Closing captivate in an LMS

Hi,
(I can throw this at the moodle forums if you think best)
I have three quizes which i have uploaded to moodle as seperate items/lessons so I can use moodles rather splended "restrict access" and "activity completion" functions
which allows me to get the user to finish a task before stating another. (wish it was SCORM 2004 though.....anyway....)
All works great except for one thing. When the quiz is finished the user has to manually click the moodle link "Exit activity" which clears captivate and goes back to the the lesson contents
What I have done is on my last slide I tell the user to click it this link...... but it would be great if when captivate finished, it simulated clicking this exit activity moodle link.
captivate just hangs there
Is there a way of doing this in captivate, getting it to clear itself and jump to back to lessons
thanks
KBN

I agree that the way Moodle works in this case isn't great. But it's the way their SCORM player is designed. It's not something you can control in Captivate. You can try setting the Captivate Project End option to Close, but that may or may not work depending on your browser.
The Moodle forums are likely to have seen this type of question a lot more and somebody may know how to customise their player in some way so that it works this way.
Also bear in mind that if you are delivering your course modules as Multi-SCO SCORM packages, then you can use the Auto Continue feature in Moodle so that as each module ends, the next one is launched automatically. Then the user only has to exit the activity right at the end of the last module (or when they want to terminate their learning session).

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>>> RodWard <[email protected]> 2/26/2014 11:20 AM >>>
Re: Still struggling with Captivate 6, Oracle LMS and SCORM 2004
created by RodWard in Quizzing/LMS - View the full discussion
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Fatenah wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> My group created Captivate training modules, published
them as flash files
> with SCORM tagging, and are working with our LMS team to
view how the modules
> play within the LMS. Unfortunately we are running into
loading time issues
> with our movies. In my office I have a T1 line and I
still have to wait
> several minutes before our movies begin to play.
>
> Once the moduleas are loaded they play fine. It's just
the load time that I'm
> concerned about.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to what my group can
attempt to bring down
> these loading times? As of now all we have are our
modules published as swf
> files loaded into the LMS.
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance.
>
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Let's go with that I have NO experience with SCORM compliance or LMS.
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I downloaded Moodle, full package, to use as a sandbox LMS on my local system.
When I upload the .zip file produced from the SCORM packager, and run it in the LMS the TOC does not show all of the modules.
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1 - Set the particular module as "Completed" in the LMS by using a SCORM command
2 - Close the particular module in the LMS by using a SCORM command.
Once these two are done then the LMS will unload the current module and automatically fetch the next module in the SCORM manifest and run that.
If you are only interested in reporting complete/incomplete then this is enough. Just call the SCORM commands to set each module as completed and then the SCORM command to unload the module. Once they go through the last module all is completed and the course is "passed".
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Do you have a TOC for each of the modules created in Captivate? If so then this will work just fine in an LMS.
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One suggestion I have for you.. Make a testfile for your client. This file should basically be what you tried to upload to Moodle first. Completely done in Captivate and Aggregator. Then ask them to load this in their LMS and see if they encounter any problems first. As I said Moodle isn't the best choice for troubleshooting LMS / SCORM issues ;o) Perhaps everything works perfectly well in their corporate LMS.
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