SCORMTool Collab - Meeting 02_15_2006

Attendees:
William Wan HKUST - Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

• Sacha Le Pretre CRIM Cent Research in Computer Science (Montreal)
• elearning tools

James Renfro, UC Davis
Jon Gorrono, UC Davis

Meeting began with a general discussion of Sakai implementations at each institution.

HKUST brief on SCORM player efforts
Some highlights

• been using SCORM since 1.0
• player spec. conformance aim is SCORM1.2
• abandoned JSF
• AJAX client
• Significant modifications to resource tool
  Course Content Tool

  1. customized version of "Resource Tool" for HKUST's needs
     • ordering of items
     • selective release
     • tracking for non-SCORM items
  2. support of upload of SCORM packages
     • make use of existing ContentHostingService of Sakai
     • input of SCORM meta data
  3. support of replacing SCORM packages
     • eplace an already uploaded SCORM package with another SCORM package
     • racking records and student SCORM data are preserved
  4. directly launch SCORM runtime when a SCORM package is clicked
  5. support of existing file organization tasks
     • moving/removing a SCORM package is supported
     • copying a SCORM package is not allowed
  6. uploading of scorm1.2 packages
  7. packages 'launched' from modified Resources tool

• separate reporting tool designed to report on any Resource's usage in addition to the reporting of a preset datamodel subset

SCORM implementation at HKUST