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Using Tin Can with an LMS
- 1. USING TIN CAN W/ LMS 2.29.2013 @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 2. “we have a LMS but…” Problem YOUR INVESTMENT @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 3. SCORM, AICC, and Tin Can, oh my! Standards PROTOCOLS EXPLAINED @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 4. Noun Verb Object 11 day I DID THIS Michael Attended Getting Started with Tin Can Webinar 14 days ago Tin Can API LRS AND STATEMENTS 21 day @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 5. LMS LRS Solution TIN CAN AND YOUR LMS @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 6. • Onsite • 3rd party tool Implementation TIN CAN API LAUNCHER @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 7. Option 1: Launch string : /devlearn/story.html?endpoint=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vtrainingtracker .com%2FTCAPI%2F&auth=Basic%20aW5mb0B2dHJhaW5pbmdyb29tL mmMDBiMjA0ZTk4MDA5OThlY2Y4NDI3ZQ%3D%3D&actor=%7B"mbox "%3A%5B"mailto%3Ainfo%40vtrainingroom.com"%5D%2C"name"%3A %5B"DevLearn"%5D%7D /story.html Option 2: http://bit.ly/TinTrack ✍ Content ✍ EndPont ✍ Auth ✍ Actor @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 8. LRS Content URL Generator Location @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 9. LMS LRS Solution TIN CAN WITH YOUR LMS @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 10. 1. Begin the transition w/o giving up 2. Report multiple scores, detailed results 3. Incorporate blended learning 4. Real-world performance measurement 5. Data Portability Benefits 5 WAYS TIN CAN CAN FILL IN THE GAPS @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 11. vTrainingTracker LRS Implementations vTrainingRoom SERVICES @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 12. vtrainingtracker.com articulate.com/tincanapi slideshare.net/vtrainingroom Learn More RESOURCES @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 13. @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
- 14. Thank You twitter.com/vtrainingroom facebook.com/vtrainingroom www.vtrainingroom.com @vTrainingRoom /vTrainingRoom www.vTrainingRoom.com
Editor's Notes
- Welcome everyone. My Name is Michael Roberts, and I am the CEO at vTrainingRoom Incorporated. Primarily I am a product evangelist, and spend a majority of my time working with companies that are designing and deploying learning management platforms and custom web based learning solutions.I have been in the training industry for over a decade and have both an HR and IT background.Kevin is also on the call, and will be helping to organize questions, and assisting participants.So I would like to start of today with a quick overview of Tin Can, and then dive right into how it can be used with an LMS. I am going to assume that most of you are at least familiar with the concept of SCORM, and a bit familiar with the experience API/Tin Can, but if not, my brief overview should help you get your bearings a bit. And the goal is that by the end of this webinar you should be prepared to integrate Tin Can as a tool into your learning program.
- I cant tell you how many times I have had someone walk up to me and say that they have an LMS but they are not happy. And we all want to be happy campers. Here are some of the complaints:I have to wrestle with my content to get it to work on the LMS, and they say its my content, my content vendor says it’s the LMSI can get the content to launch, but we don’t get much data backWe are stuck in a long term contract, so there is nothing we can do to improve the platformThey tell us that features are coming, but wont promise what or whenIt feels like there are lots of features that don’t address what we need.It would be great if it did …Basically there are some gaps with LMSes and that is only natural since every organization, just like every person learns differently.No one size is going to fit all, and making a platform that will morph into something custom for everyone is not always practical. So you have made the investment in a system and are not getting the most you can out of it… now what?
- First lets cover what’s available. SCORM and AICC are standards that allow course creators to build content that meets the specification, and they ensure that it will work with complaint LMSes and launch and behave consistently across platforms.Most of you are familiar with publishing content as either SCORM orAICC compliant, and the standards have long time been both a blessing and a hindrance for many of you in delivering your elearning. What I mean is that they make it easy to deliver standardized content in containers, and then track completions (usually). But these protocols are old school. They do not make it easy to Track informal learning, blended learning, and team based learning. They are great for launching WBT, and recording completions. But, because of the tools available to create content and constraints of the protocols themselvesmost instructional designers simply can not create advanced mechanisms to facilitate blended learning. Pause on desktop and resume on mobile is nearly impossible with SCORM since it requires you stay persistently connected to the internet. It is difficult to create mobile apps for learning and record off-line learning using SCORM, mostly because it was not designed to do that. Lets face it we are looking at decade old technology that has reached some practical boundaries. Which by the way creative contend developers have been trying to get around these limitations for some time, creating all sorts of custom non standard solutions. That was the primary reason why ADL commissioned the Experience API or Tin Can specification to be written. Now we have Tin Can available the question becomes how do we use it?Regardless of the content tool you use to create courses, they should be able to plug and play on LMS systems. Imagine if we had no standards and every Instructional designer and content vendor sold courses that required customization to work on your LMS. Ok, maybe you don’t have to imagine, some of you are having some trouble getting these supposed standard packages to work on your platforms already. But I think that just illustrates how important it is for content to be developed in a way that makes it easy to deploy the content on your platform and get results about the activities that learners are experiencing.Tin Can is often called the next generation of SCORM, that may be true, but it can do much more than just replace SCORM.
- The basic philosophy behind Tin Can and the statements it generates is that learning is a series of experiences. To make tin can work you need to understand both its form and functional parts.The form is I did this. A noun a verb, and an object.The function is that when activities take place these statements are sent to a Learning Records Store, or LRS. These recorded statements can later be queried and mined for useful data. An example of our LRS timeline view is shown on the left of the screen.Simply looking at the statements that have come into the LRS can help trainers evaluate what learning is taking place, how frequently, and in what forms. The lrs is like the engine that makes it possible to store and retrieve the records about learning.So how does it work along side of an LMS without replacing it?
- Tin Can solutions don't use an LMS. But it also doesn’t mean that they can’t work with an LMS. So lets talk a bit of theory and then get into specifics. One way you could improve your Learning environment would be to "Ditch your LMS for tracking" allow your LMS to go into the background and becomes a content management/delivery platform. Your LMS gets to continue to do things it probably does very well, act as a repository for training material, authenticate users, manage development plans, maybe even some course content built right on the platform.Here is how an LRS could support the platform. You continue to place the content on your LMS and it now talks to an internal LRS if your LMS currently has one, or it sends and recieves Tin Can statements from a third party LRS. It can poll and retrieves learning records back when it needs reports, or you access them directly on the LRS. So you are basically using your LMS to manage the stuff it does well, and later as your provider builds more functionality, more of the process will take place on your LMS, or more could take place on your LRS and between other LRSes.With LRSes data can be exchanged. Part of the protocal calls for an ability to exchange your learning records between LRS(s). This means that LRS providers have to deliver real value to keep your business, and if they can not perform, then you will quickly take your business somewhere else. Portability of your training data and records is another key benefit to the LRS.So if this is all making sense we’ll move from theory to practice.
- In past webinars we have talked about launchers, and you will most likely have a few choices if you have an LMS today that supports Tin Can Statements. On the left is a screen shot of ScholarLMS which has a few options to handle Tin Can content. If your LMS supports statements you will likely have those options or something very similar. Assuming those two options were not available. Let’s cover the alternative, a third party tool.First I might need to step back and cover launchers for those that were not able to attend the previous webinar.
- A launcher is very similar to a traditional SCORM wrapper and player in an LMS. All Tin Can content must be passed some authentication and parameters at the time it is launched in order for it to send and recieve statements. Similar to SCORM where you wrap the SCORM course and tell the LMS to launch the package, with tin can you need to send the Endpoint location and credentials when you launch the content.Thus the term Launcher.If you have a LMS that is ready for tin can, it will have a launcher that wraps the content you load and passes this information for you when the content is accessed by learners. If you don’t, there are other launchers available. We have built several custom launchers, we have one for Moodle as well as Wordpress, and have another tool available that makes it really easy to launch Tin Can content.So it’s important to know you do have a few options, you can construct the launch string, and add the code similar to option1. Inside of your LMS you probably have an option to create html links. In that case you would construct a launch string like that option, pass the required parameters, and your users can launch the content, and it will fire out a statement to the third party LRS.Another optoin would be to use a shortening service like option 2. We have one of these lauchers available as part of the suite of tools on vTrainingTracker. You can access your account, enter in the location of your content, and it creates a launch string that you can use. When a user clicks on the link, it then launches the content and allows users to self sign (enter their name, and email address) and then access the content. There are some other options available to manage individual users, and send them unique urls. But the same process is used.
- Its possible your current LMS is ready for tin can, but the reality is that most are not yet. We have an LRS product called vTrainingTracker that is a great sandbox or production environment. With any Learning Record Store the information that you will need is the Endpoint URL, the Authentication username and password string. These are your unique keys for the LRS.On vTrainingTracker these credentials can be accessed from a link on the My Account page.
- So to summarize:You publish your tin can content where it will be accessible from a browser.You create the url or use a launching service, and then add that to your LMS as a url type resourceUser accesses the content via your LMS, and it launches the content and fires out statements to the Learning Records StoreSo I know you’re asking, why bother….
- Using an LRS and Tin Can you are going to be able to fill some gaps in with your current system
- We provide several Tin Can products ranging from ScholarLMS which is our Turn Key Learning Management Systems including Tin Can, To Specialized launchers/wrappers for Wordpress, integrations with Salesforce, SMS messaging, etc. Additionally we provide clients with help integrating Tin Can with their existing infrastructure.vTrainingTracker as I mentioned is our LRS. It is cloud based, and allows you to track, record, and reward employees. It’s a great sandbox environment, and includes a free tier, where we will store up to 1 GB of statements for free.Additional Analytics, and support tools are available for paid subscribers.Please feel free to contact us if you are looking for a custom solution, or just need more help getting started.
- Here are few resources. We will be publishing this presentation, as well as the recording for folks that may have missed it.
- Our next webinar is scheduled for Jan and we will walk through some Tin Can solutions with Learning Management systems.
- We have a little bit of time left,I would like to answer a few questions.