Danny
Your first comment seems to imply that a VLE sits in a browser window,
when in reality it sits on a server which serves your browser window.
When a new browser window is launched, it is not "outside" the VLE, a
quick check of the URL (if you can't see the address bar, press [CTRL]
N, and you should be able to), you will see that the materials are still
"on" the VLE. You are still accessing the same server regardless of the
number of browser windows. Therefore any results from the SCORM Object
can still "pipe" results back to the server (which is the important bit,
not the browser window from which the object launched).
With regard to your second comment on getting things working, we have
staff with very low technical ability (they can't create interactive
Word documents for example), using a simple Word tool (TekniCAL's
e-Learning Objects Tool) to create IMS Learning Objects which can be
easily uploaded to our VLE, the Virtual Campus.
We have published some simple How Do I Guides for those that are
curious.
How do I convert a Word Document I already have into a Learning Object
using the e-Learning Objects Tool?
http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/author011.html
How do I publish chapters into a subject area?
http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/help24.html
How do I add a chapter from a subject into a package?
http://www.westerncc.ac.uk/help25.html
We have had some "technical" issues with using other tools such as
Microsoft LRN and Dreamweaver SCORM extensions, when the IMS Manifest
file is created
With the TekniCAL tool a unique manifest identifier is created
<manifest identifier="efc2b423-1a55-4851-9605-d548d174c2b3"
Whereas with the MS tool we usually get
<manifest identifier="MANIFEST01"
It is using a non Globally Unique Identifiers (GUIDs) in the IMS
manifest file it creates. This identification format is a recommendation
in the IMS specifications and hopefully a requirement before long.
However the Virtual Campus requires a unique identifier.
We then have to manually create a GUID using a GUID creation programme -
BTW if any one knows of a free windows GUID creation programme, I would
like to know, as our current one is a DOS programme.
Regards
James Clay
Director Western Colleges Consortium
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
www.westerncc.ac.uk
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From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Daniel McAtominey
Sent: 07 May 2003 11:57
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Subject: Re: Creating IMS compliant material
How then does NLN round one material, which is IMS and SCORM compliant,
pipe results back to the VLE when it launches into a new window outside
of the VLE? As does the material from Wisconsin Online another IMS and
Scorm compliant content repository.
It may be possible to get some of these things to work but not without
some manipulation which requires technical knowledge, the idea that they
will work "out of the box" in ANY VLE or other IMS compliant package is
fanciful and misleading at this time.
Danny
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