LMS and AICC files

Jul 20, 2011

We have been working with Articulate for over a year now and are looking for another storage option rather than uploading SCORM files to our LMS.  We have AICC files for our courses but are running into some issues.  Are there any best practices for this?  Does anyone know what the requirements are for setting up and configuring an AICC content server?

7 Replies
christa folco

Our LMS accept SCORM and AICC.  We are trying to move away from SCORM to AICC.  We would like to get AICC files from Articulate and publish on the LMS.  It is our understanding that in order to do that, we must store the course content internally and then publish the AICC files on the LMS where they will point back to where we have stored the course.  Does that makes sense?

Andrew Gropper

My organization is actually looking to do the same (move from using SCORM files on our LMS to AICC) and also are struggling to find the right requirements. 

We actually have a content hosting server to use, but when I publish files to AICC from Articulate they are roughly the same size as the SCORM versions.  I was expecting them to be smaller since the AICC zip package should just be metafiles and not all the content. 

Any help from folks who have either set up an AICC solution or know how to would be greatly appreciated!

-Andrew

Brian Sullivan

AFAIK there should be no difference in size between AICC and SCORM packages -- the content is included in both.

I think just publishing to AICC will not allow you to use a separate content housing server.

You will have to hand balm the AICC descriptor et al files to point to where the content will be housed and separate the content from those files. In addition you will have to find a solution to the cross domain scripting security blocks that all modern browsers have ( the best solution is likely to be some sort of proxy solution that makes the content server look like it is a subdirectory of the LMS server.

paul carson

I believe you will find that SCORM is a collection of standards and its run time is derived from AICC. AICC was originally designed for non web based computer training, thus the non-xml format of the original communication data.

AICC is capable of communicating with content housing servers it is really dependent on the LMS and content housing server you are using.

In regards to SCORM you have to check what version your LMS supports as not all versions support cross domain (The suggestion by Brian above is a good work around though)

paul carson

Christa, your last posting should by LMS standards be absolutely correct. In regards to AICC the standard is content not LMS centric. The data that is stored in the files etc is specific to the location etc of the courseware and not the LMS. Content delivery systems may and do server more than one LMS (see mindleaders configuration as an example). I hope its all working out.

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