Category Archives: Content Aggregation Model

Step 35 – Reading the IMS Manifest File – Organizations

Having read the resource information from the manifest file, I’m going to extend the code to read the organization information. As a reminder, the <organizations> section of my manifest file looks like this.

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Step 34 – Reading the IMS Manifest File – Resources

I’m going to start simple by reading the resource information from the manifest file. To do this, I’m going to use the DOM extension to PHP that’s part of the core of PHP5. This will allows me to parse and … Continue reading

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Step 33 – Structure of the Manifest File

The CAM specification has a long and detailed description of all the possible and required XML tags. But it’s far easier to see what’s actually going on if we take a look at a real example and break it down … Continue reading

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Step 32 – SCORM 1.2 CAM: Content Packaging

Last time, I looked at the Meta-Data section of the SCORM 1.2 CAM specification and decided to ignore it (for now, at least). In this post, I’m going to start to look at the Content Packaging section of the CAM … Continue reading

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Step 31 – CAM Meta-Data

It’s been a while since my last post, and this one will be very short. And here’s why … I’ve been working through the second part of the SCORM 1.2 Content Aggregation Model (CAM) specification which deals with Meta-Data (data … Continue reading

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Step 30 – The Content Aggregation Model (CAM) Specification – Part 1

I’ve had a bit of a break since I released VS SCORM 1.2 RTE Rev 1.0. But now it’s time to get back to the task in hand. At this time, I should be able to run any SCORM 1.2 … Continue reading

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Courses and SCOs

Reader ‘jcasolutions’ recently posted this comment: When you make this statement “course (or ‘SCO’ in SCORM terms)” it is incorrect. There is no such thing as a course in SCORM. What most people consider a course is equal to a … Continue reading

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