Pass Variables Between Lessons

Suzanne,

There is an 'easy' way to do this and it may tick some of your boxes but not all. When I say 'Storyline file' below I actually mean the published output of each of the .story files you have:

Your initial Storyline file is the assessment, and the results of it you can store in various variables. Depending on the results you use these to direct people to different parts of the course, which are different storyline files you have. Each of the latter will have its own URL and your directions can be hyperlinks to load whichever one into the current window. Thus it is seamless for the user. There are a few bits and pieces that have to be set right, but it can be done no problem.

The actual results of the assessment, if you want to keep them, you may be able to capture in your LMS. I'm not an expert on what resolution of data you can report on. But if for some reasons you want the other Storyline files to pick up any of the variables' values, i don't believe a standard LMS will be able to do that. I am looking forward to hearing some replies by LMS experts on the forum, but at first look it seems tricky.

There is another way to do it...a Storyline project can be customised to send variables values to a database, and another Storyline project can be customised to pick up these values from a database. Depending on your LMS requirements you can use this database as your LMS, or it can be a separate utility.  This is not something easily accessible within the normal programming of Storyline, it requires some detailed javascript. I am happy to explain further, no problem, if you want to contact me.

John.a.