SCORM

[Bill Swallow]

> Bill, thanks for clarifying about the LMS and API.

No problem. SCORM was developed to be a universal LMS courseware
format. If a LMS has a custom API for courseware, then it's not SCORM.

> (WebHelp isn't an option for us anymore, because the version we had doesn't work with anything higher than FM7.2; so when we chose TCS2, we did so with the understanding that WebHelp would be abandoned. The transition happened between product line life cycles, so it's a clean break.)

I think you are thinking of Webworks Help. WebHelp is a RoboHelp
format. But that's aside from the issue. Using this would require
hefty scripting changes to the nuts and bolts that make the Help work,
given the file structure would have to conform to the SCORM model.

> From an overall view of the library, if the content is sourced in FM at the chapter-per-file level, using text insets, variables, and conditional text for single-sourcing, is this going to cause problems vis-a-vis going through RH to get to SCO-conformant HTML? Would we be able to use frames in the HTML help and have the script referenced in the metadata of the mainframe? or is that something that has to be in the actual code of every single HTML file in the project?

As long as every HTML file contains the javascript reference and each
lesson (SCO) has a unique frameset, you're fine. Again, the more
complex you want your output to be, the more complex the need to
customize your Help project.

I did forget to mention that you also need to define the end page for
each SCO, like you do for the first page of each SCO. I've never used
framesets when creating SCORM courses, so I'm not sure how that would
exactly work, unless you have a progression like (pseudocode):

<first SCO file/>
   <frameset>
       <course files/>
   </frameset>
<last sco file/>

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