Hi. I built a course consisting of a number of lessons. Each lesson is contained in its own file, so when the learner reaches the last slide of the previous lesson, the new lesson is launched in a new browser tab. Some reviewers found this confusing and asked whether it was possible to launch the new lesson within the same tab as the previous lesson (i.e. replacing the earlier lesson within a tab). Does anyone have a workaround for that? Thanks!
Hi Dennis. I am testing the lessons within SCORM Cloud at the moment, but I believe the issue would be the same regardless of where I launched them. I'v structured the course so the last "next" button opens the next lesson from a separate folder--this by default opens up the next lesson in a new browser tab. Make sense?
if you package as a Multi-SCO using a tool like Simple Scorm Packager you should be able to get it to move from one score to the next as you complete each one.
Hi Phil. I'm not sure I quite understand. Are you saying that I don't publish for LMS, as I've been doing, but instead publish for the web and then make webfiles SCORM compliant with SSP? Will that then allow me to not have the following lesson launch in its own browser tab? I guess I'm not sure I follow because, say I just published for the web a ran the course locally from my computer, lessons would still launch in their own browser tabs, right?
You said you were testing in Scormcloud so I presumed you wanted this to work in Scorm which is what SSP will do, within an LMS it should open in the same window. otherwise try my javascript trigger which will replace the content with the new url
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A bit more detailed information might help. Are the lessons launched from an LMS? Standalone? If not, how is the next lesson launched?
Hi Dennis. I am testing the lessons within SCORM Cloud at the moment, but I believe the issue would be the same regardless of where I launched them. I'v structured the course so the last "next" button opens the next lesson from a separate folder--this by default opens up the next lesson in a new browser tab. Make sense?
if you package as a Multi-SCO using a tool like Simple Scorm Packager you should be able to get it to move from one score to the next as you complete each one.
Or you could use a javascript trigger with
Thanks, Phil. I'll take a look.
Hi Phil. I'm not sure I quite understand. Are you saying that I don't publish for LMS, as I've been doing, but instead publish for the web and then make webfiles SCORM compliant with SSP? Will that then allow me to not have the following lesson launch in its own browser tab? I guess I'm not sure I follow because, say I just published for the web a ran the course locally from my computer, lessons would still launch in their own browser tabs, right?
You said you were testing in Scormcloud so I presumed you wanted this to work in Scorm which is what SSP will do, within an LMS it should open in the same window. otherwise try my javascript trigger which will replace the content with the new url
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