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SCORM Activity Completion Issues!
Any Articulate Storyline / SCORM gurus?
I appreciate SCORM can be an unreliable beast, but I'm trying to establish the best way to ensure as accurate activity completion as possible.
When I first started building with Storyline, I exported courses with Reporting as "Completed/Failed", with the Tracking as "Track using quiz result" based on the Results Slide (and then Moodle settings as needing the activity to be "Passed, Completed"). Doing this, we have experienced quite a high rate of users not registering their activity as having been completed, despite reaching the results slide and/or returning to the course to re-complete it in the hope it would then mark the activity as complete, to no avail.
I now export the courses via Storyline Reporting as "Complete/Incomplete" and Tracking as "Track using number of slides viewed" (with Moodle settings the same as above), but are still experiencing some activity completion issues.
Can anyone advise me as to the best way to ensure as near 100% accuracy as possible when it comes to activity completion? I'm struggling to see why something used so widely can pose such unreliable results! What am I missing?!
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Hi Phil, many thnaks for your reply. When you say "always use learning objects inside Moodle", what do you mean exactly?
We currently track using the "Coure Complete" trigger - which is set to activate at the start of the timeline of the final slide (users wouldn't know they had finished the course until they reached this slide).
We don't currently grade - it's simply a "Complete" or "Incomplete" - if that helps at all :)
In Moodle in the scorm settings, I always used the scorm completion method of learning objects as this is a binary method of tracking rather than a score.
Hi Phil
That's interesting. So, would we still have it as "Complete" as the setting within Moodle, or change it altogether to "learning object"?
Leave it as complete in Storyline and set to learning objects in Moodle, then set a grade of 1 in the grade book in doodle for that scorm. In learning objects - means not started, 0 is started but not completed and 1 is completed
Hi Phil
That's so helpful, thank you. Do you know, is it likely to cause any major issues if we change this for courses where users have already completed? Or should it just simply update with this instead?Not sure, I don't think it will because the grading method is different to completion
Ok, thanks Phil - I guess it's one to test first :)
I am new to Storyline 360...trialing it. Am looking at SCORM as a solution to the moodle/H5P completion tracking problems we are having on our LMS (OpenLMS) site. Reading these comments I'm wondering if we will only create more problems. Are you still having these tracking problems? Is there a place to understand best practices apply a Storyline SCORM to a moodle-based LMS? Thanks for your reply.
Hi, Paula.
Thank you for reaching out!
I've noticed you've posted on other discussions with this question and that you also reached out to our support engineers. Thank you for opening a case!
I'll let others more familiar with Moodle provide some insights for you here, but I also wanted to add a suggestion.
You can use an LMS testing environment, such as SCORM Cloud, to test how your course behaves before uploading it to Moodle. Check out this step-by-step article!
If your course works as expected in SCORM Cloud but for some reason doesn't work in your LMS, I would advise you to reach out to Moodle for more information.
You're probably familiar with this, but Moodle has a very active community with a popular SCORM forum.
If you have issues with a specific course you created, you can also open a support case here, so we can take a closer look at your settings.
Let me know if this works!
Hi Maria, thanks for responding. Yes, I've already did reach out in multiple places--including Moodle!
I will try out the SCORM cloud. Thanks for sharing that article.
From what I have gathered while reviewing some of the discussions here and on moodle, I have concerns that adopting SL360 SCORM vs. sticking with H5P may not make much of a difference solving problems with tracking completions. Both have problems!
