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SCORM Offline Player
1 Description
A SCORM offline player (SOP) has to support
- playing a SCORM 2004 learning module without being connected to the web
- storing tracking data that has been generated while using the module offline
- synchronising tracking data after the user has been reconnected to ILIAS
2 Status
- Scheduled for: ILIAS 4.4
- Funding: Partly funded by Marine Française
- Development: Feature is to be developed by Internetlehrer
3 Additional Information
- If you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding, please contact: Matthias Kunkel
4 Discussion
JF 17 Sep 2012: We appreciate this application and support the implementation of a corresponding interface in ILIAS for 4.4. Please provide a proposal for the interface.
The pros of a protocol based interface:
- export or import of tracking data can be provided directly in ILIAS as special url in an authenticated user context.
- no ilias container or authentication must be displayed and handled by a special offline player GUI.
- the main buisiness logic wil be handled by sop
- in ilias we just need a (REST) interface for handle the data import / export (lean interface)
JF 29 Apr 2013: We shortly discussed the SCORM offline player today, especially the export/import of tracking data. The existing tracking data import feature confuses the users. We should re-design this feature and support a real import of tracking data as needed by the offline player. The main goal of the current import feature is to set single learning progress status for learners (e.g. status to passed) manually by tutors. This feature should be implemented in another way. We will continue to discuss the offline player and related features during its development.
5 Follow-Up
Feature description: http://www.ilias.de/docu/goto_docu_blog_3439_174.html
Kohnle, Uwe [ukohnle], 09 OCT 2020: As mentioned already at the Advisory Board 2019 the ILIAS SCORM-Offline-Player depends on the deprecated web-caching technology "AppCache".
Fortunately most browsers did support the AppCache for a long time (Chrome < 85, currrent Firefox Version 81). The only valuable alternative technology for offline storage is the ServiceWorker Cache-API. After consultation with Alex Killing who is actually leading the Elaboration of the "Concept ILIAS Offline" a service worker implementation might be available soonest in ILIAS 8. Until then the usage of the SCORM-Offline-Player must be restricted to limited browser versions.
The already implemented AppCache feature detection should be extended with current compatibility informations.
The TestCases can be performed with a still functional Firefox version 81.
JourFixe, ILIAS [jourfixe], 12 OCT 2020 : Thanks for pointing us on this general problem of browser support. We recommend to add a short notice in the releases notes of the currently maintained releases that notifies user that the SOP works only with a selected number of Fireforx browsers. Also a mail to the admin list is highly appreciated. In addition, we support the efforts to change the underlying code of the SOP and use service workers once and in case they are introduced with ILIAS 8.
Last edited: 17. Apr 2025, 15:00, Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel]