Installing a Learning Object to the D2L Environment

This tutorial is for the D2L environment demonstrates how to import and use a learning object prepared in the SCORM 1.2 standards. You may read more about what is a SCORM here.

Importing the package

Download the demo package

• Remarks:
• Flash based simulations will not be used.
• HTML5 based simulations will be preferred.
• They should be compatible with all modern devices including tablets and phones.

Upload to D2L

• Navigate to Course Administration > Import / Export / Copy Components > Import Components and click Copy All Components
• Select SCORM package from your desktop. In this demonstration, the file name is test-package.zip. See Figure 1.

• Click Import All Components. Figure 2 shows the normal progress.
• Remarks:
• D2L supports file sizes up to 1 GB.
• This demo uses a file with 283 KB. Very practical!

Viewing the SCORM content

• Click View Content to access the Content tab.
• Figure 3 shows that a new menu item is added to the Table of Contents.
• When the menu item is clicked, the content appears in the main block with a SCORM object sign.

Accessing the content

• Click the link title General Chemistry Lab I ▹ Interactive
• Figures 4 - 8 shows the D2L snapshots of various views in D2L

Benefits

• All of the content is free for students.
• Easy to set up an experiment in D2L.
• All logical sequences with content and activities will be followed by all sections.
• Any content type like .pdf, .docx, .xlsx can be embedded.
• Content can be updated as needed.

Limitations

• Videos are hosted by YouTube.
• Panopto sometimes imposes strict share limitations.
• Copying movies from one course to another often produces broken links.
• We don't make new simulations so we cannot change them.
• This particular demo uses a simulation from PhET Interactive Simulations

• I have been following PhET Interactive Simulations since it has started and ACS lists PhET Interactive Simulations in the first place of their list (see Figure 9).