LMS limit attempts

Jul 17, 2015

Hello Everyone!

I've been developing some modules for a University, and I would like to limit the amount of times a student can try a quiz without having to remove the content after they finish it.

I answered all the questions in the module and saw the last page. Every time I revisited the Content's Topic I get the prompt "Would you like to resume where you left off?".

I reviewed the network traffic when I answer "No". The SCORM package is
sending the message "cmi.core.lesson_status" with the status "incomplete". That allows to start viewing the topic again and in turn to attempt the Quiz.

I reviewed the code of the SCORM package and I don't see code to handle "attempt limit".

It is the SCORM package that would control the number of attempts allowed.

Does anyone know a way around this?

Thanks!!

6 Replies

Brian Allen
Hero

almost 9 years ago07/17/15 at 5:50 pm (UTC)

Hello Victor,

Every LMS is different, but with ours (SumTotal) we would limit the number of attempts to a SCORM object thru the LMS, in the learning activity set up, as opposed to trying to control this from the content side of things.

For us it makes a lot of sense to do this, because there are always exceptions. If there were a way (and I don't believe there is) to hard code a certain number of attempts into a SCORM object, and then for whatever reason I needed to override that for an exception, it may be impossible to do. However, if I have set my number of attempts on the LMS side then I can make exceptions for individuals as needed.

Hope this helps