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MadisonAfzal's avatar
MadisonAfzal
Community Member
3 years ago

How are these SCORM packages downloaded from the LMS?

The SCORM packages for a Rise/Storyline course are huge - 50 times the size of what we were using before. Does anyone know how they are downloaded? Is it all at once, or are they downloaded piecemeal as the user clicks through them?

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  • JohnMorgan-c50c's avatar
    JohnMorgan-c50c
    Former Staff
    3 years ago

    Hello Madison!

    I would love to help you with this issue!

    First, SCORM packages are created by Storyline 360 and Rise 360 when publishing to LMS. Then you’ll import them into an LMS so learners can access the course and you can pull reports on their progress. There isn’t a way to download a SCORM package from Rise 360, Storyline 360, or an LMS. I’m not sure what you mean about downloading SCORM packages from an LMS. Can you share more about what you’re looking to do?

    Thanks for reaching out!

    • KarlMuller's avatar
      KarlMuller
      Community Member
      3 years ago

      I  think Madison is asking what happens when you launch a Rise course from a LMS.

      Are the entire course contents retrieved from the LMS upon initial launch, or on a Lesson-by-Lesson basis?

  • hazelB's avatar
    hazelB
    Staff
    3 years ago

    Great question, Madison! The LMS will launch one SCO at a time, as selected by the user, or as determined by SCORM 2004 sequencing rules.

    A bit technical, but more information on SCORM sequencing can be found here. This is from the SCORM website.

  • NeilForrest-ea7's avatar
    NeilForrest-ea7
    Community Member
    15 days ago

    Is anyone from Articulate able to answer this a bit more simply please? What Karl has clarified is something I'd like to know, but the info above is far to tech talk for me.

    • StevenBenassi's avatar
      StevenBenassi
      Staff
      14 days ago

      Hi NeilForrest-ea7!

      Happy to share more insight on this!

      Every LMS should load course content as the learner progresses, on a lesson by lesson basis. For Rise and Storyline, there is first an initial bit of data that must be loaded so the course can build the navigation structure, and know what each lesson is titled. There will be a small burst of data that gets sent upon launching the course, then as the learner moves through each lesson, the contents of those subsequent lessons are loaded. This is why larger courses may take more processing time to load within an LMS.

      However, Storyline specifically can get a little more complex with how content is loaded, and is conditional to how the author designed the course. A Storyline author could theoretically dump an entire course's worth of content into a single slide, causing everything to be loaded when the course first launches. Or the author could split that content evenly among multiple slides, which will load as the learner navigates through them sequentially. 

      Hope this helps!

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