Authoring Tools...By Day of the Week

 

DISCLAIMER: The views displayed below do not reflect the personal opinions of the author of this blog. The remarks of the author are purely sarcasm and are meant for humor to draw in and create an audience. Names, titles, locations, times and dates have been changed to protect the innocent.

My SCORM Devotees,

I thank you for your considerations concerning the jurisdiction of SCORM. These polls will only bring you closer into the unrelenting arroyo for which most bow to to the shockwave of shareable content objects and the dejection of the reference model…your subjugation is upon you!

As we continue this excursion with our “MIGHTY SCORM LORD” the journey of what are SCORM Complaint Authoring Tools has yet to be taken. "THE MIGHTY SCORM" has many to pick from, depends on "THE LORDs" mood and day of the week. You ask what are authoring tools...? Authoring tools are software that enables the instructional designer to create and arrange content into a standardized course structure which can be exported in many multimedia types. The instructional designer will have requirements given to them that would help determine which tool to use, and if "THE MIGHTY SCORM" allows it…just as long it matches up with the day of the week.

Here are some popular tools…listed by day of "THE LORDs" day of the week:

 Monday: Elucidat

(https://www.elucidat.com/)

 Tuesday: Articulate Storyline

(https://articulate.com/360/storyline)

 Wednesday: Adobe Captivate (https://www.adobe.com/products/captivate.html)

 Thursday: iSpring Pro

(https://www.ispringsolutions.com/ispring-suite)

 Friday: Camtasia

(https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html)

Saturday: Instructional Designers recharge/cerakote pulse rifles and leveling up their World of Warcraft AVATAR

Sunday: Instructional Designers sharpening their CTRL, ALT, DLT keys and clearing out their browser cache of their Dell G5 Gaming desktop

Each tool has a specific strength…not all are equal. This is good for instructional designers to have options.

  

Below is an additional link for more detailed information:

https://www.learnupon.com/blog/scorm-compliant-authoring-tools/

 

*Special Note*

Some visitors to the blog attempt to undermine “THE MIGHY SCORM” with ridiculous comments that “THE LORD” is on the way out and xAPI is taking over. Those forget their place and must remember little xAPI is only around because “THE MIGHTY SCORM” allows it. “THE MIGHTY SCORM” holds dominion over eLearning that instructional designers use to create not xAPI.

 

- SCORM MASTER

SKYNET

My SCORM Believers,

I thank you for your considerations concerning the province of SCORM. These inquests will only bring you closer into the unending gulley for which most submit to the plague of shareable content objects and the despondency of the reference model…your inhalation is upon you!

The MIGHTY SCORM like any deity has evolved…with this world’s dependency of technology and SKYNET becoming a reality, THE MIGHTY SCORM has decided to use the heavens to assess and deliver shareable content objects without an LMS. How is this possible you ask…? THE MIGHTY SCORM has teamed up with Amazon Web Services via cloud…hence the SKYNET comment.

SCORM Cloud provides instructional designers the following capabilities:

·       * Deliver courses directly to learners

·       * Share access to your courses with third-party LMSs

·       * Test how eLearning content will play in an LMS

·       * Report on learners’ course results

·       *  Capture xAPI statements in Cloud’s LRS (THE MIGHTY SCORM STIKES AGAIN…BWAH…!)

Below, for additional material…

 

https://rusticisoftware.com/products/scorm-cloud/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=SCORM+Cloud+%28Branded%29&utm_campaign=Content+Player#features

To Enter an LMS

 

DISCLAIMER: The views displayed below do not reflect the personal opinions of the author of this blog. The remarks of the author are purely sarcasm and are meant for humor to draw in and create an audience. Names, titles, locations, times and dates have been changed to protect the innocent.

My SCORM Zealots,

I thank you for your observations and explorations concerning the province of SCORM. These inquisitions will only bring you closer into the embraced altar and perpetual ravine for which most submit to the unmingled scourge of shareable content objects and the momentous worriment of the reference model…your assimilation is upon you!

The hellion xAPI decided to cry and wine like a little baby due to its miserable loneliness of being completely free with no rules to be governed and not having access to an LMS. The fiend xAPI continued to weep uncontrollably which became intolerable to the MIGHTY SCORM. Like the merciful being the MIGHTY SCORM is knelt down to the incubus xAPI and asked "Why do you cry?" The villainous xAPI looked up while attempting to push back tears and wipe snot from its nose…”I am lonely, I have no friends and I don’t have the ability to enter an LMS. The MERCIFUL SCORM placed the MIGHTY HAND on the beasts shoulder and said, “Do you want me to show you how to take your mind of that pain?...give me your finger!” The brute gave the MIGHTY SCORM the hand of deceit and within a few moments the world heard a “CRACK”…the ground opened up and the MIGHTY SCORM placed the removed finger into the earth to never be seen again.

An age has passed, dark times has plagued the realm for the rogue xAPI walked with no finger and still looking for a way to enter an LMS. The malignant xAPI looked to the ground and noticed the location where the MIGHTY SCORM had buried its finger. The ground started to shake and out of the rock arose a being that had the physical appearance of the MIGHTY SCORM but moved and gestured like xAPI. “Who are you?” xAPI asked.  The being whispered is what sounded like a Gollum voice, “I am CMI5 and I am here to take you to an LMS so you can stop crying, I don’t want you to lose another finger.”  

So, the MERCIFUL SCORM allowed the awful xAPI to enter the LMS with the help of CMI5. CMI5 provides rules and structure so xAPI can interact with an LMS.

Now…is the MIGHT SCORM MERCIFUL?!

Below, for additional material…

https://xapi.com/cmi5/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=natural_search

- SCORM MASTER