Can you send specific text to the LMS?

Jun 23, 2020

Hello Articulate community, I'd be extremely grateful for any advice you may be able to offer on a little challenge we've been set.

We have a Storyline 3 course (Scorm 1.2) published on a Saba LMS.

Is there a way to send a specific piece of text ("PT=BT-CM") from the course to the LMS, so it can be extracted/picked up by a back-end reporting system?

Our reporting team has requested the text be sent to the suspend data field of the LMS, but I was under the impression that suspend data is not human-readable.

All ideas and suggestions gratefully received. If possible, what would be the best way to do it? A dummy quiz question? Variables? JavaScript?

Many thanks.

3 Replies

Sam Hill
Hero

almost 4 years ago06/23/20 at 7:29 am (UTC)

Hi Brian, I wouldn't mess with the suspend_data. I think you would be better off using JavaScript to write to a CMI.interaction or CMI.comments.

Brian McSkane
Author

almost 4 years ago06/26/20 at 11:31 am (UTC)

Hi Sam,

Thanks for helping me with this. Would you know if the following Javascript code will work for me? (I need to capture ‘PT=BT-CM’ in the SCORM data for every learner completing the course.)

For SCORM 1.2 content

SCORM_CallLMSSetValue('cmi.comments', PT=BT-CM);

For SCORM 2004

SCORM2004_CallSetValue('cmi.comments_from_learner.0.comment', PT=BT-CM);

Thanks again, Brian