Many Training organisations use Articulate to create their course materials, and then wish to publish them in a standard format for import into a Scorm 2004 compliant Learning Management System (LMS). That standard, now 10 years old, is being replaced by a new version; Tin Can. A new term has arrisen called Learning Records Store, which is basically a Learning Management System that hosts the data associated to the learning content and records. If you are considering adopting Tin Can you might be interested in the following and how this relates to Moodle:
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There is a freely available module to allow Tin Can files to be used by Moodle: https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_tincanlaunch
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Further information about Tin Can and Moodle can be read here: https://github.com/garemoko/moodle-mod_tincanlaunch
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There is a discussion on alternatives (incl Moodle) to Articulate: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=269724
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More discussion about using an ipad, Moodle, LRS and Tin Can: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264095
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A critical evaluation of Tin Can, predicting its failure (but with little evidence): http://www.learndash.com/why-scorm-tin-can-api-will-fail-initially/
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List of short comings in Tin Can: http://scorm.com/project-tin-can-phase-3-known-weaknesses/
My research suggests that you can have a Learning Record Store (this would be required in Moodle as the LRS is still being developed), where learning records are stored, which feeds content and the records to a Learning Management System which displays the information as necessary to the format necessary. CourseSales.com interacts with the Learning Management System, assisting in the selling and management of the administration of the courses. My conclusion is that as TIN CAN only came out mid 2013, and the technology is still evolving - but looks promising. Commercial and free software, eg. Moodle, all seem have glitches that require work-arounds, some glitches are due to the standard itself. The Business Case to consolidate any current set up would have to be compelling, consider the risk of implementing a new technology, and include a budget for feature enhancements for these work-arounds and unforeseen work-arounds. Fortunately there are plenty of Moodle experts out there, many who are inexpensive and off-shore.
Other sites I have used are: