Remember the points even if the app is shut

[karelk42416668]

Hello,

My program contains 3 modules with many exercises.

I want to allow the student to break the work.

So he makes for example 20 exersices a and then shuts the program.

So he gains 20 points.

Is it possible when he opens it again, that program will remember he gained 20 points

and will count not from zero but from 20?

I´m publishing in HTML5.

(will I need javascript?)

Thank you for yout time and answer.

[Jeremy Shimmerman]

This all depends on whether you are using an LMS.  Captivate will send and retrieve all variables (such as quiz results) to the LMS if you are using SCORM.  

[karelk42416668]

Hello, I see. It would be difficult for me to explain...

I create program in Adobe Captivate but even for students who will work at home but they don´t have internet. So first I tried to publish it as executable, but it was very limited. So I started to export it in HTML5 but in AICC format, because it worked fine. When I published it in SCORM, after opening the files in web browser (Mozilla) there was written: Error. Unable to acquire LMS API.

So the easiest way was to publish in AICC...

[RodWard]

The SCORM error message about not being able to acquire the LMS API was only because you had your module configured to report scoring to an LMS but had opened it from your local drive.  SCORM content needs to be served from a SCORM-compliant LMS.  When you try to open the same module from a local hard drive it will look for an LMS to communicate with, but won't find any, and that is why you see the 'error' message.  There's really nothing wrong with the content.  It's just not being launched from an LMS, that's all.

[karelk42416668]

Hello RodWard,

yes I understand it, but I don´t know what programms the students have on their PC (if they are SCORM-compilant)

I suppose they will open it in browser and it will be the same... They will see ERROR

and will be confused. Am I wrong? (that is why I published it executeable previously).

But I suppose the fact is: if they open it in browser, it will not be SCORM, so the program

will not remember students´ progress if they shut it and reopen it lately.

I solved there something before, program should have rememeberd the password, and one man adviced me

to use javascript and setLocalStorage and it works. Do you think is it the way?

[RodWard]

If you are serving this content from a Learning Management System, your end users will only need to have a web browser to view the content, and they won't see any error message like you are currently seeing.

So, the first questiosn to answer here are:

• How are you delivering your e-learning modules to the end user? 
• Are you putting the content on a web server or Learning Management System?

[karelk42416668]

Maybe that´s the point.

I create it in AC and publish it in HTML5, than zip it and send it to them by mail or they get it in the school.

It´s first of all for their practising and it is created like a game (3 modules a lot of slides),

but I want them to know if they would pass or fail, that´s why I need points.

And answer two. It is clear from answer one. I tried LMS (Moodle), but as I write "sometimes they or me can´t

relay on internet, so better way for me it was to give them files published in HTML5 they open it at home and work.

Now I feel like a dumb. So if you can give me some advise I would appreciate it... But I don´t want to bother you,

not only if you had to spend a lot of time on it.

[RodWard]

If you want to capture the scores from your students, the MOST practical way to do it is by serving the content from a Learning Management System over the internet.

If you send the HTML5 files to your students in an email, they may not be able to get the content to work in their web browsers (because HTML5 is designed to work best from a web server), and their will be no mechanism to capture and store their scoring or completion data.

I can appreciate that perhaps you experienced issues with some users with Moodle LMS, but using an LMS is your best option.