Mike Rustici of Rustici Software is giving a presentation at DevCon 2010 about integrating content with the hosted SCORM player called SC. He acknowledges that different attendees will have varying needs and goals for integrations. Rustici explains that SC allows for learning content delivery and tracking outside of a learning management system. He encourages attendees to develop applications that integrate SC into other systems using its open API. This will benefit both developers, by giving them control over applications, and Rustici Software by promoting SC and allowing them to focus on improving the platform.

1. Mike Rustici * Rustici Software * DevCon 2010

2. These
types
of
presentations
are
always
a
challenge.
Everyone’s
just
enough
different
to
make
it
a
bit
of
a
stretch
to
know
that
one
presentation
will
fit
everyone.
Different
platforms,
different
skillsets,
different
knowledge
base,
different
end
goals.
Some
of
you
will
want
to
integrate
with
SC
for
your
school
or
company,
some
of
you
might
want
to
do
an
integration
and
make
money
selling
it,
some
of
you
might
want
to
do
one
for
the
fun,
fame
and
glory.
CC image by 1Happysnapper on flickr

3. -­‐Let’s
start
a
with
a
little
bit
of
what
SC
does.
-­‐At
it’s
core,
it’s
a
hosted
SCORM
player
–
it’s
out
in
the
cloud
rather
than
behind
a
firewall
or
as
part
of
a
specific
piece
of
software.
-­‐Which
provides
sweet
freedom
for
anyone
looking
to
take
advantage
of
learning
opportunities
out
on
the
web
at
large.
-­‐Mash-­‐ups
-­‐We
do
one
thing
extremely
well,
and
now
we’re
letting
everybody
use
that
-­‐Just
about
any
e-­‐learning
content
is
available
as
SCORM,
so
it
is
a
broad
e-­‐learning
delivery
platform

4. -­‐To
our
mind.
SC
is
a
solution
of
the
problem
of
how
to
connect
learning
to
learners
online
and
track
it
without
going
back
to
the
LMS.
-­‐Think
of
it
as
a
platform
that
could
be
used
to
launch
a
course
via
WordPress
widget
or
Facebook
app
and
keep
track
of
everything
right
there
rather
than
going
back
to
the
LMS.

5. +
And
Facebook
and
Wordpress
are
just
starting
points.
When
you
start
talking
about
the
web,
the
options
are
almost
endless.

6. -­‐This
is
where
you
come
in.
While
we
can
do
integrations
for
anything
out
there
–
it’s
not
the
best
use
of
our
time.
-­‐We’d
rather
focus
on
keeping
SC
and
our
other
SCORM
products
the
best
ones
out
there.
-­‐And
continue
to
be
the
experts
when
it
comes
to
SCORM.
That’s
our
wheelhouse.
We
want
to
stay
there.
-­‐We
aren’t
interested
in
developing
learning
systems,
just
one
core
piece
CC image by bjornmeansbear on flickr

7. So
we
opened
the
API
and
are
encouraging
anyone
who
wants
to
to
make
an
app
built
on
SC
and
integrating
anywhere
on
the
web.
(Or,
with
an
LMS,
pretty
much
anywhere
you
want
to
integrate.)
CC image by dmealiffe on flickr

8. -­‐Yes
–
we
benefit
from
any
work
you
do.
-­‐Any
way
you
make
it
easier
for
people
to
use
SC
means
we
have
more
people
paying
for
the
service.
-­‐Any
promotion
you
do
of
your
integration
by
default
helps
to
promote
SC.
CC flickr image from apdk
-­‐And
if
you’re
doing
the
integration
work,
we
can
focus
on
other
things.

9. -­‐So
what’s
in
it
for
you?
Well,
you’re
developers.
You
tell
me.
-­‐What
are
people
getting
out
of
developing
applications
for
any
of
these?
-­‐In
each
case
–
we’re
talking
an
open
API
or
a
freely
available
SDK
as
a
starting
point
for
anyone
who
wants
to
create
an
app.
-­‐An
app
they
control,
sell,
give
away,
make
open
source.

10. -­‐We
see
the
same
equation
working
in
this
scenario
to
be
a
huge
benefit
for
you.
-­‐We’re
committed
to
doing
all
we
can
to
make
SC
the
best
product
out
there,
to
providing
a
platform
to
let
people
know
about
your
app
and
giving
you
a
place
for
them
to
find
it.
-­‐Won’t
quite
be
the
App
Store,
but
we
_want_
people
to
CC flickr image from apdk
find
and
use
what
you
create,
so
we’ll
be
right
there
helping
in
any
way
we
can.

11. So
what
does
SC
do
that
makes
it
all
that
and
a
bag
of
chips?
CC flickr image from Marcus Q

12. Tracking
Testing
Content Control
Invitations
Reports
And
this
is
just
where
we
start
…
.
Tracking
and
testing
–
those
are
typical
SCORM
type
things.
Content
control
–
it’s
cool
and
there’s
always
potential
that
you
might
come
up
with
something
using
that
feature.
Reports
–
certainly
something
you
need
to
know
about
as
a
feature
and
you
might
consider
an
app
that
pulls
reports
out
into
other
places.
Invitations
–
immediate
potential

13. -­‐What
we
mean
by
invitations
is
the
fact
that
you
can
actually
use
SC
to
launch
training
just
by
sending
someone
a
link.
-­‐It’s
the
simplest
way
to
take
training
outside
the
LMS.
-­‐Within
the
SC
app,
you
can
find
this
invite
button
in
several
places.
*click*
Clicking
it
launches
the
invite
email.
-­‐And
there
are
a
few
things
on
here
that
I’ll
get
into
more
detail
with
later.
-­‐But
the
invite
process
generates
a
link
that
when
clicked,
launches
the
course.
-­‐And
when
we
talk
about
integrating
with
other
services,
what
we’re
thinking
is
how
to
get
that
link
around
the
web
easily.

14. -­‐Now,
we
have
done
a
few
integrations
ourselves
–
partly
as
proof
of
concept,
partly
to
give
us
some
additional
ways
to
promote
SC.
-­‐We
started
with
open
source
LMSs
and
are
wrapping
up
work
on
widgets
for
WordPress
and
Google.

15. -­‐In
all
cases
–
the
integration
allows
you
to
launch
a
course
using
SC
right
in
the
service.
-­‐Using
the
invitation
feature
of
SC,
you
can
generate
a
link
that
shows
right
in
the
web
Launch from anywhere!
service
where
you
want
it.

16. +
-­‐I
showed
you
this
idea
here
earlier
and
you
probably
recognize
most
of
those
logos
–
Elgg,
Joomla,
Second
Life,
SharePoint,
Drupal,
SalesForce,
LinkedIn.
-­‐And
these
are
just
a
few
of
the
places
we’ve
thought
of
already.
And
I’m
sure
you’re
sitting
there
thinking
of
others
already.

17. Before
we
dive
into
the
API,
let’s
talk
about
some
of
the
concepts
of
SC
that
you’ll
need
to
have
a
handle
on.
CC flickr image from Steve.Jackson

18. Course
–
well,
OK,
that
probably
self
explanatory.
-­‐Here’s
what
one
looks
like
launched
with
SC.
The
course
is
what’s
in
the
SCORM
package
you’re
launching.
-­‐Since
SC
can
do
AICC,
1.2
and
2004
courses,
it
really
doesn’t
care
what’s
actually
in
the
course.
-­‐But
if
the
course
isn’t
set
up
correctly,
part
of
its
feature
set
is
to
let
you
know
that
and
give
you
everything
you
need
to
figure
out
the
problem.

19. -­‐App_id
–
every
application
has
one.
-­‐Can
share
data
across
application,
so
a
Moodle
integration
can
access
the
same
courses
as
a
WordPress
integration

20. Realms:
-­‐a
learner
is
a
learner,
he
might
learn
in
many
contexts
-­‐also,
you
might
want
to
deliver
training
in
many
contexts
-­‐Cloud
can
unify
all
of
these

21. Tracking
–
one
of
the
functions
of
SCORM
is
to
track
the
data
that
goes
back
and
forth
between
the
course
and
the
LMS.

22. Registration
–
An
instance
of
a
user
taking
a
course
This
is
how
we
charge
for
SCORM
Cloud,
by
the
amount
of
actual
usage
Utility
computing

23. Let’s
go
play
around
CC image by Kamal H. on flickr

24. Back
to
concepts
again,
this
time
for
the
API
CC flickr image from Steve.Jackson

25. API Concepts
• Secure REST-ish Web Services
Debug
Service
FTP
Access
Service
• ping
• createUser
• getTime
• setUserPassword
Upload
Service
• deleteUser
• createPermissonDomain
• getUploadToken
• deletePermissionDomain
• uploadFile
• getDomainListsetCourseDomain
• listFiles
• setUserDomaingetDomainInfo
• deleteFiles
• getCourseInfo
• getUserInfo

26. API Concepts
• Secure REST-ish Web Services
Course
Service
• getMetadata
• getCourseList
• importCourse
• importCourseAsynch
Tagging
Service
• getAsyncImportResult
• versionCourse
• createTag
• getAssets
• deleteTag
• updateAssets
• tagCourse
• deleteCourse
• untagCourse
• getFileStructure
• tagUser
• deleteFiles
• untagUser
• getAttributes
• updateAttributes

27. API Concepts
• Secure REST-ish Web Services
Registration
Service
• createRegistration
• deleteRegistration
• resetRegistration
• getRegisrationList
• getRegistrationResult
• getRegistratonListResults
• launch
• resetGlobalObjectives

28. API Concepts
• Secure REST-ish Web Services
Debug
Service
Course
Service
Registration
Service
• ping
• importCourse
• createRegistration
• getTime
• importCourseAsynch
• deleteRegistration
• getAsyncImportResult
• resetRegistration
Upload
Service
• versionCourse
• getRegisrationList
• getAssets
• getRegistrationResult
• getUploadToken
• updateAssets
• getRegistratonListResults
• uploadFile
• deleteCourse
• launch
• listFiles
• getFileStructure
• resetGlobalObjectives
• deleteFiles
• deleteFiles
• getAttributes
FTP
Access
Service
• updateAttributes
• getMetadata
• getCourseList
• createUser
• setUserPassword
• deleteUser
Tagging
Service
• createPermissonDomain
• deletePermissionDomain
• createTag
• getDomainListsetCourseDomain
• deleteTag
• setUserDomaingetDomainInfo
• tagCourse
• getCourseInfo
• untagCourse
• getUserInfo
• tagUser
• untagUser

29. Client Libraries

30. Geek
out
time
-­‐
Let’s
go
play
with
some
code
CC flickr image from schoschie

31. Brainstorm
So,
what
possibilities
do
you
see?
What
is
exciting?
CC flickr image from @boetter

32. Mike Rustici * Rustici Software
Twitter * @mike_rustici
Email * mike.rustici@scorm.com
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