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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!
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- SteveFlowersCommunity Member
No. SL doesn't handle sequencing.
- LeslyBecerraCommunity Member
My colleague created a module using Storyline 360. The ICU button on slide 1.12 --- when the user clicks it, you just get three flashing dots on the screen and it never takes the user to the next slide. Thoughts on why this is happening and how to fix it? (File uploaded)
- JoyEliot-6357f1Community Member
What export settings did your colleague use to create the SCORM file?
- LeslyBecerraCommunity Member
This happens in preview mode as well so not sure its an export setting issue. But published as SCORM 2004, 3rd Edition. HTML5 Only. Modern Player. Reporting to LMS as "Completed/Incomplete". Tracking by number of slides viewed (30 of 67).
- Will_FindlayCommunity Member
When I navigate in Preview mode it works. and I can preview slide 3.1. Go figure.
Hi Lesly,
I cannot preview Slide 3.1 at all, so that seems to be the culprit.
I'd recommend re-building that slide and see if that remedies the issue.
- LeslyBecerraCommunity Member
Thank you!
- JoyEliot-6357f1Community Member
It may be the Modern Player, which seems to be associated with many more CSOD compatibility errors than the Classic Player.
- LeslyBecerraCommunity Member
I will have her try. Thanks!
- ReneeFrisk-JoneCommunity Member
Hello - I'm trying to load a Rise (SCORM 1.2) course into CSOD and the course publisher doesn't seem like it's even reading the file. Has anyone else experienced this?
I've tried the course on ScormCloud and everything checked out ok.
Has anyone else experienced this?
- ReneeFrisk-JoneCommunity Member
I think I solved this. CSOD for some reason likes to have all of the SCORM content contained within an individual folder for each course. But Rise just exports the content into a zip file, without the interior folder to consolidate. So I had to extract all the files, then re-zip that folder an now it seems to be working.
- KatheirneMurphyCommunity Member
I'd like to customize the Load Screen in Cornerstone.
I have looked through much of this great and helpful thread and seen some interesting javascript/API access info posted, but I cannot figure out where to start for this :
When a learner hits "Launch" from their Cornerstone Transcript, a new, white window pops up with the animating circle/lines shape and it does that for QUITE A WHILE. Like too long. Like, long enough that many people quit the show and email us saying "that training didn't load".I'd like to replace this Microsoftian bit of terrible UX with something more user-friendly - like "Your learning content is loading! It won't be long now!" or something just a tad more informative.
I cannot control that with Storyline - so hopefully it's a Cornerstone thing? Anyone know how/where I could influence a little Experience Engineering in this way? Anyone done it?
- David_RosenfeldCommunity Member
Hi All,
I'm trying to use JavaScript to pull in User Name and User ID into a Storyline 360 Module. I've successfully pulled in Name, but ID has been odd. It doesn't pull in the "User ID" or "Employee ID" that's in everyone's User Record. After a bunch of toying around, and reaching out to CSOD, we found out it's pulling in something called the "Target User ID", which is a unique identifier found in the URL of each user's transcripts. It's something generated on the back end?
I'm using the SCORM2004 3rd Edition. Any thoughts on why it pulls this ID, and not the User ID in the system? I'm waiting right now to hear back from CSOD about it, but I thought I'd ask on here as well.
See JS below. Thanks!
var player = GetPlayer();
function findLMSAPI(win) {
// look in this window
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
// all done if no parent
else if (win.parent == win) return null;
// climb up to parent window & look there
else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myName = lmsAPI.SCORM2004_GetStudentName();
var array = myName.split(' ');
var newName = array[0] + ' ' + array[1];
player.SetVar("newName", newName);var player = GetPlayer();
UserName=player.GetVar("newName", newName);var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
var myID = lmsAPI.SCORM2004_GetStudentID();var array = myID.split(' ');
var newID = array[0];
player.SetVar("newID", newID);
var player = GetPlayer();UserID=player.GetVar("newID", newID);
- Will_FindlayCommunity Member
Interesting - it looks like this is a sequential ID number that goes up by one for each new user. I noticed I am 16 and another administrator is 17, which sounds about right since we were probably the 16th and 17th users of the system.
My guess is that they use it for security reasons because they don't want it to be the same as the user's company ID number where it could potentially expose this online. But it may just be a pragmatic reason like, "that's how the programmer coded it."
- David_RosenfeldCommunity Member
Update! Cornerstone was able to make a change on the back end, and change what ID this function pulls in for SCORM2004!
Very interesting. If anyone needs to pull in User ID - you will have to ask for a special request!
- JulieBrown-8643Community Member
Hey Smart People. Any suggestions on the best completion setting when export ing a SCORM course going to Cornerstone? I see SCORM 2004 3rd edition. Which works better on completion settings? Passed/Failed, etc???
- Will_FindlayCommunity Member
I always use Passed/Incomplete, but it may not even matter as Cornerstone can't set an online course to a Failed status.
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