now that I’ve got your attention…. The guys at Rustici have written an plugin for Moodle to connect to their Commercial hosted SCORM player – which is SCORM Certified for 1.2 and 2004
Bascially, they “host” your SCORM object on their SCORM Cloud, and the Moodle plugin redirects the user to their site, and allows their site to pass back information like the grade and duration data. The Moodle module is free to download, and you pay Rustici for “hosting” your SCORM objects. You can create a free demo account to test their SCORM Engine but to use on a production site, you will need to pay them for the hosting.
The Moodle code and the SCORM Cloud are still in beta, (I’ve just had a quick look through the beta code and reported a couple of small issues) but in the near future, this could be an easy answer to those RFP’s that require a SCORM 2004 checkbox to be ticked.
something like this could be used in those RFP’s(and in the moodledocs):
Moodle 1.9.5 is SCORM 1.2 Compliant and Certified, it supports some SCORM 2004 content, but if SCORM 2004 certification is required then the commercial Rustici SCORM Cloud can be used to host SCORM objects that require full SCORM 2004 support
With the availability of the Rustici engine at an affordable price, the urgency for getting the SCORM module in Moodle SCORM 2004 compliant/certified has definately decreased.
Hi Dan,
Thank you for the great(BIG) word you do on the SCORM 1.2 certification of Moodle…
Unfortunately, that news don’t help me. It will not be possible for us to put SCORM content on an other web site. There is some security challenges for us with this option.
I still believe that Moodle need it’s own SCORM 2004 certification.
Hope the RFP will not be delete…
Thanks for the feedback! – I’m sure that SCORM 2004 in Moodle will eventually get finished, but in the meantime Rustici provide a viable alternative for those that require full SCORM 2004 support!
JFDragon…
Thanks for checking out the SCORM Cloud stuff (and Dan’s post). If you want to explore options for SCORM 2004 + Moodle in an installed environment, we can actually do that already as well via our SCORM Engine. (We built that version of the mod first.)
Feel free to get in touch with me if you like… (tim.martin@scorm.com)
Tim
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