Adobe Presenter 7

Set advanced learning management system settings

Presenter offers several advanced settings for how presentations integrate with learning management systems (LMS). The settings let you specify what data is sent to the LMS and how the data is formatted. Typically, LMS administrators or advanced LMS users require the advanced settings.

Note: Third-party learning management systems use the advanced settings; any advanced options set using this procedure do not affect the data sent from Presenter to Connect Pro Server.
  1. In PowerPoint, open a presentation (PPT or PPTX file).
  2. Select Adobe Presenter > Quiz Manager. (PowerPoint 2007 users select Adobe Presenter > Manage Quiz.)
  3. Click the Reporting tab.
  4. Click Settings.
  5. In the LMS Customization Settings area, set the following options:
    Never Send Resume Data
    Select this option to send no resume data to your LMS. This might be useful if your LMS does not support resume data or another mechanism to prevent users from returning to a quiz they started, but did not finish, across multiple sessions. For example, a user completes four questions out of eight and then closes the presentation. If you select this option, when the user opens the presentation again, they must provide answers to all eight questions—their answers from the first session are not remembered in the Presenter presentation. This option can be used when publishing and playing back content from any AICC- or SCORM-compliant learning management system.
    Note: Presentations that are part of a Connect Pro Server training course or curriculum are always automatically resumed. If the presentation is viewed using the Content tab, it is never resumed.

    Escape Version and Session ID
    This option is selected by default. Keep this option selected if you want Presenter to URL‑encode (escape) the version and session ID when sending data to an AICC-compliant learning management system. This is useful if your learning management system does not accept URL‑encoded information for these fields. Deselect this option if you do not want to URL‑encode (escape) the version and session ID.

    Don’t Escape Characters
    This option specifies that Presenter should not URL‑encode (escape) the value fields in parameters when data is sent to an AICC-compliant learning management system. In the text box, type the characters (without any delimiters such as spaces or commas) that the learning management system does not want escaped. For example, if the LMS does not want any numbers escaped, type 0123456789.

    Send Interval
    This option specifies how often slide data is sent to the LMS. As a user views a presentation, information is sent to the LMS. For regular slides, the LMS is notified that the user viewed the slide, and for question slides, information about the user response is sent to the LMS. Also, each time a slide is viewed, the LMS records the slide number so that if a user quits and then opens the presentation later, they user returns to the last slide. If you do not want information sent to the LMS for every slide in the presentation, you can change the Send Interval. For example, if you change the interval to 10, information is sent to the LMS every 10 slides.
    Note: If you change the Send Interval to a number higher than 1, users who quit before finishing the presentation may not be able to resume where they left off. For example, if the Send Interval is changed to 10 and a user quits after viewing nine slides, when they open the presentation again, they start over at slide 1.

  6. Click OK to finish setting the custom LMS settings and close the Quiz Manager.