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IanDavies-43652's avatar
IanDavies-43652
Community Member
3 years ago

Course name not available in LRS using xAPI

I have a Rise course embedded in my LMS (Learnupon) using xAPI, and my LMS is configured to forward all xAPI statements to an LRS.

However, in  the LRS, I only see the Identifier for my course, not the course name (see excerpt below).

...

"object": {
  "id": "http://BTOU9-J_LmHrlsWMoZcBx6LD4lA9ra2W_rise",
  "objectType": "Activity",
  "definition": {
    "type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/course"
  }
}, ...


I see that the course name is present in the tincan.xml file, but according to my LMS provider, they don't receive the course name in the xAPI statements and it is not their responsibility to associate the two things together when forwarding to an LRS.  So my question is, does Rise really not send the name of the course in the object, and is there a way to configure this?  I guess I could change the ID when I publish the course but then I'd need to be very careful about making each course name unique and this doesn't work so well with different versions of courses with the same title.  I expected to have an autogenerated ID but also find a readable "name" element within the definition that contains the course name.  It's quite pointless having an LRS if I cannot associate it easily with a particular course.  Has anyone else experienced this and are there good ways to overcome this, please?

Thanks,

Ian.

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  • CNavarro's avatar
    CNavarro
    Former Staff
    3 years ago

    Hi Ian. I can see that you have a support case with us. It looks like our support engineer confirmed that the course title isn't sent in the xAPI statements. You would need to change the pre-generated identifier during export and don't use any special characters. 

    • ShannonOKeefe-b's avatar
      ShannonOKeefe-b
      Community Member
      2 years ago

      Can you explain that solution more please? Changing the pre-generated identifier? I'm experimenting with the UDN in Storyline for this same reason. How can I marry the data to the course title?

  • KellyAuner's avatar
    KellyAuner
    Staff
    2 years ago

    Hi, Shannon!

    I'm happy to jump in to try and help you out here. Since the course title isn't sent in the xAPI statements, you can change the pre-generated identifier during the export. Note that if you alter the pre-generated identifier, don't use special characters. For versioning, just add a numeric suffix for the title you're going to be typing on the identifier.

    Here's a thread on changing the identifier that may be helpful:

    If you have additional questions please don't hesitate to reach out here or privately in a support case!

  • IanDavies-43652's avatar
    IanDavies-43652
    Community Member
    2 years ago

    Thank you.  I hope the information sent can become more comprehensive in the future as there's no reason not to pass this information.

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