SCORM Package Builder (SCORM 1.2 & 2004)

About the SCORM Package Builder (SCORM 1.2 & 2004)

Turn learning material into a package any SCORM learning platform can run: a PDF (each page drawn with pdf.js as a picture, its text kept for screen readers), a video or audio file with optional questions that pause it at chosen moments, slides exported as pictures, a folder or ZIP of web pages (a course you made or an HTML export from another authoring tool), or a quiz from Quiz Maker. The package reports to the platform the way SCORM describes: completion (pages seen or video watched), the score, pass or fail, the time spent, every answer, and where the learner was, so that they can carry on later.

Before you upload anything, the built-in LMS emulator plays the package with its real run-time and lists every call it makes — Initialize, SetValue, Commit, Terminate — with the data a platform would store and any error a platform would return. Close and open it again to check that it resumes. Everything is built in your browser; no file is uploaded.

Common uses

• Teachers putting a worksheet, a lecture video or a practice quiz into a school’s learning platform with progress tracking.
• Training and HR teams packaging compliance briefings and induction videos with a pass mark.
• Course creators wrapping an HTML course or an export from another tool, and checking it before upload.
• Anyone who needs to see what a package does in a platform before uploading it.

What the package reports

• SCORM 1.2: cmi.core.lesson_status (incomplete, then completed, or passed or failed when there is a pass mark), cmi.core.score.raw (0–100), cmi.core.lesson_location, cmi.suspend_data (up to 4,096 characters), cmi.core.session_time, cmi.core.exit (suspend while unfinished) and cmi.interactions. The pass mark goes in the manifest as adlcp:masteryscore.
• SCORM 2004 4th Edition: cmi.completion_status, cmi.success_status, cmi.progress_measure, cmi.score.scaled and raw, cmi.location, cmi.suspend_data (up to 64,000 characters), cmi.session_time, cmi.exit and cmi.interactions. The pass mark goes in the manifest’s primary objective (imsss:minNormalizedMeasure) and the completion share in adlcp:completionThreshold.

The data model and the error codes follow the SCORM run-time references (SCORM run-time reference at scorm.com; ADL publishes SCORM itself). The package finds the platform’s API the usual way: in its own window, then up to 500 parent windows, then the window that opened it.

What is in the ZIP file

imsmanifest.xml at the top (one organisation, one item, one SCO that lists every file), index.html (the launch page), msc-player.js (the player and the SCORM run-time, no outside scripts), msc-player.css, msc-data.js (your content’s settings and questions), the content itself (pages/, slides/, media/ or content/) and a short README. The same files play in any browser when index.html is opened directly, outside a platform; the website copy is that version without the manifest, for a website or a shared drive.

Web pages that already report to a platform

Exports from authoring tools often contain their own SCORM code. The builder looks through their scripts for the SCORM 1.2 API (LMSInitialize) and the 2004 API (API_1484_11) and suggests the matching version; choose The pages report to the platform themselves, and the package is only their files and a new manifest. For pages without SCORM code, the package opens them in a frame and reports completion when they are opened, or after the minutes you set. MySmartCoPilot never runs your own scripts on its page, so the emulator tests the tracking but does not show your pages.

Limitations

• One package is one lesson (one SCO). Courses made of several SCOs with sequencing between them are not built here.
• The ZIP leaves out the XML schema (.xsd) files ADL’s conformance test suite expects at the top of a package; platforms read the manifest without them, but a strict conformance check lists them as missing.
• A PDF becomes pictures of its pages with their text alongside: links, form fields and the PDF’s own layout features do not work inside the package.
• The emulator follows the SCORM data model, but each platform has its own behaviour (how it shows status, when it starts a new attempt). Test the package in your platform before learners use it.
• SCORM 1.2 platforms keep only 4,096 characters of saved progress: very long videos save their watched parts more coarsely, and in a video with very many questions the latest answers may not fit, so those questions are asked again when the learner comes back. SCORM 2004 keeps 64,000 characters.
• Up to 400 PDF pages, 300 slides, 2 GB of video and 5,000 web files. Large packages take a while to zip, and many platforms limit the size of an upload.

Privacy

On this device; its files download once

Your files are read and packaged in your browser and never uploaded or stored. The emulator runs on this page; nothing is sent to a learning platform. Only your choices of SCORM version and page size are remembered in this browser.