Use Learner's Name in E-Learning Course #222: Challenge | Recap
Using variables to capture a learner’s name is one of the most common ways to build more personalized and dynamic e-learning....
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I seem to be incapable of following instructions so my attempt at this is a little different. Instead of having the user enter his or her name in Storyline, I grab the user's name from the LMS and display it in Storyline. In this example, I am using Scorm Cloud for the LMS.
https://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=c8bbdfdf-84ae-439d-8a03-5062a22928f2
https://cloud.scorm.com/sc/InvitationConfirmEmail?publicInvitationId=c8bbdfdf-84ae-439d-8a03-5062a22928f2
Hi Nancy! I'd love to see it but I'm getting "The course you are trying to launch is not currently available. Contact the person who invited you for more details."
- Ha, that is interesting. I am using a free version of SCORM Cloud for this so maybe they limit the number of accesses. The sample slide is not very interesting, but the fact that you can show the user name in Storyline without them having to enter their name in kind of neat.
- I just check SCORM Cloud and I can't see anything missing.
I wonder if someone else on this thread could try it and see if they are having the same issues as you are.- OK! Thanks, Nancy. :)
- Hi Nancy, I'm getting the same message that Jackie got: "The course you are trying to launch is not currently available. Contact the person who invited you for more details."
- Thanks for checking Tracy.
- Hi Nancy,
+1 here, same message. Do you need to have a login for SCORMcloud? I don't have that.
I am desperately trying to inplement this function, all other solutions I have found use JavaScript to get the name of the learner, but that does not seem to work in my LMS (or I am compiling the SCORM badly, no idea).
I would prefer an HTML5 solution of there is one.- Hi Felix, thanks for checking. You should not need a SCORMCloud account to access the course. SCORMCloud should prompt you to enter your email address and then show a button to launch the course. It was working but maybe the invite link expired or something.
My solution uses JavaScript as well. Someone posted some code to do this in the community forum, but it did not work properly. I made some edits to the code and have managed to get it to work on SCORMCloud, Cornerstone, and Moodle.
This is the code if you want to try using it.
var player = GetPlayer();
function findLMSAPI(win) {
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
else if (win.parent == win) return null;
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}
var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var lmsName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
var commaIndex = lmsName.indexOf(',');
player.SetVar("UserName", ((commaIndex == -1) ? lmsName : lmsName.substr(commaIndex + 1).trim() + ' ' + lmsName.substr(0,commaIndex)));
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To use the code:
1. Put an Execute JavaScript trigger on your first slide and set it to trigger when the timeline starts.
2. Create a text variable in Storyline called UserName
3. Add a text box with %UserName% wherever you want the name to appear in the course.
