eLearning courses and training must comply with either AICC or SCORM standards in order to meet a collection of requirements for web-based learning. Your learning management system, or LMS, often determines which set of standards your content needs to comply with. Lectora enables you to publish your eLearning content to both AICC and SCORM so you can easily meet these standards.
The best approach is to understand which of these standards your learning management system (LMS) requires your content to adhere to - AICC or SCORM. One of the biggest differences between AICC and SCORM is the way that each communicates with your LMS. AICC sends HTTP messages to your LMS and SCORM communicates with JavaScript. (Find more detail about the distinctions between AICC and SCORM below in the following video.)
In this eLearning Lesson in Lectora, you will learn the specifications, requirements and options for publishing your Lectora eLearning content to your learning management system (LMS) such as CourseMill. Tara Roe, Director of Training at Trivantis and expert in Lectora eLearning software, provides a detailed demonstration in the following video:
Tara Roe describes the differences between AICC and SCORM:
AICC: Aviation Industry CBT (Computer based training) Committee. Established in 1993, these standards only focused on CD-ROM based training until 1998, when web-based training was also included. AICC communicates with the LMS by sending HTTP messages and then interpreting responses from the LMS. Uploading content to an LMS using AICC is typically a multiple step process.
SCORM: Sharable Content Object Reference Model. SCORM works with a convenient package procedure and uploading courses to the LMS is often as simple as uploading a .zip file. SCORM-conformant courses to communicate with an LMS by calling methods of a JavaScript object called the API adapter. There are several versions of SCORM, however, the most widely used are SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004.
Questions about AICC and SCORM standards? The Lectora eLearning Community Forum is a great place to ask questions or find your answer in the very active LMS Integration discussions on the forum.
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