Using a Final Exam - - Resetting courses
Apr 12, 2016
By
Dan Fletcher
Hi All - Long time listener, first time caller.
We're building out a certification program where the learner must take 6-8 different SL2 courses and then a final exam, which is its own individual SCORM package. We want to give the learner two shots at the final exam before resetting the 6-8 courses before it to a status of incomplete (thus blocking the final exam until all courses are "re-completed").
We're using Moodle (for now) and I can't find anything there to reset a course status based on failing another. Is there anything that can be done within the SCORM packages to make this work? I would think the controls here would lie within Moodle, but keep coming up empty.
All suggestions welcome and thanks in advance!
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Hi Dan! Sounds like if it were possible it would lie within your LMS. Hopefully someone in the community with some experience in a similar situation will pop in to assist.
nothing out of the box in Moodle - but if you have some budget for this you could ask a Moodle developer to write a plugin to do this - I'd do it by monitoring the event that gets triggered on scorm completion and if it detects that all attempts for a specific scorm have been used and the learner hasn't passed the package then reset all previous attempts.
Totara (a fork/distribution of Moodle) contains something they call "re-certifications" which is used for courses that need to be completed frequently like a health & Safety course that must be completed each year - but afaik it doesn't allow you to detect an incomplete/fail and then force the learning to be completed again.
Thanks for the feedback, Dan! Looks like we have some soul-searching to do!
I know this is an old post, but I certainly need to do the same. Constructing a course in Rise and SL for a client to be hosted in Totara LMS (Moodle). They would like anything below 50% to trigger a complete reset of the course for that student, whereby 50% - 80% would trigger a second attempt at the exam. 80% is enough for a pass.
The way I see it, LMS developers need to start providing more flexibility within the LMS.
If anyone finds a solution let me know.
Hi Dennis - I cannot speak for your LMS, but within Storyline you could set up branching based on your results that would either allow a simple retry of the quiz or branch them back to the content to re-learn. If you have a sample course, feel free to share so that we can take a look.
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