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In the software world, 'bug' is a four letter word. Well, I got some news for the Camtasia Studio users who use the SCORM feature. So, I'm going to apologize to you right away, because we just found out that our SCORM feature isn't working as planned. In other words, I'm sorry to say, there is a bug.

Here's what's going on - in Camtasia Studio v3.1.1, there is a bug that caused SCORM productions using quizzes to never report to the Learning Management System (LMS).

I do have a workaround for you which require you to edit a single file in the Camtasia install folder. After that, all subsequent productions will work. You could also apply the same fix to any projects that you already produced.

The reason for this is that we had a JavaScript function in the HTML file that was called "UserSubmitToLMS", but in the SWF file, we referred to it as "userSubmitToLMS". The difference is that one 'u' is capitalized and one 'u' is not.

Fortunately, the fix is as follows:

1. Open up the file "C:\Program Files\TechSmith\Camtasia Studio 3\Media\Studio\HTML\QuizScorm.js". Note: Windows does not know how to open up a .js file by default, so open Notepad and drag the QuizScorm.js file into the Notepad window to make the modifications there.
2. Search for the line "function UserSubmitToLMS( nScore )"
3. Replace the "U" in "UserSubmitToLMS" with a lower case "u"
4. Save the file and now all productions will work with SCORM.

In order to fix any previous productions, you can open up the HTML file, search for the same line, and make the same modification.

In addition, scores from quizzes in Camtasia Studio are not being included in the e-mail, even if the "include scores in email" checkbox is checked.

To fix this, after each production, edit the config.xml file (in Notepad), and add the following line after each "" line:

Feel free to visit tech support for more info here.

Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused - a maintenance release is in the works.

Anyone out there using the SCORM feature? Have you run into this problem?