This presentation by Learning Ninja's Sean Putman evaluates xAPI support across four common authoring tools; Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, Lectora by Trivantis and Flow by Domiknow. Sean shares best practices for naming slides and interactions to get the most bang for your xAPI buck.

1. State of the State:
Authoring Tools
Baseline of 4 Current Tools

2. Why did we do this?

6. Storyline
Cap6vate
Lectora
Claro

7. Best Prac6ce:
Good slide/page naming is
extremely important

13. Best Prac6ce:
To track in page interac?ons,
create addi?onal slides to contain
the “clicked” state

19. Best Prac6ce:
To track in page interac?ons,
create addi?onal slides to contain
the “clicked” state

21. Sean Putman hCp://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered 'How many
JavaScript files need to be linked at the head of the file?' with score 10
{
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered"
},
"context": {
"registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-
b697-71cd4cad1b6e",
"contextActivities": {
"parent": {
"id": "http://learnxapi.com/
gb_xapi_content/storylin-test/6SgWpHHaW4W"
},
"grouping": {
"id": "http://learnxapi.com/
gb_xapi_content/storylin-test/"
}
}
},
"result": {
"success": true,
"response": "choice_5xwQ29qlMwQ",

30. Best Prac6ce:
Whenever possible use the object
name to define the xAPI Object.
When defining the verb, it is a
good idea to check to see if there is
a community of prac?ce that has a
set vocabulary and how to use the
verbs.

32. Sean Putman answered 'How many files link to the head sec?on?'
{
"verb": {
"id": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered",
"display": {
"en-US": "answered"
}
},
"object": {
"id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3-
Question__1_3074_1441983197384",
"definition": {
"description": {
"en-US": "How many files link to the head section?"
},
"type": "http://adlnet.gov/expapi/activities/cmi.interaction",
"interactionType": "choice",
"correctResponsesPattern": [
"3"
]
}
}, …

33. Sean Putman answered 'How many files link to the head sec?on?’
…
"timestamp": "2015-09-11T14:53:05Z",
"context": {
"contextActivities": {
"parent": {
"id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3"
},
"grouping": {
"id": "http://www.uniqueurl.com/lectora_statements3-"
}
},
"registration": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697-71cd4cad1b6e"
},
"result": {
"response": "3",
"success": true
},

34. Best Prac6ce:
When crea?ng the quiz and
ques?ons, giving logical names to
the quiz and ques?on pages is
important.

42. Best Prac6ce:
Whenever possible use the object
name to define the xAPI Object.
When defining the verb, it is a
good idea to check to see if there is
a community of prac?ce that has a
set vocabulary and how to use the
verbs.

43. Best Prac6ce:
If defining an Ac?vity ID it is a good
prac?ce to make sure you are
being consistent across courses for
ac?vi?es that are reused.

45. Sean Putman h=p://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered 'What is the first item in the statement?'
{
"id": "2831^c4-587c-407a-ac5e-1c2f1d5c64ea",
"?mestamp": "2015-12-18T15:41:45.855Z",
"actor": {
"objectType": "Agent",
"mbox": "mailto:sputman34@gmail.com",
"name": "Sean Putman"
},
"verb": {
"id": "hCp://adlnet.gov/expapi/verbs/answered",
"display": {
"und": "answered"
}
},
"result": {
"success": true,
"response": "c)_Actor"
},
"context": {
"registra?on": "36fc1ee0-2849-4bb9-b697-71cd4cad1b6e",
"contextAc?vi?es": {
"parent": [
{
"id": "hCp://try.clarolive.com//ac?vi?es/dk-112060-TC",
"objectType": "Ac?vity",
"defini?on": {
"name": {
"en-US": "xAPI Test"
},
"descrip?on": {
"en-US": ""
}
}
}
],
"grouping": [
{
"id": "hCp://try.clarolive.com//ac?vi?es/dk-112060-
TC-undefined",
"objectType": "Ac?vity"
}
]
}
},
"object": {
"id": "hCp://try.clarolive.com//ac?vi?es/dk-112060-
TC-503671",
"objectType": "Ac?vity",
"defini?on": {
"type": "hCp://adlnet.gov/expapi/ac?vi?es/
cmi.interac?on",
"descrip?on": {
"en-US": "What is the first item in the statement?"
},
"interac?onType": "choice",
"correctResponsesPaCern": [
"c)_Actor"
]
}

46. Best Prac6ce:
When crea?ng the quiz and
ques?ons, giving logical names to
the quiz and ques?on pages is
important.

48. Sean Putman
sean@learningninjas.com
putman@altair.com
@SeanPutman1