Setting Knowledge Track options for a learning interaction

Knowledge Track is an automatic data-tracking feature that allows you to transmit student performance data to a learning management system (LMS), such as Lotus LearningSpace, or to other back-end tracking systems. Knowledge Track works with both AICC- and SCORM-compliant LMS's. Knowledge Track captures and/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, you must embed the SWF file containing your learning interactions into an HTML page SWF file and select the HTML template in publish settings for either Flash with AICC Tracking or Flash with SCORM Tracking. To support AICC-compliant LMS's, the HTML that embeds the SWF file needs to be part of a frameset. See Preparing Flash learning interactions for web hosting.

The tracking data captured and transmitted by Knowledge Track is based on an industry standard for courseware-to-tracking-system communications, the AICC (Aviation Industry CBT Committee) specification version 2. This standard specifies the following data elements for each interaction.

You can set values for these data elements using the Component Inspector panel for an interaction:

To set Knowledge Track options for an interaction:

Select the Learning Interaction component, to the left of the Stage in the quiz template.
If the Component Inspector panel is not already visible, open it from the Property inspector; then click Options, at the bottom of the panel.
Select Knowledge Track if you are using the learning interaction in a document created using a quiz template and you want the learning interaction to send data to a server-side learning management database.
Enter a name in the Objective ID text box to specify an objective for the interaction.
This is an optional parameter. If the interaction is related to an objective that is set up in the LMS, enter that Objective ID in this text box. Tracking still works if you leave the Objective ID text box blank.
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. You can 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, you can give advanced questions a weight of 3 and beginning-level questions a weight of 1.