Use SCORM Courses to unify online learning

Note: This article is about the new beta Admin App, which is still in development. Changes may occur. Please provide feedback directly in the beta app.

With Showpad Coach, uploading Shareable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) content and creating SCORM Courses for your users is simple. SCORM is a standardized, JavaScript-based API designed to unify online learning globally. A SCORM file is a ZIP archive containing shareable content objects structured according to the SCORM data model, including an imsmanifest.xml file.

As an admin in Showpad Coach, you can track specific events related to any SCORM Course. These events, known as RTEs, represent the data exchanged between Coach and the SCORM package.

See how it looks

Key features

• Upload SCORM Courses
• View specific SCORM events

You need this to succeed

• The beta Admin App enabled
• Feature availability depends on your subscription package
• Admin or Promoted Member with Course creation permissions
• SCORM 1.2 or SCORM 2004 file with a valid imsmanifest.xml

The quick way

• Learn about developing SCORM Courses
• Upload a SCORM Course
• Troubleshoot SCORM Courses

Do this step by step

Developing SCORM Courses

By leveraging a dedicated web server within the device, The iOS and Android apps efficiently host:

• SCORM Courses
• Advanced Experiences
• HTML Content

As a result, the web applications are hosted on a domain known as "localhost" or "127.0.0.1," rather than showpad.com or showpad.biz.

To ensure optimal compatibility, developers must refrain from making assumptions about the specific hosting environment. By acknowledging the constraints of the local hosting setup, developers can design their code to be versatile and adaptable, regardless of the hosting conditions.

Within the apps, SCORM Courses, Advanced Experiences, and HTML Content are seamlessly executed through Web Views.

• On iOS, the reliable WKWebView is employed, providing similar functionality to Safari, although not identical.
• On the Android platform, a customized component based on WebView is utilized, delivering a comparable experience to Chrome, albeit with some minor differences.

Include these necessary SCORM fields when developing a SCORM Course.

• To ensure the Course is marked complete when a learner successfully finishes, include one of these two SCORM fields.
  • cmi.core.lesson_status
  • cmi.completion_status
• To track the learner's progress and show them their completion percentage, include this SCORM field.
  • cmi.progress_measure

Add a SCORM Course

For a SCORM Course to behave as a Course in Coach, follow the Course creation steps.

1. Navigate to the Libraries tab.
2. If your organization uses multiple Libraries, select the desired Library from the top-left dropdown menu.
3. Click Courses and select All Courses in the left side menu.
4. Click the New Course button.
5. Fill out the necessary Course information, such as Title and Description. Select SCORM as the Course type, then click Create.
6. To add your SCORM file, click one of the buttons:
   • Upload from Computer: Select this option to add a new file from your device.
   • Select Content: Select this option if the file is already in your Showpad Files library. The SCORM Course will be added as a Lesson. Give the lesson an appropriate title.
7. Follow the remaining steps of Course creation as normal, assigning users and then reviewing and publishing the Course.

Note: A SCORM file uploaded as content added to a Lesson will not behave as a Course but rather as simple HTML.

Troubleshoot SCORM Courses

To see events in real-time as they are sent to Coach, please check with your SCORM software provider to learn your options for enabling debugging. Be sure to disable any pop-up blockers, which will prevent the debug window from opening. Note that debugging may not work on mobile apps, as they do not support pop-ups.

To see SCORM events for Courses that users have completed, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Analytics tab and click Coach Reports in the left menu.
2. Select Course & User from the Report Type list.
3. Filter by the title of the Course you wish to find.
4. Click on a user whose results you wish to view, then click the Refine Data icon and select See the details for this user and course.
5. You will see the Key on the left side column and the Value on the right.

Learn how to use SCORM Courses on the current Online Platform.