Highlights of Hard SCORM Authoring Tool V 1.0

Operations on Content Aggregation
• Tree structure
• Easy to use with drag-and-drop operations.
• Multiple courses can be processed.
• Easy to add SCOs from resource pool
Metadata Editor with automatic filling mechanism
• Automatically create the metadata for SCO/Asset/Content Aggregation
• By using the information from System Environment, User’s Profile, and Metadata Generation Rules Sequencing Editor
• Corresponding to SCORM SN
• A set of elements that can be used to describe and affect various sequencing behaviors
• Apply to the learning activities within the context of an Activity Tree
• Easy to be maintained

Hard SCORM Course Editor
• Add “Hard SCROM Tags” to the content pages which can be printed on hardcopy papers
• To bridge the gap between reading in a traditional manner and learning by using electronic devices
• 4 categories of Hard SCORM tags supported
• The Hard SCORM book print wizard can facilitate the Hard SCORM book printing

Video Presentation Editor
• Video Presentation Recording: Allow users to record a video presentation with Power Point Slides
• Video Presentation Editing: Allow users to combine several video presentations, condense a video presentation, or re-organize presentation sequences.
• Post-Processing: Allow users to make a video presentation with the existing video clips and relevant information.

Web Service Wizard
• Setup multiple servers for requiring the web services
• Testing the existence of web services
• Searching for reusable learning objects remotely
• Uploading the PIF to different LMS servers
• Downloading the PIF from different LMS servers
Metadata Searching Engine
• Allow users to precisely search for learning objects for reuse
• Search criteria has the same definition as the metadata

Sequencing Testing Mode
• Avoiding the unexpected sequencing setting.
• 4 sequencing control modes are tested: Choice, ChoiceExit, Flow, and Forward Only.
• Visualization in Sequencing Testing Mode: Red: the activity which will cause “Blocking” Yellow: the activity which is “Unreachable”
• In the Sequencing Testing Mode, the operations for aggregation can be done normally.

After downloading the setup file, you can first unzip the file, and then install the program (since the program is written in C#, so the .Net framework is needed for the successful setup). A user manual of the authoring tool is also included in the tool, and I think this will be great help for you to understand the instructions of using the tool. BTW, we also provide a URL with the examples of the sequencing testing issue. The information can be found at: http://freebsd.mine.tku.edu.tw/~linus/

Acknowledgements
We would like to thank Judy Brown and the staff at the Academic ADL Co-Lab for their discussion and suggestions.

1. the user should not use the software for commercial purposes or for profit.
2. the user should give the MINE Lab credit if courseware are produced and used in nonprofit organizations.
3. the user should inform MINE Lab if the software is re-distributed.