Creating a simple LMS / Recording System.

Oct 01, 2012

Hi all,

I use Articulate presenter pretty much everyday and we have our own LMS which we upload our e-learning to called "Skills Locker", its a pretty crap system in my opinon over priced and full of bugs but someone managed to convince the man in charge to use it.

Anyway we only use articulate on this system to play the presentation and the system has its own built in assessment system we just link a presentation to the inbuilt system we we really use none or very little of Articulates build in LMS functionality.

Anyway my Boss asked me today to make a "Game" but really its just going to be an interactive quiz, this is going to be for an exhibition for schools.

Anyway hes asked me to come up with in short a system to store the results in a database and this is to be hosted on a local computer he will take to the exhibition.

Now making the quiz and hosting the database on the pc is easy, I intend to use a LAMP server installed on the PC for that.

So I will be needing to use PHP / MySQL which is fine, so my plan is to make a webpage before the presentation to take the child's:

First Name

Last Name

School Name

And then the child will click "play" or "next" and the presentation will start, this is where I get stuck!

Where can I find out what happens after a presentation finishes what does it do can I make it just call a php file to store the data in Mysql? I will be storing

First Name

Last Name

School

Score

This is for use within a score board to be displayed at the end of the exhibition, 

The exhibition is not till the 20th of November

Can anyone point me in the right direction to find what I need?

Manby Thanks,

- Sam

3 Replies
George Claughan

Hi Peter,

I have looked at that thread I also looked at the thread about emailing the results which esensitally would work if I direct the end result to a php script that stores the result instead of emailing and when the user enters there info at the start before the quiz store that in a session cookie, this would work I would think but I haven't managed to test it yet as I am waiting on someone at my work to get me a test platform so I am stuck until someone gives me a server / computer to test on

If the method I decribed doesn't work I will look at that thread again.

I was more interested to know if there was some sort of documentation on what articulate does when it finishes like the functions it calls etc but I can't seem to find this. I see that its more focused on being used within LMS so what I am doing is a bit hack and slash.

Maybe you should consider supporting some sort of functionality to allow developers to code there own way of recording results easier than going through the LMS route as what I am intending doing for the exhibition we are attending would surely be useful for others.

Thanks again for the reply.

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