Explained: Supported content types – Civica Learning

What content types are supported?

Civica Learning supports a wide range of content types. These include items that you upload to the system, such as courses and files, and items which are defined directly on the lms, such as web links, tasks, curricula and events.

This article provides details of the file formats that can be uploaded to Civica Learning.

Courses (eLearning)

Civica Learning supports the following types of courses:

Experience API (xAPI), also known as TinCan, versions 0.9 /1.0
SCORM 1.2
AICC 4.0 (hosted externally)

Courses are uploaded as compressed .zip packages, and must contain the SCORM manifest file (imsmanifest.xml), or xAPI manifest file (tincan.xml), in the root folder of the uploaded .zip file.

SCORM 1.2 courses

For a SCORM 1.2 course, you must ensure that the manifest file includes a unique Manifest ID and Version (i.e. no other courses on the lms can have the same manifest ID and version). If these properties are not correctly defined, the course may not upload, or may not be recognised as a SCORM 1.2 course (and is therefore uploaded as a zip file). You may therefore need to manually edit these properties, if your authoring solution does not ensure these values are unique when the course is created.

For a SCORM 1.2 course, the manifest identifier and version are defined in the imsmanifest.xml file, which must be in the root folder of the course's SCORM zip file package. Here is the header from an example imsmanifest.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<manifest identifier="SCORM_Assessment_101" version="1"

TinCan courses

For an xAPI (Tin Can) course, the activity id is defined in the tincan.xml file, which must be in the root folder of the course's xAPI zip file package.

You must ensure that the manifest file includes a unique activity id (i.e. no other courses on the lms can have the same activity id). If this property is not correctly defined, the course may not upload, or may not be recognised as an xAPI course (and is therefore uploaded as a zip file).

You may therefore need to manually this property, if your authoring solution does not ensure the value is unique when the course is created.

Here is the header from an example tincan.xml file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<tincan xmlns="http://projecttincan.com/tincan.xsd">
  <activities>
    <activity type="http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/course" id="http://lumo-studio.com/activities/5e5cf286-250d-4490-ac76-370797643">

AICC courses

AICC courses cannot be directly uploaded to the platform, however, the platform supports launching AICC content via external links to third-party hosted content. The platform tracks the launch and completion of the content, as well as any scores returned by the content. Please refer to the How To: Create and publish a web link article for details of how to link to an external AICC course.

Files

The default Civica Learning configuration supports the following file types:

Microsoft Word (.doc and .docx)
Microsoft Excel (.xls and .xlsx)
Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt and .pptx)
Microsoft PowerPoint Show (.pps and .ppsx)
Adobe PDF (.pdf)
Graphics files (.png)
Video (.f4v, .flv, .m4v and .mp4)
Audio (.mp3)

Additional file formats can be supported on request. Please contact Civica support.

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