SCORM Compliant Authoring Tool By : Sameer Allan Alawnah Hytham Fahed Swalhi

eLearning learning conducted via electronic media, especially via the Internet. eLearning systems can be In-House systems ( local standards ) or compatible with some global standards like SCORM.

SCORM - Shareable Content Object Reference Model Is a standard for developing, packaging and delivering high-quality training materials for online training courses. SCORM was developed based on the concept of "using a common e-learning standard to modernize education and training courses".

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Why SCORM Is being implemented more and more by Fortune 500 companies. Government grants increasingly including it as a requirement. Allows for efficient development of high use online learning materials in Higher Education.

Why SCORM cont. SCORM can offer your corporation the following benefits/values: Reusability: Lowers costs because learning contents can be used many times. Accessibility: Increased access to learning information Interoperability: Systems works efficiently together. Durability: Learning contents will not easily become obsolete Manageability: Tracking of system usage and learning experience

SCORM - Advantages Frees you from dependence on a particular LMS. Encourages reuse. Creates an object economy for learning content (eventually). Encourages structured instructional design.

SCORM Compliant eLearning System LMS ( Learning Management System) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training/education. Not in our Project Interest Area. Authoring Tool is a software package that the developers use to create and package content delivered to the end user by the LMS. This is Our Project

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Learning Activity A learning activity is defined as a meaningful unit of instruction. A learning activity can be a module, lesson, etc. Learning activities can also consist of sub-activities such as a pre-test or post-test.

Activity Tree Its a tree of the activities ( lesson slides quiz’s exams etc.) these activities are arranged in hierarchal manner like tree Therefore it is called the activity tree .

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What is the Authoring tool - It is a program used to generate a SCORM packages , it will facilitate creating courses based on SCORM standard. - i.e. It will generate all needed files and code. - The author does not need to deal with small details of the standard .

Examples of Authoring Tools - eXeLearing Authoring Tool - Reload Editor

eXeLearning - Advantages It is a free and user friendly xHTML e-learning editor The main advantage of this tool is the ease of use and great support of webpage editing ( the main part of any e-learning activity ). Also support simple SCORM compliant quiz's .

eXeLearning - Disadvantages Supports SCORM 1.2 standard , and does not support SCORM 2004 3rd edition . Does not support sequencing , it only supports simple sequencing provided by arranging the activities in the activity tree .

Reload Editor – Advantages It fully Supports SCROM 2004 3rd edition Also supports editing of SCROM packages previously generated by other authoring tools.

Reload Editor – Disadvantages Does not Support HTML Editing and Exam editing that provided by eXe . Difficult to use and requires a professional person to deal with. This software is more of a SCORM Editor than an Authoring Tool .

Our Authoring Tool We try to combine the advantages of eXeLearning authoring tool and Reload Editor . We can edit HTML pages easily with a user- friendly Editor and edit the complex sequencing and Rule based Sequencing using a rich embedded SCROM Editor .

What can you do in our authoring tool Create a SCORM 2004 compliant course and save it as project file , also you can export the final package Import packages generated from other authoring tools like eXe and modify these packages

Additional feature Adding PowerPoint file to item Adding word file to item Adding quizzes [exams] Adding objective to each item [optional] Logging file , for future analysis and fault detecting Error Reporting , assist the developer to improve the software .

HTML Editing Area Word/PPT Import Area Package Import/Export Area File Resources Area Activity Tree Manipulation Area HTML Editing Area Activity Tree Area Log Area

Editing Panel Sequencing Tree Area

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