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SCORM 1.2: Character limit in open-ended responses
In Storyline 360, we have inserted open-ended questions that require long answers. However, in the interaction reports on Moodle, the answers are truncated and limited to 255 characters. Is there a solution?
We have seen that this is related to publishing in SCORM 1.2 (we do not publish in SCORM 2004, which does not display the results correctly on the LMS).
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You may be able to hack it, Dan Marsden over on the Moodle forum will be able to help if it is possible. Otherwise they are the only options. Unless you support xAPI on your Moodle install.
Our Moodle administrators had already done this some time ago, but I will check with them again.
Have you tried the Moodle setting to override scorm 1.2 limits. It is more for a resume limits hug may help.
This is indeed the type of question I use, which can contain up to 5,000 characters.
The report that can be downloaded at the end of the module includes the entire answer. It is in the Moodle report that the answer is truncated.Have you tried the essay question instead?
255 characters may be the default limit set by Moodle for the cmi.interactions.n.student_response data element, which is what Articulate populates student responses for each quiz item into. According to the SCORM spec, that field does not have a maximum character length limit.
SCORM Run-Time Reference Guide > SCORM 1.2
I would check settings in Moodle and see if that can be adjusted.
Thanks for the tip. I'll get back in touch with our Moodle administrators to see if this can be adjusted, even though they told me that it was related to the SCORM 1.2 format.
Not if you are committed to using SCORM 1.2; that's a definite limitation of the protocol.
Thank you for that information
