Hi there, I'm new to courselab and I've just developed a student assessment consisting of 70 questions. At the end of the exam I get the student's score (Results by Objectives) and I can even get the results as percentage. However, what I need to know is not only the amount of failed questions, but also which questions have been answered incorrectly.
I've played around with SET COMPLETION STATUS and SET SCORE and SET SUCCESS STATUS. I can't work it out though. In order to get the wrong questions, I currently have each incorrectly answered question bring up a print dialog and students have to print (and then append) to a PDF document -very annoying!
I need a breakdown of the questions that were missed. Can anybody help? [:confused:]

Hi ET, You don't say how you are delivering this assessment, if it's by an auto-run (CD based module delivered by CD or network) the you aren't going to get anything else unless you write it in yourself.
If your using an LMS then it's a different story, also may be different between LMS platforms depending on how they have implemented SCORM and which version they are using. There is also a failing (common to most content generation systems) that means full overview of the questions by the teacher isn't fully supported. The development team are aware of this as it has been flagged up a few times in the forum and it looks like waiting foe 2.5 to resolve it. There is however a work around using re-load, again posted here somewhere!
Oh there are also differences between AICC and SCORM.
A little more detail might be useful.

Hi Nick, thanks a lot for your response! Although I'm not sure what the importance of the method of delivery is, I exported the assessment as "CD based". What difference would it make if I exported it as SCORM or any other format? Excuse my ignorance but even after reading the manual from cover to cover, I couldn't find an answer. Isn't there a possibility of, say, setting an action that says "on fail" record frame number on frame such and such... which could then be printed out (with a record of all incorrectly answered questions). Or anything else to that effect. If there is really no way of doing it like this, I'll try re-load. What is it?

Hi ET
Sorry this is abit long winded but I think I've covered everything on one go.
Very basically the CD's are 'stand alones' and the SCORM functions are handled by a Javascript API which functions pretty much like part of a Learning or Content Management System. However there are some fundamental differences they only work on a single session basis, that is everything done is forgotten so next time you open the module you're back at the beginning.

If you use a SCORM or AICC compliant CMS or LMS then the API handles passing info from the module to the L/CMS. These work differently so you can have multiple sessions on the same module (if you allow it) and return to the point you finished at on your previous session. Also information such as scores, responses etc can be passed via the API to the L/CMS.

See for info and links on SCORM and AICC
http://www.aicc.org/
http://www.adlnet.gov/

Condensing the above.... It's not a function of a stand alone to offer the full capabilities found in an L/CMS, only to provide a basic environment that the module can function in.

Re-load (a design editor)can let you manipulate a completed SCORM module or join components into a module, you can also access most of the API's variables. It is fairly straight forwards but does pre-suppose a bit of knowledge of the SCORM API.

They also have a stand alone SCORM player (try making a module, exporting it in SCORM or AICC format and then try and run it). It will complain because it can't find the API to handle the transactions, that function is built into the L/CMS. You can run them using Reloads player but remember it is a stand alone allowing the SCORM API to be used on modules built for an L/CMS but cannot replace the functionality of that L/CMS.
http://www.reload.ac.uk/scormplayer.html
Or at Source forge
http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=76357

You could 'make' your own recorder much as you have done using actions and some javascript. This is more part of the functionality you get in the L/CMS and in a stand alone would be very clunky and probably not massively more sophisticated than you already have implemented. Probably the only real improvement would be to bundle all the information into one final information dump.

It might be worth you having a look at Jonathan Yassens strand "Saving data using flash example here" it's a part of the answer but you'd need to be able to use Flash action script to take it any further.
Luckily there are only really seven different requests the SCO (shared content object, 'the module') makes using the Javascript API, as far as I remember in SCORM 1.3 these are Initialize(), Terminate(), getValue(), setValue()and three others that are used as diagnostics. 2004 extends the use of these a bit.
If you play with flash on this avoid using FSCommand() to talk to the API as it is platform specific to windows. Search Adobe for Flash SCORM, again most of these will give you a run time environment (stand alone player again) or a full set of interactions with the SCORM/AICC API. There isn't much that bridges the two areas.

The very short answers is with a stand alone you get play back with limited functionality. To get full functionality you use a C/LMS.