Storyline SCORM 2004 Interaction Reporting
Jun 11, 2013
By
Sam Carter
Storyline does a good job reporting quiz results to a SCORM LMS. Here's a snapshot of what is posted when a learner submits a single question.
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.id", "Scene3_Slide3_MultiResponse_0_0")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.type", "choice")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.student_response", "This is the student's response to the question.")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.correct_responses.0.pattern", "This is the correct response to the question")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.result", "wrong")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.weighting", "1")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.objectives.0.id", "Results1")
- (Scorm12Api) LMSSetValue ("cmi.interactions.1.time", "14:36:47")
Notably missing in the reporting is cmi.interactions.n.description which would be the question itself. Without this, the LMS can report the answer, and is it correct or wrong, but to what question?
The missing description [question] is more than a minor inconvenience when the question is selected from a Storyline group of questions.
Sam
21 Replies
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=79nsl3hhgneg
yep question is not sent, fully documented though
The more I think about this the less this is a good idea this would very quickly overload the resume data limit even for Scorm 2004
Interactions are not stored in resume data.
No mention of cmi.interactions.n.description on that page.
Question is not sent, I did agree . All interactions are stored in the resume data it is the reason why you can overload quizmaker resume data with over 100 questions, at this point it will not resume correctly. Storyline is built on top of quizmaker i do not believe the fundamentals would have changed. I have not tested but would expect to get the same result.
Old scorm KB
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=ap9&id=4ljfcvj3qo3z
supports data being saved,
Storyline resume KB
http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=jrrv9j8vulu0
Supports the resume data being sent
Phil,
I missed your response earlier which advocates not reporting the question because suspend_data size will grow. Is this Articulate's position?
Without cmi.interactions.n.description being reported to the LMS, Storyline quiz pools render the learner's choice useless. Here's an example:
The learner incorrectly selected "True". Which question in the bank of ten true/false questions the learner incorrectly answered cannot be known. Reporting the choice without the question is useless.
Sam
I think it was their response for Quizmaker, you cannot stop it reporting in Storyline, I agree an option to report the question would be great because it is impossible to work out anything without the question. I also had not even thought about question banks. Totally meaningless.
I, too, am very interested in the SCORM data that get recorded. Thanks for the info at the top of the post, Sam! I haven't found anything similar in the SL manual or in any quickly-found resource. Does anybody know of official SL documentation that specifies the current SCORM 1.2 / 2004 data it reports? Or does that only exist in the http://www.articulate.com/support/kb_article.php?product=st1&id=79nsl3hhgneg link?
cmi.interactions.n.description seems to be reporting in runtime data. I did a test with Quizmaker '13 and loaded it into SCORM Cloud and here is my runtime data:
Is this working only in '13 and not Storyline? I need to track this data and I am looking for alternatives.
Thank You.
one question, that i never had answer to:
is it possible to set variables using script from storyline? (no hidden question slide or similar tricks)
I tried a lot of combinations but nothing seems to work:
LMS is Moodle and the scorm version is 1.2. I am using the API activity log to track variables in real time.
i tried the following:
LMSInitialize("");
LMSSetValue("cmi.core.score.raw","100");
LMSCommit("");
i also tried using "API." in front of each command, not working
I also tried such kind of command:
lmsAPI.SetScore(98,100,0);
also:
lmsAPI=parent;
lmsAPI.SetScore(98,100,0);
it seems that no communication is created between the SCO and the LMS.
Anyone know how to manage the scorm data model in storyline???
thanks
Steve Flowers posted a solution for this a while back, you need to use his javascript code and set it to track by slides viewed (as track by score will always get overwritten.
I used these in Moodle last year and worked great.
update:
lmsAPI=parent;
lmsAPI.SetScore(98,100,0);
does work.
So i went searching for custom storyline functions, and i saw that in the published files there is a SCORMFunctions.js where lmsAPI.SetScore is defined, so now i understand storyline uses dedicated functions to communicate to LMS.
All the functions can be found in that file.
Hope this can help other users, bye!
Phil,
objectives are not score dependent, from what i've seen. You can set as many objectives as you need and they will not be reset using track by score and/or submitting interactions in the course.
A good example that worked for me in Moodle:
lmsAPI=parent;
lmsAPI.SetObjectiveScore(1,10, 100, 0);
first argument is the objective id, (objective.0.id)
second is the score (objective.0.score)
third is the maxscore and fourth the minscore.
objective are set (using this storyline function) refering to the first objective available. If you call the following after the previous command:
lmsAPI.SetObjectiveScore(2,50, 100, 0);
you will have variables set into LMS in this way:
cmi.objective.0.id=1
cmi.objective.0.score=10
cmi.objective.1.id=2
cmi.objective.1.score=50
that function is well defined in Storyline and works (similary to all the other storyline LMS functions) whatever you decide to publish to scorm 1.2 or scorm 2004 since it is automatically mapped to rhe relative scorm data model, depending on the scorm version you choosed.
Hope this helped.
Hi Jim,
As you see from SCORM Cloud, your quiz is reporting the description.
There is an issue with your LMS's API that is not letting the quiz report it. I ran into the same problem when I was testing and implementing the interactions feature (as I programmed our own API). In my case, there was a programming error with recording one of the interactions elements. Once I resolved the error, the quiz sent through all of the interactions elements.
I suggest that you report the issue to your LMS vendor.
Zio,
Can you please share the solution with us, including complete javascript, instructions related publishing, and other critical info to make this happen.
Success of my course relies on my ability to report gamification related info (number of coins, items, etc.) as well as performance in multiple challenges. I desperately need this to work.
I sent you a personal message too.
Thanks!
Hi Ron! This thread is a bit dated, but please note you can send a message via 'Contact Me' on Zio's profile in case he's not subscribed :)
I did send him a personal message. Just trying everything...:-)
Perfect :)
Hi Ron! Hoping you'll share if you learn anything more...!!!
I'm not sure if the answer you require is available in the link below - detailing run time referencing for API signatures
https://scorm.com/scorm-explained/technical-scorm/run-time/run-time-reference/
xxx
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