Monday, November 17, 2008

SCORM and Bandwidth

I am in the process of implementing Moodle and my first time using an eLearning tutorial developed with Captivate did not go well. I ran a little test with a small group of people who are accessing Moodle through a Citrix connection. The tutorial froze up on about %50 of the end users and worked great for the other half.

There are a variety of things that could have caused the Captivate tutorial freeze up and I am hoping I can find a solution. My first thought is that the organization is currently going through a network upgrade which has caused a variety of system issues. I am hoping that all of my problems are solved after the network upgrade is complete but I suspect that there will still be problems. Many of the users connect on a WinTerm through Citrix which does not encourage great performance : )

Another possible culprit could be how I have the SCORM settings set. The reason I believe SCORM tracking may be the culprit is because I have had nothing but success with flash based eLearning courses that do not use any kind of SCORM tracking. The only difference here is that I am using a zipped SCORM package as opposed to a standard .swf file.

I am going to start by trying some different SCORM settings and run a few more tests. I am currently recording all interactions so I am hoping by changing that setting I will get better performance. I am also waiting to hear back on the status of the network upgrade and hopefully I will get good news.

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2 comments:

Rory Steel said...

I know this was a while ago but did you ever solve the problem as Captivate 5 is doing the same thing in Moodle with me at the moment. I can't find another package which does the same so I am really hoping you found a solution.

Joe Deegan said...

Hi Rory,
Thanks for commenting. It may have something to do with your file size. Is it a large file size? I did write a follow up post to this where I got a lot of great suggestions. I posted the link below. Hopefully one of those tips will help you out.

http://joedeegan.blogspot.com/2008/11/scorm-and-bandwidth-part-2.html