SCORM - The Technical Side of Elearning

Whether you're a provider of elearning services and support, are delivering web-based training to your workforce or develop elearning content of your own, WyredMedia will help you make the most of your investment through reliable application of the industry's most widely-used standard, SCORM.

Elearning has grown in importance over recent years to become the primary means of delivering many types of professional training. The ability to track and measure performance has become much more important as a consequence, and so standards to make elearning content work with elearning delivery mechanisms are now critical.

SCORM is the elearning industry's leading standard for ensuring compatibility between:

  • Learning Management Systems (LMSes), the application that provides learners with access to materials and accreditation, and teachers and administrators the means to control access and measure success
  • Elearning content, which is what the learner engages with directly

ElearningAt its simplest, an elearning package will record a learner's progress and keep bookmarks so that when he returns to it having left it incomplete, he is back on the right 'page'. The content may incorporate a test and will have to record whether that test is completed successfully or not.

More complex packages will control progress by ensuring that pages are viewed in a particular order, or tests are passed along the way, and many will display personalised messages using the learner's name, which the LMS should be able to provide.

Getting Content to Work

WyredMedia has worked with organisations to get content compliant with SCORM standards, and this content has been delivered to hundreds of thousands of learners across the United Kingdom and Europe, on behalf of banks, local government bodies and the National Health Service.

Making a Learning Management System

Knowing SCORM means we can help with all parts of the process of integrating elearning effectively. WyredMedia provided the key components to a proprietary Learning Management System that meant it could deliver, handle and report on content created to SCORM standards. For our client, this increased the usefulness of its own offering and means it can now provide hosting of commercially-produced or off-the-shelf content as well as its own specialist materials.

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