Recently I wanted to show a 'well done, you're done here - next steps' alert box once a student had completed a certain activitie/s. I had wanted to do this with the filtercodes {ifactivitycompleted X} filter, however it didn't work for a quiz so I had to do it manually. I share my hideous solution... Continue Reading →
Moodle Quiz – only answer previously incorrect questions on second attempt
Been a while since I did anything worth writing down technically, but this might be handy for people. I'm making a robust assessment with the Moodle Quiz activity. It needs to be user-friendly, so if someone fails, we want them to only have to re-answer the questions they got wrong. I had to bail on... Continue Reading →
Get learner name from LMS with JavaScript, for Captivate and Storyline
Getting the learner name from the LMS is a nice wee trick to personalise a course (used sparingly!) Using whatever API (in this instance I was using Pipwerks SCORM 1.2 demo shell), var learnerName = get('cmi.core.student_name'); The SCORM standard stores the name as LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial, so the name comes out as 'Blair, Lawrence' for... Continue Reading →