I’ve been experimenting with the new beta version of XCL from Build Capable. It’s a new tool to help organisations deliver online learning without an LMS.
It looks like it has a lot of potential…
As I say in the video clip below, I’m really quite excited about what XCL can do. It opens up new possibilities.
Here’s what is does, and what it doesn’t (yet) do:
Plus points
- It allows you to turn any digital resource into a trackable learning object (with caveats - see below)
- If your resource is a SCORM or xAPI package, you can extract all the data that they provide (eg. completion status, scores etc)
- If you upload files into XCL, like PDF, ppt, mp4 etc, you get much richer data than if you just link out to them
- It works through this process: You provide a link to the user -> User clicks the link -> User enters their name & email -> Resource opens -> Data is sent back to XCL
- You can capture the data in XCL’s internal learning record store, or your own LRS.
Things to work on
- Resources provided via a URL just capture whether someone has launched them
- In the beta version there is no way to inform people about your privacy policy, at the point of collecting their name and email address.
- It currently struggles to display and play Youtube videos
- You can only keep content secure if you either use the Enterprise Version with Single Sign On (coming soon) or put the content somewhere you control (thus losing a lot of the built in tracking)
- I’m not sure I completely trust the Dashboard data. It recorded two completions of a SCORM package, when I’d only done it once.
- There’s no way currently to perform additional analytics on the data stored in the internal learning record store
- There’s not yet a way to capture a tick/check for the user to say that they have read and understood something (essential for compliance)
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Posted: 18 November 2024
Tags: Solution design