Reporting info to LMS?

[LMS_90]

Hi,

Can someone tell me all about or point me to where I can get the info on how and what data gets "reported" to an LMS?

I don't see anywhere that I can pass a variable. I also what to know when the info gets set.  I am assuming it is all gathered and sent at the end of a session so that if the user changes his mind and unclicks and reclicks stuff, only the final answer is sent.  I

Is there detailed documentation somewhere on this?

Thanks much!

  Lori

[Erik Lord]

What gets reported completely depends on what you select in the Quiz Preferences.

SCORM identifies specific things to track, i.e. 'lesson_location' to record the page where the lesson was exited, 'suspend_data' for any random information that needs to be tracked, 'score' for a quiz percentage (usually), 'status' for passed/failed or completed/incomplete, 'interaction' and 'objective' (in arrays) to record specific interaction/objective data....and so on.

So what you can store has to match with those pre-defined values. You can't just say, for example, UserName == "Jane Doe" and tell the LMS to store UserName...

'suspend_data' is mostly the only place you can store random data, but CP does not provide a way for you (that I know of) to put random information into that field.

I've not explored when data is sent in CP4, but in CP3 it seemed to be sent on a timed-interval, every 7 seconds more or less. In some situations, it may be sent every time a page is advanced (which is the proper way,  IMO), or it may be stored in internal JS variables until the very end...

Either way would be fine in the scenario you propose. Whether the data is sent after every page or all at the end, both would allow a user to go back and change their answers, and have those updated to the LMS....*if* you setup the quiz to allow users to change their answers....

HTH

Erik