A strong limitation of Microsoft LCDS
I have been playing quite some time now with Microsoft’s Learning Content Development System. I promised in an earlier post to put some content online, but that is where it went wrong. I just could not get the content published in any other LMS than the SharePoint Learning Kit.
After some testing, it seems that the content needs to be hosted on… a Microsoft IIS server. All my test systems were running Apache, PHP and MySQL (as most open source lms systems do).
As I do not have a publicly accessible SharePoint with SLK, I made the content available on a simple team site. You can access the content via this link. Make sure that your popup blocker is turned of. Unfortunately, this does not work on a Mac, you need IE6 or IE7 to view it.
For me, these are some serious limitations to LCDS as an authoring tool.
Hi,
could you please describe, how you published the LCDS-content on the teamsite.
Mani,
the easiest way to publish the content, is to create a SharePoint document library on the site, and copy the entire course folder of your LCDS course into the document library. Make sure you copy the exact folder structure, the easiest way to do this is via the “open with windows explorer” menu in SharePoint.
To start the course, you can click on the wrapper.htm file.
If you want to make this a bit prettier, you can use a “links” list, put that links list on the web part page of your site, and add a link to the wrapper.htm file. In this way, your users can just click a simple link to access the course.