Extract SCORM Quiz Data from SCORM Container

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I have course videos published by Articulate that are SCORM-compliant (SCORM 2004). Our client is looking for a new LMS that doesn't rely on Flash. I'm looking to extract the course and quiz data (questions and answers, not results) so as to decouple it from all third-party software. I will handle the quiz and presentations myself without Flash.

I'm looking to do a single run with the courses, pull the data, store it in the database, and finally discard the original files.

How can I accomplish this? The presentation data is output in XML, but the quiz data is not.

I understand the point of SCORM is to facilitate easy transfer of course data from one system to another, but putting it in a compiled Flash package couldn't make this any more difficult. Perhaps I'm missing something?

Kind regards,

Scott

Solution Articulate quizzes include a file "data.swf." The data is in the form of non-encrypted XML, so you can open it in your own flash app and send the data to the server to be parsed.

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It sounds like what you're really trying to do is reverse engineer the Articulate output to extract the quiz data that is embedded in there. That really doesn't have anything to do with SCORM.

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If you have results, you may be able to extrapolate the info from the interaction data.

I've ran into this issue before - you're not going to find the question answer data in the manifest info.

There is an export to Word option in Articulate, however. At least you'd be able to get the question and answers that way.

Good luck!

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De-coupling Articulate Courses from Flash ... that might be a bridge too far. Whatever time you invest making that work is probably significantly more than adopting another tool. There's a few out there that claim they generate good mobile content.

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Articulate quizzes include a file "data.swf." The data is in the form of non-encrypted XML, so you can open it in your own flash app and send the data to the server to be parsed.