External Course

An External Course is a package built somewhere else — Articulate, Captivate, Rise — uploaded into the course and played inside it. The package reports its own progress and score back to the platform.

Supported standards

SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, xAPI, cmi5 and AICC. The standard is detected from the package rather than picked by hand.

The editor

Upload the package, then decide how its results count:

Setting	What it does
Use pass/fail rules	the package’s own pass/fail decides completion
Use score	the package’s score becomes the activity’s score

With both off, completion falls back to the platform’s own rules.

Out of scope this cycle

Package import is not part of this test round — see the test scope. This page is here so you recognise the type when you meet it in the outline. Do not file import bugs against this cycle unless you were asked to.

If you are asked to test it anyway

1. Upload a SCORM 1.2 package and a SCORM 2004 package.
2. Play each as a learner, all the way to the end.
3. Leave halfway through one and come back — it should resume where you left off.
4. Check that progress and score reached the gradebook.

Where it usually breaks

• Progress reported by the package not reaching the platform.
• Resume returning the learner to the start instead of where they stopped.
• A package that completes without the activity being marked complete.