How do Quiz results get passed to a LMS and more?
Jun 27, 2011
Spent that last half hour trying to find this answer, but I cannot. Many threads mention things I'm trying to find out, but they are referred to in passing as pre-existing knowledge, but they do not pre-exist in my brain, so here goes.
Question 1:
What do I do to get Quizmaker to report the question by question responses? In the past Quizmaker has handled the detail and simply reported results as "Pass/Fail". Now the client wants to produce reports of student answers to the individual questions. The only thing I can find in Quizmaker that seems to have anything to do with this is the "Submit all at once" vs "Submit one at a time" setting in Player Templates, but I am not sure what that setting does.
Question 2:
How do Quiz results get passed to a LMS? Truly - how? What I want to understand is the step by step mechanism or process Quizmaker uses and also the name of the file that contains the quiz results that a LMS "imports" to create its reports.
Help will be appreciated.
JP
8 Replies
Not overly familiar with reporting tools for LMS's but the question by question information is passed to the lms using the cmi.suspend_data field. you'd have to create a report to seperate the plethora of info that is being passed through the API from the course to the LMS. That info should include: question type (true/false), user choice(a), correct or incorrect, feedback, question weight(score) etc.
"Submit all at once" vs "Submit one at a time" realy only effects how the course or quiz progresses. the All at once alows a user to go through all questions and submitting them after tehy have answered them all. and recive a final mark. The one at a time forces the user ti submit the answer to a question before moving on to the next question.
Hi JP,
The following article will show you which data is being sent to your LMS from Quizmaker quizzes:
http://www.articulate.com/support/quizmaker09/kb/?p=137
Please note that it is up to your LMS to determine how to process and display the data that is being sent to it. Bear in mind that some LMS's may not be able to process the data the way that you are looking for.
Also, please be aware that SCORM 2004 provides more robust data for tracking and reporting than SCORM 1.2 or AICC. If your LMS supports SCORM 2004, you may want to consider publishing your Articulate content for SCORM 2004 to see if this provides the tracking and reporting you desire from your LMS. To learn more about SCORM, see:
http://www.scorm.com/
In order to find the step by step mechanism by which Quizmaker reports data, you can see the example in the link below:
http://www.articulate.com/support/quizmaker09/kb/?p=289
The communication log file you had me link to is very informative, but looking at the one my project makes would be even more helpful.
HOW DO I FIND IT?
What is it called and where is it located?
I assume the "API" being searched for and found is in the LMS. True?
I want to be able to look at this stuff IN my project for a couple reasons.
1) I want to really understand what's going on, and
At the moment the LMS admins are telling me that our LMS only handles AICC, so what I need is enough basic info that I can actually look at the files being send to the LMS by this particular project. A step-by-step outline of the process I need to follow to do that will be most helpful and will probably get me out of your hair most quickly.
Thanks, JP
Hi JP,
You can enable the LMS debug log by following the method in the link below:
http://www.articulate.com/support/presenter09/kb/?p=936
This will show you exactly what communication your project is making to the LMS.
Thanks for all the help. Unfortunately, it turns out that I was being asked to do and then trying to do the impossible. The LMS system we have does not handle what it calls "answer level" reporting. We will try again to convince the client that Articulate Online does what they want done easily, inexpensively, and well.
Hey Jeff. One advantage that Articulate Online is going to have over traditional LMS' is that it does a really great job of reporting on the details of user's interactions. We do some custom reporting that are not standard in traditional LMS' which is why you may find that Articulate Online is really the way to go for your customer. Let us know how it goes. If they decide not to go with Articulate Online, I would be curious to hear why.
Jeff is spot on. The reporting features of AO are one of the biggest reason's we use it. We have one test that has been taken by thousands of physicians in training and by using the quiz heuristics in AO we can easily see what they are learning, what people are struggling with, etc. You simply cannot do this with many LMS products on the market.
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