SCORM error with Storyline
May 16, 2012
i created a quiz in Storyline and packaged it for SCORM 1.2. I tried uploading the zip to Moodle and to SCORM Cloud. Both give error messages. Moodle just shows "XML error: Invalid character at line 9" and Cloud says
"Course import failed, error was: Error opening the manifest file. Could not load manifest from-/courses/05NMM54VUZ/pharmaquiz2292875b-95d2-4d4e-9ef8-7f6f1d5388e5/0/imsmanifest.xml Possible causes of this problem include a bad file location, insufficient permissions, or an invalid XML document (check for un-encoded special XML characters such as & > <. The specific error message is: An invalid XML character (Unicode: 0x1f) was found in the element content of the document."
Funny because other SCORM packages upload fine. Here are the setting I used:
http://screencast.com/t/muMMqSlloe
http://screencast.com/t/vdn79ozSFl0
http://screencast.com/t/bKV1Iv5pKLZ
Thanks for any help because I am LOST. ;)
15 Replies
A wild guess--in your meta data or your SCORM descriptors for the course, are you using any non-standard or special characters?
Hi Steve,
I'm part of the SCORM Cloud team over at Rustici Software and I think I may have a suggestion to help you out. This error is showing up in SCORM Cloud due to an error in your manifest file. The best place for you to start is to see if there are any errors when you open your manifest file in an HTML editor.
If you need a little more help figuring this out, shoot us an email at support@scorm.com and we will do our best to help work through this with you.
Thanks!
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Jena
Hi Steve,
Not sure if you are still experiencing an issue or not. I wanted to add that many times when I experience an "Invalid Character type" error I have found that it is because the IDE I was using when creating or editing my files was configured for an incorrect Line Break type for the server where the files were hosted.
As an Example:
Thanks for all your help! i'm still seeing the same problem after trying your suggestions. One again I am using Articulate Storyline to develop courses and quizzes, and also publish to SCORM 1.2. It works fine if there is no attempt to communicate with the LMS, but that is precisely I need it to do for quiz results. :/
This is the first release, so i would expect some bugs, but the inability to report scores seems hard to overlook in beta, so i assume it's me.
Just so you know it has been done... I've successfully loaded a Storyline course as a zip with a brief quiz (1 slide) to Moodle.
Very good to know. I knew it was my fault, just like my mother always said.
Thanks.
I don't know that I agree it is your fault... Maybe it is the version of Moodle you are using? Although it seems you wouldn't have also had a problem with the SCORM Cloud server.
After you produced the Storyline file, did you use Storyline's built-in zip function to zip it up before uploading to Moodle? This is what I did and it worked. I was thinking maybe you used a different zip tool?
I did use Soryline's zip function. Thank you.
I am having a problem with a Storyline SCORM zip file with Blackboard Learn 9.1. After uploading to Blackboard, I get no BB error messages, but I get a blinking "please wait" message that will not stop and nothing loads . Any ideas?
Hey all,
Steve I am having a problem uploading my Storyline file to docebo LMS as well. Unlike you, however, my error message simply says ERROR_UPLOAD. The size of the file is not an issue and I used storyline's zip function. I was wondering if you ever figured out your issue?
Thanks,
Jess
Hi Jess-
I don't remember what we did to make it work. Are you using the latest version? Sorry.
I believe we are, docebo version 4.0.5. No worries if you can't remember what you did, I appreciate your response regardless
I vaguely recall a similar problem with docebo 3.6 where I was getting the error upload message. I had to change something in the configuration to fix it. I think I found the fix in http://www.elearningcommunity.net/forum/index.php but it may have been the older original docebo community.
Its a pity that this great LMS has gone private as while it was a bit clunky it was one of the best LMS's I have used for corporate training.
Regards
Thomas
I experienced the same error message last night. Decided to sleep on it and came back with fresh eyes this morning. After a few more failed attempts I realized that when I was publishing the course, I had left my selection on "Web", not "LMS". In case anyone else experiences the same error messages, it never hurts to double check your publish setting.
Thanks for popping in to assist Christopher :)
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