SCORM & Essay Questions

SCORM & Essay Questions

by Christopher Collins -
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Hello, Everyone!

I am having a terribly frustrating problem -- can you please help?

I have created a SCORM module with Articulate Storyline that has short answer questions, but my questions require more than a few sentences to answer (the student must write short essay responses, perhaps from 300 - 500 words in length).

The results tracked from SCORM look awfully messy in Moodle (I'm using 2.3), but even after sorting through all the information on the screen to find the answers to my questions, I have discovered that without SCORM 2004 support, answers beyond 4,000 characters total cannot be tracked. So, Moodle just cuts things off after 4,000 characters. I even tried uploading a SCORM 2004 module and while it worked without error, it still displayed the answers in such a way that prevented me from actually seeing all of the students' answers.

Is anyone else making SCORM modules that require short essay responses? Have you found a way to track student responses effectively? Or does anyone have any idea how I can make this work? Perhaps some code that would save essay responses entered in the module to a separate text file that gets uploaded to Moodle with the student's responses to multiple choice questions (my imaginative guess)? 

Thank you so much for any help you can offer!!

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by Mary Cooch -
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How really really essential is it that you use Articulate Storyline instead of Moodle's built in features?

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by Christopher Collins -

Not absolutely essential, but highly beneficial.

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by Mary Cooch -
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Ah ok  -I apologise  for asking really; I appreciate you will have spent an awful lot of time creating a SCORM pack in Articulate and so I hope a SCORM expert can help out. It just seems to me sometimes that what you gain in attractive design in SCORM you lose in functionality in terms of Moodle - for instance more often than not what you can do with Articulate you could do with  a Moodle lesson module with better reporting.

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by Naandye Dabugat -

I am having a problems with tracking the time it takes to complete a SCORM lesson on moodle. First I thought all was going fine until some people started a lesson, logged out and continued another time. It seems that moodle did not keep track the first session instead, it only recorded the second session which was shorter.

Please is there an easy and more accurate way to track the progress of students on moodle? Expert advice is very much required.

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by Dan Marsden -
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If your only requirement for SCORM 2004 is the bigger content size then they should work fine - (although the reports are still a bit messy!) - have you tried using the interactions report and exporing the report to csv/excel to manage it there?

SCORM reports in 2.2/2.3 are plugins - you could also write your own report to display the info in the way you require (or contract a Moodle Partner to develop one for you) - drop me an e-mail if you'd like me to provide a quote, I work for the Moodle Partner Catalyst IT

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by Andrew Ng Yew Han -

Hi Christopher,

 

Any solution received for this problem? I'm facing the same issue as well.