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KeithGuillot
Community Member
3 years ago

Best publishing format recommendation: AICC, xAPI or cmi5?

Hello all, Running into SCORM's limitations and researching the best replacement - AICC, xAPI or cmi5. Tried xAPI one time when I was unable to publish to SumTotal when the SCORM file was too large...
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JHauglie
Community Member
3 years ago

Disclaimer: I have a preschooler knowledge of xAPI, and none at all of cmi5 or SumTotal; so please take my comment with that in mind.

I would not advise you to use AICC unless there is no other protocol available for you to select from. While AICC has a few strengths, I do not believe that it would allow you to "easily replace the uploaded file with a new version" any more readily than SCORM 1.2 or 2004.

I would be surprised that publishing to SCORM (any version) makes a file that balloons in size any more than other standard publishing protocols; and what (very) little I know of xAPI would lead me to believe that it would be the smallest output for a given course package.

However, you indicate that you've tried it and have had little/no success, so I don't know what else to suggest except that you either try xAPI once more or use SCORM.

My opinions only, YMMV...