Reporting score to LMS Manually

Hello Everyone
I am working on a project where I am creating slides with variables to track
the score, attempts, correct answers, percentage score, etc instead of inbuild quiz functionality.
I didn't use quiz functionality provided by captivate as different questions are of different type with
different scores attached to them.
All is working fine but now I want to report final scores to LMS and want to know how can that
be done on the final slide. How can I post all the variable values like scores achieved, total score,
percentage score, competency status, etc to LMS.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
JagVWS

By default Captivate does not provide any way to report user variable values as SCORM scores. Only interactive objects or quiz question slides can be assigned to report a score or result to the quiz. Since user variables are not interactive, you cannot assign them to report to the quiz.
There is a widget that allows you to set up user variables as slave objects and basically treat them as interactive, but it's the widget that actually reports the score to the quiz ON BEHALF of the variable.
You can find out more about it here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/interactive-master
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/interactivemaster/help
Free trial version widgets here:
http://www.infosemantics.com.au/adobe-captivate-widgets/download-free-trial-widgets
Please note that this widget is NOT HTML5 compliant. Only HTM/SWF output is supported.

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