SL: JavaScript to send Numerical score to LMS (Scorm 1.2)

Hi DianeWestern-0d

If you are just looking to send the quiz score to the LMS you shouldn't need to get your hands dirty with JS. If you have a quiz in your module, and the quiz questions are processed by a results slide, the SCORE will be sent to the LMS. Ensure the SCORM 1.2 publish settings are set to "When the learner completes a quiz" under the Tracking tab.

Here's a quick video demo:https://app.screencast.com/dZY1HKfV40p0o

And the demo Storyline file attached at the bottom of this post.

If you are looking to send the quiz points to the LMS, this is not supported by SCORM 1.2, as the score field will only accept a number between 0-100. This is why most LMS will display the number with the "%" symbol, as it is expected the score is a percentage.

If your "points" happen to fall between 0-100 and will not go over 100, then, technically, you can do it, but understand that you are not using the field correctly, and could experience issues using this method as some other functionalities sometimes depend on that score, for example mastery_score.

Here's the technically possible way to do it using JavaScript (use at your own risk, i.e test it lots!):

Firstly, you need to assign the quiz score, for example "Quiz1.ScorePoints", to a new user defined "Number" variable in Storyline. We'll use "quizScore". This would be done on the results slide for example:

Then the JavaScript, you can run this "When the timeline starts" too, directly after the trigger above.

// Set the score
const player = GetPlayer();
const quizScore = player.GetVar('quizScore');
SCORM_CallLMSSetValue("cmi.core.score.raw", quizScore);

You would need to ensure that the you also manage the completion of the course yourself, and ensure you do not publish using a results slide to track completion, or this will overwrite the score you set with JavaScript. 

Here's a video of this result (the LMS is automatically displaying "%"): https://app.screencast.com/q2szkMJbrpZiy

Thank you for explaining the difference of score vs points (which is very helpful). I think I can make them equal via weighting.

(What we're doing will eventually be 4 levels/branches (adaptive); but if can get just one piece to score in LMS, at least we'll know what we are dealing with.

Thank you so much!  Your explanations are very clear...appreciate your time. 

(One post indicates this is not possible (send point score to a SCORM 1.2 LMS, and that we should use a Short Survey question as a workaround and move the variable over that way;) however, ShortSurveys seem to use Text-based variables, and I need to use a numerical field to move the variable to the LMS.)

That's correct. But you could use a "Pick Many" Survey Question, which can store a numerical value and send it to the LMS. To repurpose it, set its variable equal to the "Quiz1.ScorePercent" built-in variable when the timeline starts on the Result slide.

On the Result slide, reference the survey question's variable instead of directly using the "Quiz1.ScorePercent" variable. Publish it as "Passed/Incomplete" when the learner completes a quiz. 

Sam, Thank you for taking so much time to create/explain this.  (Will dig into publish settings in morning as I think that is where the issue resides.)  Thank you!