Retrieving Data from LMS

You need to access the LMSAPI for that.
I written a function i reuse over and over to get the users name. In my code i have a if/then wrapped around it to check whether the url is run from a LMS or plain Webpage. The difference is that when testing as plain HTML5 you donot have access to a usersname and thus will return nothing. Removed that for ease for now..

This is how it looks then on the LMS, Instructure Canvas in my case..



This is the code used on start of the slide:

// when published as Scorm on a LMS
    let player = GetPlayer();
    let lmsAPI = findLMSAPI(this);
    let myName = lmsAPI.GetStudentName();
    let array = myName.split(',');
    let newName = array[1] + ' ' + array[0];
    player.SetVar("newUser", newName);
    console.log("newUser: "+myName);

//Function to connect with LMSAPI
function findLMSAPI(win) {
if (win.hasOwnProperty("GetStudentID")) {
            return win;
    }else if (win.parent == win) {
        return null;
    }else {
        return findLMSAPI(win.parent);
    }
}

And for ease, the Storyline attached.

Kind regards,
Math