If a quiz question has more than 250 characters, SL will post all the characters to a SCORM-compliant LMS. Most LMS will treat this as an error and not record the description at all.
Storyline provides no error feedback to the learner or the course author.
Shouldn't Storyline truncate anything that exceeds the SCORM limit or alert the learner if not?
Storyline does not truncate any characters that go over the standard SCORM limits. Not all LMS implementations adhere to character limits imposed by the spec that they are using. I imagine that if Storyline began truncating all data that is over the standard limit, we would most likely prohibit many larger courses from resuming properly when their LMS doesn't enforce the limit.
If you would like to see a change in how this behaves, you could submit this as a feature request. Let us know if you need anything further.
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Hi, Sam -
Please check out these threads for some information:
250 character limit
cmi.interactions.n.description length
Shouldn't Storyline truncate anything that exceeds the SCORM limit or alert the learner of the error if not?
It seems like the worst programming decision would be to post excess of 250 characters, receive the error notification, then ignore the error.
This is what Storyline does today.
Hi Sam,
Storyline does not truncate any characters that go over the standard SCORM limits. Not all LMS implementations adhere to character limits imposed by the spec that they are using. I imagine that if Storyline began truncating all data that is over the standard limit, we would most likely prohibit many larger courses from resuming properly when their LMS doesn't enforce the limit.
If you would like to see a change in how this behaves, you could submit this as a feature request. Let us know if you need anything further.
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