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Checking course completion with the LMS
Hi ChristophSchmol,
That’s a great question!
A quick note on how this behaves, Storyline can send completion, success, and quiz result data to an LMS through SCORM, xAPI, cmi5, and similar standards. However, there isn’t currently a built-in Storyline trigger or condition that can directly check whether a learner previously passed a quiz in the LMS when the course launches.
In many cases, returning learner behavior depends more on how the LMS handles resume data, completion status, and suspend data for the published course.
If you need to distinguish between new and returning learners based on prior completion status, that may be possible through custom JavaScript interacting with the LMS API, though the exact approach would depend heavily on the LMS and reporting standard being used.
One thing to keep in mind is that updating and republishing an existing course can also affect how some LMSs treat prior completion data, so behavior can vary quite a bit between platforms.
Hi Eric, thank you for clarifying that it is still not possible to retrieve a previously sent “success” status from the LMS using Storyline.
Could you point me to a guide on how to create a query like that using JavaScript for SCORM 2004 projects?
Thank you!
Let me know if you find something different at any point, but I've looked into this a bit over the years and haven't found much in the how-to department. The good news is that all of the available JavaScript functions we would use to communicate with an LMS are already packaged with Storyline and very easy to call.
To find the list along with the contents of each function and a fair amount of settings, simply publish a course to your local drive, open the file folder, and navigate to the /lms folder, inside of which will be a very large scormdriver.js file. It can be a lot to browse through, and you may prefer an online manual to learn more about things, but you'll probably want a SCORM2004_GetStatus() function. It can be called in an Execute JavaScript trigger in Storyline like:
let status = window.top.SCORM2004_GetStatus();
I have not personally used it (yet) but I have used the SCORM2004_GetStudentName() function with great success a number of times. You'll need to test the course in an LMS or its testing environment of course, but if you're familiar with JavaScript then using that returned value elsewhere in the course should be simple.
If you want to get more granular, there is also a SCORM2004_GetScore() function, though again I've never used it. Someday soon I hope.
