We are testing one of storyline courses on NON LMS environment,
the developer has asked us to show in the published folder where the tracking information
like ‘incomplete /completed’ and ‘’number of slides viewed is stored. We have
enabled it in the tracking function before publish.
Does anyone know where this information is stored?
The actual data that gets sent doesn't get stored in any file, it gets communicated to the LMS and stored in the LMS. You can look in the files for the course SETTINGS, but not the tracking DATA. Hope that helps clarify.
Thanks for pointing that out, Gerry I guess the number of slides viewed (for tracking purposes) is indirectly related to resume, so yeah, it's in a Flash cookie for resume only, but not something you can report on, at least without using Articulate Online or an LMS.
I'm using Windows 7 and Flash cookies with that are at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects and then in some folders after that.
For example, I just published something locally and played it back and the full path to the cookie was this:
To view the Storyline cookie itself, I used the viewer software from the above site and highlighted the cookie URL and then turned on Options > Display Mode > Hex Dump
What it all means beyond this, I don't have a clue. Too techie for me and not something I'll ever probably look at again . . .
Hi Gerry-so does this report on completion and quiz results too?
Hi, Laureen!
Not sure. Never spent much time with this other than what I found and posted above. Usually I'm more concerned with the LMS side of things and how the content posts to the LMS.
I have a somewhat different question! We have an LMS where the courses are being launched from. I've set the courses to Prompt to Resume if the person leaves the course in the middle and comes back another time. If I want the learner to receive a completion after viewing ALL slides in a course, can the person come back to where they left off, view the rest of the slides, then get a completion? Or do they have to view all slides in one go to receive a completion? Thanks!
It should track that they've viewed the slides and count towards the total. Are you running into an issue where that's not working? Have you look at testing it at SCORM Cloud? It's a standard for LMS testing and this article will walk you through the ways in which you can test there.
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Hi Aman,
The actual data that gets sent doesn't get stored in any file, it gets communicated to the LMS and stored in the LMS. You can look in the files for the course SETTINGS, but not the tracking DATA. Hope that helps clarify.
Hey, Pete,
for non-LMS uses doesn't this get stored locally as a something like a Flash cookie (when using Flash)?
Thanks for pointing that out, Gerry
I guess the number of slides viewed (for tracking purposes) is indirectly related to resume, so yeah, it's in a Flash cookie for resume only, but not something you can report on, at least without using Articulate Online or an LMS.
Thanks Peter for the information
I wish there was a way to track or pass/fail information without the LMS.
Thanks Gerry for the insight , Any ideas where this flash cookie can be found to pull information from it?
regards,
Aman
Hi, this site and it's Flash Cookie viewer software may help: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/flash_cookies_view.html
I'm using Windows 7 and Flash cookies with that are at: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects and then in some folders after that.
For example, I just published something locally and played it back and the full path to the cookie was this:
C:\Users\Gerry\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects\DTE7JZTN\localhost\My Storyline Projects\Development Planning output\story.swf\5cVk7gnFZ1E.sol
To view the Storyline cookie itself, I used the viewer software from the above site and highlighted the cookie URL and then turned on Options > Display Mode > Hex Dump
What it all means beyond this, I don't have a clue. Too techie for me and not something I'll ever probably look at again . . .
thanks Gerry , you are a Super Hero !
this really helps , hopefully it will solve one part of the Puzzle !
regards,
Aman
Hi Gerry-so does this report on completion and quiz results too?
Hi, Laureen!
Not sure. Never spent much time with this other than what I found and posted above. Usually I'm more concerned with the LMS side of things and how the content posts to the LMS.
I have a somewhat different question! We have an LMS where the courses are being launched from. I've set the courses to Prompt to Resume if the person leaves the course in the middle and comes back another time. If I want the learner to receive a completion after viewing ALL slides in a course, can the person come back to where they left off, view the rest of the slides, then get a completion? Or do they have to view all slides in one go to receive a completion? Thanks!
Hi CurlyQT,
It should track that they've viewed the slides and count towards the total. Are you running into an issue where that's not working? Have you look at testing it at SCORM Cloud? It's a standard for LMS testing and this article will walk you through the ways in which you can test there.
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