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GregEdwards
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12 years ago

Storyline-based activity being marked "Unsuccessful" by Saba LMS

I'm encountering a problem with a Storyline-based activity hosted on our in-house Saba LMS. Here's the scoop:

  • It's a basic page turner with quizzes scattered throughout. The navigation is strictly prev/next sequential and there's no sidebar.
  • To receive credit for completing the course, users must successfully complete each of the quizzes. I have branching set up to require users to pass each quiz before proceeding.
  • On each quiz's results slide, I have a trigger that either (1) submits the results and jumps to the next slide automatically on success or (2) resets the results and asks the user to review the preceding section on fail. I do not allow the users to review or retry the quiz (except on fail as previously mentioned).
  • I have a final results slide at the very end of the scene that calculates based all 5 of the previous results slides. This results slide is configured so the user must pass each quiz. There's no failure layer, because in theory, you can't get there until you've passed the other quizzes.
  • In the publishing options, I have set the activity to SCORM 1.2 used "Complete/Incomplete" status, and based the scoring on that final results slide.
  • In the LMS, I've designated the activity as required, set a mastery score of 100, and provided unlimited attempts on the activity.

What we've noticed is that, unlike our other AP/QM-based courses, users who close the activity after completing only part of the overall activity are prematurely being scored as "Unsuccessful" by the LMS with a score that reflects the portion of the quizzes they completed (i.e., 8.33), instead of being held at "Not Evaluated" until they finish the course. We don't want to penalize someone who just didn't complete the activity. Really, we don't want the course to move to their completed transcript, until they've successfully completed the course.

Does anyone understand why this behavior would occur? It would seem to me that until the final results slide submits the results to the LMS, there's nothing for the LMS to score. Does the Submit Interaction event in the individual quiz actually communicate results to the LMS? I understood it was just an internal course thing, and that the final quiz communicated its results to the LMS, but maybe I'm wrong. Is there a better way to accomplish this? Thanks!