changing completion criteria in a SCORM package after publishing
Apr 22, 2016
We have a large number of Storyline courses published and implemented as SCORM 1.2 packages in our proprietary LMS. I have access to all of the unzipped files on the LMS server that are served to end users such that I can update individual files directly and have done this for other needs in the past.
We have an issue where sometimes the last screen or two or three of a course is not recorded as viewed. For example, launch a 10-screen course, completion criteria is view all screens, view all screens and exit the course from screen 10: no status of complete. Launch the course again, click Yes to resume, and you are taken back to screen 8, not screen 10 where you actually left off. The screens require you to complete interactions before you can click Next so the user is on the screen more than long enough for LMS communication to happen and suspend data to get updated. It works most of the time for most users but there are random failures in communication.
Ideally I could edit some file in the SCORM package to change the completion criteria from 10 of 10 screens to 9 of 10 screens to mitigate this issue. It would be way, way faster to edit an individual file already on the server rather than publish dozens of packages and upload them again and risk breaking compatibility with existing users' tracking data.
When the completion criteria is configured to be based on screens viewed, can that criteria be altered in the published SCORM package? Where is that information contained?
Thanks,
David
8 Replies
I have asked this question in the past, and was told it was hard baked on publish. This may have changed.
I always set at least 1 slide less than the required amount as I have found similar instances of the last slide not being counted.
Hi David,
We don't have any information to share on ways to change the information within the published output, and if a Hero such as Phil hasn't found it - not sure that it's an option. But if you're being returned to an earlier point in the course vs. where you actually left off, I'd suspect you're hitting the suspend data limit as detailed here, are you publishing for SCORM 1.2?
Thanks Phil, a good, practical suggestion.
Thanks Ashley, but suspend data for this particular set of courses is on the order of 1,000 characters. These courses are not very long.
Definitely not long at all - thanks for clarifying David. If you'd like, we are happy to take a look and see if our team spots anything else. You can send it along here.
Has there been any resolution or update to this posting. Would love to be able to modify completion status to a published SCORM file...we don't have access to the original Story file
Hi Jason,
We haven't implemented a method to edit the published output, but I hope someone in the ELH community who has done so is able to share with you!
Forgive me if this was asked somewhere else but is there a way to look at the .zip file or the Storyline output to see what setting was used at the time of publishing?
Hi there, Michael. There isn't a way to determine what reporting settings were used at the time of publish by looking at the output files.
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