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External to Totara Courses Reporting

I know that this is a long-shot and I'm fairly sure I know the answer is no, but I wonder if anyone knows of a plug-in or some other way to have courses external to Totara report back as complete? We need some of our employees to complete courses that are external to our LMS (e.g. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) courses).

My workaround has been to have the FEMA course URLs as activities. I then have the activity set to mark as complete when the learner accesses the URL. I have a separate activity for them to upload their completion certificate issued by FEMA. Once both of those activities are complete, the course is complete.

Is there a better way?

Best Regards,

Susan

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Hi Susan

SCORM and LTI activities are able to pass data to Totara. See https://help.totaralearning.com/display/TL9/External+Tool

https://help.totaralearning.com/display/TL9/SCORM

If the activities aren't one of these standards but are hosted on Moodle/Totara site then the sites can be networked together to pass data between them.

regards

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Thank you!

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Hi Susan,

We do work in partnership with an organisation who publishes their SCORM packages in AICC compatibility format and hosts them on their own site. We then add the link within Totara as an 'External AICC URL' with the URL they provide.

To the learner it just looks like they are completing a hosted SCORM package, once complete it is automatically recorded on both our site and our partner's site and the other advantage is that updates to the package are added centrally and we don't have to reload anything.

Hope this makes sense and helps.

Kind Regards
Steph

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Thank you!

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Hi Susan,

We dealt with a similar issue in much the same way you describe.

Unless you can get a dispatch file from FEMA or have them provide you with a proper external URL, there's nothing else you can do to ensure proper communication with an external source.