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  • #12247

    booksworm
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    Hi! Please help!

    When I try to open the .zip filethe page opens with no side link column and a message pops up:

    “Unable to locate the LMS’s API Implementation. LMS initialize was not successful.”

    And another one appears: “Unable to find an API adapter”

    What’s happening?

    HELP, please!

    Fra’

  • #12248

    Anónimo

    Hi booksworm:

    Probably that file is a SCORM package and it must be run in an LMS like Moodle. Just create in Moodle a SCORM activity and upload the file.

    If you have the source .elp file, you can export it as website.

  • #12302

    booksworm
    Member

    Thank you José for your prompt reply!

    In previous SCORM versions I could unzip everything by clicking on the index page and see my work with no probs, but when I do that now, I can only see the first page, with no side index. What happened???

    What is the difference between saving as a SCORM package and as WebSite .zip? I’m asking you this, because if I do that, then everything works fine.

    Thank you again, I’m panicking a bit less, now!

  • #12382

    Anónimo

    Hi booksworm:

    SCORM is a standard for content creation. It is used by LMS-s like Moodle. If a content is packaged following SCORM standard, it can be published in any SCORM compliant LMS. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCORM

    The standard covers three main areas:

    • Packaging: a SCORM package has a manifest declaring all nodes of the TOC and used resources. The LMS (Moodle) creates the navigation elements (tree, combo or whatever) reading the info of that manifest.
    • Runtime: it defines how must talk the content and the LMS, so that the LMS keeps track of the visited pages and the grades.
    • Metadata: information to classify and search for packages in repositories (digital libraries).

    eXeLearning inserts some JavaScript functions in the exported SCORM packages, and one of the first thinks done by these functions is search for the LMS. If the content does not find the LMS, it shows some error messages. That’s what has happened to you. You have run the content outside the LMS and you have got those error messages.

    I don’t know how it worked in previous versions, but in next version you won’t get those annoying messages if you take a look to the content  outside the LMS. Anyway, you wont get any navigation element, because they are generated by the LMS reading the manifest.

    If you exports as website, you can use the content in an LMS like Moodle or anywhere else and you will have navigatin elements.

    Regards!

  • #12446

    booksworm
    Member

    Thank you again! your answer needs translation to me (and I’m not talking about your excellent English!!!). The technical part sounds a bit difficult for my limited knowledge of the computer world, but I’ll forward your message to my ‘more technical friends’.

    Francesca

  • #12448

    Anónimo

    Hi Francesca:

    SCORM uses a dark evil language. Translated to common English:

    Use SCORM:

    • If you are worried about knowing wich pages have clicked the students.
    • If you are worried about saving a grade, use the SCORM Quiz idevize and export as SCORM

    If you don’t worry about these issues, you can use SCORM, IMS or website. If you are only publishing in an LMS like Moodle, the first two options may be as good as website. If you want to use the exported contents outside Moodle or inside Moodle, website export is your best choice.

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