Prevent a quiz module to run again?

If you set the number of attempts on Quiz level at 1, the user will be allowed only one attempt. But if he closes the course and reopens it, can try again.

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No, it is not strange, because that is something you can configure in the LMS, at least I could do it in Blackboard.

It is always the same, LMS cannot do what it should do and then they tell you the authoring tool has to do it. Maybe with JS, but that is beyond my expertise. A good LMS takes over this kind of limitations to deployed courses, as I already answered. This is not meant to be done by an authoring tool.

What vesion of SCORM are you using?

You should be able to read a SCORM value and if true, either exit the course or redirect to a specific page.

You may need to read a pair of values if yje user exited the quiz in the middle and returned without finishing.  You could just use completion status and if "complleted" exit the module. Be aware that if the students aren't notified of this action, they may think there is a problem with the course.

No. That is the normal designed behaviour fo a Cp module.

I don't care what your LMS dude says. I

Not sure of your settings for the quiz but this should work if your student has either passed or completed the lesson.  Execute in JavaScript on enter of the first slide. Note that I have not tested this.

var myStatus = SCORM_CallLMSGetValue("cmi.core.lesson_status");

if (myStatus == "passed" || myStatus == "completed")

{

     DoFinish();

}

Dave,

I'm wondering if your code could help me with a problem I'm currently having with a client's course.

If the learner successfully passes a course module, the LMS will revert the module status back to Incomplete if the learner goes back into that module for any reason (e.g. to review the content again).

The client wants me to add some code to the modules to detect whether the module status is Passed or Completed (it's SCORM 1.2) and if so, then NOT send any more information to the LMS at all for that module to prevent the LMS from losing their status.  So this code would need to execute right at the initial connection with the LMS API, query the module status, and if it's already passed, then terminate the LMS connection to prevent further changes to that status.

Have you tried doing this?

I do this in all of my courses. I always use a start page that redirects to the actual course once the LMS is initialized. This page does does the initailization which returns "incomplete" when the API is initialized. Our LMS, and most I believe, will not let you read the value of the lesson before you set it. What we do is to write 0 for not attempted, 1 for inprogress, or 2 for completed to the cmi.comments.

When the course is initialized and returns "incomplete", you immediately read the comment and set the lesson status back to complete if the value is 2.

In your case you would likely want to set the cmi.core.lesson_mode to Browse or Review to stop Captivate from making any further calls. Even so, I've never seen Captivate write a comment so any time after completion the course would always register complete if re-acccessed.

Since it would be slightly difficult to do this using Captivate's published SCORM files, you would need to rewrite the initialization function and the function(s) that sets completion to add the cmi.comment.

I've never really traced out CP's SCORM functionality since I don't use CP's SCORM API, but I think it should be doable.

Add an alert to see what is being returned from the LMS:

var myStatus = SCORM_CallLMSGetValue("cmi.core.lesson_status");

alert(myStatus);

if (myStatus == "passed" || myStatus == "completed")

{

     DoFinish();

}

That is how the LMS should operate. The isuue is that they set the status to incomplete when initializing. Try this:

On the last slide of your project or when the lesson is complete, execute this JavaScript;

SCORM_CallLMSSetValue("cmi.comments", 2);

Then on enter of the first slide:

var myStatus = SCORM_CallLMSGetValue("cmi.comments");

alert(myStatus);

if (myStatus == "2" )

{

     DoFinish();

}

On the 8th of October "Litmos customer service replied that I have to set the thing inside Captivate."

On the 16th of October: "eventually admitted that it is a lack of their platform"

This is why I NEVER trust what the LMS vendors say when there's a problem.  They're far too ready to blame the authoring tool.