Articulate Mobile App and Offline tracking

Nov 01, 2012

My team is developing Tin Can support into our current LMS in order to be able to track learning metrics from our users via the iPad Mobile App. We have seen that it is possible to download and then view the content offline (no internet connection) on the iPad, but then we are not able to update the LMS with the learning metrics from the time the user spent in the course content while offline.

Is this support for reporting metrics obtained while offline planned in a future version of the Mobile App? The idea being that the next time the iPad was connected online it would report to the LMS.

thanks,

Brian

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Peter Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 9:30 am (UTC)

Hey Brian!

We don’t currently support offline tracking in the Articulate Mobile Player, but our development team is always looking into new ways to improve the product, so please feel free to share your thoughts in a feature request. Thanks!

Brian Goldhardt
Author

over 11 years ago11/01/12 at 1:24 pm (UTC)

Thanks Peter, I just submitted the request. I hope this will be strongly considered as it would be a huge benefit for mobile user bases like ours.

Brian

John Pieterse

over 11 years ago11/28/12 at 12:08 am (UTC)

Hi Brian, Peter,

You also nailed our problem down. For some of our clients we prepare checklists for technical data. Checks are done offline as they are conducted in remote areas. At present they can now only make a hardcopy through Airprint. This is setting the clock back. It would be a huge advantage if the scores could be uploaded to a LMS as soon as there is an online oppertunity.

I have also made it a feature request for the Mobile Player.

Best regards,

John

Peter Anderson
Staff

over 11 years ago11/28/12 at 7:23 am (UTC)

Thanks for adding your voice, John. I would love to see this capability. Fingers crossed

Terry Collinson

11 years ago03/03/13 at 3:06 am (UTC)

I will be developing one shortly using HTML5. The principle is the data you wish to pass to the Tin Can API is stored in local storage and passed back to the API the next time the user is online.

Electron Karthick

almost 11 years ago05/16/13 at 8:05 am (UTC)

Hello Terri, Did you manage to find a workaround for implementing offline tracking? If yes, could you share your trick with the community?

Terry Collinson

almost 11 years ago05/16/13 at 8:45 am (UTC)

Not for the Tin Can API but for another solution. Basically the logic is as follows:

When the application is installed you create a local database with a table of the fields you wish to store
On submission you detect if the user is offline and if so insert the record into the the local database
You can then either "watch" for when the user comes on-line or await until the user relaunches the application
Either way you run a query to see if the table has any records
If so loop over the records and run the upload process as normal
On completion delete the records in the table

Hope this helps

Electron Karthick

almost 11 years ago05/23/13 at 11:44 am (UTC)

Terry Collinson said:

Not for the Tin Can API but for another solution. Basically the logic is as follows:

When the application is installed you create a local database with a table of the fields you wish to store

On submission you detect if the user is offline and if so insert the record into the the local database

You can then either "watch" for when the user comes on-line or await until the user relaunches the application

Either way you run a query to see if the table has any records

If so loop over the records and run the upload process as normal

On completion delete the records in the table

Hope this helps

Thank you!

Articulate Mobile App and Offline tracking

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