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When revisiting a completed module it prompts to resume, but goes to the same screen every time resetting the module from that point.
Did some testing using SCORM Cloud to see why a build for one of our clients resumed up to a particular point, but after that failed to recall any further information about slides visited or actions on slides. From posts here and testing in SCORM Cloud, found out the 'suspend data' (information reported to the LMS on things like slides visited and saved states) has a limit depending on your publish settings.
Publishing to SCORM 2004 (4th edition) rectified the issue for us without having to simplify interactions or set slides to 'initial state'.
The 'maximum suspend data size' is just 4,096 if you're publishing to SCORM 1.2 (released in 2001).
Publishing to SCORM 2004 4th edition (released in 2009 - wish they had stuck with the original plan to call it SCORM 1.3 to save confusion) increases the maximum suspend data size to 64,000.
Note: When you're publishing and you first select SCORM 2004 from the drop-down, at the time of writing it defaults to the original edition (as you'd expect this was released in 2004) which has a 'maximum suspend data size' of just 4000. You'll want to go in a bit deeper and select the 'Tracking and reporting' button to specify the 4th edition.
It would be great if the latest version became the default and you had to go in deeper to choose a prior version of SCORM 2004.
The problem with that suggestion is twofold: LMS vendors have always been galacial in their response to changes and updates to the communications protocols between courses and LMS'. And many organizations are content with continuing to use much older, often on-premises, learning management systems which aren't subject to automatic updates like cloud-based LMS' are. What is their incentive to update? When you're talking about a 6- or 7-figure capital expense, tethered to a project with a lifecycle of 12-18 months, the obvious first question is "what's wrong with what we have? It works just fine."
Two of the organizations I worked for in the last 10 years were using LMS which had long outlived their lifespans. In the first case, it was because there was another, much larger organization with a significant presence in the industry which was using the legacy LMS; the vendor was all too happy to keep it alive for them and we were along for the ride. In the case of the other organization, a considerable global footprint meant an upgrade would easily crest 7 figures and it would affect hundreds of thousands of users.
How long has AICC been "dead?" Yet, you can publish your eLearning course using AICC today, and the vast majority of LMS (on-premises and cloud-based) will happily communicate with it. Several large names in industries including healthcare, manufacturing, and defense, still use AICC for the content they resell to tens of thousands of customers, and you would be hard pressed to convince any of them to migrate away from that.
A better suggestion might be for Storyline to REMEMBER the last-selected Edition of SCORM 2004 (if that happens to be what you are using), and default to it when you create a new course.
Joseph Francis
A better suggestion might be for Storyline to REMEMBER the last-selected Edition of SCORM 2004 (if that happens to be what you are using), and default to it when you create a new course.
That would be a great function if you only use the one LMS. I really like the way Storyline currently saves your last publish settings for each individual file (as long as you save after you publish) - helpful if you need to vary the publish settings to suit different client's LMSs.
If possible, I'd like to see the available editions for SCORM 2004 included in the drop-down list where you first choose to publish to an LMS, so you've got:SCORM 1.2
SCORM 2004 2nd ed.
SCORM 2004 3rd ed.
SCORM 2204 4th ed.
AICC
xAPI
cmi5
