is there any way to add an Exit Course trigger to the last slide of a PowerPoint presentation? Say a button or slide trigger like in Storyline 360. I need to publish the PPT to LMS format but I need to let the LMS know that the presentation has exited.
I have read that the presentation can send a "passed" parameter to the LMS tracking when the last slide is presented. This doesn't quite do it. The LMS is specifically looking for the Exit Course trigger.
Hello Michael, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ⭐️
It sounds like you need some type of exit course function, and I'm happy to make a couple of suggestions!
One way is to add the Exit option directly to the player and pointing to it with an object (an arrow or caption, as Phil suggested here) at the end of the last slide.
It sounds like you want this in Presenter, but I thought it is worth noting that you could also import the slide into Storyline, add the exit course trigger, then publish it to your LMS.
My client does have an Exit button on the top right of the player. I assume it is the tab feature you have outlined above. It looks like the Exit button executes a window.close() javascript function that will close a browser tab only if the browser tab was previously opened by a javascript command.
The LMS this presentation plays on does not fire up a SCO in a new browser tab therefore cannot close the presentation properly in this way.
I believe the bare minimum requirement for a SCORM1.2 compliant SCO is that it issues an LMSInitialize command on startup and an LMSFinish command on exit. I cannot find anyway for a Presenter published SCO to issue an LMSFinish command as a Storyline published SCO does. This leads me to believe that Presenter SCORM1.2 published SCOs are not SCORM1.2 compliant.
As you have suggested, I recommended my client import the PowerPoint presentation into Storyline as that solves the issue.
It appears everything about the Presenter publish function looks identical to the Storyline publish function. I find it odd that the architects of the Presenter had decided to drop the LMSFinish command from Presenter. It cannot be that they had forgotten it and must be on purpose. It would be interesting to know why that decision was made.
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Hello Michael, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes! ⭐️
It sounds like you need some type of exit course function, and I'm happy to make a couple of suggestions!
One way is to add the Exit option directly to the player and pointing to it with an object (an arrow or caption, as Phil suggested here) at the end of the last slide.
It sounds like you want this in Presenter, but I thought it is worth noting that you could also import the slide into Storyline, add the exit course trigger, then publish it to your LMS.
I'm hoping one of these is helpful!
Thank you for your help, Becca.
My client does have an Exit button on the top right of the player. I assume it is the tab feature you have outlined above. It looks like the Exit button executes a window.close() javascript function that will close a browser tab only if the browser tab was previously opened by a javascript command.
The LMS this presentation plays on does not fire up a SCO in a new browser tab therefore cannot close the presentation properly in this way.
I believe the bare minimum requirement for a SCORM1.2 compliant SCO is that it issues an LMSInitialize command on startup and an LMSFinish command on exit. I cannot find anyway for a Presenter published SCO to issue an LMSFinish command as a Storyline published SCO does. This leads me to believe that Presenter SCORM1.2 published SCOs are not SCORM1.2 compliant.
As you have suggested, I recommended my client import the PowerPoint presentation into Storyline as that solves the issue.
It appears everything about the Presenter publish function looks identical to the Storyline publish function. I find it odd that the architects of the Presenter had decided to drop the LMSFinish command from Presenter. It cannot be that they had forgotten it and must be on purpose. It would be interesting to know why that decision was made.
Again, thanks for your help.
Michael, really appreciate your insight. This explains why we have so many completions issues on our SuccessFactors Learning lms.
Articulate, please patch Presenter to provide the LMSFinish function.