Start generating Tin Can statements from your activity/content

Any activity can generate Tin Can statements and have them delivered to a Learning Record Store, not just things based in a web browser. A mobile app, a simulation, a game, Human Resources software, and even real-world activities.

A few things you’ll need to get started:

• A good place to start is with our Statements 101 page. You’ll find a ton of useful explanations there.
• An LRS destination for your statements (choose an LRS…you can also use SCORM Cloud + Tin Can API as a quick/easy/free/hosted LRS), or use our public LRS for testing.
• Decide a unique way to identify learners (email address is recommended)
• Determine how to define your activities (we recommend tying activities to a domain name to add uniqueness and identity)
• Decide which verbs you’d like to use (use the Tin Can Registry for a full list, and let us know if you want something added to the Registry.
• We recommend using “finished” for things like training, and “experienced” for things like viewing a web page.

The Building Blocks of Statements

Use the Tin Can Registry to find usable, community-accepted URIs to use in your statements. If you can’t find the activities, activity types, verbs, extensions, and attachments that you need in The Registry, let us know.

SCORM and AICC content, living in a Tin Can world

If you have existing SCORM or AICC content that you want to generate Tin Can statements, take a look at our SCORM to Tin Can section. We’ve spent quite a bit of time thinking about this transition from SCORM to Tin Can.

Statement Generator & Validator

We’ve put together a statement generator & validator for you to experiment with. Just enter your information, and a Tin Can statement will be generated. You can easily create your own statements. You can even paste statements into the generator and validate them, if you’re working with already-existing statements. See the statement generator here.

Tin Can Bookmarklet

We’ve also built a Tin Can Bookmarklet that will allow you to send statements about any webpage that you choose. It sends a statement that says you “experienced” the webpage. Just install the bookmarklet, visit a page, click the bookmarklet, and a statement is generated. It’s a quick and easy way to see statements being generated.

Using Tin Can API packages

You might like to keep your activities/content packages as contained units that can be imported into an LMS. If you wish to do so, you should know the following:

• You’ll need to know the Tin Can XML file for your package
• You can choose to put your activity/content in the actual package, or you can just include a link to it

Let us help you get started by using Tin Can Driver (it’s free for non-commercial use.)

If the technical side of generating Tin Can statements is out of your league, then we have help for you. We’ve been enabling content to conform to learning standards for a decade. We’ve learned a lot during that time, and we’ve put it all into Tin Can Driver. Our software is where the industry turns to make their content conform to the standards, and now that includes the Tin Can API.