Essay content type and save the results

Hi jukka79!

Essay itself (like other content types) reports the text together with the results that are emitted via xAPI. The H5P integration of Drupal does not, however, store all the information that it could but only the scores. Please see https://h5p.org/documentation/for-authors/analyzing-results-and-answers for details.

Cheers,
Oliver

Hi Oliver, this is hitting an issue/problem we're struggling with too.  We're trying to use Structure Strips and Essay types to capture responses from learners.  We are currently just using the H5P on wordpress, but are looking at Pikatchu or Grassblade xAPI companion to an LRS.  We don't want to invest in these if we don't have to, but can't get a good sense of the outputs from the H5P content types - our IT advisor just commented that there isnt any xAPI output from Essay so Pikatchu wouldnt give us any different results.  

Any advice you can give us?  Even just confirmation that there is an xAPI full field export/result from Essay would be helpful.

Thanks

Dean

Hi Oliver, this is hitting an issue/problem we're struggling with too.  We're trying to use Structure Strips and Essay types to capture responses from learners.  We are currently just using the H5P on wordpress, but are looking at Pikatchu or Grassblade xAPI companion to an LRS.  We don't want to invest in these if we don't have to, but can't get a good sense of the outputs from the H5P content types - our IT advisor just commented that there isnt any xAPI output from Essay so Pikatchu wouldnt give us any different results.  

Any advice you can give us would be helpful, even if its just confirmation that there is an xAPI result for the full text of an Essay content type.

Thanks

Dean

Hi Oliver, this is hitting an issue/problem we're struggling with too.  We're trying to use Structure Strips and Essay types to capture responses from learners.  We are currently just using the H5P on wordpress, but are looking at Pikatchu or Grassblade xAPI companion to an LRS.  We don't want to invest in these if we don't have to, but can't get a good sense of the outputs from the H5P content types - our IT advisor just commented that there isnt any xAPI output from Essay so Pikatchu wouldnt give us any different results.  

Any advice you can give us would be helpful, even if its just confirmation that there is an xAPI result for the full text of an Essay content type.

Thanks

Dean

Hi, Dean.

Not sure how your IT advisor arrived at that conclusion, but let me clear this up for you. Essay has supported xAPI since day one, and it delivers. Essay fires off more xAPI statements than most content types, including "attempted," "interacted," "answered," "failed," "passed," and "mastered." The "answered" statement, that’s where the gold is – the result property carries the response, exactly as the xAPI specification intends.

Best,

Oliver

Thanks Oliver, that's awesome.  Am I correct that for the purpose of testing/checking the results feedback/xAPI from the H5P we've setup in wordpress, that Pikatchu and Grassblade pick up the same results/statements?  A concern was raised that as Pikatchu is older it may not work as well or be as up to date with any newer H5P content types.

xAPI is a standard that was not coined by H5P Group. H5P merely uses it to transfer information to the host platform, so the age of the tool catching the statements or the age of the content types does not matter at all. The xAPI standard has not changed.

Both, Grassblade and H5PxAPIkatchu receive the same data, but since the latter is not supposed to be a learning record store, it does not store all of the data. The results and responses are kept just fine though.

For seeing the xAPI data that's transferred, you do not need any extra software at all, you can just check that in your browser. See https://h5p.org/documentation/x-api

Thanks Oliver, appreciate your time and responses.