ATutor First Open Source IMS Common Cartridge Compliant LMS
ATutor 1.6.4 has acheived IMS Common Cartridge 1.0 Lite compliance. And, it's not just a cartridge player, it's a whole common cartridge authoring and management system, built right into the LMS. No need for third party tools to create cartridges. And, no "lock in." Compliant cartridges are exported from the system so its easy to move content from ATutor into other elearning environments.
These are the details of the latest ATutor release from SourceForge.
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Common Cartridge: The primary addition in ATutor 1.6.4 is support for the IMS Common Cartridge Lite 1.0 content interoperability standard. This standard combines IMS Content Packaging and IMS Question Test Interoperability (QTI), as well introducing tool interoperability with the ability to now associate activities with content. Changes for Common Cartridge have also added Web links to external Web sites as content pages. (Thanks to the Ontario Enabling Change program for funding this work, and the University of Bologna's Department of Computer Science for their contribution.)
Common Cartridge Importing: Import any of the hundreds of existing open common cartridges to quickly add learning materials to courses. Visit the Open University's OpenLearn site ( http://openlearn.open.ac.uk ) for a large collection of cartridges released under a Creative Commons license, that can be freely imported into ATutor.
Common Cartridge Authoring: Using the built in content authoring tools in ATutor, create your own common cartridges, or take an imported cartridge and customize it.
Common Cartridge Exporting: After creating a new cartridge or modifying an existing one, export the cartridge so it can be reused in other ATutor courses, or imported into another LMS that supports the common cartridge standard.
Common Cartridge + AccessForAll: If you are creating adaptive content based on the IMS AccessForAll standard, or the ISO FDIS 24751 standard, export your adapted content as part of a common cartridge, and import your adapted content when adding cartridges to a course.
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