Avoiding SCORM exports
Oct 26, 2023
By
Ty McDonald
Kia Ora,
I work for a not for profit disability organisation. Currently our LMS is imbedded in an HRIS tool called ELMO which doesn’t seem to upload Rise courses in any other format than SCORM. SCORMS are apparently a dying breed and best avoided.
If I don’t need the course tracked I give people a link. However many need to be tracked for quality compliance. Other than purchasing the very expensive new tool (from our perspective being not for profit) is there a way to track people accessing the course via a link or other forms. I like this because it is live at all times constantly taking on any updates without exporting and importing then course again.
6 Replies
Kia,
Unfortunately, a Rise course that is accessed with a link can't be tracked. That being said, you might build in some actions that would function as manual tracking. This might look like a prompt at the end of the course that asks the learner to take a survey or send a message to someone sharing a take away. You could even state that those are required steps and if their responses are not received, they will be considered as incomplete.
Also, if you have not done so yet, you might want to try testing out the different versions of SCROM. Our LMS also is limited to SCORM but we were able to figure out the traceability. The biggest thing was that we needed to use SCORM 2004, Version 4. I tested each of the SCORM versions in our LMS and this gave us the best tracking data (completion, quiz score, quiz responses).
Hope some of that helps!
The share link from Rise is not intended for large number of people to access. Scorm will be around for a long time yet shouldn't have any issue using them.
Thanks. The issue is having to re-export and upload the package again for small changes. I try and make the packages future proof but that doesn't always work. I'd really like a different learning system but there are always dreams.
There will always be the need to replace content though. Unless you use the authoring tool of the LMS. The other issue with the share link is if you have to rebuild big portions of the course users are going to see this in real time.
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Anyone who told you "SCORM is on the way out" is selling something.
Now that I look at the people running the training yes. Potentially Moodle and Totara.
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