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briangiambalvo
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March 11, 2010
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Status Flag not appearing if branching

  • March 11, 2010
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I have a CP project with branching after a question slide (slide 14).  If the user gets the question wrong, they follow an alternate path to slide 15 to review the correct answer.  Then they hit slide 16.  If they get the question right, they skip slide 15 and hit slide 16.  The user who gets the question right will never see slide 15, thus making the TOC think they didn't see all the slides.  The TOC will not mark the module as complete with a status flag.  Help?

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Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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March 12, 2010

Hello,

TOC can help users by marking slides as seen. But you have to be aware that only slides that are completely viewed will get the status flag. It is also great for self paced learning, for navigation. From your question I understand that you want it to take over the role of a LMS: completion of a course is normally reported by the LMS. Even there a branching in a course will cause problems if you want to have a Completed status reported. For a LMS you could indicate which % of slides have to be watched.

What do you really want to achieve with the TOC? Perhaps it could be realized with some variables and advanced actions.

Lilybiri

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briangiambalvoAuthor
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March 12, 2010

[Reply from original author] The TOC lists the ten chapters of the elearning.  If chapter eight has the problem described earlier, the learner will complete all ten chapters but chapter eight will not receive the green check in the TOC.  I haven't even begun to consider what will report to the LMS; I will cross that bridge when I get there.  Right now I want to ensure that a learner sees they have completed a chapter even if they didn't view all slides in that chapter (because they didn't need to).  Thanks.

Lilybiri
Lilybiri
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March 12, 2010

Hello,

Since your are talking about chapters: is this the TOC generated by Aggregator?

Anyway: as I tried to explain, the status flag will only appear when the chapter has been viewed. The TOC is just designed that way. As far as I know we do not have any system variable to control the status flag.

Perhaps I have not been very clear in my previous answer. Do you want to show to the user that he has worked through all the chapters, even if he could skip some of them? I do not believe you could achieve this by the TOC out of the box. I know that I can realize this by adapting the rules in our LMS, that is why I talked about the LMS. If you want to have something similar in the file(s) generated by CP, you'll have to look at variables and advanced actions (and perhaps widgets if you have to pass variables between different files). Trying to explain: imagine sort of a 'menu' file, to which the user is branched after each chapter. The chapter will then be marked in this menu as completed, you could also mark completed then when the chapter is not necessary for the learning path of the user.

Lilybiri

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