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CCA Scoring and Completion
Organization
CCA courses are divided into lessons. Each lesson contains one or more topics, and each topic contains one or more objectives. The Course Menu for a CCA course shows lessons and topics, but not objectives (you can review course objectives on the course References page).
Scoring Logic
The SkillSoft Course Player (SCP) calculates scores for individual objectives, topics, lessons, and the overall Course. However, the SCP Course Menu only displays scores at the topic, lesson, and Course level. You cannot tell how many objectives are in each topic, but you can see the user's score for each topic, lesson, and for the entire course.
Note: Partial credit is always enabled for CCA content.
Calculating the Course Score
The SCP calculates the course score for CCA content by averaging all lesson scores (unattempted lessons are scored as 0%). The formula used to calculate the course score in this scenario is:
(L1 score + L2 score + L3 score) / # lessons = course score
For example, if a learner scored the following lesson scores in a course:
100%, 90%, 75%,
The course score is calculated using this formula:
(100 + 90 + 75)/3 = 88%
Calculating lesson and topic Scores
Topic and lesson scores are calculated by averaging all the Objective scores within a particular topic or lesson using the following formula.
([T1 score * # of objectives] + [T2 score * # of objectives] + [T3 score * # of objectives] + [T4 score * # of objectives])/ total # of objectives in the lesson = lesson score
Example: A lesson has five topics, and each topic contains a single objective. The user scores 75, 80, 25, 90, and 100. The lesson score is:
(75 * 1)+(80 * 1)+ (25 * 1)+ (90 * 1)+ (100* 1) /5 = 74%
CCA Completion Logic
The SCP support several methods for determining CCA course completion. By default, the course is marked as complete when all of the content has been "viewed" or "mastered" (excluding the Course Overview, which is not required). A topic is considered viewed when the status column in the course menu has a full circle 
for that topic. A topic is considered mastered if the topic score meets or exceeds the value set for CCA_COMPLETION_THRESHOLD parameter (the default threshold is 0).
The SCP does accept a mastery_score value passed from the LMS. If the LMS is capable of sending a mastery_score to the Player at launch time, this threshold is used instead of the CCA_COMPLETION_THRESHOLD when determining if the user has achieved mastery.
Note: When calculating Mastery, by default, the SCP always uses the CURRENT score. If USER_COMPLETION_NOTIFICATION=true, then the SCP will use the HIGH score, in order to prevent marking a course as incomplete once it has been completed.
CCA Completion Properties
CCA completion criteria is controlled by a set of parameters in the pageplayer.properties file.
Parameter |
Description |
CCA_COMPLETION_THRESHOLD=0 Applicable values: interger between 0 and 100 |
Specifies the minimum score which must be attained in order to mark the course as Complete. |
CCA_CONTENT_VISITATION=OR Applicable values: NO, AND, OR, ONLY |
NO: Content visitation does not count towards course completion. AND: The user must page through the content AND the specified threshold (min. score) must be met. OR: The use must page through the content OR achieve the specified threshold (min. score). ONLY: The user must page through all content in order to get credit for completion. The users course score is not taken into consideration regarding course completion. |
CCA_REQUIRE_ALL_ASSESSMENTS=false Applicable values: true, false |
true: This requires all assessments to be completed in order to attain a Completed status. false: This allows a user to get a Completed status without answering all the questions as long as the minimum score was attained. |
CCA_SCORING_MODEL=OVERALL Applicable values: OVERALL or LESSON |
OVERALL: This applies the CCA_COMPLETION_THRESHOLD value to the overall (Course Level) score. LESSON: This applies the CCA_COMPLETION_THRESHOLD value to the lesson scores. Note: This also applies to topic scores if CCA criteria are used for E3 content. |
Exiting a Test Early
During a CCA test, the user may decide to exit before answering all the questions. Scoring within a CCA course is as follows:
- When a learner attempts at least one question within a topic, any unanswered questions in that topic are scored as zero.
- When a learner does not attempt any questions within a topic, the unanswered questions are scored as zero only if there is no previous score for that topic. If a previous score exists for the topic, no new topic score is recorded and the previous topic score is maintained.
- When a learner skips every question within a topic, no new topic scores are recorded. However, when a course or lesson score is computed, a score of zero is used for that topic if a previous score does not exist.