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Creating AICC and SCORM-Compliant Content with Authorware 7

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Andrew Chemey

Andrew Chemey
AEC Consulting

Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Demonstrating LMS Features
  3. Turning the LMS Emulator On and Off
  4. Minimum Conformance: Settings for Minimum Compliancy of AICC and SCORM Standards
  5. Minimum Conformance: Settings for Minimum Compliancy of AICC and SCORM Standards, cont.
  6. Creating Typical AICC and SCORM-Compliant Content with Authorware 7
  7. Creating Typical AICC and SCORM-Compliant Content with Authorware 7, cont.
  8. More Resources

This article describes how to use the Learning Management System (LMS) Knowledge Objects (KOs) to create AICC and SCORM-Compliant content with Macromedia Authorware 7.

The example you will create in this article demonstrates some of the capabilities of the basic version of the LMS KOs. It is not meant to demonstrate all of the functionality available in Authorware or the LMS KOs.

This document will demonstrate:

  • Basic communication with any LMS (and whether a communication occurred)
  • Resume functionality or tracking where the user left off
  • How to use variables to track progress

This document will not demonstrate:

  • Best usage cases (I won’t discuss how and when to send tracking data to an LMS.)
  • Detailed information on the AICC or SCORM standards

This article refers to new features available in Authorware 7, which help with the authoring, testing and packaging of AICC and SCORM-compliant content. While it is possible to create compliant content without using all of these features or by using previous versions of Authorware, this article focuses on features in Macromedia Authorware 7. Note that additional resources are available at the end of this article.

Requirements

To complete this tutorial, you will need to install the following software and files:

Authorware 7


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About the author

Andrew Chemey has been involved in learning for almost 10 years. Starting with Macromedia on the Authorware 3 development team he eventually moved to the Pathware/Learning Space development teams for Macromedia and Lotus. He is the developer of the LMS Knowledge Objects for Authorware and recently licensed a basic version to Macromedia for release with Authorware 7. He has also helped build/test the Flash Learning Interaction templates. In addition to working with Macromedia as an employee or contractor on the Authorware, CourseBuilder and Flash development teams, he has been an independent consultant for content developers and LMS vendors; helping to build and integrate AICC and SCORM standards-compliant content and LMSs alike.