We have a regulatory course that requires students to spend 2 hours (at least) actually taking the course. This also needs to be reported for compliance purposes. How can I set that up?
Sounds like you might need an LMS (Learning MAnagement System) that has those specific functionalities: ability to see how long people spent in the module, and ability to track who completed it for compliance purposes.
OK, the reason that I asked was because our LMS does not provide that
functionality, so I was hoping that we could build it into the Storyline
course and then upload the requirement as part of the SCORM file.
I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish this, but you could drop in a 2 hour audio (silenced), and have a button appear after that audio has completed. If you tie a completion trigger to that button, the course will never show as complete unless they've been in the course 2+ hours.
Holly
That's a really clever idea! The thing that I can't quite work out is how
to add the two hour audio so that it has to run simultaneously with
multiple slides that are being accessed. I suppose that it could be done
with putting the 2 hour audio on the base layer page and then have each
layer be a new slide. The user can navigate through the layers, but still
need to be held to the 2-hour time limit. Thanks for the idea, I think that
this will work.
I originally tried using a silent audio file that ran for two hours, but
that made the course file enormous and just about crashed my machine, so
then I took another great idea and just set the base page duration to 2
hours, added the content slides to layers with forward and back buttons to
move around in the layers and then disabled the Next button and set a
trigger to advance the slide when the timeline ended on the base page.
Worked great and the file size is much more manageable.
It's sad that the rules require a 2-hour minimum, especially if one could read the content in less time. Since you have to force that amount of time, I think an opening slide should tell the users that they will be forced to be in the course for 2 hours to be marked as successfully complete. And perhaps have a note appear on the "last-slide" layer that indicates they need to keep the course open until the Next button is enabled and they can go to the last slide.
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Sounds like you might need an LMS (Learning MAnagement System) that has those specific functionalities: ability to see how long people spent in the module, and ability to track who completed it for compliance purposes.
Here's a few resources to help you out:
https://community.articulate.com/series/learning-management-systems-lmss
https://community.articulate.com/articles/an-introduction-to-lmss
OK, the reason that I asked was because our LMS does not provide that
functionality, so I was hoping that we could build it into the Storyline
course and then upload the requirement as part of the SCORM file.
I'll keep digging. Thanks for your help
*Scott Jones* | LMS Administrator/eLearning Developer
sjones@cloudflare.com
1 888 99 FLARE | www.cloudflare.com
Hi Scott,
I'm sure there are other ways to accomplish this, but you could drop in a 2 hour audio (silenced), and have a button appear after that audio has completed. If you tie a completion trigger to that button, the course will never show as complete unless they've been in the course 2+ hours.
Holly
That's a really clever idea! The thing that I can't quite work out is how
to add the two hour audio so that it has to run simultaneously with
multiple slides that are being accessed. I suppose that it could be done
with putting the 2 hour audio on the base layer page and then have each
layer be a new slide. The user can navigate through the layers, but still
need to be held to the 2-hour time limit. Thanks for the idea, I think that
this will work.
*Scott Jones* | LMS Administrator/eLearning Developer
sjones@cloudflare.com
1 888 99 FLARE | www.cloudflare.com
Thank you, Scott :) Layering vs multiple slides would probably be your best bet. Here is a post I found about this method:
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/how-can-i-make-a-background-music-play-continuously-across-multiple-slides-layers
I originally tried using a silent audio file that ran for two hours, but
that made the course file enormous and just about crashed my machine, so
then I took another great idea and just set the base page duration to 2
hours, added the content slides to layers with forward and back buttons to
move around in the layers and then disabled the Next button and set a
trigger to advance the slide when the timeline ended on the base page.
Worked great and the file size is much more manageable.
*Scott Jones* | LMS Administrator/eLearning Developer
sjones@cloudflare.com
1 888 99 FLARE | www.cloudflare.com
Fantastic, Scott! I was thinking about this yesterday and was going to jump in and offer that as another option. Glad it all worked out. :)
It's sad that the rules require a 2-hour minimum, especially if one could read the content in less time. Since you have to force that amount of time, I think an opening slide should tell the users that they will be forced to be in the course for 2 hours to be marked as successfully complete. And perhaps have a note appear on the "last-slide" layer that indicates they need to keep the course open until the Next button is enabled and they can go to the last slide.
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