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Cornerstone Users: How are you dealing with the incoming 2025 force use for One Player?
Good news everyone! Cornerstone is no longer planning on November implementation of the One Player and Curriculum Player.
Posted by Cornerstone Community Admin -
"Thank you for sharing your feedback and concerns regarding the Galaxy November ’25 Release and the deprecation of legacy players.
For your awareness, we are targeting to address many of the concerns raised for Curriculum Player 2.0 and One Player in the November ’25 Release. As these fixes will require validation time, a decision has been made to postpone the deprecation further. We are working internally on a comprehensive deprecation plan and are targeting to communicate it by mid-September. In the meantime, customers will continue to see the opt-in/opt-out options still available in November."
Thanks for starting this topic! We have seen a lot of issues during our testing. I opened numerous tickets during the last release. Our most serious issue is that when a user opens a course in a new tab to view it in full screen (instead of squished tiny within the little One Player window), the LMS doesn't always track progress or completion. When a user views an Articulate Storyline or Rise course full screen and exits the course before completion they are returned to the One Player. The little window still shows them as being at the first slide. Also, if they complete the course fully by viewing it in a new window full screen, when they complete/exit the course, they are returned to the One Player and it will not update to show the completion page. It might say "complete" on the top left, but the One Player completion page does not update. Our system launch preference is to open all online courses in a new tab and this new One Player just ignores this.
Also, the One Player is not an improvement to the user experience. We also have many concerns about accessibility.
FYI -We've been added to a list to delay our implementation from November to March.
Good to know we could kick the can down the road a little farther. CSOD is newer in our environment (last few years) but from what I could find, One Player was used in the past to many of these same complaints. You are absolutely right-it's not a value add to the user experience. We're hopeful they will listen to their customers and move away from it.
And our second most serious issue is when you have a course that plays automatically, it will start playing in the One Player automatically, and if the user decides to view it instead full screen in a new tab, it will open in the new tab and start playing - while the course continues to play in the One Player window! You can hear the audio playing for the first instance of the course and the audio in the second instance of the course. Both at different parts of the course. Which one is tracking? I wish I was making this up...