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Setting Knowledge Track options for an interaction

Knowledge Track is an automatic data-tracking feature that allows you to transmit student performance data to an 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 movie and transmits that data to an HTML page.

To successfully send data to a tracking system, you must embed the Flash movie containing your learning interactions into an HTML page that includes the appropriate JavaScript. The tracking data is generated when you publish the movie and select the publish settings for either Flash w/AICC Tracking or Flash w/SCORM Tracking. To support AICC-compliant LMS's, the HTML that embeds the HTML movie needs to be part of a frameset. See Preparing movies 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 2.0. This standard specifies the following data elements for each interaction.

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

| InteractionID
| ObjectiveID
| Weighting

Other data elements are automatically set or calculated:

| Question Type
| Correct Response
| User Response
| Result
| Date/Time
| Latency

To set Knowledge Track options for an interaction:

1 | Select the Learning Interaction component, to the left of the Stage if you're using a quiz template.
2 | If the Component Parameters panel is not already visible, launch it from the Property inspector. Then click Options, at the bottom of the panel.
3 | Select Knowledge Track if you are using the learning interaction in a document created using a quiz template and you want the movie to send data to a server-side learning management database.
4 | 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.
5 | 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.