LMS disconnects?
May 05, 2022
Hi. I currently use Captivate for learning development but am wanting to switch to Storyline. The courses we create in some cases are viewed by several thousand people at once. We have had issues with the courses being disconnected from the server. A user can be taking the course and not know that they have lost connection and view many pages before realizing it. I know this is a stretch but I'm curious if any of you who develop with SL have had similar experiences with server disconnects? If so does the course properly bookmark the location of the course when the disconnect occurs? Is SL constantly updating the bookmark location when a page is entered? I hope this all makes sense. Thanks for the help!
4 Replies
Yes. I had this happen with Cornerstone on Demand (CSOD).
I hope this helps!
Thanks for sharing this info! Launching external files can be a tricky thing for the users. What I need is a way to notify the user that they have been disconnected from the server. Perhaps a piece of javascript that's always watching the URL to see if it's still active? No idea what this would look like or how it would work.
For your users who launched a second version, it sure seems like it would be easy enough for the LMS to have a message somewhere that the course is still open. Maybe a big message right next to the Launch button. Not sure if our clients does this.
Nothing with CSOD is easy. Changing how the LMS behaves was not an option for us.