Overview of built-in xAPI statements in Storyline?

Hi Victoria

This is something I'd like more explanation of too.  Also, the "left" verb - which seems to be both inbuilt and used automatically by Articulate.  Also, "left" has a result.duration property which would be of a lot of use if I understood more about how it was being implemented.

Andrew

Hi Victoria!

It sounds like you were looking for some information on the verbs xAPI provides to describe user activity when communicating with an LMS! I'd be happy to help with that!

Here’s a list of the verbs Articulate content uses, along with the meaning of the verbs.

• Implementing xAPI to Support Articulate Content

Please let me know if you have any more questions!

Thank you Steven!

And Andrew, some information that I found along the way:

The results.duration is written in ISO 8601 format.
For example PT1H22M17S, this reads: "This period of time consists of one hour, twenty two minutes, and seventeen seconds." You can convert this to seconds using npm js (https://www.npmjs.com/package/iso8601-duration).

Other ways to track the duration that I know of:

• You could use the built-in variable in Storyline 'slide.elapsedtime' and send a custom xAPI statement when the user leaves the slide ('clicks next' etc) and include this variable in the xAPI statement (for instance in 'extensions' in 'context'). 
• Devlin Peck's also has a tutorial to track duration: https://www.devlinpeck.com/content/measure-duration-xapi-storyline 

I'm not a developer myself, so I can't help any further, but hope this helps!

Thank you both, I will have a look at the resources you have provided.

Hi again.  Coming back to this - I really find the 'left' verb useful as we are able to track duration of time spent on a slide.  However, it is not available in the xapi wizard.  I am wondering why this is and that it would be useful to use 'left' when leaving a particular interaction.

Hi Joe

Thanks for your reply. The issue is not that the 'left' verb appears or not in the LRS (it does by the way).  

My query is whether and how the 'left' verb can be used outside of the built-in functions in Articulate.  

For example, I can get some great data about how long a learner viewed a slide for because upon exiting the slide, a 'left' statement is reported to the LRS - which also contains a result.duration property (which is really useful to our organisation).  I can see that in the article you link to, 'left' is 'sent when a user leaves a slide' and is not available otherwise.

However, I cannot choose 'left' from the verb options within the Articulate xAPI wizard.  I would really love to be able to use this for specific elements within a slide - not just for the overall slide itself.  I have raised the issue of tracking elements within a slide here https://community.articulate.com/discussions/building-better-courses/mouseout-trigger-needed-for-xapi as I think they are separate (but related) issues.

Apologies for the confusion, I am at the start of working with xAPI through Articulate and am unsure about the technical terms and also about what exactly a solution to this should look like.

But basically I need to report as much detailed behaviour as I can about how a user interacts with elements within a slide.

Kind regards

Andrew

Hi Andrew,

Good question! You are correct; the left verb is not included in the list of verbs when creating xAPI statements in the Storyline trigger wizard. For xAPI verbs that aren't on the list, you can use the xAPI statement editor.

• How to Use the xAPI Statement Editor

Let me know if you have additional questions!