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What is Scorm.ro?

Scorm.ro is a team of developers who are working on providing a free LMS (and in the future a LCMS) witch enables you to build and run SCORM 2004 courses. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, will be made to scorm.ro software and best of all, it will be freely available to everyone.

What's a learning management system (LMS)?

A learning management system (LMS) is software for delivering, tracking and managing training. LMSs range from simple systems for managing training records to software for distributing courses over the Internet and offering features for online collaboration. In many instances, corporate training departments purchase LMSs to automate record-keeping as well as the registration of employees for classroom and online courses. Learner self-service (e.g. self-registration on instructor-led training), training workflow (e.g. user notification, manager approval, waitlist management), the provision of on-line learning (e.g. Computer-Based Training, read & understand), on-line assessment, management of continuous professional education (CPE), collaborative learning (e.g. application sharing, discussion threads), and training resource management (e.g. instructors, facilities, equipment), are some of the additional dimensions to leading Learning Management Systems.

The characteristics shared by both types of LMSs include:

Manage users, roles, courses, instructors, and facilities and generate reports
Course calendar
Learner messaging and notifications
Assessment/testing capable of handling student pre/post testing
Display scores and transcripts
Grading of coursework and roster processing, including waitlisting
Web-based or blended course delivery

Characteristics more specific to corporate learning, which sometimes includes franchisees or other business partners, include:

Autoenrollment (enrolling learners in courses when required according to predefined criteria, such as job title or work location)
Manager enrollment and approval
Boolean definitions for prerequisites or equivalencies
Integration with performance tracking and management systems
Planning tools to identify skill gaps at departmental and individual level
Curriculum, required and elective training requirements at an individual and organizational level
Grouping learners according to demographic units (geographic region, product line, business size, etc.)
Assign corporate and partner employees to more than one job title at more than one demographic unit

What's a learning content management system (LCMS)?

A Learning Content Management System or LCMS is a related technology to the learning management system (e.g., WebCT), in that it is focused on the development, management and publishing of the content that will typically be delivered via an LMS. An LCMS is a multi-user environment where learning developers may create, store, reuse, manage, and deliver digital learning content from a central object repository. The LMS cannot create and manipulate courses; it cannot reuse the content of one course when building another. The LCMS, however, can create, manage and deliver not only training modules but also manage and edit all the individual pieces that make up a catalog of training. LCMS applications allow users to create, import, manage, search for and reuse small units or 'chunks' of digital learning content/assets, commonly referred to as learning objects. These assets may include media files developed in other authoring tools, assessment items, simulations, text, graphics or any other object that makes up the content within the course being created. An LCMS manages the process of creating, editing, storing and delivering e-learning content, ILT materials and other training support deliverables such as job aids.

The components of an LCMS are:

content authoring/editing
the ability to acquire and ingest externally developed assets
a centralized repository
assessment development
versioning and history
metadata / taxonomy support
support for publishing of web, CD, print, presentation requirements associated with e-learning or ILT
standards support
development process management
a dynamic delivery interface; and,
learner administration tools

What are some real world examples of what scorm.ro software can do?

Scorm.ro software can be used to:

Run and deliver SCORM 2004 compilant courses
Help to debug existing SCORM 2004 compilant courses
Develop elearning interactions
Develop elearning course design
Create and reuse learning objects in scorm compilant courses
Track students performance per course

I need to build a SCORM 2004 course. How will scorm.ro help me?

For the moment we can not provide a stable release of the scorm course builder but we planing to do that soon. Check out the news on the website.

I need to run a SCORM 2004 course. How will scorm.ro help me?

You can install and use the RedScorm Player on your local machine for runing scorm compilant courses offline.

Or you can use the GreenScorm Player witch runs the courses on a website (comming soon).

I'm a course developer. What are some advanced ways I can use your software?

If your requirements go beyond what is available in the basic scorm.ro package the powerful application framework makes it easy for developers to create sophisticated add-ons that extend the power of scorm core into virtually unlimited directions.