Setting Control Button Labels For A Learning Interaction; Tracking To Aicc- Or Scorm-Compliant Learning Management Systems - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Setting control button labels for a learning interaction

All six types of interactions use an instance of the same control buttons: Check Answer, Submit,
Next Question, and Reset. The only exception to this is the True/False interaction, which does
not use a Reset button. You can change the label for the instance of each button using the
Component Inspector.
To change the label for an instance of a control button:
Select the Learning Interaction component, to the left of the Stage in the quiz template.
1.
If the Component inspector is not already visible, open it from the Property inspector, and then
2.
click Assets at the bottom of the panel.
Edit the label name under Control Button Labels.
3.
Select Control > Test Movie to view the new labels on the buttons.
4.
Tracking to AICC- or SCORM-compliant learning management
systems
The Flash learning interactions and quiz templates allow easy communication with both AICC-
and SCORM-compliant LMSs. The code built into both the Flash documents and the
corresponding HTML/JavaScript files send properly formatted data to the LMS. The stand-alone
interactions send question data, while the quiz templates track the score and time spent overall.
Because of differences between the two tracking standards (AICC and SCORM), there are
differences in the compliance of the files created using the Flash learning interactions and the
quiz templates.
To be SCORM-compliant, content must call an initialize command when it is first started, or
before any other tracking commands are sent to the LMS. The Flash with SCORM HTML
template was designed to initialize communication with a SCORM-compliant LMS when the file
is loaded. It also sends a finish communication to the LMS when the file is unloaded, if the finish
command wasn't explicitly sent previously.
The files created using both the Flash learning interactions and the quiz templates can send
tracking data to an AICC- and SCORM-compliant LMS. Individual interactions do not send
overall score and tracking data, but they can send interaction or question data.
Files created by using the quiz templates to comply with either AICC or SCORM standards do
not read data from the LMS into the Flash file.
414 Chapter 19: Creating E-learning Content