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Everything we know about Cornerstone on Demand and Storyline!
I thought I would start a thread about Cornerstone on Demand so there's a central place for people to read and add to. There seems to be a dearth of information about how CSOD and Storyline interact with each other as well as the unresolved issues surrounding it. I've spent many hours scouring the web and speaking with Cornerstone trying to find a solution. Hopefully this thread will serve as a resource for others going forward.
On a side note, I love Articulate Storyline. I started with Adobe Captivate with limited success. It was a very steep learning curve, but I was able to get some basic functionality out of it. I tested out Storyline with it's 30 day trial, and I will say that time-to-effectiveness was drastically reduced. It really IS like using powerpoint. Granted there is less complex functionality and interactions available than Captivate, but so far it's given me everything I've needed to use. The benefit is that the learning curve is much less steep too. Think of it as the difference between iMovie and Final Cut Pro. The latter can do some crazy effects, but the former gives you 90% of what you need and can get you comfortable in 1/4 of the time.
It's nice to have a properly-working content creation tool when you're in an LMS like Cornerstone. I have enough trouble in CSOD as it is.
So some of the nuggets of wisdom that I've found are :
- Cornerstone does not track SCORM 1.2 content properly. You cannot pull a lot of the reports if they are not in SCORM 2004 format. You don't have the option to select that course in the reports.
- If you export into SCORM 2004, there will be an extra section on the left with text links to the module. This takes up 30% of the screen, and on smaller laptop screens may crowd out the module window. Cornerstone says this is a Storyline exporting settings issue. I couldn't find any settings that shows/hides that section. The workaround is to resize the module to the screen, which doesn't get rid of the section, but at least fits the module.
- When reporting, you can get the completion status for a course based on quiz result or last slide viewed. You can also get a final grade for course. Storyline passes the results information for each question (including short answer) but you cannot pull a list of the answers for an individual. Therefore, it may not be advisable to administer any testing where you'll need to review individual answers
- You can get a list of aggregate answers for a module. e.g. I can see how 100 employees answered this multiple choice question. This is helpful to determine if learners are absorbing the course information correctly.
- Web objects (such as websites, or links to sharepoint documents) work in modules if your IT has added csod.com to the trusted sites
- Popup windows that open up the articulate module in CSOD will work if you add csod.com to the allowed list for popup blockers. Your IT dept can also add this to everyone's computer. Otherwise when learners click the "launch" button, the module does not show up.
I'll post more as I think or find them, but feel free to add to this list!
Hello,
I have an embedded deeplink to an old LMS training for reference to the users in my current training that is not directing me to the LMS training I want. The problem started when I published my current LMS training to the company's CSOD for testing. When I click on the embedded link during testing it is not directing me to the old LMS training, it is redirecting me to the login screen for some reason. Is there any idea of why this happening?
Hi everyone--I have been receiving numerous reports of an end-user's Storyline course freezing, or their whole computer freezing, while trying to complete the training. I am trying to get more info on our end user's ISPs (we work from home and use our own ISP). Has anyone noticed issues with course or whole computers freezing when experiencing jitter or packet loss? Thanks!
Hi Laura! Is this related to utilizing a Cornerstone LMS? Hopefully you can get some feedback here.
Exactly. We load all of our Storyline courses to the CSOD LMS and they are launched directly from the LMS.
Does anyone have experience with using the Cornerstone mobile app for your Storyline content? I have Storyline 1, and we're testing the mobile app, but even though I've published to SCORM 2004, and selected Mobile & HTML 5, the content doesn't open properly in the mobile app. I just get the background of the player and it never loads. (I do have mobile selected in the properties for the LO within CSOD). Thanks much!
Hi. Does anyone know the name of the report in Cornerstone that you would use to see a list of aggregate answers for a module?
Thank you
Reports (Menu) > Standard Reports (Submenu) > Training (Tab) > SCORM 2004 Course Progress Chart (Report) > Assessment Summary (Option)
As implied by the name, it only works for SCORM 2004 modules and not 1.2. So whenever you publish for Cornerstone, make sure to use SCORM 2004 if you want to use this report.
Hi, I'm trying to retrieve Likert survey responses via Articulate Online and it doesn't appear to work. Has anybody been successful in getting survey responses from AO?
Hi Michael!
Looks like I responded to a similar question here.
Back to the topic of Cornerstone... I am trying to to use Cornerstone's Course Assessment Question Item Analysis standard report on one of my Articulate Storyline modules. However, all of the test questions are each split out three times in the report, e.g.:
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So to use this report I would have to add these numbers back up for each of the three rows of each question. It is the same question, but takes up three rows. Has anyone encountered this / knows why it is doing this / knows how to fix this? (Note that it is also doing this for True/False, so it isn't creating a row per response item).
Maybe it is documenting data/results from different versions of the tutorial that jave been published? .. Just guessing.
Michael Woo
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Unfortunately there has been only one version of the course published, so that probably isn't it.
A colleague suggested that each row might indicate a different question attempt. That seems feasible. The only problem there is that this test only gives the user one attempt per question. It does, however, allow the user to retake the assessment at the end if they fail.
In that case though you would expect the Response number to be the same for each question because upon retaking the assessment, the user would have to reanswer all of the questions, not just a subset.
Looks like this post has the answer:
The first number is {Quiz Attempts} and the second number is {Question Attempts}. I don't allow people more than one Question Attempt on this quiz, but I do allow unlimited Quiz Attempts.
Now I just have to figure out why that Responses number goes down on each Quiz Attempt (since they have to retake the entire quiz, it seems it should be the same each time). Also, why always three Quiz attempts? Third time isn't always the charm I would assume!
