Ability to view the course answers given within the Chamilo UI.

[wardo001]

Hello Everybody,

Is it possible to view the actual answers given by a learner to a course within Chamilo itself?

We are using Articulate Storyline 360 to author and publish our course content. So far, we can upload our published course content to Chamilo, launch the course and complete the quiz. All works nicely and as expected.

If we configure our courses to report to an xAPI LRS endpoint, Scorm Cloud / Learning locker etc, we can view the xAPI statements generated (the actual answers given by the learners) within the Scorm Cloud / Learning locker UI.

However, we would really, really like our teacher / trainer users to have the ability to view the actual answers given by the learners to course questions within Chamilo itself, and not have to visit an external LRS interface to view this crucial information.

I clearly understand that Chamilo itself is an LMS, not an LRS. I also understand that Chamilo does not store locally any xAPI statements generated by the course. My understanding is that Chamilo records telemetry data only (in it's own format with it's local MySQL db) - so: "The learner started the course at X time, finished at Y time and scored 85%".

I have looked extensively for plugins to achieve this, but there does not seem to be anything out there - please let me know if I have missed something!

Research suggests that Chamilo can indeed store locally (and retrieve) the granular answers given by learners to course content, if the course is published in Scorm 2004, V4 format. However, I am not certain that this is correct. We have tested this using Chamilo 2.0.3, with no success so far.

So my questions is this: In order to view the actual answers given by users to course content within Chamilo itself, what is the easiest way to achieve this:

a) persist in testing Scorm 2004 V4 published content and try to get that working - or give up on that now because Chamilo can not do this and this plan is not going to work.

OR

b) continue to configure the course to publish xAPI statements to an external xAPI endpoint (Scorm Cloud / Learning Locker) and then write a plugin for Chamilo that will access the LRS endpoint, pull the xAPI statements from the LRS and display them within Chamilo.

@ywarnier if you read this post, this is why I have been asking about plugin development for Chamilo - to achieve the above requirements - I did not want to confuse the two issues in a single post!

I am more than happy to attempt to write a Chamilo plugin if necessary - sure, there is effort involved, but that is fine. But, if we can achieve the requirements described above using an existing solution or Scorm 2004 V4 published content, that would be wonderful!

If anyone has any bright ideas or alternative solutions, any input would be gratefully received. Before I go hammer and tongs into installing Chamilo 3.0 and starting plugin development, I figured it would be wise to ask the community first.

Apologies for the long post and many thanks for reading ...

wardo.