Exit Value — Suspend

During the design of the content, requirements may call for the SCO to permit the learner to suspend the learning attempt. When designing and building the SCO to allow the learner to end the session by suspending the attempt, with the intention of returning to the SCO at another time, the Exit value of suspend should be used. By setting the Exit value to suspend, the learner will be able to return to the SCO at a later time. This setting will indicate to the Learning Management System (LMS) to suspend any data that was set by the SCO.

Since the learner exited the SCO in the suspended state, the learner is allowed to re-enter the SCO, maintaining the information from a previous attempt. An example of using the suspend data value is if the learner was working on an activity where data has been collected, such as a game. If the SCO has been developed using the value of suspend, when the attempt is resumed the data that was collected during game will be retained. When the learner returns to the SCO on the next attempt, the data is still there, allowing the learner to start at the point of the previous exit.