SCORM 2004 Producer

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SCORM 2004 Producer

• An extension for
• Adobe Dreamweaver
• By Erick Emde
• download at http//www.emdeconsulting.com/

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Who am I?

• Instructional Technologist, Northrop Grumman IT
  contractor to CDC
• LMS Selection Implementation
• LMS Administration
• Legacy Content Conversion
• EarthLink, Inc.
• LMS Selection Implementation
• LMS Administration
• Content Creation
• A bunch of start-ups that didnt

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• Development
• Needed an inexpensive, relatively simple tool for
  e-learning creation
• Most of the instructional designers had
  Dreamweaver
• Looked at extensions
• Found L5 SCORM Producer extension. Very nice, but
  not quite what we needed.
• Adapted the L5 extension
• Converted to SCORM 2004
• Added more metadata fields
• Separated content from presentation more
  thoroughly

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• What does it do?
• Lets you create SCORM 2004 conformant content.
• Adds code to track
• Completion
• Bookmarks
• Time in Course
• Creates page-turners (out of the box)

• What Doesnt it do?
• SCORM 2004 sequencing
• Track anything else
• Create
• Complex course structures
• Complex interactions

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Lets create a course
• Using the SCORM 2004 Producer
• Introduction
• Setting up your course
• Plan your content first (in Word, PPT, etc.)
• Set up your folder structure
• Creating your course
• Create your course structure (should reflect
  folder structure)
• Add Containers (Modules)
• Add SCOs (Lessons)
• Add pages to SCOs
• Edit pages
• Publishing Your Course
• Zip up everything
• Publish in your LMS

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Setting up your course
• Create your content first - at least the basic
  structure (in Word, PPT, etc.)
• Set up your folder structure

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• Create your course

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• Create your course structure

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Using the SCORM 2004 Producer
• Introduction
• Setting up your course
• Plan your content first (in Word, PPT, etc.)
• Set up your folder structure
• Creating your course
• Create your course structure (should reflect
  folder structure)
• Add Containers (Modules)
• Add SCOs (Lessons)
• Add pages to SCOs
• Edit pages
• Publishing Your Course
• Zip up everything
• Test the packaged course
• Publish in your LMS

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• Add Your SCOs

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Create your course

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Using the SCORM 2004 Producer
• Introduction
• Setting up your course
• Plan your content first (in Word, PPT, etc.)
• Set up your folder structure
• Creating your course
• Create your course structure (should reflect
  folder structure)
• Add Containers (Modules)
• Add SCOs (Lessons)
• Add pages to SCOs
• Edit pages
• Publishing Your Course
• Zip up everything
• Test the packaged course
• Publish in your LMS

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• Using the SCORM 2004 Producer
• Introduction
• Setting up your course
• Plan your content first (in Word, PPT, etc.)
• Set up your folder structure
• Creating your course
• Create your course structure (should reflect
  folder structure)
• Add Containers (Modules)
• Add SCOs (Lessons)
• Add pages to SCOs
• Edit pages
• Publishing Your Course
• Zip up everything
• Test the packaged course
• Publish in your LMS

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SCORM 2004 Producer for DW

• SCORM Tools
• ADL http//www.adlnet.org
• Rusticci Software Test Track
• http//www.scorm.com
• Reload Editor
• http//www.reload.ac.uk

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• Editing the Taxonomy Tree.
• Start with sp2004_xmltreecode.htm in the
  courseconfig folder in the resources folder
• Actually an XML file saved with an .htm extension
• Edit the XML
• Add as many child or sibling nodes as you like
• Not element values, only attributes for each node
• _at_name - the ID the extension will use
• _at_value - the friendly name for the node
• _at_state optional, determines whether or not a
  node with children is expanded by default.

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• Editing the Player Interface.
• Start with files in the courseconfig folder in
  the resources folder
• controller_template_2004.txt
• body_template_2004.txt
• page_template.txt
• Other files in the resources folder (based on the
  references in the previous files).
• controller_template_2004.txt points to
  javascripts
• body_template_2004.txt page_template.txt refers
  to a CSS file

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• Questions?

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• Thanks

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• Resources
• ADL http//www.adlnet.org
• Reload Editor
• http//www.reload.ac.uk
• Rusticci Software Test Track
• http//www.scorm.com
• SCORM 2004 Producer for DW
• http//www.emdeconsulting.com