total slides viewed for SCORM publishing-need some help figuring this out i think

Aug 18, 2017

Rebecca Harrington
By Rebecca Harrington

I built a module for an online course (SL3) that I'm using blackboard to deliver.

I don't have any quiz slides in the module so i'm using a total number of slides viewed to return a completed/incomplete message back to blackboard.

Within the module student get a choice to choose one of four tracks of messages-each track is 3 slides long. All the tracks conclude with the same two slides.

There are a total of 22 slides in the scene (3). My first whoops was publishing and just automatically putting 22 in the number of slides viewed option. 

The second time I published I just made a bad math error forgetting that the tracks each had three unique slides and thinking it was two. I set it to return based on 16 slides viewed (22-6). 

This morning I published it again, this time with '13 slides viewed' (22-9). I am only getting errors returned in my blackboard gradebook. 

However, I'm also noting that when I dig a little deeper, most of the views are under five minutes and there should be at least ten minutes of content from my perspective. 

Any thoughts on what I'm missing?

3 Replies
Alyssa Gomez
over 6 years ago08/18/17 at 8:54 pm (UTC)

Hi there Rebecca! Thanks for your post and for including your file here.

It sounds like you've got two questions here, so let's tackle them one at a time:

  1. You are seeing errors returned in your Blackboard grade book. What kind of errors are you seeing? Have you tried testing it on another LMS to compare how it behaves there? SCORM Cloud is a good option--it's industry standard, and it's free!
  2. Most of the views are under five minutes. Some learners will progress through the content faster than others, but I do see you're using Restricted navigation. Is the combined total of one "track" of slides longer than 5 minutes?
Rebecca Harrington
over 6 years ago08/21/17 at 4:42 pm (UTC)

I opened a SCORM Cloud account and ran the module there without error. I can try it a few different ways, but based on screen shots I've received from students I followed the track that was consistently sent to me. It's a good tool for ruling things out.

It is possible that views under five minutes are related to only the last view-if a student has made a second attempt they likely clicked through as quickly as possible.

I will keep sniffing around. The errors I got with my first two attempts were timeout errors, a few students would get a check mark (likely because they went ahead and looked at additional slides. With the last one I was getting only exclamation points.

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