SCORM packager for Mac?

Question

Hello!
There are a couple components to this question - essentially, I'd like to have the Flash capabilities of the eLearning Suite on my Mac (I don't need Captivate.) There's a SCORM packager offered with the eLearning Suite version of Flash, and I really need something comparable.
I'm working with an eLearning development team and I know enough about Flash to be able to take their templates and build out courses. I'm also fairly proficient in AS3 (I can look at the code and figure out how to modify it appropriately or go and find what I want on the net). My biggest problem right now is that this team all has CS4 eLearning Suite and I'm trying to work with them from my CS4 Web Design Premium software.
Everything works right up until I try to edit, or publish one of their scored assessment .flas and then it breaks.  I originally thought it was just because I changed something I wasn't aware of, but I opened one, didn't alter anything, published it and it no longer worked appropriately. I'm guessing this is because my version of Flash is missing something included in the eL suite version? Does that hold any water?  I'm really ignorant when it comes to the SCORM stuff, so any help (even basic explanation of what's happening) would be helpful and appreciated.
Also, I would also love to be able to package a course myself, but can't using the Adobe Scorm Packager because it's not distributed outside of the eL suite and not at all for Macs from what I can tell. Any recommendations?  Or is it impossible to match what the team is doing exactly with the Adobe solution on my MacBook Pro with a 3rd party packager?
Thanks again!  Best,
-SJ

Answer 1

So the lessons the folks with the eLearning Suite publish work fine in the LMS? Or is that totally your job....so you've never gotten these to work as needed?
If the other folks have a process for publishing these lessons that works in the target LMS, have them absolutely detail that for you, then see if you can duplicate or where the process breaks down.
When you "publish one of their scored assessment .flas and then it breaks", what does that mean? Just published it doesn't work as expected? It doesn't work as it does when they publish it (assuming they do)? It doesn't work in the LMS when their published versions do?
And when it 'doesn't work'....what doesn't work?
If the other folks on the team can output/publish content that works in the target LMS, then you need to know exactly how that's done and figure out exactly where you run into trouble.
If the other folks can't/don't do that output and that final SCORM publishing is up to you, then perhaps a better plan is to find a third-party 'shell' or 'wrapper' that can take your non-SCORM content and integrate it for the SCORM functionality you need. Of course, better to handle that through the tools you have yourself - for example, there's a free (I think) SCO packager extension for Dreamweaver that may help... I'm not really sure what the SCORM Packager in the eLearning Suite actually does...
HTH
Erik