Articulate Presenter/Quizmaker and Tracking Flash Interaction

[Cyrelle]

I have been using Articulate Studio 09 to create custom courses for a
client. In addition to using the built-in question types in Quizmaker,
I would to be create some small Flash interactions that generate a
score that can be communicated either through Quizmaker or through the
Articulate interface to the LMS using the Articulate SCORM publishing
feature.

Does anyone in this group have experience with this and can offer
suggestions on what functions need to be included in the Flash file to
transmit the variables?

Thanks.
Cyrelle

[Cor]

Cyrelle,

Look at www.pipwerks.org at the Flash example.

Regards
Cor

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[Nathan Mynarcik]

Yeah, if you want to use external flash files not compiled by Articulate,
you will need to use a SCORM wrapper like pipwerks. Once you get it working
by itself, you will then need to insert the flash file on a blank slide in
quizmaker. I highly doubt you will be able to have it function hand in hand
with the QM, but it's worth a try. Just make sure in your player.html you
add the script for the Pipwerks SCORM wrapper.

It might come down to either using QM to make your assessments or using your
custom flash to communicate to the LMS database for scoring purposes.

Also, I highly recommend using the Articulate Forums for more info about
this. They are very helpful and can inform you if this is possible or not.

http://www.articulate.com/forums/

[Philip Hutchison]

Thanks for the plug guys, but my pipwerks examples are unrelated to Articulate's code.  (BTW, the link is pipwerks.com not .org)  :)

I think Cyrelle wants to plug into an existing Articulate framework, which means he needs to determine how Articulate's product needs the code to interact. Simply writing a SCORM-based interaction may not work because it needs to hook into Articulate's API.

I haven't done much with Articulate myself, but from what I hear, it's very scriptable. As Nathan suggests, I'd start by checking the Articulate forums. You could also hit up some of the Articulate guys on twitter:

http://twitter.com/articulatebrian
http://twitter.com/dmozealous

- philip

[cmay]

I posted this on the Lectora Lounge the other day:

http://lectoralounge.trivantis.com/forums/14/topics/8358

I made a couple of quick .fla's and a Lectora course to demonstrate
how to set up communications between the 2. The .fla's are Flash CS4
using ActionScript 3.

These examples do NOT use a timer loop to check for variables. That is
not the best solution, setting up multiple, ongoing processes. That
will only degrade the performance of your material. In my examples I
show how to call a Lectora action from Flash.

The meat of the info is in the .awt file and the .fla's. The .fla's
have comments in the action script detailing what the code is doing.
Here is the URL where you can download the files:

https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=c5ee6a06-d0c5-4dd9-8341-943ff0a2adff

Thanks to Tim Kindberg. His posts got me started in the right
direction.