I am a patient man. Slow to anger, slow to annoy. Frankly, some mistake my calm demeanor for apathy. But now they've done it. The folks on Twitter (and elsewhere in the community) have made enough comments about SCORM that I'm annoyed. That's right, I'm…
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Just following up on yesterday's post regarding SCORM 2004 4th Edition testing. According to this tweet, it looks as if ADL may be holding off until August for this testing. We will likely follow suit so as to be sure to release a certifiable product…
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We spent nearly a year updating our website. It was an arduous process, worked around our daily chores, but let me tell you, it was worth it. We've been linking to our own website constantly as people ask us questions we've answered before. That in…
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I spent the day today working with the most minute of the SCORM minutiae. The XML Schema Definition files (XSD) that define the structure of the SCORM manifest aren't something most people give much thought to. Mostly these files, and their associated XML header, are…
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ADL recently published a new website, but unfortunately didn't include any 404 redirects so that old links will go to the proper new page. It can be kind of hard to find some of the things you might be looking for. Most notably, it seems…
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In general, passion and anger don't mix with software standards for me. I believe we're doing good work, I think SCORM is really effective, and I hope we're doing our part to further its ongoing success. But... we often find ourselves mired in discussions over…
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This question comes up several times a month. From time to time, when you launch a piece of content, you may see a message box like this: In order for communication to occur between the LMS and content, the LMS is obligated to provide an…
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A recent entry on "Rod's Pulse Podcast" contained an audio interview with Dr. Bobbe Baggio, In the interview, Dr. Baggio asserts that "SCORM is dead". She also says that "people who work with SCORM understand what I mean". Dr. Baggio, I work with SCORM, I…
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Philip over at Pipworks posted some interesting questions related to Adobe's products specifically and what they should do with SCORM interaction data. I think the responses to this question are interesting in their own right (share them publicly, folks, not just with Adobe!)My question goes…
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A little best practice for content developers out there.Problem: Characterstrings that are passed via SCORM runtime calls are restricted to characters int he ISO 10646 standard (which is equivalent to Unicode character set). Technically this includes many control and other non-printable characters. These special characters…
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