "RPT_GRADEBOOK"
doing it manually also gives you the forced opportunity for your lecturers/staff to clean things up a bit and learn a bit more about the differences between Blackboard and Moodle
*Assignments can be set up manually, copied/pasted. Migrating assignments video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwW778nF4iE&feature=related]
*Migrating a discussion topic video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUlNASbGhww&feature=related]

==See also==
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2531 Final 2009 Report of the University of North Carolina LMS Evaluation Committee] describing the results of an evaluative comparison of Moodle with the University’s current Blackboard system (Vista)
*[http://oscmoodlereport.wordpress.com The Open Source Collaborative: Moodle Assessment Report] This report is the accumulation of two years of experimentation and evaluation of Moodle by the North Carolina Community Colleges System.
*[http://www.move2moo.com/Webct-Moodle-Converter.aspx Blackboard CE8/Vista8 to Moodle 2 content conversion tool (Commercial)] This website provides a free preview of a Blackboard course conversion, good to get some ideas on where/how to move content.
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2606 The Whole Kit and Caboodle on Moodle] presentation introducing Moodle and sharing experiences of migrating from Blackboard
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2620 An LMS By Any Other Name...] presentation helping transition Blackboard users to Moodle terms
*[http://jsweetin.wordpress.com/resources/ Blackboard to Moodle resources] including a Blackboard 7.3 to Moodle 1.8 Cross-Reference
*[https://docs.moodle.org/en/Import_questions#Blackboard Import_questions: Blackboard format]
*[http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ bFree - Blackboard™ Course Content Extractor] - extract selected content from Blackboard Archive/Export files into a local filesystem, allowing them to be cleaned, manipulated, zipped, and uploaded for use in Moodle. This does not create course objects but does transfer the documents and descriptions into a Moodle course's Files for creating resources. This is useful for those faculty who will be reorganizing their courses or for complex courses which don't convert well.

===Using Moodle forum discussions:===
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=78521 Migrate a course from Blackboard to Moodle]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=92477 Moodle 1.9 Blackboard Import - contains some troubleshooting]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 If you are having problems with Blackboard to Moodle read this]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117876 Examview (Blackboard) Quiz Plugin]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 Blackboard archive file name conversion] A thread which contains information on hexified Blackboard archive file names (BB archiving converts filenames to hex when they contain spaces)

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Developer]]

Blackboard migration

2011-07-11T23:09:45Z

Danmarsden: /* Standard Blackboard */ add notes about 1.9/2.0

==Blackboard systems==

The way [[Blackboard]] and [[WebCT]] named their products is confusing!

For the purpose of migration to Moodle, Blackboard can be categorised into 3 different systems, each with a different migration procedure.
* CE 4.0/CE 4.1 (rebranded WebCT)
* Standard Blackboard (5.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9.1)
* Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 (rebranded WebCT)

==CE 4.0/CE 4.1==
CE 4.0, 4.1(rebranded WebCT) can use the webctimport tool with the "IMS Content Migration Utility" here:
https://docs.moodle.org/en/WebCT_migration

==Standard Blackboard==
* Moodle 1.9 (NOT SUPPORTED IN 2.0 YET) has a restore function built into the standard backup/restore process which will restore Blackboard Archive/Export files with mixed results
* An Alternative solution is to use the LSU converter here: http://moodleconverter.lsu.edu/ (code available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/pcali1/moodlecct/index.html) see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)
** Note: Archive/Export files from Windows-based Blackboard servers are not handled correctly by MoodleConverter (see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147348) but the archives can be reformatted with minimal effort (more details will soon be posted or linked here, but the essence of the process is to unzip the archive file, rename certain files with Blackboard-encoded file names, and then zip the archive file on a Linux-style [forward-slash] file system)
* A new LSU Converter is available here: https://xythos.lsu.edu/users/rrusso/cct2.zip see discussion here: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=147948#p647029 - This produces 1.9 Moodle backups which can be restored in 2.1(2.0 does not support restoring 1.9 backups)

==Moodle Course Restore==

From Moodle 1.5 onwards, Moodle's "course restore" facility can import courses from Blackboard 5.5 and 6.0 -- you have to use the 'export' facility in BB to get the files in the correct format from BB. For question pools, there is a dedicated import facility in the Quiz Module.

There's a screen-by-screen walk-through by Matt Campbell - he says:

:: We recently migrated about 200 courses from Blackboard 6 to Moodle 1.5+, and I made a [http://instructor.metrotech.org/~mcampbell/Converting%20Blackboard%20to%20Moodle.ppt PowerPoint] for this routine. I've been asked to make a Captivate just on the import routine and will work on that.

For the above to work, you will need to have the XSLT and Sablotron extensions.

Some question types are not supported by Moodle directly -- see below for contrib question types that add that support.

For Moodle 1.4.x [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard content conversion tool] is available. It was designed to migrate Blackboard 6.1 to Moodle 1.4+ - it may be possible to make it work with other versions.

According to Michael Penney in the forum discussion [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1565 Migrating 10000 students from Blackboard to Moodle?]

:''"It works pretty well with a couple of caveats:''

:''1) It doesn't import all Blackboard question types: at CSU H, we wrote an essay question type and a 'rendered match' question type and a BB pool importer, we'd like to work with SF and others to get our qtype importer into theirs.''

:''2) SF's tool is designed to make you think about your course when you import it and redesign it. That is a nice idea, however it can be pretty time consuming when you have hundreds of documents in a course (<rant>Blackboard's poor content development tools encourage what I call the 'datadump' course format, instead of delivering information in an effective elearning tool like Moodle's lesson, with BB folks tend to post hundreds of office documents and then massive quizzes about them</rant>).''"

===Example Migration of One Test Course===
'''by [[User:Jeffrey Silverman|Jeff Silverman]], The Johns Hopkins University'''
''(Note: I am a novice Moodler. This is a description of what I did to move a single exported BlackBoard course to my out-of-the-box Moodle test installation. I had a number of questions about the process and I hope this example helps answer them for someone else.)''

====When====
This test procedure was performed during the week of 20-Aug-2007

====Versions====
* Moodle 1.8
* BlackBoard 7.1 "basic" (unconfirmed)

====Procedure====
# Export course content from Bb. This step was done by someone else! I do not know how to do this, what options were chosen, etc. I do know that I got a .zip file that I think is a "Course Archive".
# Import course into Moodle. (Needs to be done by a user with the necessary privileges. I have only one user in my Moodle installation, the "Admin" user, and he (she?) is the "Site Administrator").
## Create new course
## Go to "Restore" under the course administrative tools
## Choose a file to upload; upload the Bb .zip file
## Choose "Restore" (in the Action column) -- in another page or two you will get to say to restore this as a "New Course"

====Questions====
Some of my questions were as follows:

# Do you have to create a new course?
## Aparent answer: YES. Personally, I found this very counter-intuitive, as "importing a course" or "restore from backup" or other similar administrative tasks seem to me to be on a level outside a specific course. For example, having the "Restore" feature only available in the admin tools for a particular course makes it seem like the restoration will only work for that course -- but that is not true. You can use any course's "Restore" link in the admin tools and choose "Create a New Course" mid-way through the retoration procedure. But creating a new course from backup that has nothing to do with the course in which one has clicked the "Restore" link is, like I said, counter-intuitive. And, to top it off, I could find no mention of this until I had already clicked on "Restore". Looks like I need to add some information to the "administrative tools" or "backup/restore" docs, hm? :)
# Is there a specific "Bb-to-Moodle" conversion tool?
## Answer: NO. Unlike the WebCT-to-Moodle conversion, [[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 which requires a specific add-on]], Bb conversion is now built in.
# What format does the Bb export have to be in?
##The Bb "export" should be an ''archive'' of the Bb course, rather than an export; otherwise you can't restore the course because it it missing a name (and possibly other fields).
# What versions of Bb and Moodle will this work for?
# There is a tool floating around called "[[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=32049 Blackboard Content Conversion Tool (CCT)]]" that sounds useful for converting Bb to Moodle. Do I need it?
## Answer: NO. Actually, I had a bunch of questions about that tool, too, but ultimately I did not need it.
### Does the CCT run on the server where Bb is running?
### Does it interact, somehow, directly with the Bb instance?
### Or does it run on the Moodle server and do the import from Bb into Moodle?

==Vista CE 6/CE 8==
Vista3/Vista4/Vista8 and CE 6/CE 8 unfortunately encrypt their backup files and there isn't currently any open source method to convert the full courses yourself.
* Learning Modules can be exported as IMS packages by going to Learning Modules and choosing Export in Bb Vista. However, Moodle does not recognize these via it's standard Resource > Add an IMS Package feature. The Bb Vista manifest must first be converted. [http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=152587 John Tutchins has written an IMS converter] for this purpose in PHP.

* Bb Vista IMS packages might be importable using the [http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=94 WebCT CE 4 Import].
* Files for each course can be extracted as a zip then placed inside the new course, however they require manual re-linking (Another option would be to move to a digital repository, such as Equella, which can move the files from CE8 to Equella, and add links to the files into the Moodle courses) See videos on moving files here: Part 1 (files): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XX5beOLKKA] Part 2: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWIFPVgKcb4]
* Quiz questions can be exported as IMS packages by going to Assessments in Bb Vista. They can also be extracted with Respondus and you can create an IMS QTI file to import into Moodle.
**If you use Respondus version 4 or later (download 30 day free demo here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/respondus.shtml], you can retrieve the quizzes and publish to Moodle directly from Respondus if the Moodle server has the "Respondus Web Service Extension for Moodle" (download here: [http://www.respondus.com/download/moodleserver.shtml]. See a video on how to do this here: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXG3BeyBQAI&feature=related] and here: [http://mygermanclass.blip.tv/file/3428598/]
* Newer versions have some useful Database views inside the Blackboard database that allow retrieving of some of the information. It's really easy to get course names/users/enrolments and grades directly out using the DB Views "RPT_PERSON", "RPT_MEMBER","RPT_LEARNING_CONTEXT" and "RPT_GRADEBOOK"
doing it manually also gives you the forced opportunity for your lecturers/staff to clean things up a bit and learn a bit more about the differences between Blackboard and Moodle
*Assignments can be set up manually, copied/pasted. Migrating assignments video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwW778nF4iE&feature=related]
*Migrating a discussion topic video: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUlNASbGhww&feature=related]

==See also==
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2531 Final 2009 Report of the University of North Carolina LMS Evaluation Committee] describing the results of an evaluative comparison of Moodle with the University’s current Blackboard system (Vista)
*[http://oscmoodlereport.wordpress.com The Open Source Collaborative: Moodle Assessment Report] This report is the accumulation of two years of experimentation and evaluation of Moodle by the North Carolina Community Colleges System.
*[http://www.move2moo.com/Webct-Moodle-Converter.aspx Blackboard CE8/Vista8 to Moodle 2 content conversion tool (Commercial)] This website provides a free preview of a Blackboard course conversion, good to get some ideas on where/how to move content.
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2606 The Whole Kit and Caboodle on Moodle] presentation introducing Moodle and sharing experiences of migrating from Blackboard
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=19&rid=2620 An LMS By Any Other Name...] presentation helping transition Blackboard users to Moodle terms
*[http://jsweetin.wordpress.com/resources/ Blackboard to Moodle resources] including a Blackboard 7.3 to Moodle 1.8 Cross-Reference
*[https://docs.moodle.org/en/Import_questions#Blackboard Import_questions: Blackboard format]
*[http://its2.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/ bFree - Blackboard™ Course Content Extractor] - extract selected content from Blackboard Archive/Export files into a local filesystem, allowing them to be cleaned, manipulated, zipped, and uploaded for use in Moodle. This does not create course objects but does transfer the documents and descriptions into a Moodle course's Files for creating resources. This is useful for those faculty who will be reorganizing their courses or for complex courses which don't convert well.

===Using Moodle forum discussions:===
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=78521 Migrate a course from Blackboard to Moodle]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=92477 Moodle 1.9 Blackboard Import - contains some troubleshooting]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 If you are having problems with Blackboard to Moodle read this]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=117876 Examview (Blackboard) Quiz Plugin]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=48666 Blackboard archive file name conversion] A thread which contains information on hexified Blackboard archive file names (BB archiving converts filenames to hex when they contain spaces)

[[Category:Administrator]]
[[Category:Developer]]

Plagiarism Prevention URKUND

2011-07-06T03:25:31Z

Danmarsden:

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}

==URKUND==
URKUND is a commercial Plagiarism Prevention tool [http://www.urkund.com www.urkund.com] It was developed in Sweden and is now used widely in Europe and other countries.

*[[Plagiarism Prevention URKUND Settings|URKUND Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using URKUND|Using URKUND]]

==See Also==
*[http://www.urkund.com/int/en/support_manualer.asp URKUND documentation]
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2420&filter=1 Moodle 1.9 Plugin]

Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin

2011-07-06T03:18:52Z

Danmarsden: /* Moodle Direct Plugin */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}

==Turnitin==
Turnitin is a commercial plagiarism detection system which requires a paid subscription to use - there are currently 2 different options available to use Turnitin in Moodle 2.0.

===Plagiarism Plugin===
A [[Plagiarism Prevention]] plugin written by [http://moodle.org/user/view.php?id=21591&course=5 Dan Marsden] from [http://www.catalyst.net.nz Catalyst IT] which allows existing Modules to "call" the plagiarism service. It has been added to the upload and uploadsingle assignment types, but eventually support will be added to other Moodle modules. This is a generic plugin system and other Plagiarism products are also available preventing an institution from being "locked in" to a Plagiarism Tool vendor.
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Turnitin Settings|Turnitin Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using Turnitin|Using Turnitin]]

===Moodle Direct Plugin===
The [[Turnitin's Moodle Direct Integration|Moodle Direct Integration]] was developed by [http://www.nlearning.co.uk nlearning Ltd] (now iParadigms Europe Ltd) - This is a standalone Moodle module that is similar to the advanced assignment type, however it adds a range of Turnitin specific functionality. The current version is available from [[http://www.moodle.org/modules Modules and Plugins]]. The key aim of the development is to represent all features of Turnitin within the Moodle workflow as and when they become exposed through the Turnitin API.

The Direct Plugin works on the principle of mapping a Turnitin Assignment in Moodle with an assignment in Turnitin, once mapped all submissions made on either side are synchronised reflecting any changes on both platforms. It is therefore possible to access the assignments created using the plugin by logging in to either system. There is the option to disable emails sent out to students which means login details and welcome emails are not sent which encourages students to submit only through Moodle. GradeMark grades are represented in the Moodle gradebook and originality scores are displayed in the Moodle Turnitin Assignment Inbox.

For more detail see: http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=149575

==See Also==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Turnitin Turnitin Plugins for older Moodle versions]
* [https://docs.moodle.org/dev/en/Turnitin_errors Turnitin Error states]

Plagiarism Prevention URKUND

2011-07-06T03:13:12Z

Danmarsden: /* URKUND */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}

==URKUND==
URKUND is a commercial Plagiarism Prevention tool [http://www.urkund.com www.urkund.com] It was developed in Sweden and is now used widely in Europe and other countries.

*[[Plagiarism Prevention URKUND Settings|URKUND Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using URKUND|Using URKUND]]

==See Also==
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2420&filter=1 Moodle 1.9 Plugin]

Plagiarism Prevention URKUND

2011-07-06T03:13:01Z

Danmarsden:

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}

==URKUND==
URKUND is a commercial Plagiarism Prevention tool [http://www.urkund.com www.urkund.com] It was developed in Sweden and is now used widely in Europe and other countries.

*[[Plagiarism Prevention URKUND Settings|URKUND Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using URKUND|Using URKUND]]

==See Also
*[http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=2420&filter=1 Moodle 1.9 Plugin]

Plagiarism Prevention Crot Settings

2011-07-06T03:07:17Z

Danmarsden: /* Installation using a Zip file */

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Crot''

==MS Application ID key==
You need to obtain the MS Application ID key from Microsoft to use the global search features.
Open one of the following links to get the ID :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251020.aspx
or
http://www.bing.com/developers

and follow the instructions to get the App ID.

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4655&filter=1

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/crot and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts

==Global Configuration of Crot==
# Ensure Admin > Server > Environment indicates you have curl and SOAP installed
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked.[[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]
# Go to Admin > Modules > Activities > Crot
# set the following:
## Tick the box "Use Crot"
## Select Test global search to run a quick test of global search. If it works you will see results of test search query on the next step.
## We would really appreciate if you check Registration option and complete simple registration form. We are doing this continious survey to apply for funding to support project development.
## Click Save Changes button
===Other Settings===
# Student disclosure: This text will appear on the assignment submission page when student work will be uploaded to the system.
# Grammar size is size of text used to calculate one hash in document fingerprint. Recommended value is 30.
# Window size represents how granular tech search will be. Recommended value is 60.
# Colours are used for highlighting of similar text fragments in the side by side comparison of documents. But at the moment colouring function works only with the one colour (#FF0000).
# Max Distance between hashes in the text cluster: This parameter is used for allocation of hashes into text clusters in the colouring of similar text fragments. Recommended value is 100.
# Minimum cluster size is a minimum number of hashes in the text cluster used for colouring of similar text fragments. Recommended value is 2.
# Default Threshold: Assignments with similarity score less than threshold value are not displayed on Anti-Plagiarism - Assignments page.
# Global search threshold reserved for future development. Recommended value is 90.
# Global Search Query Size is the number of words in the query for global search. Recommended value is 7.
# Percentage of search queries for Web search is randomly selected percentage of queries from all search queries for Web search. Recommended value is 40.
# Number of web documents to be downloaded: How many web documents will be downloaded to your server from the list of possible sources on the web. Recommended value is 10.
# Culture info for global search: Culture information is used in queries for Bing search engine.
# Maximum file size: Files with the size more than this value are not downloaded from the internet. Recommended value is 1000000.

Plagiarism Prevention Crot Settings

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Danmarsden:

{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Crot''

==MS Application ID key==
You need to obtain the MS Application ID key from Microsoft to use the global search features.
Open one of the following links to get the ID :

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd251020.aspx
or
http://www.bing.com/developers

and follow the instructions to get the App ID.

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip:

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/crot and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
==Global Configuration of Crot==
# Ensure Admin > Server > Environment indicates you have curl and SOAP installed
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked.[[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]
# Go to Admin > Modules > Activities > Crot
# set the following:
## Tick the box "Use Crot"
## Select Test global search to run a quick test of global search. If it works you will see results of test search query on the next step.
## We would really appreciate if you check Registration option and complete simple registration form. We are doing this continious survey to apply for funding to support project development.
## Click Save Changes button
===Other Settings===
# Student disclosure: This text will appear on the assignment submission page when student work will be uploaded to the system.
# Grammar size is size of text used to calculate one hash in document fingerprint. Recommended value is 30.
# Window size represents how granular tech search will be. Recommended value is 60.
# Colours are used for highlighting of similar text fragments in the side by side comparison of documents. But at the moment colouring function works only with the one colour (#FF0000).
# Max Distance between hashes in the text cluster: This parameter is used for allocation of hashes into text clusters in the colouring of similar text fragments. Recommended value is 100.
# Minimum cluster size is a minimum number of hashes in the text cluster used for colouring of similar text fragments. Recommended value is 2.
# Default Threshold: Assignments with similarity score less than threshold value are not displayed on Anti-Plagiarism - Assignments page.
# Global search threshold reserved for future development. Recommended value is 90.
# Global Search Query Size is the number of words in the query for global search. Recommended value is 7.
# Percentage of search queries for Web search is randomly selected percentage of queries from all search queries for Web search. Recommended value is 40.
# Number of web documents to be downloaded: How many web documents will be downloaded to your server from the list of possible sources on the web. Recommended value is 10.
# Culture info for global search: Culture information is used in queries for Bing search engine.
# Maximum file size: Files with the size more than this value are not downloaded from the internet. Recommended value is 1000000.

Plagiarism Prevention Crot Settings

2011-07-06T03:01:03Z

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{{Copyright and plagiarism}}
Location: ''Administration > Plugins > Plagiarism Prevention > Crot''

==Installation of the plugin ==
=== Installation using a Zip file ===
Download the zip:

Then Extract these files into a new folder under /plagiarism/crot and visit the Admin > Notifications page in Moodle to trigger the upgrade scripts
==Global Configuration of Crot==
# Ensure Admin > Server > Environment indicates you have curl installed
# Go to Admin > Advanced Features find the setting “Enable plagiarism plugins” - make sure the box is ticked.[[File:Enableplagiarism.png]]
# Go to Admin > Modules > Activities > Crot
# set the following:
## Tick the box "Use Crot"
## Set the Student Disclosure statement. - this is displayed to all students on the upload screen to notify them that the Crot system is in use.
# in the page Admin > Modules > Activities > Crot click on the tab "Crot Defaults"
## Configure the default settings to be used inside a Moodle module when creating/editing a new module.

Plagiarism Prevention Crot 2.0

2011-07-06T02:58:28Z

Danmarsden:

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==Crot==
Crot is a fully open source Plagiarism Prevention tool - it is available here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4655&filter=1

*[[Plagiarism Prevention Crot Settings|Crot Installation and Settings]]
*[[Plagiarism Prevention Using Crot|Using Crot]]

==See Also==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Crot_1 Crot Plugin for older Moodle versions]

Plagiarism Prevention Crot 2.0

2011-07-06T02:53:56Z

Danmarsden:

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The Crot plugin is available here: http://moodle.org/mod/data/view.php?d=13&rid=4655&filter=1
==See Also==
* [https://docs.moodle.org/19/en/Crot_1 Crot Plugin for older Moodle versions]