Posts by Tim Martin

Tim is the chief innovation and product officer with our parent company LTG, though he used to be CEO here at Rustici Software. If you’re looking for a plainspoken answer to a standards-based question, or to just play an inane game, Tim is your person.

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SCORM Cloud Demo Application

We want creating applications with the SCORM Cloud to be exceptionally easy for you. Without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to the SCORM Cloud .NET Demonstration Application! (What a great name.) Head on over to our support portal and download the sample application…

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Thanks, Dave

I wanted to take a moment to thank Dave Evans at AccessPlanIT publicly. They've been using the SCORM Engine for content delivery in their Accessplan LMS since November 2008. This, alone, is worthy of thanks. Today, though, I wanted to thank Dave for something else...…

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Dear Drupal User

Dear Drupal User. I'm so happy for you... your relationship with Drew Pal has brought so many great things to your life and your work... I couldn't be more thrilled for you. In every relationship, though, I know tough times come along, and I can…

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Urgent vs Important vs THIS

Countless sites have discussed an important topic in time management... the important/urgent matrix. In my simplistic terms, these folks are encouraging us all to work on important/non-urgent things more than we do. Apparently we are collectively distracted by the less important/more urgent tasks. Email, I…

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LMS Pricing

I love when I come upon some independent research that informs me of something I didn't know. Truth be told, I base a lot of my assumptions about LMS cost on the original price offered by my first eLearning employer. (List price at PureSafety back…

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SCORM Untethered Demo Video

SCORM Untethered is our disconnected player. We've built it as a set of components, and frankly, we're not publicizing it a lot these days. It solves certain problems very well, but it has its limitations as well. (It only supports Windows clients and .NET server…

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Hacking Education

The chips I often eat at lunch give me time to read a bit more broadly on learning and education than our typical SCORM minutiae. My hope is this balance helps us innovate and avoid the myopia that can overcome those obsessed with learning standards.…

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SCORM Cloud Legal Documents

Well, we've been living very publicly here at Rustici Software lately. While it's not quite The Real World or anything like that, we're becoming progressively more open about our approach and direction. This week, I've been working with our legal folks on our click through…

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Tell us how we can help with the SCORM Cloud

We're still toiling away on the public release of the SCORM Cloud. A few folks have asked for application_id's (the token that allows you to interact with the SCORM Cloud,) and we've actually shared them. We're still very much in the alpha stage... although TestTrack…

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SCORM Engine 4th Edition Plans

A few SCORM Engine customers have asked recently what our plans are for SCORM 2004 4th Edition and how it relates to our release schedule. Must of the SCORM 2004 4th Edition stuff is already complete here in house. We've been working with the early…

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My Blender

[No, this isn't an accident. I'm intentionally posting about my blender on the work blog.] My wife, Jenn, was making strawberry ice cream today. You see, strawberries are finally in season here in Tennessee, and that means that I seemingly can't get out from under…

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Something’s different about TestTrack

Yes, as we've mentioned recently, several things are different about TestTrack. We transitioned upgraded our server, we applied a skin that makes it look like our new website, and most recently, we switched TestTrack over to our "beta" of the SCORM Cloud. Truth be told,…

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