Retrieving LMS username as a variable using Tin Can API

May 31, 2017

Thanks to the help of Phil Mayor on this post, I was able to retrieve my LMS username using SCORM 1.2 but couldn't get it to work using Tin Can.

I was using this JavaScript:

var player = GetPlayer();

var myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();

var array = myName.split(',');
var newName = array[0];

player.SetVar("newName", newName);

//myName = player.GetVar('myName');

//player.SetVar("newName", newName);

My question is: Is it possible to retrieve my LMS username using Tin Can?

name_js_demo-focused.story

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Russell Killips

almost 7 years ago05/31/17 at 5:17 pm (UTC)

I don't have any experience with Tin Can but I don't think this can be done with Tin Can as Tin Can can run without an LMS and offline. Tin Can is about storing statements in a LRS (Learner Record Store). An LMS could then potentially read the values in this LRS.

almost 7 years ago05/31/17 at 5:22 pm (UTC)

Ok but the opposite couldn't be possible if I understand you correctly?

Alexander Salas

almost 6 years ago05/15/18 at 1:42 pm (UTC)

If you do it with xAPI it would all be just Js based. In this case, just populate the name from the trigger in Storyline and pass that variable as an "actor" in your xAPI statement.

Mackenzie Moyer

5 years ago04/04/19 at 7:04 pm (UTC)

Hey everyone, I found Nandhakumar's code for xAPI in a different thread here. The code looks very different than the SCORM 1.2.

Retrieving LMS username as a variable using Tin Can API

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