Manifest Maker for SCORM 2004

Too All on This Post,

Thanks for the leads. I will try some of the various suggestions. I am new to the topic of SCORM 2004 Sequencing and Navigation. I have studied the samples from the ADL website and find them somewhat informative, but lacking in specific detail regarding the topic of sequencing.

Regards!

Jim

AMAC5TH -

Your problem sounds more like an issue with your LMS. It may not support sequencing between modules for some reason.

Have you tried downloading a SCORM 2004 sample from the adlnet.gov website? You might want to verify that the LMS does in fact work with "gold standard" content before pulling your hair out over Reload.

You can download various content examples from here:

http://www.adlnet.gov/scorm/20043ED/CE.aspx

In addition to Trident, there's also a free cross-platform SCORM 2004 editor named Reload:

http://www.reload.ac.uk/editor.html

FYI - my understanding is that Manifest Maker supports SCORM 1.2 only, NOT SCORM 2004.

jgraham412 -

If you're trying to launch a file that opens another file, that will very likely kill the SCORM connection unless your LMS supports launching courses using frames. Assuming your LMS does use frames, you *should* be able to open a second file, but there's no guarantee.

Also, once a SCORM-enabled SCO *is* opened, you cannot open another file on your own.

I may be getting confused with AICC, but my understanding of SCORM is that when the LMS launches a SCO via SCORM, it creates a communication interface that expects to hear back only from that SCO.

Once a SCO finishes, it send a "complete" message to the LMS at which point the LMS closes the SCO and shuts down the communication interface. Any further attempts to send SCORM data at that point, such loading the next SCO on your own, should fail.

Since opening just one SCO at a time is tedious, SCORM 2004 adds an option known as sequencing, in which the LMS will automatically launch the next applicable SCO (with it's own unique communication interface) when the previous SCO closes. For this reason, SCORM 2004 tends to be much more desirable.

You could try Trident; not shareware, however.
http://www.scormsoft.com/
The program has potential. I'd like to see more context-sensitive help and samples but maybe they will come sdome day.

I am still trying to get a handle on this software, as well as SCORM sequencing.

Hey Jim.
I am in the process of building a series of projects with a similar structure. I've never worked with a manifest before or with SCORM for that matter, so I'm not sure how exactly to set up a manifest w/ multi-SCOs.
Upon searching the forums, I came across a link you're looking for.

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1012681

The file is Manifest Maker 4, which supports SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004. The plugin works good, but I'm not sure how to set up multiple SCOs.

(I have a project that is launched from the LMS, which contains a slide that launches the post-test in the same window {post-test swf embedded in it's own html}).

Is this method possible? Would you mind helping me out with some info, advice, tips, etc?

I want to say that the L5 SCORM Producer extension for Dreamweaver MX 2004 works for creating SCORM 2004 manifests.

Assuming that's true, it hopefully still works for later versions of Dreamweaver.

Here's the link:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/exchange/index.cfm?event=extensionDetail&extid=1019326

If nothing else, the few comments available on the download page make it sound like a keeper!