# Indico e-learning --- ## What we already have - One introductory and one advanced course taught in classrooms - MkDocs documentation page at [indico.docs.cern.ch](https://indico.docs.cern.ch) - Short videos in [Edutech](https://twiki.cern.ch/Edutech/IndicoFunctions) --- ## Why we needed to change that - Sometimes there weren't enough participants - Some students felt the course they selected was irrelevant/too easy - Courses happened only a couple of times per year, students had to wait - Always nice to have a refresher course any time at hand - COVID-19 era --- ## What does CERN offer for e-learning? Learning Management System (LMS) - An application for the delivery of educational content - Can track progress, manage courses, include assessments - Compatible with [SCORM](https://scorm.com/) and other technical standards to create courses --- ## Articulate Storyline 3 - CERN training team holds an Articulate Storyline 3 licence - Can create SCORM-compliant courses that can later be imported in LMS - Can only be used by the team holding the licence - Restricts our freedom in terms of creativity and flexibility --- ## The open-source alternative [AdaptLearning Framework](https://www.adaptlearning.org/) We experimented with AdaptLearning Framework because: - it is an open source tool - it can create SCORM-compliant courses. --- ## AdaptLearning Framework advantages - Full control of the course creation - Modern and fully customizable UI (single page apps) - A seemingly active community - Easy to integrate with our existing MkDocs files - Additional plugins and themes - Uses `.json` files to build SCORM --- ## From MkDocs to Adapt In order to avoid re-writing the entire course manually we created a script that converts the contents written in MkDocs `.md` format to Adapt `.json` files. ---- `mkdocs.yml`  ---- `components.json`  --- ## Example course [LMS](https://lms.cern.ch/ekp/servlet/ekp?PX=N&TEACHREVIEW=N&PTX=&CID=EKP000043448&TX=FORMAT1&LANGUAGE_TAG=en&DECORATEPAGE=N) --- ## Thank you <small>Also many thanks to everyone who helped and contributed in this project: Erwin Mosselmans, Maria Dimou, Pedro Ferreira, Adrian Monnich as well as the indico and technical training teams!</small>