The purpose of the ADL SCORM Minimal RTI templates is to make is easy for developers to create and publish Flash movies that meet minimal ADL SCORM Runtime Interface (RTI) requirements, without requiring the developer to use Dreamweaver and the SCORM RTI Extension for Dreamweaver.
The ADL SCORM Minimal RTI templates include the HTML attributes and JavaScript code required for minimal compliance with the ADL SCORM v1.01. When used as a Flash publishing template the resulting HTML will find the API object (also called the LMS host adapter) as provided by your Learning Management System (LMS). After locating the API object, a handler associated with the onLoad attribute of the <BODY> tag will then call the Initialize and Finish methods of the API object.
Both templates include all the code normally found in the Flash template "Flash with FSCommand," as well as the SCORM-related JavaScript and HTML. The extension template "ADL Minimum +completion RTI" also adds a single call to mark the lesson/AU/SCO as complete when the page is loaded.
To fully utilize either template, one must have access to a learning management
system that supports ADL SCORM style communication to an LMS. It is incumbent
upon your LMS vendor to provide a suitable API adapter object for you to embed,
or to automatically provide such an object in the opener window or a frameset
at run-time.
For more information on the ADL and SCORM see: http://www.ADLnet.org
ADL SCORM RTI Template Details
The SCORM specification requires compliant content to:
The developer may decide to set the (completion) status to any of the valid values, when the page is loaded by either manually editing the code provided by the template "ADL Minimum +completion RTI" or by publishing the Flash movie with their preferred publication settings and then using the Dreamweaver extension for ADL SCORM Minimal RTI compliance. The Dreamweaver extension provides the capability to set all of the valid status codes as well as the option to do them using the onLoad handler, the onUnload handler or a combination of both.
Sophisticated Flash developers may chose to use ActionScript within their movie
to conditionally call back to the HTML page and call a variety of LMS functions
to get or set values and pass them back into their Flash movie.
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