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Exporting SCORM packages from Coassemble
Exporting SCORM packages from Coassemble
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Written by Bridie
Updated over 8 months ago

If you use another LMS or are planning on sharing your courses with your clients and customers to utilize on their own platforms, you can export Coassemble Lessons and Quizzes as a SCORM package that can be uploaded and delivered on other third-party learning platforms.

Unlike most authoring tools, Coassemble is a cloud product. The SCORM .zip file contains a manifest that links back to the Coassemble app, so you'll only ever have to download/upload the ZIP file once, even if you modify the content.

Preparing content as SCORM

Only Lessons and Quizzes can be exported as SCORM.

You cannot export a course as a SCORM object, only individual Lessons and Quizzes, however, the only way to create a Lesson or Quiz is inside a course.

In light of this, we recommend you create a Coassemble course to represent each course you plan to create in the third-party LMS you're using. Ideally, your course will contain just 2 modules:

  • A Lesson, containing all of the theory for the course

  • A Quiz, to assess learners on the theory

These modules will be exported as individual SCORM packages that can be uploaded into a single course in the LMS of your choice.

Configuring Lessons and Quizzes for SCORM

The way you configure your lessons and quizzes in Coassemble will determine the experience you create for learners in the third-party platform, as well as how your quizzes will be tracked and recorded.

To learn more about configuring your modules check out:

Exporting Lessons and Quizzes as SCORM

To Export your Lesson and Quiz modules, you will need to head over to your workspace Library by selecting the Library option from the navigation sidebar in your workspace.

From the Library select either Lesson or Quiz from the dropdown menu.

Once you've found the resource you're looking for, click the context menu, and select the 'Share' option from the list.

This will bring up a modal with a number of share options. Navigate to the SCORM tab. You'll see there are two visible options you can configure before downloading your SCORM file:

  1. Course settings

  2. Security

Course settings

If your lesson belongs to multiple courses, you can choose which course you want to inherit the settings for the module from. For example, if you had the same quiz in two courses, you might have the quiz in the first course set to have unlimited retries, and only 2 retries in the first course. Alternatively, you can download the file without course settings meaning it would inherit the Coassemble defaults for each module type.

Security

By default, your SCORM files can be hosted anywhere, however, if you're sharing your SCORM files with third-parties, you might want to restrict where they are hosted. To do this, simply change the setting to only allow the SCORM file to be shared with the sites you choose. When you choose this option, you can add the URLs of the sites that are allowed to host your SCORM file. It's important to note that this setting affects all SCORM files in your workspace, you cannot have a different security setting for each SCORM object.

FAQs

Can I export an entire course as SCORM?

No. Just lesson or quiz modules so we'd recommend creating one module with everything inside of it for easy exporting.

How will SCORM behave in a third-party LMS?

SCORM is capable of communicating the completion progress and the grade achieved. It will communicate these upon the learner reaching the end of the SCORM file.

If it is a lesson module, only "completion progress" is communicated so it'll go from 0% to 100%, where quizzes can be 100% "progress completed" with a 70% "score" achieved.

There's a workspace setting that you can enable to allow students to retry the quiz and have the score update, I'd recommend turning that on if you want learners to be able to re-attempt the quiz and achieve a new score.

When exporting SCORM files, you'll need to export with course settings.

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