Need clarification for Captivate assessment settings

Question

Greetings,
I have questions about how an LMS handles unique identifiers
that are assigned to questions or interactions in a 3rd party
software such as Flash or Captivate.
First of all, I must say that the more I work with our LMS
(Integrity eLearning’s WBT) the more I like it. It appears to
so feature rich that I have to ask questions such as the ones
below. I would certainly recommend this product. But I am not the
LMS admin, so these questions are necessary.
My intent is to make an LMS Report (such as the Question
Response Summary Report) more readable, and therefore better
understood. To do this I need to understand naming limitations when
a Captivate generated SCO is integrated with our LMS.
For example: (for those experienced with Captivate)
In Captivate:
I have an assessment based on how a user interacts with a
series of slides. The slides emulate the use of a piece of
software. There are transparent click boxes on specific slides.
On specific slides, for a specific click box:
In Click Box Properties, Reporting tab, I have 5 variables
available. 3 fields and 2 check boxes. I understand the uses of the
2 check boxes (Include In Quiz and Report Answers) and the
Weighting field. My questions relate to 2 fields:
Objective ID:
Interaction ID:
The Objective ID:
I believe this variable needs to be a consistent identifier,
the label is the same for each different interaction within the one
assessment (SCO). So, if I have 5 slides, each with one click box,
this property for each of the 5 click boxes is the same.
Does this relate to a separate Objective dictated by the LMS
or is this related strictly to the that SCO?
Can I use the same identifier in a different assessment, for
a different SCO?
In other words, can I re-use this exact label and not have
data problems when I generate reports?
The Interaction ID:
I believe this variable has to have unique identifiers
(within the single lesson) for each question in the assessment
(SCO). So, if I have 5 slides, each with one click box, this
property for each of the 5 click boxes is different and unique
within the SCO.
Is this correct?
If correct:
Can I use the same identifier in a different assessment, for
a different SCO?
Can the value have spaces or will spaces cause problems?
Can I re-use the labels in different SCOs?
If I have no particular Objective, but I do have Interactions
I want to track, do I have to have a value for the Objective ID
field?
If not, is it good practice to have one anyway? Does it
matter?
When I put in identifiers in these fields, and if I can
re-use the identifiers in different SCOs, can I have spaces,
special characters, etc. or would this cause problems when data is
retrived from the back-end database?
Thank you,
TPK

Answer 1

TPK,
Objective ID fields are supposed to be based on Objectives
set in
conjunction with an LMS. You can tie various questions to an
"Objective"
and then confirm the learner has met their objectives (or
determine where
they need help). Captivate doesn't support much beyond
sending Objective
IDs in interaction data (e.g. doesn't send objective's score,
etc).
Interaction IDs are supposed to be unique across all content
in an LMS.
That typically isn't realistic and I don't know any LMS that
requires or
expects them to be unique. For your reports, the Interaction
IDs should be
unique in a single Captivate file. If you want to track
interactions, but
don't care about objective's - you can leave it blank or put
in a "0". It
won't cause problems in your reporting with WBT Manager (e.g.
a recommended
LMS).
Hope that helps
Regards,
Andrew