Connecting to Moodle (LMS/CMS) etc.

Question

I am having the worst time trying to connect any authorware
piece to our current LMS. I am creating the modules (cbt) in
Authorware 7.0. I am adding the LMS Initialize and LMS Send KOs to
the file. Here is where the confusion comes in: I read that I need
to also include under the Command tab: The Learning Content
Packager and the Learning Object Metadata Editor. At what point do
I package the file? If anyone could let me know the order in which
I add the info to the file and when to package.
Very Frustrated!

Answer 1

Adding the LMS KOs only allows your Authorware project to
communicate
with an LMS - more easily than coding all that communication
yourself.
Once your project is all setup, publish/package it.
While you then have an Authorware project, you still haven't
met the
requirements for a 'scorm-compliant content package'. In
order to do
that, you need an 'imsmanifest.xml' file, which can be
generated from
one of those options you list (Learning Content Packager or
Learning
Object Metadata Editor, I forget which).
Once that's done, put it in the root of your Authorware
project
directory (same folder as the published files) and .zip
everything into
one .zip folder. Do NOT zip the project's folder itself - zip
the
contents of that folder, including any subfolders... So when
you unzip
it, a folder does not result but a list of all files that
were in the
project folder...
Overall, it may help to read up on the SCORM spec to
determine all the
pieces that are required. Authorware's an old program.
Unfortunately,
there's no one-step-method for publishing to a
SCORM-compliant package.
HTH
Erik
dam01886 wrote:
> I am having the worst time trying to connect any
authorware piece to our
> current LMS. I am creating the modules (cbt) in
Authorware 7.0. I am adding
> the LMS Initialize and LMS Send KOs to the file. Here is
where the confusion
> comes in: I read that I need to also include under the
Command tab: The
> Learning Content Packager and the Learning Object
Metadata Editor. At what
> point do I package the file? If anyone could let me know
the order in which I
> add the info to the file and when to package.
>
> Very Frustrated!
>
Erik Lord
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Adobe Community Expert - eLearning
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