Why do I need AU for TinCan in Lectora11?
February 13, 2013 12:00 AM
Hello,
I wonder why I need to define Assignable Units for Tin Can? I want to use LRS for specific tests only? Is there any way to use TinCan API features without the "SCORM-like"-Payload in Lectora 11? (title manager, units, etc)
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@Holger 48005 wrote:
Hello,
I wonder why I need to define Assignable Units for Tin Can? I want to use LRS for specific tests only? Is there any way to use TinCan API features without the "SCORM-like"-Payload in Lectora 11? (title manager, units, etc)
Tin Can is "SCORM-like". Don't forget that Tin Can is the really the next generation of SCORM. It still reports the same sort of things that SCORM did, it just gives you more flexibility with Tin Can Statements.
Yes, you can use similar statements like session start/end commands to communicate with LMS *but* you don't need to. That's one of the advantages. You can just as well have the course run on any platform as an independent program and communicate with a LRS later. TinCan implementation in Lectora just seems to be a translation of SCORM commands to TinCan logic which probably makes it TinCan-compatible but doesn't really feature it's full potential.
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