Does anyone use SCORM Connect? If you do, what has your experience been with it and specifically how is the reporting for you? I know so much depends on the client LMS and what gets sent back, but just curious if we’re the only ones that seem to have a hit or miss experience with it.
We don’t really use the reporting options any more. Most of our customer’s LMSs don’t support it, so we just turn it off. We can see that someone from their site is accessing the content, but that is about it.
We use it for several clients:
- We always have our clients test both 1.2 and 2004 versions in their platform so they understand how reporting will reflect in their system before agreeing to a Scorm connect deployment - generally we find clients only get a status of complete vs incomplete. You really do need to test with each platform.
- Be sure to ask if clients are putting content into an LXP vs an LMS - Ti states they will not support LXPs.
- Reporting on the Ti side is what you would expect it to be for courses - except for Learning Paths because you must export the individual courses.
- Courses with Assessments do not report the assessment score back to client LMS platforms - at least in our experience. You will see scores in Ti but the client wont get them.
- Side note - Ti does not support a mass export feature so if you have a large course library to share be prepared for someone to spend lots of tedious time exporting files.
You are able to run reports for users in the SCORM connect panorama, and inside the various sublicenses. They won't have a correct email address, but will have a correct first/last name. We do this to control if we want to revoke access and to enhance reporting. We do still have to get them the zip file though. I misspoke above. And if you set up your sublicense with no content access you can still send the file, but it won't launch the course. And if the company stops paying us we can remove their content access, and the files will stop functioning. Does that help? It’s a genius invention of one of my bosses.
Overall though it is quite a differentiator for Ti vs the market!
Thank you both so much for sharing your processes. This has been very helpful! I think we’ll be able to take away a few additions to what we’re doing now that will make things easier for future cases.
If you use scorm connect as a Panorama. how did you setup pricing for this to a customer? Did you bundle modules/ topics to access within that Panorama ?
HI Charles,
thank you for responding.
We are new to using Panorama’s and have a subscription for customers to access based on per person access.
If we set up a Panorama for them using our content and moving across to Pano then setting up scorm connect files within that - is that all that they would see and would we need to setup a SSO for the customers people to access ?
You do need a Panorama for SCORM connect and possibly a sublicence for each entity accessing it so you can control who gets what. We add the users to that sublicence for the purpose of reporting on activity and user counts. Those users never get invites to our LMS. We provision only those libraries that each entity has purchased, and we set up a one drive so they can download the SCORM files for that library. They are responsible for uploading to their LMS on their own. We derive the SCORM for them from within the specific sublicence where their content resides. I hope this make sense. It was a little confusing to me when I started this. I hope this helps and please do reach out to your CSM. Very best, CZ
Hey
I find that that neither learners nor local customer admins like to be shut down or find a surprise missing course. If we lose a few bucks then at least we kept a customer happy and so goes the renewal of service. So we rarely take away or hard code stop dates for access. Hope this helps. CZ
Good stuff. Thanks,
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