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What are the things that affect resume where you left off and suspend_data?
I've spent a significant amount of time trying to figure out what are the things that affect the suspend_data element in Articulate.
I have a course in which the Resume where you left-off functio...
Do you have any custom interactions in the course? From my testing, SOMETIMES they can really balloon resume data.
Can you share your .storyfile or is confidential?
If you are really set on one course, you may want to enable debug mode and after each slide, get a count of the resume data string length. At least you may get a more definite idea of which individual slides are adding the most resume data.
For the longer haul, you might want to consider upgrading your LMS to a newer version (if there is one) or another one that supports SCORM 2004 3rd or 4th Edition and Tin Can/Experience (and in the way that you want it, too--but that's the subject of another discussion :) ).
I did enable debug mode on Storyline and was able to watch how the suspend_data string was getting larger as I navigated through the course slides.
The course has about 30 minutes worth of content and then an assessment at the end.
I changed all slides within the course content (with the exception of 3) to Reset to Initial State. This is the one thing I found affects suspend_data the most. The suspend_data string stays at about a length of 2000, so that is really good. At least progress is saved to almost the end of the course, and users are not forced to watch the whole thing again.
The issue is that as soon as I get to the assessment, within the first two/three questions, the suspend_data string blows up over the SCORM 1.2 limit of 4096 and the debug file did flags the error right away.
I really don't want to change the assessment slides to “Reset to Initial State”. It’s just 12 Multiple choice questions, (T/F, single select and multi-select) nothing else; but nothing I’ve tried on those slides has worked.
In an assessment the text based answers become part of the resume data. I think using free form questions with text in shapes will reduce this and naming the shapes ABC etc may help.
This may not be fixable, perhaps you could add the assessment as a separate scorm
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