Set Knowledge Track options for a learning interaction

Knowledge Track is an automatic data-tracking feature that lets you transmit student performance data to an LMS or to other back-end tracking systems. Knowledge Track works with both AICC- and SCORM-compliant learning management systems. Knowledge Track captures or stores student information internal to the Flash application and transmits that data to an HTML page.

To successfully send data to a tracking system, embed the SWF file containing your learning interactions in an HTML page and select the HTML template in Publish Settings for either Flash with AICC Tracking or Flash with SCORM Tracking. To support an AICC-compliant LMS, the HTML that embeds the SWF file needs to be part of a frameset.

The tracking data captured and that Knowledge Track transmits is based on an industry standard for courseware-to-tracking-system communications, the AICC specification version 2. This standard specifies the following data elements for each interaction.

Set values for these data elements by using the Component inspector for an interaction:

  • InteractionID

  • ObjectiveID

  • Weighting

    Other data elements are automatically set or calculated:

  • Question Type

  • Correct Response

  • User Response

  • Result

  • Date/Time

  • Latency

  1. Select the Learning Interaction component to the left of the Stage in the quiz template.
  2. Open the Component inspector from the Property inspector and click Options.
  3. Select Knowledge Track if you are using the learning interaction in a document created by using a quiz template and for the learning interaction to send data to a server-side learning management database.
  4. (Optional) If the interaction is related to an objective that is set up in the LMS, enter that name in the Objective ID box to specify an objective for the interaction. Tracking still works if you leave the Objective ID box blank.
  5. Specify the Weighting value for the interaction. The quiz templates use this parameter to calculate the score in the Results page. The default value is 1. Weighting indicates the relative importance of a question. Enter any numeric value. If all learning interactions have a weight of 1, they are all scored equally. A weight of 2 counts twice as much as a weight of 1 and half as much as a weight of 4. For example, give advanced questions a weight of 3 and beginning-level questions a weight of 1.
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