Hi Gabe,

Excellent post. Very helpful and the timing is perfect as I am just about to hire a firm to create a site that delivers training courses (made with Articulate, of course) and certification (determined by passing quizmaker tests) through AO. I have been looking into the API and need exactly the same thing as Jaspersoft.

Additionally, I’d like a few other features. Does the AO API allow the following? If not, is a firm like Trigent allowed to further develop the API so it does?

1. Branding customization beyond just adding a logo. Ideally, I would like to adjust the CSS and launch AO framelessly from within my site.

2. Allow for the sending of a pass or fail quiz result to my CMS site. Upon passing, i would like a customer profile (filled with their AO user info) to appear publicly in a certification directory.

Thanks again!

Best…
Clint

Hi Clint- Glad to hear the timing is good and that this will help you out!

As for your questions:

1. No, this is not possible via the AO API. The API is about data exchange, not design modifications. However, just to clarify: The only Articulate Online branding you should see is in the admin interface. Your user-facing content can be designed however you’d like, so when users launch content created, for example, in Articulate Presenter, it can have your own branding. Where are you looking to have your own branding?

2. The API does not currently support passing of results to another system.

For both suggestions, though, I’d encourage you to share your feedback (and any other ideas) via our feature request form.

Hi – the ability to export users to a CSV is very nice – but what about the other way: is it possible to upload a list os users via a CSV (this list of users would come from an existing database)? Also, with this list, I would like to have some kind of authentication, so that if this is first time a user is using the AO, I want the user to get some kind of confirmation window that they agree to pay for using my AO, and if they agree, I want some kind of email to be sent to our Finance dept who will then take care of sending them a PO…I hope this makes sense, and I hope you might say that it is all possible…

Sam

Hi Sam,

Yeah, doing something like this would be possible with Articulate Online’s API feature. We have a CreateUser function that would be able to automatically create the users. You would just need to build the parts like the confirmation page, and emailing to Finance. But the other parts on the AO side are all possible.

Thank you very much Dave!

What about incorporating additional search capabilities into Articulate Online, besides the tags? The tags are nice, but it would be nice to have a more powerful search capability…is there something like that, or can it be added?

Thank you for all of your help!

Sam

Hi Sam- The best place to direct product feedback and feature suggestions like this is our feature request form. That will make sure our product management team sees your suggestion.

Also Sam, you could build your own search function using the API if you wished. It wouldn’t appear in Articulate Online itself, but could be used externally.

Within a year of using the AO API and Articulate Online platform to server our web based training courses, we’ve been able to augment our traction and awareness of our product line for the open source community, while also helping to reinforce product adoption and expert use of our solutions to our enterprise customers. The use of AO API and Articulate Online has offered interactive web based learning to our thousands of developers and users of our BI software. Thanks again!!!

Is there a separate cost for the AO API? How does that work?

Hi Bob- the API is included at no cost with the Articulate Online Premium plan or higher. There is a one-time cost to activate it on lower-level plans, and you can contact your account manager to discuss details.

We have a custom learning environment in Moodle, where we post Articulate presentations that are published as LMS.

With Articulate Online, would we be able to post lessons on our Moodle environment and also track user scores for quizzes? Does the API allow us to have this functionality? We want to see how our trainees are doing in the quizzes.

Any information would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Deniz

@Deniz: Thanks for asking. If you already use Moodle, then why would you want to use Articulate Online? Typically customers use one or the other system. Not sure I understand that, since they offer similar functionality.

Regardless, the Articulate Online API does not currently offer a call to extract reporting data from your account.

Hi,

We have a requirement to keep a track of the CPD Timer values in our custom shell on LMS. Is there any provision to set and get the bookmark values? If yes please guide me how to proceed.

Thanks,
Garima

Hi Garima. We send bookmarking information via the suspend_data that is sent when communicating with an LMS.

Hi Justin,

Thanks for your reply. Could you please also tell me if there are any methods available in the API to get/set the suspend_data?

Thanks,
Garima

You need to publish for LMS as noted here:
http://www.articulate.com/blog/publish-to-lms-with-studio-09/

We send the suspend_data when the content is communicating with the LMS.

Hi Garima,

Currently there are not any methods available for setting/getting the suspend_data.

-Dave

Hi Justin, Thanks for sharing the link.
Actually we have a custom shell that requires suspend_data customisation. Thanks, but it couldn’t be of much help.

Hi Dave, Thanks for your support. Will see if there’s any workaround.

Thanks,
Garima

Hi Gabe
I just got access to the Articulate Online API and trying to follow http://www.mozealous.com/ao-api-samples/
I built my company website using Shopify and I was wondering if it is possible to integrate the API with Shopify.
Kind regards,
Oscar.

@Oscar: I’m not familiar with Shopify, but I’d suggest posting your question in our Articulate Online community forum.