exit course button must be clicked 2 times?

Jul 14, 2014

Hi, we are having the same problem on all courses that run on Moodle, using the "launch in new window":

if you have set an "exit course" trigger on a label in the player, when testing, if you click that button (and wait) nothing happens the first time, but you must click a second time to close the window and return to LMS.

Anyone else experienced this behaviour?

thanx

7 Replies
Christine Hendrickson

Hi Zio,

Do you know if this is specific to Moodle, or have you tested this on a different server?

I think this blog post is the place to begin. You also want to be certain that you are packaging your published content properly for your LMS. Also, be certain that you have contacted the Support Team for your LMS, since they are best-equipped to tell you whether or not that type of behavior is expected when using a launch page with content hosted through Moodle.

If you wind up empty-handed after reviewing the links above, I would next recommend comparing the performance of your content at SCORM Cloud. If you cannot reproduce the problem there, this is likely an LMS-specific issue, and you will want to generate debug logs and supply them to your LMS Provider for additional troubleshooting.

Please let us know how it goes!

Best,

Christine

Zio Fonta

Thank you Christine for suggestion, scorm is correctly packaged and we decided to include the exit functionality because sometimes exiting with the close button of the window it generated randomly a "missing scoID" error.

I tested also on SCORM cloud, and the close trigger works fine on the frst click. It seems something related to Moodle when the activity is opened in a new window.

I examined storyline dedicated funcions by viewing the various js file published. When the scorm try to estabilish a connection to LMS it makes several attempts using different path (same window, parent window, etc.) so it seems like it happens something similar when you try to exit the course, like if a first attempt tried to close communication on a wrong path for the LMS core, and then failed and stopped, then when clicked again, he finds the right parameters (but mine is just an hypotesis)

Zio Fonta

searching the forum i founded a suggestion in this page

http://www.articulate.com/support/storyline/exit-course-trigger-does-not-work

that says:

  1. Locate the Configuration.js in the following directory, depending on your version of Windows:
    • 32-bit Windows: C:\Program Files\Articulate\Articulate Storyline\Content\lms
    • 64-bit Windows: C:\Program Files (x86)\Articulate\Articulate Storyline\Content\lms
  2. Open the Configuration.js file in a text editor, such as Notepad.
  3. Change this line: var EXIT_BEHAVIOR = “SCORM_RECOMMENDED”;

    To: var EXIT_BEHAVIOR = “ALWAYS_CLOSE”;
  4. Republish your course.

If it still doesn't work, try changing the line in step 3 to: var EXIT_BEHAVIOR = “ALWAYS_CLOSE_TOP”;

Christine Hendrickson

Hi Zio,

It sounds like the issue is Moodle-specific, if it's working in SCORM Cloud correctly. It may help to start a new thread and include "Moodle" in the title, so our community members with Moodle experience can take a look and share their suggestions.

I still recommend reaching out to Moodle, if you haven't already done so as well. Even if they don't have a solution, it would be good to ensure that they're aware of the issue and can look into it.

Let us know if you find anything!

Best,

Christine

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