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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!
Thanks for linking Barry - looks like you are working with Cornerstone as well. Again, glad you were able to find this thread as there are many users here that could hopefully assist :)
Thanks for popping in to share Will :)
Hi Marcy,
If the same behavior occurs within Safari on your iPhone our team can take a look at that - and we'd also suggest testing it in another environment such as SCORM Cloud which is an industry standard for LMS Testing.
My understanding is that Chrome on iOS uses the same HTML/JavaScript engine
as Safari. So I would be surprised if anything looks any different on
Chrome. At least that is how it used to be a few years ago.Hi Will,
I don't know much about how the two browsers behave, but the Chrome browser isn't supported in iOS for Storyline 2 for viewing content (although it is supported for HTML5 on a Mac). Storyline 360 does support Chrome in iOS8 or later per the system requirements here.
Hi WW,
I don't know any specifics about the Cornerstone interface, but you mentioned an iPad app and HTML5 - so I wanted to pop in here to see if you're seeing that grey tint over the HTML5 output in mobile Safari or if it's still within the Cornerstone App that you're seeing this behavior? Perhaps there is a screenshot which you can share for the folks in the community who are experienced Cornerstone users so that they'll be able to weigh in.
Can you post a screenshot of this? Are you talking about Cornerstone's built in video learning object?
You must have only looked at page 1 of this thread.
Hi Jan,
If you scroll to the bottom of the first page, you'll see that there are the arrows to go to the next page, and this discussion is actually on page 11. If you see this as an email notification, click the button to "view" within the email and you'll be brought right to the end of the forum discussion and can go back from there to see if there is any CSOD specific help that you may need here.
Cornerstone actually uses Storyline for their own client facing elearning on their Client Success Center (which is a CSOD site), something that reassures me that they will make sure they keep things compatible.
One thing I have noticed about CSOD's own site is that they opt to open SCORM courses in a non-full screen window. We have set Cornerstone to open our SCORM courses ((Storyline/Presenter) full screen. This is a preference you can set in the Cornerstone LMS.
I'm curious what people think are the advantages/disadvantages of the full screen vs. non full screen setting. I imagine that one advantage of not opening full screen might be for novice users, who will more easily realize that what they are looking at is a pop-up window. We like the full screen option because of increased legibility.
Does anyone have extensive experience with Cornerstone's Learning Management Product? Trying to see how it compares to the other solutions out there.
Would love to briefly speak to someone about their experience with the product or a competitors'. Thanks!
