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xAPI for user pausing and playing video
I'm trying to capture if and when a user clicks the pause/play button in the Storyline player while watching a video using xAPI. It seems like it should be simple, but I'm struggling to find a way to do it. I want to know if there are common times within a video our users are stopping, as that may indicate that we need to cover that concept in more depth or more slowly.
I can't use "user clicks" as a trigger because the pause/play button is not available as a selection (this would work if the user clicks on the video object directly, but I'm guessing most people use the pause/play button in the Storyline player.) I tried using timeline events, but that only has "timeline starts" and "timeline ends", so that wouldn't capture any pausing events between the start and end of the video.
Has anyone else tried capturing this data using xAPI?
I would likely use JavaScript to target a video and continuously monitor whether it is playing or paused, updating a Storyline True/False variable accordingly. This approach enables Storyline to accurately track the current status of the video. Subsequently, I would create a custom xAPI statement based on changes to this True/False variable. If the video is playing (True), I would execute the following statement...
...else, run
In SCORM Cloud, your report would look similar to
Attached is a short video demonstrating this interaction in SCORM Cloud.
