Keeping CBT completion status so CBTs can be used as reference

Question

I create CBTs that allow users to review previous slides. When they reach a knowledge question, they are welcome to go back and look up the answers.

When the CBTs are completed and the LMS gives them completion credit, we would like them to be able to use their CBTs as a reference. So, days or months later when they have a question, they can sign in, look at the TOC and review a topic.

However, on our system, when they complete the CBT, if they go back into it, they have to start from the beginning.

Can anyone tell me whether I can do something when I create the CBT to keep the completion status or whether it is configured in the LMS.

Thanks for any help!

K

kaitlinp26382390 · Accepted Answer

As I have continued to research this question, I have seen the other posts here that are very similar - simple linear courses created with a TOC and Enable Navigation/Navigate Visited Slides Only selected because of strict compliance requirements.

I kept digging and came up with the following code that I place in the first slide On Enter event -

if (SCORM_objAPI.RunTimeData.CompletionStatus == "completed" || SCORM_objAPI.RunTimeData.CompletionStatus == "browsed" ) {

window.cp.D.tocProperties.navigateVisited = false;

}

I found these object properties using the browser developer tools. This removes the Navigate Visited Slides Only selection and allows users that have already completed the CBT to use the TOC to go to any slide. Again, the intent is to allow the users to refer back to any slide in a CBT for reference after they have received Completion credit for a CBT.

Being new to javascript, I'm guessing this isn't a best practices way to do this. It is working reliably so far in my testing.

Maybe this will be helpful to someone else.

If experts have feedback, I will appreciate your thoughts. Thanks!

K

Erik Lord · Answer

That's definitely an LMS setting - hopefully one you can configure/change.

When a SCORM course is completed/passed, it sends that status back to the LMS.

But then the LMS decides how to launch the course again per that status.

most LMS products I've experienced launch it in 'review' mode, meaning folks can go through it again but from the beginning, all progress erased - very similar to what you're describing.

That can also mean the 'review' is not scored at all, or is scored and the new status overwrites the previous one.

I would think in most cases, an LMS will perform the way you suggest once the piece is completed/passed. Likely the only way to defeat that is either the LMS has a setting to not launch the course in review but retain the bookmarks and suspend_data...OR just ensure your course is never actually completed/passed (which likely would be an issue if you need to see that status at some point).

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