SCORM 1.2 Resource Kit
Free Tools for the SCORM Community

Cooking up a SCORM
(version 1.2)

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Cooking up a SCORM — A SCORM 1.2 Content Cookbook for Developers

Overview

A "cookbook" for developers of SCORM content, with HTML and JavaScript examples to illustrate various aspects of SCO to API communication. Includes samples of single-page and multiple page SCOs, simple method to "wrap" a dumb resource into a SCO, using suspend and resume, tracking SCO objectives, playing a SCO in a full screen window, etc. Also shows a simple packaging manifest example and briefly describes an implementation strategy to keep SCORM 1.2 content relevant when the final SCORM 1.3 specification is released some time in 2003.

How to use it

You can use this cookbook in different ways:

You can just download and read the document.
You can try some of the samples to see what happens when you use them.
The Cookbook is also available with its samples as a SCORM package. Playing the SCORM package in a SCORM compliant LMS allows you to see the samples in action, with or without a debug window in which the API calls can be observed.

Technical info

Technical requirements
The examples in the cookbook are compatible with any operating system platform and any web browser that has full support for ECMAScript (JavaScript); several examples require support for frames; one of the examples requires support for popup windows. Any text editor can be used to implement and save the examples. No Java or plug-in is required. In order to see the examples functioning as intended, you can either

Launch the Cookbook package in a fully SCORM compliant learning management system or runtime service, or
Launch the SCOs individually in a test harness, such as the Click2learn SCO Test Wrapper.

Read the document

April 17, 2002 -- current version: Draft 0.8
Document only (.pdf) - 55 pages including code samples - 822K
Because of the size of this .pdf file, we suggest that you download the document and open a local copy, rather than trying to read it online. To download your local copy, right-click the link (or Command-Click on a Macintosh) and choose Save Target As or the equivalent in the menu that pops up.

Installation

Download the Complete SCORM 1.2 package with the document and sample files
Version 0.8 (.zip - 846K)
This package can be launched in a LMS, or you can unzip it and explore the samples organized in subfolders.

Copyright

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Cooking up a SCORM (version 1.2)