Playing captivate movies in Peoplesoft LMS trouble

I created a Captivate 4 movie and it was posted to a PeopleSoft LMS. I registered and was able to 'launch" the movie. However, I can only view the movie with Scroll Bars. The students must see the movie in a "single screen view", without scroll bars.
I tried 3 different recording sizes, but I still can't get the movie to play without scroll bars. I am very frustrated! and need help.
I published in SCORM. Could that be the problem? I don't have access to a PeopleSoft technical resource, even though I have tried to find one.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Hello,
You have to take into account a lot of parameters to choose the right resolution:
at which resolution the screens are set
how many pixels are left in the window opened in the LMS when showing a CP-movie
if you use a playbar, be aware that the needed pixels are added to your movie-resolution, about 20 pixels in the height for a horizontal playbar
if you use the TOC, separate mode, 250 pixels are added to the width
Mostly I choose a resolution of about 790 x 540, I'm using a separate TOC, no playbar. Our LMS is based on Blackboard.
If you only load the SWF (not starting from the HTML) one can rescale the window it opens in, but you loose some functionality for the CP-SWF.
Lilybiri

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