How do I track students’s progress of an scorm module created with Adobe Captivate?

rledda
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‎02-29-2016 03:34 AM
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The scenario

Let’s say that you have created your eLearning modules using an author tool such as Adobe Captivate and now you need to track students’ progress. As Canvas is not scorm compliant you have to think of other ways to achieve that.

Possible solutions:

  • Link to scorm cloud
  • Link to an LRS
  • Try the following workaround

Explanation of the workaround

There are two main steps here:

  1. Create the module
  2. Upload the content into Canvas

Create the module

1.     Create the module and count manually the 25% 50% 75% and the 100% of the content.

My example is a scorm module with 15 pages.

Total pages

15

% content visited

Page

25%

4

50%

8

75%

11

100%

15

2.     Go to the pages identified previously and create an interactive object that is able to collect data such as a button. This button will be responsible for sending information to to Canvas

So once the student arrives at a certain point -i.e 25% 50% 75% and 100%- the module sends this number to the LMS. In this example I’m in page 4 and I’ve created a button that does the following:

  • Has an action to go to the next slide
  • Properties > Reporting
    • Include in quiz
    • Points 25
    • Add to total
    • Report answers
    • Interaction ID

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3.     Go to Window > Advanced interaction and confirm that the scorm content will report 100 points

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4. Go to File > Project Info > Quiz

Here the most important fields are:

  1. Enable reporting
  2. Data to report
    • Points
    • Interaction data

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5.     Go to Files > Publish

Upload the content into canvas

1. Upload the content inside canvas following the steps provided here How do I import SCORM files as an assignment?

2. Once imported select “Import as graded assignment” and hit “go”

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3. Now you can view the content in “Assignments” but you have to do some adjustments

    1. You can add additional text to introduce the learning contents
    2. Select “Display grade as points”

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4. Save & publish

5. The content will appear in "Grades"

Limitations of this approach:

  • You have to force students to click to an interactive object to track students’ progression. In this example I used a button.
  • When you upload the content as a scorm package in canvas you cannot update the file afterwards. You have to delete the content and upload as a new package. If you have a lot of courses with the same content bear in mind that if you need to update something it will be time consuming. So plan ahead to guarantee that the content is the definitive one before uploading it.
1 Comment
janejump
Community Participant
‎03-01-2017 08:16 AM

Thanks for the write up, Rosalie, this is helpful. We've developed several training modules using Captivate 9 with quiz questions throughout and were disappointed with the reporting results from them once they were published in Canvas. It was important for us to track the successful completion of each of these quiz questions instead of an overall pass/fail option that the SCORM integration was providing. This at least gives us more accurate reporting results.

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