SCORM and Blackboard 6

Question

Hello everyone,
While Captivate 3 appears to be robust in its SCORM
capabilities, I have tried and failed after long hours to implement
a Captivate 3 assessment simulation in a Blackboard CE 6 course. I
have been through the technotes, and tried many of the fixes, even
changing a lower case "l" to a capital "L" in the word
"schemaLocation" in an XML file as instructed by one technote. I
have run the gamut.
As a result, I can import a Captivate 3 SCORM package into
Blackboard CE6 (Campus Edition 6), so it will be recognized, but
Blackboard CE6 will not report the user's scores-- the main reason
for importing the package in the first place. The SCORM package
should instruct CE6 to create a grading column and report scores,
but it just does not happen.
I have also communicated with the Blackboard community on
this and some of their "gurus" have thrown their hands up in
frustration. I refer to this discussion thread at Blackboard:
http://discussions.blackboard.com/jive4/thread.jspa?threadID=32286&tstart=0,
where it appears Blackboard tried and gave up on integrating
Captivate 3's SCORM protocols with Blackboard about a year ago
after trying to work things through.
Wouldn't it make sense for Adobe Captivate's SCORM content to
be compatible with this country's biggest and most widely utilized
learning management system? This is not a rhetorical question.
You've got some smart guys, Adobe. If you agree that it does make
sense, please, make it work, or tell me (and by extension others)
what works. I'll be happy to learn and eat humble pie.
Glen Gummess
Instructional Designer
University of St. Francis
Joliet, IL

Answer 1

While I've no direct experience with Blackboard, I would
strongly
suspect the issue lies with Blackboard and not Captivate.
There are stories tenfold about the net about issues with
Blackboard and
true SCORM functionality, as well as general IT reviews of
Blackboard
code being a mash of years-old spaghetti.
Not that Captivate is necessarily the essence of efficient
programming,
not at all...but I don't think it fair or likely to put the
burden
square on Adobe's shoulders. The fact that Captivate works
pretty well
with many, many other LMS systems alone would indicate it's
more likely
a Blackboard issue.
However, reading through the thread, this appears to be a
Vista-related
issue? Only? I've not had to deliver any Captivate-specific
projects to
a Vista environment so perhaps my above opinion is not as
rounded as it
needs to be. Are you sure this is not a browser issue? Do you
find the
Captivate files to work correctly in the ADL Test Suite and
Reload
Player? If they work in those environments properly, then
even more an
indication of a Blackboard issue...
Erik
Glen Gummess wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> While Captivate 3 appears to be robust in its SCORM
capabilities, I have tried
> and failed after long hours to implement a Captivate 3
assessment simulation in
> a Blackboard CE 6 course. [snip]
>
http://discussions.blackboard.com/jive4/thread.jspa?threadID=32286&tstart=0
Erik Lord
http://www.capemedia.net
Adobe Community Expert - eLearning
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