Now that we’ve manged to get Moodle 1.9 Stable to pass all the SCORM 1.2 tests, there’s been a lot of talk between Moodle Partners and other Moodle users about SCORM 2004. I’ve posted about this in a few places in the moodle.org forums 1 2 and I’ve sent various e-mails to a range of interested users! – here’s my attempt at summarising it all in one post!
To get to where we are today took 3 months of solid funded work (thanks to Moodle HQ) from 1 full time Senior Developer(Piers), with 1 part-time Senior Developer supporting(me). This included closing approximately 160 issues in the Moodle Tracker, and modifications to support the ADL test suite.
The SCORM 1.2 test suite comprises of 2 test packages. SCORM 2004 contains 103 test packages, of which Moodle currently passes 2 (at least it did last time Piers ran the tests) – It’s really hard to define how much time it would take for us to complete SCORM 2004 so it passes all the different tests!
Sequencing and Navigation is a big chunk of SCORM 2004 that isn’t implemented – we expect that once this work is completed a bunch of the test packages will pass. I’ve seen estimates that put completion of SCORM 2004 work at 6-8 months or even more! – there are also a range of SCORM 2004 bugs that are related – for more details see MDL-7068
We’re currently attempting to source an initial 3 months worth of funding to continue work on SCORM 2004 – we believe that 3 months would be a worthwhile effort, at the end of which we would have an accurate picture on what it would take to complete! – bounce me an e-mail if you might be able to help fund this! – dan@danmarsden.com
Dan, thanks for your update on SCORM 2004 in Moodle.
A big THANK YOU to you and Piers for all your work and I really hope you obtain funding to continue.
Dan,
The last item I read about SCORM 2004 compliance was dated last May. Has there been much progress on this component in Moodle?
Regards,
David
Hi David,
Unfortunately no one has come forward willing to properly fund the work on SCORM 2004 – in the meantime Rustici’s commercial SCORM Cloud is a viable alternative for people that require a SCORM 2004 compliant player in Moodle
David,
This is a good update as we currently have 3-4 Moodle implementations going where I work, and the powers that be periodically ask about SCORM 2004 – its benefits, and if Moodle will support it. This atleast gives me the understanding that it would probably be atleast 2011 or beyond.
Personally I don’t see too many benefits other than the Sequencing and Navigation, and possibly increased Objectives support. There is a reason SCORM 1.2 still dominates the market – it’s easy and covers 99% of the markets needs.
Thanks!
Hi Dan,
Do you know if there are any plans for new SCORM reports in Moodle?
In particular I’m interested in summary reports which include SCORM interactions.
Thanks,
Justin
Hi Justin,
2.0 reporting has improved a lot but hasn’t really improved the way interactions are reported – I’d be keen to see these improved further and it would be useful for a lot of people (as long as they’ve named their interactions in a useful way in their SCORM authoring tool)
I’m pretty sure the Rustici SCORM player has some nice interaction reports – you could check that out to see if it suited your needs?