Managing a SCORM activity

After you make a SCORM activity visible in your course, students can attempt the activity. Guide your students through the types of interactions they may encounter in SCORM activities. After students complete the activities, instructors should know where to view students' results or grades.

There are several SCORM activities in the Stage 2/3 Exemplar Course, such as:

• Canadian Employers: What Do They Expect?
• Veterinary Clinic Interview
• Be Positive
• Why Not?

1. Students click on a SCORM link.

Note: The SCORM activity appears. On the SCORM's title slide, there may be additional features:

• discussion questions
• a web link for more exploration and information
• a printable answer key (password-protected; only instructors have the password)

Note: In this example, this SCORM has Discussion questions and a printable answer key. This screen guides the students to a starting point. The Show/Hide icon appears on the upper-left corner. 

Note: This reveals the Organization (table of contents). If screen size is an issue, students should minimize the table of contents with the Show/Hide icon and use the Navigation menu to move through the activity.

Note: The Navigation drop-down menu is an alternate way for students to progress through SCORM activities. It is positioned at the top of the SCORM learning object.

4. Students click on the Navigation menu to reveal a drop-down menu of the SCORM's activities.

5. Students click on individual activities or the top menu item, which returns them to the SCORM's main page. 

Note:  This is the first activity in this example SCORM. 

1. An instructor clicks on a SCORM link.

Note: Instructors (not the "Instructor (non-editing)" role) view the SCORM as an administrative tool rather than as an activity. These tools include an activity menu with Settings, Reports and More items.

The SCORM package tab displays the organization of the SCORM.

To view SCORM activity results for your class, open the course gradebook. For detailed instructions on using the gradebook, please refer to the Gradebook Basics article. This is not the most efficient method: it requires navigating away from the SCORM activity and the gradebook contains many columns for SCORM and other activities.

A more efficient method to view the results of a specific SCORM activity is through the SCORM reports. These reports display scores for that particular activity, including each student's final score, number of attempts, and attempt dates. More complex reports are also available.

1. Navigate to a SCORM activity from the course home page. The  page appears. It displays information about this SCORM.

2. Click the Reports menu item.

Note: The Reports tab displays the Basic report. This tab provides details about learner activity.

3. Click the Reports menu item.

A drop-down menu appears with four types of reports:

• Basic report
  
  
• Graph report
  
  
• Interactions report
  
  
• Objectives report

Note: This page can be used to download results to a spreadsheet, select and delete attempts by specific participants and filter the view to show all course participants or only those who have (or have not) completed the task.

4. Click the Download button to export these reports; results are available in three file formats.

A Quiz can include different question types, such as true/false, multiple choice, short answer, multi-selection, and hybrid questions. In most cases, a quiz will have a reading passage, but it can also include images, animations, or video prompts.

Gap-Fill activities are another type of SCORM. They can be designed in two formats.

• Fill in All the Gaps, where the users type answers into gaps and click Check to check their answers. Students can use the Hint button to reveal a free letter if an answer is difficult to guess, or click on the [?] button to get a clue. Using hints or clues may reduce the final score.
  
  
• Gap-Fill with Drop-Downs, where students answer questions or complete sentences by selecting the correct option from a drop-down menu, without needing to spell the words. This might be useful at the lower levels.

Interactive Crosswords are also used in SCORM activities. Students must click on the initial square to open an entry text field and view the clue.

In a Jumbled Sentence activity, students drag and drop words into sequence to form a sentence. Hints are available, but using them may reduce the final score.

A Jumbled Word activity is like the Jumbled sentence activity, except that individual letters are dragged into the correct order.

An Ordering activity asks students to arrange a sequence of items, often selected from a drop-down list.

Matching activities involve dragging and dropping items from one side to the other to match words, sentences or pictures. Depending on how the activity was created, items can be dragged from either the left or the right. Make sure that the students are aware of this before they attempt one of these.

Listening activities are an important part of the courseware. Ensure students understand how to use the audio player. It is very important to test a listening activity in your lab before students begin to ensure the audio player and any required plug-ins support MP3 playback.

Moodle Documents: SCORM Activity

Moodle Documents: SCORM Settings

Moodle Documents: Using SCORM

Moodle Documents: SCORM FAQ