Our goal was to provide a seamless, in-app learning experience for users of 84.51° Stratum, our flagship cloud-based data analytics software. Our challenge was that our LMS could not deliver content in this way. Our dilemma was to provide in-app learning with no tracking or provide tracked learning that disrupted the user experience by taking them away from the application. Our solution was to create an innovative, LMS-less tracking solution, leveraging Storyline, Vimeo, MadCap Flare, Mixpanel, and Javascript. How did we do it? What mistakes did we make? What did we learn along the way? Come find out! We will also share our model, methods, resources, and code snippets that you can use to create a seamless, in-app experience for your own learners.

In this session, you will learn how we overcame three challenges: Putting the learning within or adjacent to the user's workflow; make access to the learning as seamless and pain-free as possible; and to track this learning. You will see the solution in action both from the learner and administrator perspectives. You will explore our end-to-end infrastructure model and learn the role that each component plays in the solution. And, you will examine how you might be able to substitute your own tools to accomplish the same goals. You will learn about the barriers we encountered and the lessons we learned as we figured out how to make it all work. We will share our data tracking model, which details everything we can capture about a course. Finally, you will look at how we embed Vimeo videos into our courses and use Vimeo APIs to track viewing progress and share that data with Storyline. This ensures that the user is actually watching the videos before receiving completion credit. You will walk away with infrastructure and data models, practical code, helpful resources, and a viable course tracking alternative to the traditional LMS. These tools and ideas may enable you to create a seamless, in-app learning experience for your company.

In this session, you will learn:

• The components needed for an LMS-less course tracking solution
• How to embed a Storyline course on a webpage and share data between the course and the page
• How to overcome Storyline variable tracking limitations to identify new versus resumed course views
• How to send course progress and completion data from Storyline to Mixpanel, or another online data collection tool
• How you can embed Vimeo videos into a Storyline course and use Vimeo APIs to track video viewing progress
• How to plan the course data that you want to track, and transform it into the correct format for your database

Technology discussed:
84.51° Stratum (our product), Stratum Learning Center, built with MadCap Flare (CMS), Articulate Storyline, Mixpanel (data analytics tool), Vimeo and Vimeo APIs, Javascript