Storyline in IPAD & Moodle
Oct 04, 2013
Hello,
I've written a course in Storyline and ticked the HTML 5 during export for IPAD, and resizing option in the player options. In Moodle, my LMS, it works fine within a browser on PC/Mac (and tracks in the LMS) and it does actually display within the Ipad window in Safari.
However, I'm only getting the first two thirds of the player window in Safari on the Ipad. (it is tracking in the lms btw). I can see the main screen and then the navigation panel (which is right-hand located in the player) goes off the screen. I'm also losing the last 6th of the player vertically.
Does anyone have any pointers about how I can resize the player so that it fits properly? Its worse than it sounds because you can't even scroll horixontally to see the rest of the window, and worse can't scroll down within the player to be able to see the Next button, meaning you can't actually finish the course!
If anyone has any pointers on how to solve this I would very much appreciate it. 
Thanks!
Hugh.
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Hi Hugh and welcome to Heroes!
The display within the iPad is all about determining the best Story size. When you're designing a Storyline course that'll be viewed on an iPad, you'll want to use a 4:3 aspect ratio in order to make the best use of all the screen area. The default story size of 720 x 540 is your best option. However, as long as you maintain a 4:3 aspect ratio, you can change your story size to 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768, etc. If you use a different aspect ratio, Storyline will maximize (scale) your content to fit within the iPad screen to prevent scrolling and provide the best experience possible.
For reference, this information can be found in this knowledge base article.
There is a lot of other discussion on the "best" size within this thread that may help you.
Hmmm. Yes that's what I have but in Moodle it's cutting off the bottom and the right hand 6th of screen.
Having researched this, it does seem to be a bug in the Moodle scorm player that they are looking at, in safari. So I can try and use the articulate player. I have this option ticked in the lms export However how do I force the LMS to use articulable player rather than the standard scorm player?
Hi Hugh,
You'll be able to use the AMP if Moodle offers Tin Can API, as described at the bottom of this article. If they don't support the Tin Can API for tracking, they'll need to use the HTML5 output.
Hi,
This has become a major issue for us, where clients are choosing to use Captivate instead of Storyline for their projects when it is being viewed on Moodle LMS or Totara LMS. Although the update 6 of Storyline proposes to have fixed the problem, this has only fixed for certain LMSs and it has remained an issue for Moodle/Totara.
This was not an issue in the previous instances of Storyline (prior to upgrade 4 or was it 5?) so I'm wondering why we can't work out what is causing this issue and fix it.
I encourage my clients to use Storyline because of its ease of use, but with more and more organisations using mobile devices for viewing and tracking, I believe this is a priority. We have asked clients to view in portrait to get it to work, but that's not an ideal solution.
If you have a solution that will fix this, I will feel more confident to encourage clients to use Storyline.
Hello guys, unless you have a custom Moodle Scorm player. any issue can be resolved simply by publishing the HTML5 course without checking the AMP option, though using a player where you have set the "Launch in a new window" option.
This means that in the Moodle activity when you select the zip Scorm package, you'll have to select the "show in the same window" option, still hiding the navigation menu; the launch page will then show in the same moodle course page, but the articulate course will open in a new window at the right size.
Moodle coders are working at the player, too, to make it more flexible, reponsive, and issueless...
give it a try. The Launch page can be customized after the publishing process, to make it less sterile.
Hope it helps,
Stefano
Thanks Stefano for updating us on what's happening on the Moodle side of things. Ray, our team is also looking into how Storyline content displays within LMSs, including Moodle. Also, just as a reminder we're currently on Update 5 of Storyline.
Hi Stefano. I have been following the Moodle bug tracker where this is being discussed and the starting point for a fix being around a new window type based around the 'Current window' . I was delighted to see your suggestion about combining 'Launch in new window' in the Storyline player and 'Current Window' in Moodle as a work around so I tried it straight away in Moodle and Totara.
Unfortunately if I set Current Window in Moodle the Storyline player is not launching in a new window, it doesn't seem to be able to break free. I have double checked my Storyline player settings and published a number of times just to be sure it is set to launch a new window.
Any suggestions why I can't get launch window to open.
Trevor
Sorry, forgot to say that I'm not seeing the launcher html page appear in Moodle. The file (html page with an orange launch button) is in my published folders. In Moodle the SCORM topic is launching straight into the course (PC) or a Play screen (iPad). I'm assuming the imsmanifest is bypassing the launcher.html and going straight to the index_LMS.html files instead.
What do I need to edit in an 'LMS' published output to point or make use of the launcher.html page? In Moodle I don't think I can change the name of the initial file. I'm also sure that the various LMS/story files have to be run in the correct order.
Trevor
Nothing new about this problem? I have the same!
Hi Mat,
There are a few different elements mentioned in this thread - could you share a bit more about what particular issue you're running into? What version/update of Storyline you're using, etc?
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