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Adding activities

SCORM package

A Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) package is a collection of files that is packaged according to an agreed standard for learning objects.

A SCORM package could be used for presenting multimedia content and animations, or as an assessment tool.

This feature means that SCORM or AICC packages to be uploaded as a .ZIP file and added to your course. Content is usually displayed over several pages, with navigation between the pages. There are various options for displaying content in a pop-up window, with a table of contents, with navigation buttons etc. SCORM activities generally include questions, with grades being recorded in the gradebook.

You will need to ensure that you configure the settings in the SCORM package to enable sharing of completion data with Moodle, then configure the uploaded SCORM file settings to pick up on the completion data. 

There are advantages and disadvantages to using a SCORM package on OpenLearn Create. The Moodle platform that OpenLearn Create is built on doesn't generate SCORM content; it presents the content in SCORM packages to learners and saves the data about learner interactions with the SCORM package rather than in Moodle. This may have affect your course’s completion tracking.

If you have created a course in Articulate 360 and want to import it as a SCORM package into your OpenLearn Create course, you need to ensure that the export settings are configured as follows: 

  • Export type: LMS
  • LMS: SCORM 1.2
  • Tracking: Track using course completion
  • Reporting: Complete/Incomplete (not Passed/Incomplete)
  • Exit course link: Off or On (dependent on the project). 

To upload a SCORM package, switch editing on, go to your course’s homepage and click on the + Add an activity or resource button.

This will give you a screen full of options. Click on the SCORM package icon to open the New SCORM package page.

Enter the name for the SCORM package and (if you require one) a short description of it in the Name and Description fields. If you want this description to appear on your course homepage just below the link to the SCORM package, you can tick the Display description on main page tickbox.

Add the SCORM package in the Package file box.

Choose the following settings from the drop-down lists under Appearance (you should click on Show more… to reveal them all): 

  • Display package: Current window
  • Student skip content structure page: Always
  • Disable preview mode: Yes
  • Display course structure in player: Disabled
  • Display course structure on entry page: No
  • Display attempt status: No 

Choose the following settings from the drop-down lists under Compatibility settings:

  • Force completed: No
  • Auto-continue: No
  • Auto-commit: Yes
  • Mastery score overrides status: Yes 

Click on the Save and display button.