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John_Meidl
John_Meidl
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February 19, 2009
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cmi.suspend_data element size

  • February 19, 2009
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Our LMS - SkillPort - has asked us to change the cmi.suspend_data element for one of our courses (mainly a quiz) to 4096. They say it's over 5800 characters.

I'm not familiar with the cmi.suspend_data setting. How do you access it? How do you change it? My colleague suggests that it's probably automatically generated when we work through the "SCORM 1.2 RTE" step of the SkillPort Compatibility Toolkit.

Have you run into any issues regarding cmi.suspend_data ? What can you recommend?

Thank you!
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Correct answer John_Meidl
Jan,

You can either google my name (Andrew Chemey) or search my name on
Adobe.com or check out some articles I've written for ConnectUser.com. I'd
bet that Adobe.com probably contains older material that may be relevant for
you. There was a book by Carol Fallon that might have helped. It is dated
(though useful). I don't know much in terms of books these days that might
clear up some of these terms, etc.

If I understand you - I recommend sending score as a percent and not just
score. "Percent" represents a percentage - so the "raw" score is a percent
out of 100. "score" sends score as "raw, max, min". The raw score might be
8 or the score (for AICC) might be 8,10,0. This is only an example, but
this means that the maximum score a learner could get is 10 - so 8 out of 10
means an 80%. Depends on your system - but it might be easier to understand
the percentage and not the raw score.

Location is the page (or slide) number the learner is currently viewing.

Regards,

Andrew



The problem has been solved. And the course and its quiz are loaded to the LMS and working well. Thank you to everyone -- Rick, Erik, Andrew -- for your clarifications and suggestions!

The solution (for this particular course where we didn't want to allow bookmarking and where we wanted the learners to complete the quiz in ONE sitting) was for me to select "Never send Resume Data" in the quiz preferences and to also select "Report score" for the Reporting Level.

Our SkillPort LMS contact said there was no longer a cmi.suspend error, because, in fact, no data at all was collected by cmi.suspend_data.

Thank you!

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Anonymous
February 20, 2009
Hi,

One suggestion regarding setting suspend_data size is that SET it to MAXIMUM possible. SCORM 2004 latest version spec says 64KB.

If LMS supports SCORM 1.2 then it might only support 4096. I think this should be default and may not need specific setting.

Thanks,
Deepak
John_Meidl
John_MeidlAuthor
Inspiring
February 20, 2009
Deepak,
Thank you for this information; however, I need more information for my particular problem. Perhaps I should be more specific:

I developed a SCORM 1.2 course using Adobe Captivate 3. I prepared this course for our LMS, which is SkillPort. During my course development and LMS preparation tasks, I did NOT change any settings related to the cmi elements; in fact, I don't even know how to find and make changes to these elements. But after the SkillPort developer received my course, he said the cmi.suspend_data was over 5800, and it needed to be 4096.

Now I have two questions --
1. If the cmi.suspend_data element affects only courses that allow bookmarking, then I could tell our SkillPort developer to ignore the incorrect cmi.suspend_data setting, because this particular course does not allow bookmarking anyway. However, if the cmi.suspend_data element also affects other things, then I should find out how to change it to 4096. So, what does the cmi.suspend_data element affect?

2. If I do need to change the amount of the cmi.suspend_data, WHERE do I find this element and HOW do I change it?

Thanks again, to you or whomever else knows what to do.

Jan
RoboWizard
RoboWizard
Inspiring
February 20, 2009
Hi Jan

While I'm no LMS guru and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night (so I can't claim to be one) I think you might find the following area interesting or possibly what you are looking for.

Click Quiz > Quiz Preferences > Reporting node

In Captivate 3 there is a button labeled Settings... in an area labeled LMS Customization Settings. Click it.
In Captivate 4 there is a button labeled LMS Customization Settings. Click it.

You may wish to try enabling the option "Never send Resume Data".

Hopefully Deepak or another will also have an idea of how to change the size of what you are asking.

Cheers... Rick
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