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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!
Perfect explanation Chris, and thanks for coming back to update us!
Another thought, if you don't need to report a score to your LMS, you could always report completion based on visiting a particular slide.
- SheilaCole-BultCommunity Member
Hi, all! Not sure who might still be monitoring this thread, but maybe another CSOD user can provide some input on this: I'm working with a client on getting courses onto CSOD (they're in the middle of implementation) and i'm wondering if anyone has recommendations about what to select for LMS Reporting:
I could probably figure out what works best by doing a bunch of testing, but it's faster and easier to just ask all of you!
- JonHegidioCommunity Member
Hi All,
I'm working with a third party developer who's using Articulate Studio and I seem to have an issue with the c ourse communicating with our internal LMS. All of our courses are parked on our external LMS (Cornerstone) which employees can access through our internal LMS (ELM). The course works just fine on our Cornerstone sever but we receive the following screen with no access to the course when we try to access (see below).
Normally we would have a launch link appear and not a Table of Contents. Our courses developed internally with Storyline do not use the menu bar and they work fine. Is it possible that by using the menu bar, that it is sending the above screen to our internal LMS?
Thanks,
Jon
- JonHegidioCommunity Member
FYI - We resolved this issue in our internal LMS (ELM) by changing the course type to none instead of SCORM 1.2 even though the Articulate Studio course was published for SCORM 1.2. Kinda odd but it's working fine now.
- GregNickersonCommunity Member
Hi Jon,
If you select "none" for the SCORM mechanism, what are you able to track? Granted the LMS should track access to the module, but what type of score displays in Cornerstone when selecting "none"?
I'm interested, in particular, to know if modules created using Rise 360 (reactive design) will work for tracking in CSOD .
Thank you!
Kate
Thanks Jon for the update.
- RainyHorvathCommunity Member
Sorry to be so basic, but I can't even figure out how to "get to" my published Articulate 13 course in Mobile/HTML5 format, after I put it on the LMS and then try and access it from my iPad.
Can somebody point me to the tutorial or links in here where it explains how to do this?
Thanks
HI Rainy,
No worries - if you're using Storyline, you'll need to place the course within your LMS and then access the link for the course (may end in index.html) while on your iPad. Depending on your publish settings it'll open the HTML5 safari version or the mobile player. Here's a tutorial for Storyline. If you're using Presenter '13 - here's the tutorial for Presenter.
- KarolineKeywortCommunity Member
Has anyone ever had issues publishing a SCORM 2004 course on CSOD and having the bulk of the content not appear? Basically we have a powerpoint type course and only the page template and header show up when published in SCORM 2004.
Also, is there a way to pull a score from a Articulate published SCORM 1.2 course and have that displayed in CSOD?
- ChrisFletcherCommunity Member
I've just started a new job where they use cornerstone, so I'm just getting used to it. I'm told we can't delete courses from it. Is this true? Can anyone advise on how to do it if it isn't? maybe they're missing something...
Chris- GemmaWellsCommunity Member
I have been told if you need to delete training from CSOD you can escalte it to the Support team but there is usually a cost attached to it depending on how many files/how long it takes them to remove.
- DanBarnesCommunity Member
The Cornerstone OnDemand LMS has a file upload maximum of 250MB. I currently have a .zip file from a Storyline project that is 260MB. Has anyone figured out a way to upload .zip files larger than 250MB to the Cornerstone OnDemand LMS? Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.