Maximizing the window in the LMS
We have a client who is needs to resize or maximize the screen each time they launch a course, because the LMS opens a new window which is the size of the screen without the TOC or playbar.
There doesn't seem to be a way in IE to force a new window to open maximized, except by doing it on each inidivual desktop by closing with Shift-close. And the LMS gets all its information from Captivate - it doesn't have any controls.
Am I missing something? We have over a hundred courses already loaded for them, so I'm hoping we don't have to re-publish everything.
Can anybody help?
Pure HTML _new or _blank links do not have control of the size of a window they open. In the case of a Javascript link using the window.open() method, the physical size of the new window is set by the parameters given inside the method parentheses.
Neither of these two things is controlled by Captivate in an LMS environment because the LMS will be linking to the HTM for a given SCO to launch it. Most LMSs have some kind of TOC in the SCORM player with links to launch SCO modules. It is these LMS links that have (if any) ability to define the size of the window in which the content plays. If your LMS is so devoid of options that it cannot allow your LMS admins to configure the opening window size, then Captivate is not going to fix this for you.
If your LMS Admins are so sure that Captivate is supposed to control the size of the window, ask them to show you where Captivate does this. My bet is that they know little or nothing about Captivate and are passing the blame for the issue.
Most LMSs I have worked with gave you control over the launch window size IF the content was set to open in a new window. However, if the content was just being launched in the existing player window, then the user was expected to expand this to whatever size they wanted the browser to be. Not all LMSs give you this control. Some very expensive LMSs offer no configuration options for window size (e.g. SumTotal) whereas many open-source LMSs do (e.g. Moodle).
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