Help with tracking click data for non-quiz based module

Jun 03, 2020

Our institution is a medical school and for the past year we've been developing a new online learning module using Adobe Captivate. However, I'm at the point where the bugs that have been present in Captivate for YEARS are actually preventing me from finishing the project, but there's one important feature we need and I don't know if it's possible in Storyline.

This is a "choose your own adventure" activity - NOT a graded quiz, but a series of slides with interactive objects. However, we are also using this for research purposes so we need to see what objects the user clicked, and in what order (using timestamps) so that we get data for which professions (psychologist, surgeon, etc.) made what choices.

We need to output as a SCORM package so that we get an interaction report from our LMS. In Captivate, it's very easy to add an interaction ID to objects included in the quiz (see example attached) even without a quiz structure in place (these are not quiz slides) and still see that ID on the report. I tried the trial of Storyline and while it's MUCH easier to use than Captivate overall, I can't find anything resembling this feature and we absolutely need it.

Reading a few search results, it seems like Storyline doesn't work this way and there are some workarounds using javascript. I want to recommend that we switch to Storyline but we've already sunk a LOT of work into a Captivate project that we can't finish, and I don't want to delay things further by having to find an elaborate workaround.

Is there any easy way to see unique identifiers for objects clicked within a SCORM module published through Storyline? Help! Thank you!

1 Reply
Sam Hill

Hi Ian, to answer one of your questions regarding interaction IDs. You cannot define these. Storyline automatically generates the ID based on the interaction type and slide I believe and so you would need some kind of mapping for your report.

I'm wondering if you looked through the survey and freeform questions and established whether these interactions would meet your needs in terms of tracking clicks? If so, there is no reason why you could not use these dotted around your project, and use a results slide to process the responses.

When publishing the module to SCORM you would set the tracking option to the results slide, this ensures the interactions are tracked on the LMS.

I've made a basic example for you: https://360.articulate.com/review/content/5f94e14e-2cb7-4097-9c8c-8ca706607dc8/review

I ran this in SCORM Cloud and the following output is generated for the questions: https://cloud.scorm.com/sc/guest/ViewDebugLog?logId=8016732a-d84a-4fbc-9d51-316d6230f0b2&courseTitle=cmi.interactions

I hope this helps.

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