Using View Slides to Send LMS Completion in Articulate
I published a course the other day and when users started going through it the completion status never passed to the LMS. I just used the standard “publish to LMS” option in Articulate…it has to be working. The user must be doing something incorrectly right? Well, actually I messed up. (but the software tricked me)
Using “Track using number of slides viewed” to pass a completion status to your LMS:
You can have users pass a course if they pass a quiz or if they viewed a pre-determined number of slides. I chose “view slides” to pass my course.
When you publish in Articulate and your course has no quiz, the completion status defaults to “view number of slides”. You can select how many slides must be viewed. I left it at “view 64 of 64 slides”. I wanted them to view all of my pages. Seems simple right? Well, not so fast 
What I didn’t think through is that if your course has hidden slides then your user won’t be able to click on every slide. (for example if you use branching) Articulate software doesn’t calculate that you have hidden slides. It just gives you the option to have a user click every slide.
In conclusion, make sure you think through the flow of your course. Will a user touch every page? If not, make sure that you calculate that when determining how many slides they should view to be considered “complete/done”.
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I have a problem with this approach. If you provide the user with multiple scenarios in a elearning, sometimes they go back an follow all the alternate paths within a scenario to see what the results are.
Theoretically, they could rack up enough slides viewed in scenario one that they don’t have to view scenario two or three to get credit for the course.
What do you do then?
True, however no learner will ever know that you are counting the number of slides viewed to give them credit. Even if they do think that they’d never know how many or few they need to view.
In the scenario above the thought process is a bit different. Since “hidden” slides don’t count towards the overall number of slides viewed it wouldn’t matter if someone went through a scenario 3 different times or paths. Those slides are probably hidden in the main course outline and wouldn’t be tallying up “slide-viewed clicks”.
Or….just put a final test on the course and make them pass it with xx% or higher to pass. Thanks for the comment.
Want to check, how does Articulate take as a slide completion, i.e. as soon as the user clicks the next button is the slide considered complete? or the user has to view the complete slide? i.e. if there is an audio in the slide, until the audio gets over the slide is considered complete or not?
Please help.
Udit
Pages are considered “viewed” when they are launched.
http://www.articulate.com/forums/articulate-presenter/3020-what-marks-slide-viewed.html