DATE

Contains the current date according to the user's computer in numerical format, i.e. DD/MM/YY.

Example 04/12/13


DAY

Contains the current day according to the user's computer in text format.

Example Monday


MONTH

Contains the current month according to the user's computer in numerical format.

Example 12


YEAR

Contains the current year according to the user's computer in numerical format.

Example 2013


TIME

Contains the current time according to the user's computer in numerical 24 hour format.

Example 13:50:25


FIRSTNAME

Contains the first name of the user as specified when the user started the lesson from the Training Management System.

Example John


LASTNAME

Contains the last name of the user as specified when the user started the lesson from the Training Management System.

Example Smith


USERID

Contains the user ID of the user as specified when the user started the lesson from the Training Management System.

Example jsmith


LESSONNAME

Contains the name of the current lesson. (Without the .LES extension)

Example LRNPHOTO


RESOLUTION

Contains the screen resolution.

Example 640x480 or 800x600 or 1024x768


LESSONTIME

Contains the time elapsed in milliseconds since the user has started the current Lesson.(1000 milliseconds = 1 second)

Example 200000


OPTIONSCORE

Contains the user's score for the Option which contains the current Element. This means that each time the user answers correctly, and the feedback section of that condition has a score value defined, that score is added to the value of OPTIONSCORE. Each time a new sequence of Elements is encountered this value is reset to zero.

Example 12


OPTIONTOTAL

Contains the total score achievable for the Option which contains the current Element. AUTHOR™  calculates this value by finding the largest score defined in each Element and adding them together.

Example 10


%OPTIONSCORE

Contains the user's score as a percentage, it is the OPTIONSCORE System Variable expressed as a percentage.

Example 100


SCORE

Contains the total score that the user has achieved so far in the Lesson for all Options.

Example 20


TOTAL

Contains the total score available for the entire Lesson, adding together the maximum score defined in each Lesson. (Calculated by adding the OPTIONTOTAL scores together).

Example 30


%SCORE

Contains the SCORE system variable expressed as a percentage.

Example 90


%COMPLETED

If the Use completion percentage as score is selected in the Lesson Preferences, then this variable will contain the percentage of marked over unmarked menu buttons.


QUESTIONANSWER

Is useful only when the Element type is True/False, Yes/No, Multiple Choice or Short Answer. It is designed to be used for display purposes only and is not used in condition statements. It contains the response that the user last gave for the current Element.