SCORM 1.2 Suspend Data--Seems Wonky to My Pea Brain

Hi Natasha,

There are a number of issues here.

For myself, we tested by saving and re-launching courses with longer and longer suspend data strings (essentially, adding questions to the course at about 20 at a time, then testing, then adding 20 more), and found that the length of the suspend data string was not a problem in SCORM 1.2 either for Storyline 2 (which continues to work far past the 4096 number, at least into 12K-long suspend strings) and neither for our LMS (Oracle's ELM 9.1).

So the first thing is to empirically test your LMS for its ACTUAL limit for the suspend string. If the suspend string breaks in the LMS, relaunching with the bookmark won't bring you back to where you left off. Each question you add will lengthen the suspend string. (Gerry shows you how to measure the string length earlier in this thread).

If you want to add a question as an exercise WITHOUT adding to the suspend string length, set the question to "Slide Properties/When revisiting: Return to initial state". in the Base Layer Slide Properties tool (the little gear icon in the bottom right of the Question screen view). If you need to save the data as to whether the question was answered correctly by the learner (whether in the course body or as a post-test), you need to set it to "Resume saved state". 

Note that if you're having trouble with your test questions pushing your suspend data strings past their limit, try returning all interactions and questions in the course to "Return to initial state", then break any post tests into their own activity or component, separate from the course body.

I hope that helps. Good luck!