Review/restart module in LMS system - Complicated email from LMS

Report · Sep 29, 2015

Hi,

I am currently having issues getting my Adobe captivate Scorm 1.2 module to work in review and restart mode once uploaded to a LMS system. This module has been worked on for over 12 months now and the company is desperate to get the module rolled out to all internal employees (400+ people)!

The module currently works very well and runs smooth. The LMS system understands when a user leaves mid way through and starts where they left it. The quiz score settings work fine so it understands that the module is complete/pass, or fail. The module is then closed and you are redirected to the LMS web page screen, you can see the score of the user/pass/fail etc this works fine, this page also has a review and restart button. The restart button must restart from the beginning of the module (not just the beginning of the quiz) as well as review, the review button must allow the user to see their answered questions and not be able to change them.

Currently if you click on either review or restart in the LMS system it open up on the last slide- this is not good, surely I am missing something simple, all I need is the module to restart/review from the first slide.

I emailed the LMS people and they replied the following:

Browse modes or Revision mode are transmitted to the module during launch. It is up to the author to adapt the behavior of the module according to the launched mode. You can see traces in the sent mode and see if translated correctly the past Captivate mode.

Entry, Mode and Credit The cmi.entry (cmi.core.entry), cmi.mode (cmi.core.lesson_mode) and cmi.credit (cmi.core.credit) data model elements provide the SCO with some context it can use to provide the learner with the optimal experience. cmi.entry indicates whether the user is starting the SCO for the first time or if it is resuming a prior attempt. If using bookmarking, the SCO might use this value to prompt the user to start from the beginning or from the point at which the previous attempt ended. cmi.mode indicates whether the learner is launching this SCO: normally – in a “live” training session; in browse mode – the user is browsing a catalog of training and wants to “preview” this course; or, in review mode – the user has already completed the SCO and is coming back to review the material. In browse mode, the SCO author should consider altering the SCOs behavior to provide more free form navigation, provide an overview or map of the course and possibly hide assessments. In review mode, the SCO author should similarly consider allowing the leaner complete freedom of navigation. In review mode, the learner might also be able to freely navigate any tests and browse a list of correct answers. When launched in review mode, a SCO should be careful not to change the learner’s status or reset the score. cmi.credit indicates whether or not this SCO is being attempt for credit, or whether or not it “counts”. Similar to browse mode, if a SCO is launched for no credit, the behavior should probably be altered.

-what does this mean? - can nothing be done in the Adobe captivate settings or do I need to adjust coding/ if so what?

any help would be great!

Report · Sep 29, 2015

Unless you care to detail the LMS, version number, and supplier, you likely will not see a detailed response.

The vendor has provided a list of variables and the type of information they might be expected to carry, but I see no details on the permitted value range: 0-1;0-9, Alphanumeric; or encoding: UTF-8, Ascii, etc.

You could start with the documentation for the LMS you're using, see if you can find details on these variables, and then work to build a solution that sets the values in JavaScript from Captivate.

Publish sample files, upload to lms, test in the lms. Repeat. Dozens, if not hundreds of times.

You may have better luck exploring the support site for the LMS in question to find other Captivate users who have climbed this mountain before. If you find them, ask them for a sample file. Feed them chocolate!

Report · Sep 29, 2015

Unless I'm reading this wrong, the big sticking point I can see here is this part:

"The module is then closed and you are redirected to the LMS web page screen, you can see the score of the user/pass/fail etc this works fine, this page also has a review and restart button. The restart button must restart from the beginning of the module (not just the beginning of the quiz) as well as review, the review button must allow the user to see their answered questions and not be able to change them."

The Captivate module will be receptive to Resume Data bookmarking while the module is still not completed, but I doubt that you are going to be able to achieve a situation where AFTER the module has been completed, the LMS maintains Resume Data and feeds it back to the module at any time thereafter that the learner should open it to review the contents, showing them for years to come (potentially) all of the answers they gave to the quiz questions.

Resume Data (as I understand the SCORM standard) was only ever meant to fill a temporary need where the learner had not as yet completed the quiz assessment in a SCO but needed their current state of that quiz protected until they could get back and finish it.

You appear to be wanting Resume Data to maintain the finished module in a permanently unchanged completed state, yet start the module from the beginning each time.

Report · Sep 30, 2015

Thanks all, I will keep this updated on how it goes.

I am in contact with the LMS people telling them it's going to be very hard or impossible to get these settings to work, so we may just not use the buttons, the module works well without it.