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Storyline Question | Reporting using SCORM 2004 - drag and drop interaction
hello everyone! I'm a long-time lurker in this community and have found it to be an invaluable resource, so I'm hoping you all can help me deal with a sort of strange issue!
I created an assessment consisting of four separate quizzes and a reflection for a course I'm currently designing. I managed to wrangle it into reporting student's short answer/essay questions to the gradebook in our LMS (Blackboard Ultra) so the instructor can grade their short responses by hand, seen in the cap below. This works great for all short answer questions, but the current minor issue I'm experiencing is that one of the quizzes has two drag and drop questions and it comes out odd on the LMS export end.
This is what the gradebook shows when it reports:
Do you all know if there's any way I can get SCORM 2004 to not report that ugliness while still capturing the "correct" result for the two drag and drop interactions? Even giving my objects nicer names doesn't really help in this case, so I'd like for it to be blank or for it to just report N/A or something similar.
Is this even fixable in Storyline? Or is that something I have to try to deal with within the LMS itself?
I'll attach my .story file to this post as well. Thanks in advance for your help! :)
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You can't change what SCORM 2004 reports, as with interactions in Storyline it is all or nothing. You can influence the information contained in the data though. For drag and drops, the following naming convention is used: element name + text content of the element. Which is why you see a name such as "subject_-_SUBJECT" as it picks up the name of the element, "subject" and the text content "SUBJECT" and then concatenates them using "_-_". Therefore, to have the drop targets make more sense, just add text content as I have done in the attached example. The text is hidden (same colour as background and 1pt in size), and then each of the drop targets labelled "DROP{n}" where "{n}" is the number, so you end up with something like "DROP6_-_Do_the_ideas_flow___Does_each_part_of_what_I_m_writing_make_sense_in_relationship_top_all_the_other_parts_".
The [,] you see is required for SCORM 2004 and just separates the individual responses, whilst [.] separates the drag/drop target answer pairs. Here's an example of the my full attempt as seen in SCORM Cloud.
MY RESPONSE
DROP1_-_Do_I_have_anything_meaningful_and_memorable_to_say_[.]DRAG1_-_SUBJECT[,]DROP2_-_Will_readers_enjoy_what_I_ve_said_in_my_work_[.]DRAG6_-_AUDIENCE[,]DROP3_-_Did_I_select_the_correct_genre_(essay_article__etc.)__Does_my_work_meet_the_guidelines_of_the_genre_I_m_working_in_[.]DRAG3_-_FORM[,]DROP4_-_Does_the_structure_organization_work__is_it_effective__and_is_it_the_best_way_to_present_my_ideas_[.]DRAG5_-_DEVELOPMENT[,]DROP5_-_Do_I_sufficiently_elaborate_on_my_ideas___Do_I_provide_enough_information_[.]DRAG2_-_DIMENSIONS[,]DROP6_-_Do_the_ideas_flow___Does_each_part_of_what_I_m_writing_make_sense_in_relationship_top_all_the_other_parts_[.]DRAG4_-_TONE[,]DROP7_-_Does_the_writing_convey_my_attitude_towards_the_topic___Does_my_writing_include_emotion__wit__and_a_human_element_[.]DRAG7_-_STRUCTURE
