User Variables across sessions
When saving the answer to a survey, what is the best way to save and use the user variable and value across courses, lessons, and sessions for a specific user? I am not using an LMS (the course is on the Thinkific platform which is not SCORM compliant), I have access to JavaScript, and a SQL database hosted on another hosting platform’s server. Although I see previous posts, what is currently the best method when using HTML5 and Javascript, not SWF or ActiveScript? I was reading there might already be something someone created to do this?
You can use LocalStorage. That is possible if the learner will access the courses from the same system.
Great point! I hadn’t thought about it, I believe a user will be accessing the storage from multiple devices – phone, laptop, tablet, and desktop. Also, some users will have to wait for others to respond to them, up to two months, before they can continue in the course, so persistence may be a problem. Also, the data may be long – a paragraph. And there will be a lot of variables, probably more than local storage will allow. Now that I’ve thought about it, SQL database is probably my only option… although I may still use local storage for some things for quick retrieval.
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