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Help me with SCORM please



  • 2005-11-15 22:09:31

    Help me with SCORM please

    Hello! I'm still finding my feet with ATutor, but I'm having problems with SCORM. Right now I'm testing ATutor on a local environment, but in some months I'll have to go live with it for a client, so I'd really appreciate any help.

    I know that ATutor has a SCORM RTE since version 1.5, and I'm using 1.5.1, but I still cannot see SCORM content as I should. I downloaded the 'Sample SCOs' available from ATutor's download page, then I went to:

    manage->content->Import/Export Content

    and tried importing them. I received an error telling me:

    [quote] The following errors occurred:

    * The file exceeded the maximum allowable size limit of 2M.
    [/quote]

    but when logged in as admin I'd already raised the course maximum file size to 50 MB: why do I get this error? What do I need to do to import files bigger than 2M?

    Then I tried importing the only sample under 2M, and this time I thought it worked, since it imported it just fine and added it at exactly the place I wanted in the navigation. But when I click on it, I can only see badly formatted lines, and no 'Start' button, while if I unzip the file and try it on my local machineI see a nicely formatted page and a start button that allows me to access course pages with tests.

    Since importing the sample SCO under 'content' didn't work, I tried importing it as package, from: manage->packages, but this time when I click the sample SCO's name I either get a 'Sorry, LiveConnect doesn't work' JavaScript error (in Firefox) or nothing happens at all (Safari).

    This makes me suspect something is wrong with the SCORM RTE, but what did I miss? As admin, under system preferences I enabled the voice that says:

    Enable the SCORM 1.2 RTE

    Did I miss something? What do I need to do to get the RTE working, do I need to download an extra not included in the 1.5.1 default installation? Also, once the RTE is working, will I be able to view SCORM content directly in the content, or will I have to go to packages to see it?

    Also, I'm a bit unclear on how ATutor and the SCORM course interact. Is it possible to track session time and score for each user?

    More info on my installation:
    operating system - MacOS X
    version of ATutor - 1.5.1
    versions of php - 4.3.10
    version of mysql - 4.1.10
    webserver & version - run on localhost
    web browser being used - Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2

    If anybody could help me, I'd really appreciate it.

    Thanks!

    Antonio


  • 2005-11-17 10:32:49

    scorm requirements

    please read the handbook for SCORM info

    http://help.atutor.ca/instructor/ (under content->SCORM)

    ....Note: The ATutor SCORM Run-Time Environment (RTE) that plays SCOs requires users to have Java 1.5 (i.e. JRE 1.5) installed on their computer.


    http://help.atutor.ca/general/ (under Course Features->Packages)

    If instructors have included SCORM compliant Sharable Content Objects (SCOs), they will be avilable for viewing from the Packages section. Note that the RTE requires the Java JRE 1.5 to function properly, as well as LiveConnect, which is enabled by default in the JRE 1.5.


  • 2005-11-17 23:56:38

    Thanks and another question

    Thank you very much for replying, Heidi! I had actually read that, and I do have Java 1.5 installed, but when you pointed out to me that the JRE needs to function properly, I realized it must not, and found out that on MacOS X you need to install a plugin to have it working inside a browser. Thank you!

    I can now access the packages fine from the packages section; but I have another question: when I login as user and access the packages (which I set to credit and lesson mode), what I do isn\'t recorded in the tracker. Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong again? If it\'s normal, is there a way to have the data appear in Atutor? I apologize if it\'s a dumb question, but I\'m really at a loss here.

    Thanks in advance!