Forum Discussion
Getting student name from the LMS and using it in Articulate
In the LMS we are about to use, we can get the student name since the SCORM runtime variable for it is "cmi.core.student_name". However, how do I get it as a variable in Articulate at run time?
Quite a while ago, Sam Coulson replied to a request surrounding retrieving data from an LMS. He included the list of variables LMSAPI.js includes. These are industry-standard variables and functions, originally used by AICC-compliant LMS' and courses.
IF your LMS exposes one or more of these variables to eLearning courses, you MAY get a response when you query the LMS through them and/or attempt to write data using them. As Sam says in his message, "this is advanced coder territory, reverse-engineer with caution."
Speaking from experience, I was able to Get and Set several status' from (oddly enough) an older LMS, which I was unable to then replicate on a newer LMS, including LanguagePreference, Audio, and SpeedPreference. Other functions and variables, including student demographic data, are non-existent, probably because they aren't key data points and each LMS treats them a little differently.
