How to know the number of characters in a scorm package

Hello Oscar

di you try to publish your course in SCORM 2004 3rd edition? This will solve your issue because the course in SCORM 1.2 allows only 4096 characters as explained here. https://support.scorm.com/hc/en-us/articles/206167396-Bookmarking-and-Suspend-Data-Limitations

Hello Andrea.

Thanks for your answer! I know this, and I have republicate under 2004 4th edition, but it is possible that we are exceeding the 64,000 character limit in a 2004 scorm package.

What I don't know is how to know if I am exceeding it or not, because I can't find a place where to see the number of characters that my scorm has.

It must be a huge course to break that limit. If you upload to scormcloud one of the reports will show the characters sent. Or use the debug log in the LMS

Hi Phil. I have do that and have some feddback from Scorm Cloud.

A technical question... I have a lot of true/false variables that are initially in false. When the learner see content that are in layers, the variable relative to this layer pass to true.

The problem is the follow: when i resume to the course, all variables are like initially: in false. And the learner has to start from begining, because the progress has not been saved.

My principal question is: normally, custom true/false variables save in suspend_data? Or I am trying something that is imposible....

It depends when they are changed, they should save if you have left the slide the user is on, however if the user leaves on the slide they were changed they will not be saved.

Thanks Phil. I am trying some things with no luck.

If you implement a button in the player with the "Exit course" trigger ... should it save the variables as well?
I'm trying this but no luck.

Also, I have create a button to go to another slide in blank before exit the browser, but nothing

Exit will only save the variables changed on previous slides but not that slide. You can create a save button that jumps to another slide and then exits. I would test this in scormcloud maybe an issue with your LMS

Hi, Phil.

Thanks for your help.

Finally whe have good news! The scorm save the results after made this changes in the .story file:

• Set the principal slide configuration to "Resume saved state".
• Add a new slide with the text "You progress have been saved". And an Exit button and a "Resume to the content button".
• Add in the player a custom button with the text "Save progress", and a trigger that go to the new slide created.

Hope this thread can help other content authors.

Lot of thanks!

Hi!

We are having trouble figuring out what "Character" means in the 64,000 character limit in a 2004 scorm package. Can anyone help me with this info?

Thanks!

Where do I find the number of characters in my storyline file to determine if I have exceeded the limit?

Hello Melissa, and welcome to E-Learning Heroes. 😊

Storyline compresses suspend data to avoid exceeding data limits imposed by some learning management systems. As a result, the suspend_data string in an LMS debug log isn't human-readable.

Hi Leslie,

Does that then mean there is no way other than trial and error testing to see if an elearning exceeds the character limit?

Thanks,

Divya

Hi Divya, 

You can check the exact number of suspend_data characters that your course is generating by enabling the LMS debug logs for your course. With the logs enabled, you can go through your course until the logs indicate that the suspend_data limit has been exceeded. 

Hope this helps!