Talking to a SCORM LMS

Could anyone tell me if it is possible to get Director to communicate with a SCORM compliant LMS system through Shockwave? If it is are there some examples of how to do this that you could point me in the direction of? I am completely new to SCORM and not exactly sure what I need to do.

Thanks for the links, I looked at both and have to say that I think I am less confident than before looking at them. Unfortunately I have limited JS experience and I’m getting the impression I will need to learn its ins and outs as well as suffering through SCORM’s flaming hoops of doom. (Hooray for people who didn’t even know what an LMS was until recently thinking SCORM is the be all and end all! They still don't know what SCORM is - just that it is a standard and standards are good.)
Will Valentin Schmidt’s example let you call any basic JS command from Shockwave or does more need done to it? Also, is there an example of how to integrate SCORM’s specific API into something like this?

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http://www.dev.wisc-online.com/prototypes/scorm/Planetsv2source.zip
heres a link to just the zip package.
http://www.dev.wisc-online.com/prototypes/scorm/Planetsv2sco.zip
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I have a scorma package all ziped up and loaded into the LMS (blackboard).
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Heres a link to my full source code.
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Any help on this subject woudl be great. never had a project before that had to be scorm compliant.
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Reporting scores to SCORM LMS?

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I fear I may be in over my head here... which is not an option.

Imagine that a SCORM course is a book. This book has separate chapters - each chapter is a SCO. If you have a SCORM course that consists of 7 SCO's you would still only have one course in the LMS. Depending on how the SCORM communication is set up YOU define how the course should work.
Example of a SCORM manifest (NOT correct - only an example)
Title: Course title
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Okay, so I guess my question is this then. Is it MY responsibility as the programmer to link the SCOs together within Captivate? or is that done within the SCORM manifest? Or does the LMS handle this?
I would say that it is your responsibility. The programmer / developer would need to put in the SCORM calls in the chapters/SCO's for it to work. This cannot be done afterwards.
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No you would need to do two things at the end of each module.
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2 - Close the particular module in the LMS by using a SCORM command.
Once these two are done then the LMS will unload the current module and automatically fetch the next module in the SCORM manifest and run that.
If you are only interested in reporting complete/incomplete then this is enough. Just call the SCORM commands to set each module as completed and then the SCORM command to unload the module. Once they go through the last module all is completed and the course is "passed".
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Do you have a TOC for each of the modules created in Captivate? If so then this will work just fine in an LMS.
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/Michael
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AS3 SCORM problem

Hi there,
Hope someone can assist!
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I was wondering if there are any solutions out there...
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Annemarie

No such thing as a stupid question....
Yes I did check those settings... and that seems to be causing the problem.
I just took an empty, new presentation (just for the process of elimination, no other values/factors involved) set the captivate settings to AS2 published tried it on the LMS, worked fine.
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There is a document that talks about the scorm compliance of Captivate and it mentioned that you might need to check that the API can be found, so I did that edited the html file, added the alert, and the API can be found when launching the AS3 published file.
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stupid question, but did you double check that you selected Actionscript 3 in your Captivate preferences?
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Best regards from the Bahamas
Annemarie

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Shelby,
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