LMS, Captivate and C:drive tracking

Question

We are implementing a new LMS however will need to place large captivate files on the local PC hard drives due to low bandwidth.  The user will access the local PC files through the LMS.  Need help in getting the LMS to receive SCORM information from the local PC files.  How can this be accomplished?

Answer 1

SCORM essentially dictates web-delivery. SCORM does not account for locally-delivered files with tracking to the web.
I'd love to know how you plan to 'access the local PC files through the LMS'...
Regardless, one approach is to create some custom SCOs, though I'm not sure this would work. A SCO manifest can point to resources outside the LMS itself, so you could theoretically...maybe...deliver the large media files to customers via CD or network share, then have the SCO launch an HTML file that looks to that local path to load the actual content. As long as the content passes it's tracking information to the index file, which in turn is passing the values to the LMS API via JS....that might work.
However, I'm sure there's some security issue trying to load local SWF files into a web-delivered HTML file...?
Otherwise, you could try to build a custom application that runs locally (i.e. AIR) to which users login, which then grabs their To Do list from the LMS and finds the related local SCOs, allows them to launch, track the results locally, then at some point synch those results with the LMS...
...but I can't imagine that's an easy task.
HTH
Erik