What types of files can we use for content

[heckman]

Good Afternoon,

I am brand new to using any e-learning tools and I am setting up an online community/university for kids specializing on the Defensive aspect of the game of hockey.

I am planning on building all our drills and whiteboard sessions into the LMS system and then selling memberships to belong to the University annually.

The question I have is what is being used to create the content in the LMS. I have looked at the demo's and I love how the stuff that David Maxon has put up there. What is he using to create the presentation of his content. Is is a flash based presentation, can you use powerpoint presentations or do you create it in HTML.

I am very excited to be a part of the community, I am just confused on how to get going.

Cheers,

Heckman

[den]

You can use 'documents' tool to put any types of files to the LMS (most of them would be only downloadable).
The courses which you've seen is scorm-based courses produced in the rapid authoring software (outside of LMS), which usually produce flash-based courses. There are many types of such software (to produce quizzes, flash presentations, convert powerpoint to courses and so on).
Pay attention to PowerPointForce and QuizForce from ElearningForce (http://www.elearningforce.biz/e-learning-software/e-learning-software.html).

David uses software from Articulate.

[heckman]

Thank you so much for your response.

That will help out a lot.

Cheers,

Heckman

[heckman]

I have the newest version of Flash. Would I be able to create my presentations in there and upload them as SWF files to be run in much of the same way as the other presentations or do I need to use software that is scorm based.

Heckman

[den]

I am not a flasher and i don't know possibilities of newes Flash.
You can create something in flash and publish as swf files, but it would be only a flash file with several images followed one buy other. I guess you can't do something dinamically, like embedded navigation, menus and so on...

[heckman]

ok I think I am getting it now.

Do you know of any of these scorm products that work on the mac.

Heckman

[andreas]

We like using Captivate to create Scorm Files. Since Adobe is a well established Mac Software company, I am sure, Captivate will be available for Mac --- including a demo version, to test whether it suits your needs.

good luck with it!