Storyline Course Not Tracking in LMS

Feb 19, 2014

Although my Storyline course opens and runs, it is not showing as either In Progress or Completed on my LMS. I published it for LMS, SCORM 1.2, tracking by number of slides completed. Any help is greatly appreciated.

7 Replies
Nelson Cuellar

Hello all, I am having an issue with the course player not resuming to the point in the video time line where the user left off.  So it's a very basic project setup.  The "courses" are just one 40 minute video, but the requirement is for the user to finish the entire video to get credit for the course.  Ok, so I just set up the project as two slides.  Slide 1 has the video inserted in it, and slide 2 is just a blank slide so that if you close out early it will not track as completed until you get to that second slide. (the only way you can get to the second slide is set as "when the timeline ends".  Ok, so the completion reporting works fine.  User, closes out, it shows as "incomplete" in the LMS, however if you close out half way somewhere in the video, it closes.  Then when you return to the activity it prompts you "do you want to resume", ok so far normal behavior.  But then when you say "yes" it always takes you to the beginning of the video!  So that's the problem.  I have "resumed save state" on each of the slide settings and I have even added "cue points" on the video's timeline but the LMS (SumTotal) does not want to pick up where I closed out last time.  Someone please help!  Does this make sense?

THANK YOU!

Nelson C.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard

Hi Nelson,

We're not able to return to the point in the video where the user left off, but it'll just return to the slide and the overall slide timeline. Could you look at breaking the video up into more than one slide? That way the user could watch snippets of it and if they closed the course be able to return closer to w here they left off? 

Nelson Cuellar

Hi Ashley, thanks for the email. I will try that and see how it works. It's just too bad that Articulate doesn't have a more straightforward work flow for this simple kind of video only course. Perhaps I should file a product update request? Anyway, I'll try your suggestion. Thanks for taking the time to respond, it was driving me crazy! lol

cheers,

Nelson

Russell Engoran

Nelson,

Couple thoughts on this.

1. If you upload a video file to Articulate Review, you can then choose to "Export to LMS" and it will allow you to set a "minimum percentage viewed" threshold. You get a nice tidy package ready to upload to your LMS. This may eliminate your need to create the blank page. Though I realize this is only a minor thing in your case.

2. As for recording the point in the video, and returning to it, it is a property accessible through javascript, but only with effort.

A shortcut I have used, when I need a quick way to let people save their place in a long video, set their own personal bookmarks and still require a percent viewed, is to make use of the wonderful tools over at scormcloud. If you have a (free) account there, you can use their scotube tool to create a basic package that handles that.

You would do this: Add Content / Choose Scotube / Upload your own video instead of pointing to one, and fill in the parameters. Once it finishes, "Export Course" and download the package.

I love those scormcloud people!

I have tried combining the two (scormcloud scotube and storyline), but it's so difficult to search through the storyline output files (especially with no reference materials available from articulate). Of course it would be great if this could be baked directly into storyline, but for now maybe it gives you an option.

Also, I have used the method that Ashley suggests, and of course it works flawlessly as well!

Hope that helps.

Ashley Terwilliger-Pollard
Russell Engoran

1. If you upload a video file to Articulate Review, you can then choose to "Export to LMS" and it will allow you to set a "minimum percentage viewed" threshold. You get a nice tidy package ready to upload to your LMS. This may eliminate your need to create the blank page. Though I realize this is only a minor thing in your case.

Genius idea!  I hadn't even thought of that Russell, but I'll put it in my notes now! 

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