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Building Courses that Communicate with each other
Hello Mr. Hilliard and thanks for responding. This project isnt for an LMS, but rather just a standalone course. Basically the trainee will read a set of work instructions to build something. In the process, there's a checksheet that the trainee will fill out. I want that information to populate onto the Team Lead's interface and they will have their own checklist to fill out. Both of these then are sent to a Manager's interface where they will show the information on a smart tv / smart board. My issue is figuring out what variables / triggers would be needed to make this happen. You are correct in that if I build this into scenes, there has to be a way to prevent the trainee from accessing the Team Lead's interface and so on.
Whatever solution you used, you would need to do some coding in addition to using variables and triggers to facilitate getting the data out of one SL module and into the other SL module. If you have an LRS, SL has built-in xAPI functionality to communicate however I'm not sure that will access the type of storage you need to send and receive custom data between modules. You can craft the xAPI call with JavaScript however. A Google Sheets solution would require some JavaScript coding. Both of these can be searched on this site.
The database solution is probably the most flexible, but it also requires the most resources and crafting JavaScript, PHP, and HTML code, plus a little SQL. Another post on this site covers the basics of how to do that.
I know some other users use different types of database solutions, so they may have additional input.
It's certainly doable, but you will need to research and plan according to your available resources and skills.