I love that you’re playing with it. Keep following us, as there’s already some great Drupal work going on. We have a client and a Drupal dev shop that have got a module working already. We’ll share more as they continue along the path.

Tim

We’re a instructor lead training business and short term we’re looking at using the web for more ways to engage with our delegates.

We are having great success developing our new services with the help of Drupal, focusing on building an online environment for delegates pre, during and post course.

We’ve found Drupal great for building forums, questions and answers, managing membership, and providing course information.

What I see is an opportunity to use SCORM Cloud as the tool for the delivery of additional training material and assessments.

Where we would look to integrate the two would be to
1) push delegate account information in SCORM Cloud from Drupal
2) pull assessment information from SCORM Cloud into Drupal

Later this year, we’ll start looking into the feasibility of this, but at the moment I can’t see why this wouldn’t be relatively straight forward using your PHP Library.

Cheers,
Simon.

We’ve actually got a company that’s creating a Drupal integration as we speak. They don’t have a delivery date yet, but they are doing real work right now. Would you like me to connect you with them so you can keep up with the progress?

Tim

Tess

Until now, we’ve been using an in-house model that I based on my initial readings of the SCORM documentation. As you have noted, the Patridge family was wrong. Doing it halfway is doing it no way at all. (Ok… not quite true as my SCORM-inspired system has served us reasonably well over the last few years, but…)

I have recently written a new export routine to package our content (all based in flash) for use in a SCORM-conformant LMS. Rather than re-re-inventing the wheel, I’d like to implement a new delivery system that leverages the SCORM Cloud.

Our preferred CMS is Drupal so this is where I’d like to focus my efforts. I won’t have a lot of time to devote to it, so it would be more of a labour of love sort of thing.

What aspects do you see as the primary requirements for integrating the Cloud with Drupal?

Cheers.

Do you have some real interest on your end?

Any news about someone working on a Drupal integration?

Thx

To my knowledge, there isn’t anyone integrating with Drupal yet. That’s not to say no one is doing it, but I don’t know about it if they are.

I’d love to help you get started on the integration (and help you in whatever way suits). I’ll reach to you via email as well.

Tim

If there isn’t anyone working on this I’d be interested to discuss how to get that started.

WRT #1. Today, we have no intent to extend the CMSs to publish content to the SCORM Cloud. Love to see it done, yes, but that’s not what we’re talking about today.

WRT #2. Yes. I believe that each of the CMS style open source products could benefit from great SCORM support. Some have it to a point (Moodle comes to mind, with its imminent 1.2 certification) and others have it not at all. Clearly I believe in great support, and I want each of these systems to have it. They can do so by integrating the Cloud and allowing us to host/deliver their content.

WRT WordPress. Your vision fits pretty well with mine. When I see WP, I see a system that already tracks users. I picture a plugin that ties it together with SCORM Cloud and allows administrators to upload SCORM Content to WP. The administrator can then assign content to the various users. These users would then have a sidebar widget (theoretically) that would allow them to launch their content and see their progress.

From my point of view, any system that tracks users can be extended quickly to import/deliver/track SCORM training. That’s the first big leap here.

As the “futurist” that you are, Aaron, you’re starting to pick up on some of the fun stuff that can happen AFTER people start adopting a centralized delivery mechanism. Those who are willing (you would have to opt in) could share their data across the segmented SCORM Cloud installations.

That shared data would allow you to do some of the things you’re imagining. What are people training on? Where? Imagine a content author soliciting feedback from a centralized system ACROSS the various systems using it.

And then, down the road (again, for those who CHOOSE to), you could much more easily allow folks from various entities to collaborate, discuss, etc… At the risk of sounding cliche, centralized content delivery could make it possible to “break down walls” that divide LMSs today, again, for THOSE WHO WANT TO.

So, yes, Aaron, you and are dreaming of some fun things that could happen. Today, step one, is getting many systems tied together with the Cloud so that they can do the basics well… From there, we extend.

Thanks again for taking the time… other thoughts/ideas are MORE than welcome.