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The Army DL "How to" Area

Open DLZone - DL DART Advisory Notice (Developer/Expert Level): - ALMS SCORM Rollup Behavior      Summary: Developer/Expert Level advisory referencing SCORM 2004 3rd Edition tags and scripting that will trigger proper rollup of SCORM content running in the ALMS. Includes information from the ALMS Content Developers Standards, Guidelines, and Best Practices document which contains Addendum's for the Articulate and Lectora content authoring tools.

Open DLZone - DL DART Issues Report: - Courseware bookmarking failure      Summary: DL DART Issues Report - The diagnosis of courseware that failed to bookmark upon learner exiting by using the browser "X". Otherwise book marked OK.

How to make the TOC go away on a Single SCO ALMS package Explore the package      Summary: ***see readmeFile in package*** A copy of the prodding SCO package whose SCORM manifest contains the code to make the regular SCORM 2004 player not display the TOC for a single SCO package. Assumption is this behavior is intentional, and a result of intelligence in the sequencing engine design, and not a bug.

Army DL Specifications and supporting documentation

Open Army Business Rules V1.1.1      Summary: This document presents the Army Business Rules that must be followed when developing DL content. The Army verification proceedures and automated routines are also covered. Specifications to be followed are SCORM 2004 3rd Edition. The 2014 Army Business Rules list consists of 19 Business Rules in six categories: Instructional (3) Metadata (3) Filename Characters (1) Scripting and Coding (2) SCORM (6) Delivery (3).

Open The new Army Business Rule work spreadsheet, 2014 rewrite      Summary: The working document for the 2014 update of the Army DL Business Rules.

Open DLZone-Developer_Guide - Quick Guide to Submitting Army DL Deliverables V1.0      Summary: Brief or Quick Start description of Army required deliverables, supporting documentation and instructional content, necessary for the Army Activity developing DL to submit for final acceptance and testing.

Open DLZone-TADLP DL Specification Notes, 23 January, 2014      Summary: Changes planned for Army DL Specifications but updating documentation not finalized. Latest guidance in development, current focus areas and high priority items.

Army Mandatory data, Acceptance Testing, and Logfile processing

Open Government and Contractor tasks in the new TADLP DL content testing policy V2.0      Summary: Table listing the steps involved with the technical development and creation of deliverables necessary for Army DL courses. The list begins in a DL course’s Development Phase; Content Validation has occurred, however the tasks are silent concerning the format of the validated content and any steps needed to transform validated content into loadable content packages of IMI. Step 1 occurs during the ADDIE Development Phase as course content becomes learner consumable interactive multimedia instruction (IMI), hosted on the ALMS. The list concludes late in the Implementation phase of an Army DL development project with fielding being the last identified task.

Open The_Army_Multilog_Parser_configuration_Report-CTS_V1.1.2      Summary: *Update in Progress* This document summarizes the content of the Army Multilog parser configuration files. The importance of the configuration files is that they identify the Army mandatory SCORM data calls necessary for validation of DL content submitted for fielding in the Army Learning Content Management Capability, ie, the ALMS. Content reflects version 1.0.2 of the ADL SCORM 3rd Edition Certification Test Suite (CTS). Updated to address new 2014 revised Army Business Rules and CTS v1.1.2.

Sample SCORM content packages

TheScoreFix - rollup-and-pass-the-passing-test-score-to-the-top; Explore the package      Summary: Value in this sample package is the "Stub" SCOs, representing content and Test. The test SCO is good, and provides user selected assessment level data to demonstratie exam SCO performance. The content SCO is only one page so demonstrating bookmarking, exiting before completion, any paging exercises are not available. The content SCO sets completion status, continue/suspend and exit. Only the "util" directory is required for resolving calls made within the SCOs.

ATSC-IS1 - ATSC Instructional Strategy #1; Linear-Sequencing_w/o_Exams; Explore the package      Summary: A SCORM package using hardcoded content stubs to demonstrate forced sequencing from content lesson to content lesson while still allowing learner directed navigation. "IS1-Linear-Lesson-Sequencing_w-o_Exams.zip" file is a organized presentation of four lessons the learner must progress through (or complete) in a linear sequence. This is an Army DL lesson SCORM package without tests. Note that this is a SCORM 2004 2nd Edition package. It has not be updated to 3rd Edition but it is presumed that a simple metadata change in the manifest will convert this to 3rd Edition.

ALCMC/LMS Administrators’ Guidance and instructions

Open ALMS Offering and Iteration Setup Guide      Summary: This provides step-by-step guidance for structuring content packages loaded into the ALMS CTE repository into offerings to be used for pre-delivery content testing and validation. This document provides instructions using CTE system repository content items, that is, both files and zipped packages, to build Offerings and Course Iterations.