There are 2 approaches to e-learning. My approach is one that produces questions for students to practice their knowledge on. This involves a large volume of less complex questions being prepared in a very short period.

The question and answers will be from Excel and exported to a comma delimitered text file for input. A sample will be like this;

A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I, ....

where

A - Question No.
B - Question mode - yes/No, multiple, fill-in-the-blanks
C - Question
D,E,F,G - possible answers
H - right answer
I - graphic file (if used)
etc etc

Does CourseLab plan to support such large scale inputs in the near future? Please remember third world teachers are not IT literate but it is they who benefit the most. [:confused:][:(][:mad:][:o][;)]

Hi Vig
Couselab doesn't do this, not at it's editing stage or when a module has been completed. As to wether this is something that might be in later versions would depend on demand which possibly isn't that high, certainly there are going to be many more higher priority items already stacked up.

This approach of yours probably requires more computer literacy to use and generate content, you need competence in spreadsheets, graphics package and an e-learning platform. If based around M$ then also access to a windows based PC plus the M$ Office suite.
XML might be better than CSV, it's fairly obvious whats being generated and templates would be easy to produce with added annotations, and at a pinch can be reliably written on the most basic text editor. Certainly it's more user friendly than csv.

If this is what your trying to do most of the time and your target 'audience' is the third world then you might be better off considering something more custom built for construction and delivery which would get around your "third world teachers are not IT literate" although I would have thought 'many' might have been a less sweeping statement.
A much less proprietry approach in the overall software requirements both in performance and cost impact to deploy for users both at creation or learning points would be a good idea.

You'd really need to deploy a very platform independant module source so Java or flash might be a good options for standalone functionality. Flash does have an available working SCORM API but might be a little system heavy for old or low powered PC's but could esily import xml and generate content on the fly. Flex could do the same and come as a prebuilt player platform importing and also generating the content on the fly from xml or scv source, harder to do with csv though.

If reliable web server technology is available cold fusion or webdav would be appropriate as they are good at handling csv inputs, macromedias old SCORM API could be used with these with minimal modification.

Personally I'd be thinking deliver an entire generation and delivery package in one bundle, say on a USB stick. It gives the options of dumb delivery from a pre-built csv/xml import or the option to DIY for those who can
Customise puppy linux as the bootable OS, open office for general tools, xamp (or tomcat if your tool was built using something like mindwave), generic java content generation tool would give a rough cost of around $0 for software plus the 256mb or bigger stick for $15. You could probably get a commercial company to underwrite a lot of the cost and the mindwave, Apache, flex and OO communities would help out with coding too.