Everything we know about Cornerstone on Demand and Storyline!
Sep 04, 2013
I thought I would start a thread about Cornerstone on Demand so there's a central place for people to read and add to. There seems to be a dearth of information about how CSOD and Storyline interact with each other as well as the unresolved issues surrounding it. I've spent many hours scouring the web and speaking with Cornerstone trying to find a solution. Hopefully this thread will serve as a resource for others going forward.
On a side note, I love Articulate Storyline. I started with Adobe Captivate with limited success. It was a very steep learning curve, but I was able to get some basic functionality out of it. I tested out Storyline with it's 30 day trial, and I will say that time-to-effectiveness was drastically reduced. It really IS like using powerpoint. Granted there is less complex functionality and interactions available than Captivate, but so far it's given me everything I've needed to use. The benefit is that the learning curve is much less steep too. Think of it as the difference between iMovie and Final Cut Pro. The latter can do some crazy effects, but the former gives you 90% of what you need and can get you comfortable in 1/4 of the time.
It's nice to have a properly-working content creation tool when you're in an LMS like Cornerstone. I have enough trouble in CSOD as it is.
So some of the nuggets of wisdom that I've found are :
- Cornerstone does not track SCORM 1.2 content properly. You cannot pull a lot of the reports if they are not in SCORM 2004 format. You don't have the option to select that course in the reports.
- If you export into SCORM 2004, there will be an extra section on the left with text links to the module. This takes up 30% of the screen, and on smaller laptop screens may crowd out the module window. Cornerstone says this is a Storyline exporting settings issue. I couldn't find any settings that shows/hides that section. The workaround is to resize the module to the screen, which doesn't get rid of the section, but at least fits the module.
- When reporting, you can get the completion status for a course based on quiz result or last slide viewed. You can also get a final grade for course. Storyline passes the results information for each question (including short answer) but you cannot pull a list of the answers for an individual. Therefore, it may not be advisable to administer any testing where you'll need to review individual answers
- You can get a list of aggregate answers for a module. e.g. I can see how 100 employees answered this multiple choice question. This is helpful to determine if learners are absorbing the course information correctly.
- Web objects (such as websites, or links to sharepoint documents) work in modules if your IT has added csod.com to the trusted sites
- Popup windows that open up the articulate module in CSOD will work if you add csod.com to the allowed list for popup blockers. Your IT dept can also add this to everyone's computer. Otherwise when learners click the "launch" button, the module does not show up.
I'll post more as I think or find them, but feel free to add to this list!
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Way to reach out to the community Sasha - they are pretty helpful and savvy for sure. Wanted to link to our discussion here as well.
I would use Cornerstone's built-in test engine for this.
Yep. Either use the test engine or publish with the Storyline setting to always restore and don't allow navigation away from the results slide or resetting results. That way you'd need to re-proxy enroll (LAT) them into the module to allow navigation after finishing the test in order for someone to restart the test.
Hello - I need to limit quiz attempts to one attempt as well for the first time. I thought that I could do this with these instructions:
https://community.articulate.com/series/4/articles/limiting-quiz-attempts-in-articulate-storyline-2
Am I missing something?
Thank you for any feedback. Sighle
Hello Sighle - As long as you are still in the same session, that solution should work well for you. That solution does not apply if the user is starting a subsequent session, as that would be controlled via LMS. Do you have a .story file that you'd like to share for us to take a look at?
Hi Leslie,
I do need it to retain between sessions. I'm working on seeing if using "automatically resume state" will keep the "Attempts" variable set. If not I will need to use another authoring package that allows me to save the variable back to the LMS since Storyline doesn't let me do that. I don't know of any way to have the LMS know that without the course sending the information via SCORM.
Perhaps I misunderstood Sighle - what you are describing should work just fine with the resume behavior set.
Great - thank you. I'm testing now. Sighle
Hello everyone,
I know this conversation is a little dated but I'm hoping for some guidance. Background story: I've created a exam in Quizmaker, when sent to Cornerstone - user is still able to launch the exam after completion. I've tried every property available in Quizmaker to prevent this. What I've figured out is the fix is in the Scorm coding. I will need to adjust the coding to where the user is incapable of relaunching the exam after review and completion. Can any direct me in the right direction on as to how I can accomplish this? I'm running out of options here.
Hi Sighle,
Did you have any luck?
Hi Sasha,
I'll defer to the Cornerstone experts here, and you may want to use the "contact me" button on a ELH users' profile to reach out to them directly! But I did also provide some additional thoughts here. Best of luck with your project!
Hi, I just want to confirm one quick thing. When launching a Storyline quiz in cornerstone is it possible to view individual answers? For example if there is a short response, can I view or create a report that shows what the answer they submitted?
I am getting ready to upload a lesson in the LMS and will set up a test quiz. I will check to see if I can see any individual answers.
There was an update by CSOD in the past 6 months or so that allowed for this. I seem to recall that to get the level of detail we needed required creation of a custom report rather than just running the standard report. Also have to publish SCORM 2004 (we use 3rd).
Yes, here is a prior comment on how to add SCORM 2004 data to a transcript report.
See https://help.csod.com/help/csod_0/OnlineHelp.htm#Reporting/Analytics/Custom_Reports_Project/Transcript_Report.htm?Highlight="scorm 2004 quiz data"
You can now add the following to a transcript report:
SCO Name - SCO name as appears on the course manifest. Text
SCO ID - SCO ID as appears on the course manifest. Text
Quiz Attempt - How many times the learner attempted the quiz. Text
Quiz Attempt Date -The date when the specific attempt occurred (this field is correlated with the "Attempt" field). Text
Question ID - Unique label for the interaction. Text
Question Description - A brief informative description of the interaction. Text
Question Type - Which type of interaction is recorded. Text
Question Weighting - Weight given to the interaction relative to other interactions. Text
User Response - Data generated when a learner responds to an interaction. Text
Response Status - Judgment of the correctness of the learner response. Text
Response Time - The time the user responded to the interaction. Text
Quiz Score - Number that reflects the performance of the learner for the objective. Text
Quiz Success Status - Indicates whether the learner has mastered the SCO. Text
Thank you, but I don't see the SCORM 2004 option in the Transcript Report fields, am I missing something?
@ Matthew - SCORM 2004 3rd edition is what was recommended to us also. There is now a standard SCORM 2004 report in CSOD now. It's not pretty but workable for seeing answers to questions. In our installation, I'm a Learning Admin (not full admin) and I had to get full report rights to see this report. I think that probably changes per installation. If you don't see the standard SCORM 2004 report, you can ask about your reporting rights (if that applies).
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SCORM 2004 Course Project Chart is it's own report under Training (see the image I attached). You have to run the report on a course, not a learner I believe. You can restrict which learners are pulled for the report though. I hope this helps.
If you don't see the SCORM 2004 options it in your Transcript Report fields (in Custom Reports), something isn't turned on for you, either because of security or something else. Contact whomever is your support and request it. Using the Custom Reports for this is much more useful than the Standard Reports by the way.
One needs to contact CSOD to request the SCORM 2004 custom report to be activated. It is not automatically turned on for CSOD administrators.
Hi Dave,
Just wanted to also give you a heads up that responding via email includes your signature here in ELH. You are welcome to visit the forum discussion and click on the "edit" below your post to remove that information. No worries on our part - just in case you don't want your information publicly!
Thank you everyone! Hoping to get this custom report added soon.
We found the problem when using the CSOD deep links is that they are 265 (or 266) characters long but Microsoft was only passing 256 characters back to the LMS. Don't know if that came into play in your situation or not.
Yes - that was the problem, so we used bit.ly to shorten our deep links.
Hello! How to make this go away?
SCORM 2004