Passing Variable to LMS

May 26, 2021

Hi,

First of all I would like to give a shout out to Judy Nollet for the help on this so far.

My question is how can I pass the Variable to the LMS.

So I wanted to to have the user be able to pick 1 of 5 scenes, review the content under that scene, Acknowledge that they reviewed that scene, then finally submit that acknowledgement to the LMS.

The problem is that the variable of what Scene the user took does not get passes to the LMS.

Responce

Thanks,
Tom

Judy Nollet
Hero

almost 3 years ago05/27/21 at 3:34 pm (UTC)

Hi, Tom,

Thanks for the shout out.

Tracking which scene the user completes is slightly more complicated. You need to pass the SceneChoice variable to something that will pass to the LMS.

I've never used survey questions, but I assume those pass to the LMS in a way that makes the choice readable. So I suggest you do this:

Put the acknowledgement statement on a pick-one survey question, with the potential answers being 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 (i.e., they correlate with the scene #s).
Don't show the radio buttons. You can either cover them with an object that matches the background, or just move them off the slide.
Add triggers to select a radio button when the timeline starts based on the value of the SceneChoice variable. For example, change the state of radio button 1 to Selected with the condition that SceneChoice = Scene 1.
Obviously, you'll have to edit the text so it makes sense. For example: "By clicking the Submit button, you acknowledge that you have reviewed %SceneChoice%."
You may want to add the Prev button, or a custom button that returns to the scene for review. In other words, add something that provides an option other than clicking Submit.
Instead of a Graded Results slide, end the course with a Survey Results slide that has a Completion trigger.

I hope that makes sense!

P.S. to others who might stumble upon this post: The SceneChoice variable I'm referring to above is in an edited version of the scene_test.story that I gave to Tom in this earlier post:

https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/passing-a-variable

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