IOL SumTotal

Brain Deployment

IOL requires customized SCORM 1.2 packages for SumTotal.

On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Kevin Holst <kholst@icomproductions.ca> wrote:

Hello Mark and Anji,

I had a meeting with IOL yesterday and they have requested that a slight change to the SumTotal testing process be implemented.

Going forward, once any IOL course beta version has been approved, we will the upload that version to a SumTotal Sandbox environment for us to complete the UAT testing. Once we have completed the UAT testing, I will send a request to Narayanappa, Manjunatha <manjunatha.narayanappa@exxonmobil.com> to request a link to their ShareFile site and upload the course there. At this point, they will add the course to SumTotals production environment where they will finalize the testing on their own.

We have been given uploading privileges so that will not be an issue. They are also completing instructions on how to upload a course to SumToal.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Thanks,

Kevin

Configuration

A Patcher is available for applying all patches except the structure.xml:

Manual setting update

FiLMS_ini.txt

IOL courses need a high completion_percentage so users watch a majority of the lesson:

<completion_percentage> <![CDATA[95]]> </completion_percentage>

  • NOTE: Completion percentage of 99 has caused some issues, use 95% instead

<finalScore> 100 </finalScore>

imsmanifest.xml

<adlcp:masteryscore>100</adlcp:masteryscore>

films.swf

The Brain version needs to be 3.795 or greater.

structure.xml

All lessons (not assessments) need track_on=threshold instead of track_on=next. This is because a bug in track_on=next allows cheating through the menu.

Zipping

We have had issues using the default zip application from CourseBuilder with their LMS. Use 7zip or Windows default zip application, 7zip is preferred.

SumTotal

Every 3 months or so, we copy production database data to the stage environment. Each time this is done, your pw will need to be reset

New Activity Wizard

WARNING! Each course needs a unique manifest identifier so for updates to courses already imported increment identifier, eg:

manifest identifier="Imperial_Oil_Forklift_Fundamentals" >> "Imperial_Oil_Forklift_Fundamentals2"

Duplicate identifier

For updates to courses, SumTotal may throw an error for a duplicate identifier. Edit the course package identifier inside the file imsmanifest.xml to a unique ID and version then reupload

Send to IOL

IOL will load package into SumTotal.

They may need a download location. Upload it to Google Drive for user admin@reseller.icomproductions.ca. Place it in the appropriate location:

_ICOM Client Services Vault > Course Deployments > Imperial Oil > (Course name)

Technical QA "UAT"

Launching course

IOL Testing Process

Contact

Imperial Oil has a SumTotal LMS. Our contact on that team:

Rod Harris Imperial Oil Resources Kearl Training Advisor Safety, Security, Health and Environment FAP 17079 (403) 766-1004

Shawnetta Jackson

CAS/Training Advisor

SumTotal lms

shawnetta.g.jackson@exxonmobil.com

Offline Course Player

The Offline Course Player is still used in addition to SumTotal. It is also known as Desktop Version.

Courses deployed on-site using a Flash Drive app built by Tobias:

  • Y:\Imperial Oil\_TEMPLATES\Desktop Company Name Launcher

Uses an exe to ask learners for information and tracks progress to shared object and writes completions to a csv file in the temp folder on the computer. The learner uses certificates to track completions, I've also informed them how to print to pdf and they may have an internal process for having the learners save those to a location. Below is the document given to them. File:ClientIOLReadme.pdf

Build

  • copy Y:\Imperial Oil\_TEMPLATES\Desktop Company Name Launcher\start.exe and rename to course name, camel case.

  • also copy load.swf, certificateViewer.swf, and films.swf

  • These use certificates, change cert_data.xml to include course name within "<name></name>"

  • May require update to add new header text before exporting and updating course directory

  • certificates have employee id's in them, use Y:\Imperial Oil\_TEMPLATES\Certificate_IOL_CompanyName_CD to make new ones for cd

  • csv's are created upon completion in C:\Windows\Temp\_progress\completions.csv

  • File:FiLMS ini.txt.xml

See Also

Support

Notes