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I am using Captivate 3 to produce content for a LMS
(Learn.com). I would like Learn.com to track the captivate SCO and
report on time spent in the lesson, access date, etc, but I do not
want the course being marked as "complete". I want completion
status to be determined by a post-assessment managed through the
LMS.
Currently, I have courses that will report "complete" when
first opened and courses that require a user to view 100% of the
slides to report "complete".
Can anyone suggest a clean method for keeping the project in
an "incomplete" status after is has been fully viewed?
Thanks in advance,
- Jon

I'm not sure how to do that. If you have any JS expertise
available, you
might be able to dig into the parent HTML file that holds all
the
javascript SCORM functions and change where it says
'completed' to
'incomplete'.
However even if that is successful, you likely won't be able
to change
that status to 'completed' when a different SCO is completed
(your
quiz). I believe the SCORM spec says a SCOs status can only
be affected
by the SCO itself, not another one. I could be wrong, or
Learn.com might
have included a function to allow that...
Erik
GenghisJon wrote:
> I am using Captivate 3 to produce content for a LMS
(Learn.com)...
>
>
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