State of the State: Authoring Tools
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This document summarizes best practices for authoring tools and xAPI statements. It provides an overview of 4 authoring tools - Storyline, Captivate, Lectora, and Claro. It then outlines several best practices for using these tools, such as giving slides and pages logical names, tracking interactions with additional slides, using predefined verbs when possible, and consistently defining activity IDs. Examples are given of xAPI statements generated from questions in Lectora and Claro courses. Overall best practices emphasized include using logical names, standard verbs and objects when possible, and consistency across courses.
![Sean Putman answered 'How many files link to the head section?'
{
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered",
"display": {
"en-US": "answered"
}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3-
Question__1_3074_1441983197384",
"definition": {
"description": {
"en-US": "How many files link to the head section?"
},
"type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/cmi.interaction",
"interactionType": "choice",
"correctResponsesPattern": [
"3"
]
}
}, …](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/kti6cm7suagqhp2wlhpy-signature-8053edff6438851fc7791997f0111dbce73c1fde0a881c8706c5f24d349a5bbe-poli-170515192046/85/State-of-the-State-Authoring-Tools-32-320.jpg)
![Sean Putman http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered 'What is the first item in the statement?'
{
"id": "2831fbc4-587c-407a-ac5e-1c2f1d5c64ea",
"timestamp": "2015-12-18T15:41:45.855Z",
"actor": {
"objectType": "Agent",
"mbox": "mailto:sputman34@gmail.com",
"name": "Sean Putman"
},
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered",
"display": {
"und": "answered"
}
},
"result": {
"success": true,
"response": "c)_Actor"
},
"context": {
"registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697-71cd4cad1b6e",
"contextActivities": {
"parent": [
{
"id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060-TC",
"objectType": "Activity",
"definition": {
"name": {
"en-US": "xAPI Test"
},
"description": {
"en-US": ""
}
}
}
],
"grouping": [
{
"id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060-
TC-undefined",
"objectType": "Activity"
}
]
}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060-TC-
503671",
"objectType": "Activity",
"definition": {
"type":
"http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/cmi.interaction",
"description": {
"en-US": "What is the first item in the statement?"
},
"interactionType": "choice",
"correctResponsesPattern": [
"c)_Actor"
]
}](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/kti6cm7suagqhp2wlhpy-signature-8053edff6438851fc7791997f0111dbce73c1fde0a881c8706c5f24d349a5bbe-poli-170515192046/85/State-of-the-State-Authoring-Tools-45-320.jpg)
State of the State: Authoring Tools
- 1. State of the State: Authoring Tools Baseline of 4 Current Tools
- 2. Why did we do this?
- 7. Best Practice: Good slide/page naming is extremely important
- 13. Best Practice: To track in page interactions, create additional slides to contain the “clicked” state
- 19. Best Practice: To track in page interactions, create additional slides to contain the “clicked” state
- 21. Sean Putman http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered 'How many JavaScript files need to be linked at the head of the file?' with score 10 { "verb": { "id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered" }, "context": { "registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697- 71cd4cad1b6e", "contextActivities": { "parent": { "id": "http://learnxapi.com/gb_xapi_content/storylin- test/6SgWpHHaW4W" }, "grouping": { "id": "http://learnxapi.com/gb_xapi_content/storylin-test/" } } }, "result": { "success": true, "response": "choice_5xwQ29qlMwQ",
- 30. Best Practice: Whenever possible use the object name to define the xAPI Object. When defining the verb, it is a good idea to check to see if there is a community of practice that has a set vocabulary and how to use the verbs.
- 32. Sean Putman answered 'How many files link to the head section?' { "verb": { "id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered", "display": { "en-US": "answered" } }, "object": { "id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3- Question__1_3074_1441983197384", "definition": { "description": { "en-US": "How many files link to the head section?" }, "type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/cmi.interaction", "interactionType": "choice", "correctResponsesPattern": [ "3" ] } }, …
- 33. Sean Putman answered 'How many files link to the head section?’ … "timestamp": "2015-09-11T14:53:05Z", "context": { "contextActivities": { "parent": { "id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3" }, "grouping": { "id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3-" } }, "registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697-71cd4cad1b6e" }, "result": { "response": "3", "success": true },
- 34. Best Practice: When creating the quiz and questions, giving logical names to the quiz and question pages is important.
- 42. Best Practice: Whenever possible use the object name to define the xAPI Object. When defining the verb, it is a good idea to check to see if there is a community of practice that has a set vocabulary and how to use the verbs.
- 43. Best Practice: If defining an Activity ID it is a good practice to make sure you are being consistent across courses for activities that are reused.
- 45. Sean Putman http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered 'What is the first item in the statement?' { "id": "2831fbc4-587c-407a-ac5e-1c2f1d5c64ea", "timestamp": "2015-12-18T15:41:45.855Z", "actor": { "objectType": "Agent", "mbox": "mailto:sputman34@gmail.com", "name": "Sean Putman" }, "verb": { "id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered", "display": { "und": "answered" } }, "result": { "success": true, "response": "c)_Actor" }, "context": { "registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697-71cd4cad1b6e", "contextActivities": { "parent": [ { "id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060-TC", "objectType": "Activity", "definition": { "name": { "en-US": "xAPI Test" }, "description": { "en-US": "" } } } ], "grouping": [ { "id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060- TC-undefined", "objectType": "Activity" } ] } }, "object": { "id": "http://try.clarolive.com//activities/dk-112060-TC- 503671", "objectType": "Activity", "definition": { "type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/cmi.interaction", "description": { "en-US": "What is the first item in the statement?" }, "interactionType": "choice", "correctResponsesPattern": [ "c)_Actor" ] }
- 46. Best Practice: When creating the quiz and questions, giving logical names to the quiz and question pages is important.
Editor's Notes
- #3: We wanted to baseline the activity providers to see what each could do out of the box.
- #4: A course was built as a baseline. The course was originally built in HTML with xAPI statements generated by each button.
- #5: Lets be clear on where the focus was when using these products. There was no focus on usability or what it was like to create the course. All of the focus was in what the generation of statements for xAPI looks like in the end. So I won’t talk about ease of use or what the user experience of the interface looks like. I will go through a few “hacks” that you can do when using some of the products.
- #6: Basic set of statements is available from all activity providers. Each one will give statements based on slides viewed. Each one of the activity providers tested uses the verb experienced for each slide or page view. Each one uses the name of the slide or page as the object in the statement.
- #10: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the
- #11: Add arrow going up
- #12: Add arrow going up
- #13: Add arrow going up
- #15: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the
- #16: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the
- #17: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the
- #18: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the
- #19: Captivate offers support of quizzing with the xAPI output. When you create a quiz Captivate will use the verb experienced when a quiz slide is opened. It also important here to name the Quiz slides appropriately as the name will be sued as the object in the statement. The JSON for the answered question(s) will show the answer that was provided and if that was passed or failed. Once the quiz is complete a statement is generated using the