Engage slides within Presentations Freeze
Aug 11, 2011
By
joe smith
Hi Folks!
I have Presenter presentations with the occasional Engage interaction throughout. Freezing is always an issue to be dealt with, but freezing seems to be more prevalent on the slides that are built with Engage.
It's frustrating to the point that I'm about to stop using Engage and just replace all the Engage slides with regular PPT slides. But before I do, I was wondering if anyone had this same experience and any suggestions.
Thanks,
Steven Stark
PS - Even when the version of Adobe Flash is up-to-date, this issue still occurs.
5 Replies
Hi Steven,
Is the Engage content being hosted in an LMS or a typical web server?
Hi Brian,
Thanks for replying to my post.
The Engage content is being hosted in an LMS (Prosperity by Ziiva).
Thanks,
Steven
Hi Steven,
I've seen an issue in some LMS's where multiple 404 errors will cause the content to freeze. Thus, here's how you can try and resolve the issue:
1. Open your presentation
2. Go to each slide that contains and interaction or quiz
3. In the notes section at the bottom, insert generic notes like "quiz" or just "interaction"
4. Publish your presentation
5. Re-upload it t the LMS
Essentially, when there are no notes for a particular slide, the LMS manifest will still attempt to load the non-existent notes and throw a 404 error. This may resolve the issue for you.
Thanks for the info, Brian. Would the issue you're describing happen consistently with the LMS or could it just happen intermittently?
The reason I ask is that the Engage slides work fine for lots of people and not for others. It seems like if the freezing were being caused by what you described that it would happen consistently to all users.
Thanks again for all of your help and I look forward to your reply.
Steven
Hi Steven,
Yes, from my experience, I'd say that the issue is extremely intermittent.
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