Getting the student name from the LMS

Hi Mark,

to do this, you will first need to create a text variable and then change that via Javascript (create a trigger "Execute JavaScript".

This code will change an existing variable called "email" to the student_id, which might be the email (in our system it is not, but in many systems it is):

/* First you need the player to have access to the methods that will allow you to change variables in the course */
var player = GetPlayer();

/* this function looks for the lms API */
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);
/* I am using the method "GetStudentID()", because it is the common method for an LMS to provide this. You might have to replace it with the one provided by your LMS provider. */
var email = lmsAPI.GetStudentID();
player.SetVar("email", email);