Hello,

I hope you can help me out as this is a very urgent matter.

I am very familiar with courseware development for blended and self-paced e-learning. We structure our courses in a SCORM-compliant Learning Content Management System (LCMS), export them, and then import them into a Learning Management System (LMS). Students then access the LMS to take the courses. The LMS tracks student progress and assessments.

However, a client has asked for something that I don’t know is even possible.

The client wants students to practice scenarios on a physical simulator (e.g. pushing the right buttons). Student performance data would be sent to an LMS. It must all conform to SCORM.

This is confusing since I thought the only reason for SCORM was so an LCMS can communicate with an LMS. If no LCMS is to be used, how would a piece of hardware (with its resident software) produce SCORM-compliant data for the LMS?

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.