Monthly Archives: August 2009

At this time, I’m going to pause development of the VS SCORM 1.2 Run-Time Environment (RTE) since my implementation seems to work well enough for my purposes, and tidy it up for formal release as Rev 1.0. As I noted … Continue reading →

In my last post, I looked at the changes that I needed to make to the “scormvars” database table, and to the database-specific functions in the subs.php file to support the SCOInstanceID. Now, I have to figure out how to … Continue reading →

I’m going to start working from the bottom of my new code structure upwards starting with the database and the subs.php file (bear with me … this does make sense!). I’ll start by modifying the table structure for the “scormvars” … Continue reading →

A student can access multiple SCOs, and a SCO can be accessed by multiple students. So I start with a many-to-many relationship like this.

How I get data from the LMS to initialize the SCO session is going to depend on the way that the LMS is coded. So it’s not possible to write this in a completely generic way. Instead, I’m going to … Continue reading →

Time to review the list of mandatory SCORM 1.2 data elements that I created in Step 19. The table shows: the name of the data element; is it readable; is it writeable; the format of the data; and the initial … Continue reading →

I’ve made quite a bit of progress since the last code bundle that I made available. So I thought that it might be a good time to release another snapshot. Once again, however, it’s important to note that this is … Continue reading →

Nearly there! If you take a look at the table of mandatory data elements that I presented in Step 19, you’ll see that I only have 2 elements left in my list: cmi.suspend_data cmi.launch_data These elements store the information that … Continue reading →