lmsAPI Functionality in HTML5 Output

Technically, every variable gets tracked to the LMS, but it's just a matter of whether or not the LMS can report on it in a readable fashion.  Assuming you are using SCORM, everything gets stored in SuspendData, but quiz elements get stored as Interactions, which is why the LMS can report on the data more robustly.  I would try Googling "Storyline Submit Interactions" and see what you can find as far as that goes.  You might be able to restructure the questions to all be submitted as interactions, but then use the Complete Course method that Karuna suggested for the results.

What I was suggesting was to switch the tracking to "Complete Course Trigger" and then remove the quiz functionality but keep the questions (submitting each as interactions).  Without actually testing this myself, I would think this would store the questions themselves in the LMS, but not require a results slide to submit the score.  Then, you could keep your JS code to try to submit a passed/failed.  Again, just thoughts, but I would think it could work.

If you do manage to get this to work, this thread could benefit from knowing your solution!  Best of luck!  

Ah okay. This sounds promising. I shall investigate this approach and let you know how I get on.

EDIT: It seems there's no way to submit an interaction without using the built-in quiz functionality. And they only get reported to the LMS when the results are submitted on a results slide. Is there something I'm missing?

OK, a further question here - The name works fine, but I need Gender / Salutation - any idea what the lmsAPI method is? Thanks

I don't believe there is a method for getting that info.  If I'm not mistaken, you can only get the Student's name and user ID.  You may just need to ask the user their Gender/Salutation up-front at the beginning of the course.

Hi Matthew,
Thank you so much for the code you wrote, the LMS gets the score (after hours of searching...).
However, the success status remains unknown, instead of passed or failed.

I tired to make the slide a question slide, tried different tracking settings...
What am I doing wrong?

Many thanks,
Amit

Hi Amit,

I would try replacing all instances of  SetStatus("passed");  or  SetStatus("failed");  with one of the following:

lmsAPI.SetPassed();
or
lmsAPI.SetFailed();

This should call the correct function directly.

Hello everybody,

I read every single message in this thread , also here :(https://community.articulate.com/discussions/retrieve-lms-user-name-as-variable) , and in some others (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/getting-the-student-name-from-the-lms).... (https://community.articulate.com/discussions/getting-student-name-from-the-lms-and-using-it-in-articulate)

But couldn't find what I am looking for :

My client LMS (Talentsoft) in SCORM 2004, can display cmi.learner_name as a variable.

I tried many many many syntaxes to grab this data, but I guess the only working one wasn't in my scope !

Can anymone help me ? what is the syntax to grab this value ?

thank you for the help

Philippe

Bravo Matthew !

it works !

Thank you very much.

I changed a few things, as I only need (at this time) the firstname.

Also, my LMS return no space after the comma in studentname().

Here is your code with small modificaitons :

function findLMSAPI(win) {
 if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) return win;
 else if (win.parent == win) return null;
 else return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
}
 var lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
 var name = lmsAPI.SCORM2004_GetStudentName();
 var nameArray = name.split(',');
var firstName = nameArray[1];
// var lastName = nameArray[0];
// var fullName = firstName + ' ' + lastName;
 var player = GetPlayer();
 player.SetVar("Name",firstName);

Do you know why in specification it is said : "cmi.learner_name", and in getting the value : GetStudentName()  ?

I am not dying for the answer, just curiosity.

Anyway, you saved me, Talensoft support was unable to answer.

Have a nice day

Philippe

Hi, can anyone help me?

This code works for Scorm 1.2.

How do I convert this to Tin Can?

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.GetStudentName();
var array = myName.split(',');
var newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];
player.SetVar("newName", newName);

Appreciated!