elearning - navigate and sequence

[PhineasFrog]

Hi,
I am new to flash and this forum
I want to create an elearning module in AS3/CS4 which will be scorm compliant ( using pipwerks) and easy to maintain

From reading up on elearning you can specify navigation, sequence and flash content in
- an LMS like moodle with Matt Burys addon (http://code.google.com/p/moodle-swf/)
- maybe in Scorm (which www.pipwerks advises as very hard)
- in flash using E4X in AS3
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/filtering_data_e4x.html
OR
- in flash using code

I was going to use flash XML to load all the swf movies for each screen and to specify the navigation - is this the best way?
Does having to do all the work in XML increase the maintenance amd what tool do you give designers to do this - Dreamweaver ????
Do you garbage collect after the user goes to the next page ?
Does the Adobe elearning suite have all this built in ?

rgds Paul

[Potemkyn]

Howdy and welcome to Actionscript.org!

I've use some XML content with my CBTs in the past. Part of the deciding factor for me was reusability. I built the CBT Navigator so it would take the FlashVars and know what directory to read from and what the XML filename was. After loading the first XML file, the navigator would load the remaining files - which are content files: lesson page names, lesson page narrations, glossary entries, and references. This allows the CBT_Navigator to be used for all the CBTs we have.

So, if you are not going to re-use your lesson display beast, then you don't have to use XML. You could embed the information you need in an array.

HTH!

Mike

[vinayak.kadam]

Hey Paul,

Hope you are fine. Your requirement is a quite vast requirement and it wud really need an expert to service your request. You can even do it on your own but then you wud need hell lot of time to do so. We wud love it if you cud do it on your own but my intention is to convey you the risk involved. My answer to your question wud be:

1. You wud have to do it in Flash without using the Flash Scorm support. Specific requirement of yours wud require customized implementation of SCORM.
2. Divide your development into two tasks i.e. courseware development and Scorm development
3. Courseware development wud invlove only use of Flash.
4. Scorm development requires resources developed in XML and HTML/JavaScript.
5. Communication has to be established between elearning courseware and the SCORM resources.

If you give me a month time, I can help you learn and implement all these things and I am quite sure that time is the only thing we cannot buy in this world :)