Peoplesoft LMS.
March 17, 2005 12:00 AM
Hi all,We are actually doing quite well with using Lectora courses delivered via Peoplesoft. I've gotten both AICC and SCORM to work. We had problems with the JAVA sandbox issue for users on later versions of the JAVA runtime. (We are hosting our courses on a server that is separate from our LMS.) So, moving forward, we are using SCORM for all our course delivery - it uses tidier communication anyway.To get SCORM courses to work, I have had to "tweak" a couple things during my Lectora publish to get the courses to launch and track:1. In publish settings: I had to uncheck the "The published course will report Test Question Interactions to the Learning Management System (LMS)." checkbox. At least in our configuration, this feature is not allowed in the LMS - it essentially means reporting *individual* question results back to the LMS - Peoplesoft could not handle that and threw errors all over the place when the course was trying to report back results.2. I don't package as a .zip file. Since we are running our courses from a different server than the LMS, I don't want that huge package loaded into the Peoplesoft database. Post publish, I zip imsmanifest.xml into its own file and upload that to the LMS.3. I package to SCORM1.2 compliant. To my knowledge, PS is not 2004 compliant, yet.4. I delete the file "scormcsf(1.1).dtd" from the /xml/dtd directory. It's only needed if you are deploying a SCORM 1.1 piece. I am forced to use Teamsite to upload my files to the webserver, the () have been outlawed by our web folks, so I just delete the file entirely rather than put up a fight.5. The entire published directory structure is uploaded to the webserver and I build my course in PS.In the LMS, I just make sure to put in my path to the course. The network folks (working on the PS configuration) set up the root part of the URL where our courses will launch from ie: "https://inside.company.com/" I just need to include the rest of the file path (minus the .html launch page -- this is taken care of in the imsmanifest.xml file) ie: "/cbtdirectory/mycourse/" I am sure to select SCORM12 from the compliance dropdown in the activity then click "manage content" to upload my .zip file (in our case it just contains the file imsmanifest.xml for the reason mentioned above)Hope this helps. Let me know how things are going with your PS implementations!Thanks,Chris CharleseLearning ConsultantThe Principal Financial GroupEdited By: chris.charles on 38509.4950347222
Discussion (10)
We are implementing (UAT right now) Peoplesoft with Oracle on UNIX. We have had success with AICC courses running and tracking properly. We are getting some runtime errors when taking some Lectora courses.Has anyone encountered this?I simply copied the Lectora course files over from the existing server/LMS setup to the new PeopleSoft environment and am wondering if this may be part of the problem. I am republishing now to see if this resolves the runtime errors.Any thoughts/ideas ?? Thanks.
If you are running SCORM in a distributed environment(LMS on one server and content on another server), it's all up to the LMS to supply an APIAdapter that handles the cross-domain issue ... the content just talks locally, and has no clue where the LMS is. That's whywhen you publish to AICC (w/ LEctora) ... you get the question about whether they are on the same server or not, because in AICC, it's the content's responsibility.Tim V
You did know this topic is from 2005 didn't you? Since then, chris did not post much (understatement). Chances are he does not even look at this board anymore. Maybe you would be better of sending an email with your question in it.
Best results I have found with PeopleSoft LMS is not to use any compliance AICC or SCORM. Non-Compliant courseware launches without all the overhead worries of cross-domain communication, browser incompatibilities, etc.PeopleSoft states they are compliant but provides little and of no specific use to your environment support for AICC or SCORM compliance setup and configuration.
Chris, How did your rollout go? Any issues running courseware on ELM?Steve
Same here. Using PeopleSoft ELM and there are issues with just loading and running courses created for another LMS. Been looking for tips all over the web on debugging information. Is there any way to determine if the issue is with the ELM web implementation or the course content using Trivantis?
I'm curious if anybody else is using Lectora with Peoplesoft's "Enterprise Learning Management" system.We are in the midst of deploying it with a go-live date of March 30.Thanks,Chris
Thank you for the information. Our environment is HTTPS, Oracle on Unix for our webserver hosting. I dont have the opportunity to move to NT for this content due to our IT standard for PeopleSoft apps. Addtionally, the course owner did not publish the course with PeopleSoft in mind. Are there addtional code locations and items I can add to code to test out the communication between ELM and the content?
Hi there. We are also using a Peoplesoft LMS and have run into some apparent cross web domain issues while trying to run published scorm 1.2 compliant content. Anyone have any Peoplesoft LMS specific integration tips?Hi there. We are also using a Peoplesoft LMS and have run into some apparent cross web domain issues while trying to run published scorm 1.2 compliant content. Anyone have any Peoplesoft LMS specific integration tips?
Chris - how did you get AICC to work with PeopleSoft ELM?Chris - how did you get AICC to work with PeopleSoft ELM?
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