Continue, Suspend and Quit button on LMS
Jul 10, 2023
I wanted to bring to your attention an issue we are currently facing with our Learning Management System (LMS) that is based on SAP. Recently, our LMS went through a new release, and since then, whenever we update a new Scorm file, we have noticed that three buttons appear at the bottom of the platform. The problem arises during runtime, as when a user clicks on any of these buttons, the course is marked as completed for the user. We have reached out to the SAP team to discuss this matter, and they have informed us that this issue is related to the Scorm file itself. We are now seeking your expertise to find the exact solution to this problem. Could you please provide us with guidance on how to resolve this issue?
Thank you
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Hi Axtria Institute,
Thanks for reaching out!
I'm so sorry to hear that you're running into this issue, but I'm happy to help troubleshoot. It would be helpful if we can see a screen recording or screenshot of what you're seeing. You can upload it here or share it privately in a support case.
Additionally, if you're comfortable sharing your file, I'd be happy to do some further testing on my end. We'll delete it from our systems once troubleshooting is complete. Although I'm not super familiar with your LMS, we use SCORM Cloud to determine if the issue is specific to your course or not.
In the meantime, here's a resource that you may find helpful:
Please see the attached screen shot for your reference.
We have spoken to SAP team and they are saying that this to do with the scorm package we are developing. Earlier it was not there and suddenly it started.
Kindly help us on urgent basis as it is hampering our internal and external learning department.
thank you
Hi Axtria Institute,
The three buttons you are seeing aren't part of the Player of your Storyline 360 course. You'll see that if you upload your course to another LMS like SCORM Cloud, those three buttons will no longer be visible.
There isn't a setting that can be adjusted in Storyline 360 to remove those three buttons since they aren't part of the course and we recommend reaching out to your LMS administrator for assistance in removing those buttons. If you've already tried reaching out to your LMS administrator, please open a case with our support team here to get in touch with our support team for additional assistance.
This is the response we have received from LMS team-
Attaching the response from SAP below:
It depends on how the content is configured too. As mentioned by our Engineering, SAP Shows this by default but when content is configured in such a way that these wrapper buttons are hidden then it won't display wrapper buttons in the content. SAP SuccessFactors Learning navigation buttons for SCORM 2004 follow SCORM 2004 sequencing rules. In SAP SuccessFactors Learning, SCORM content appears in a wrapper. When the learner views SCORM 2004 content in the wrapper page, the buttons on the wrapper page follow SCORM 2004 sequencing rules that is set at the content level. Also, Our Engineering confirmed that the Inconsistent behaviour of these buttons are coming from the content end. Therefore, Please work with your content developer on the same.
perhaps articulate support should contact directly the SAP support
ideal would be a three-way communication between Articulate, SAP and Rustici (they could decide who is right)
Let's read SAP's Help Portal articles closely:
SAP SuccessFactors Learning Navigation Controls for SCORM 2004 Content
SAP is WRAPPING the course in a frameset/div, and at the bottom of that wrapper are 3 buttons: Continue, Suspend, and Quit. Those 3 buttons honor whatever sequencing is defined in the manifest file.
Reading the help article, you may notice you don't have a Previous button, which is because you must not have a previous content object in the course sequence (it would only appear with Multi-SCO courses). The wrapper reads your imsmanifest.xml file and displays/hides the relevant buttons.
Guess what? You can hide the buttons in SAP/Successfactors, and they have an article dedicated to that:
hideLMSUI
And in the Note:
They even include handy sample code:
We have tested this coding using a rise articulate scorm 2004 and it does not work if you try to upload it into the LMS.
well to give answer to the question i have raised. we are now uploading the courses in Scorm 1.2 version instead of 2004 version, the three buttons are not visible in 1.2 version of LMS.
Thank you
but keep in mind that with scorm 1.2 there may be problems with the resume function on storyline courses
https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/resume-not-taking-you-to-the-place-you-had-got-to
I was able to get it to work in RISE after playing around with hide adlnav commands.
That wasn't enough though for Success Factors as I also needed to insert the code below in order to get it to fully work and hide the buttons.
So around line 5 insert
xmlns:adlcp="http://www.adlnet.org/xsd/adlcp_v1p3"
Around line 24 insert the hide code...
<adlnav:presentation>
<adlnav:navigationInterface>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>continue</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>previous</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>abandon</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>exit</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>abandonAll</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>exitAll</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
<adlnav:hideLMSUI>suspendAll</adlnav:hideLMSUI>
</adlnav:navigationInterface>
</adlnav:presentation>
Tested it and buttons are gone on SCORM 2004 exam item type in SAP Success Factors. Only the RISE buttons are now visible.
Hope that helps.