Embedded video will not expand to full screen in LMS
when trying to make the embedded replay video (made in replay) full screen by pressing [] on the video bar in Rise, it does not work once uploaded into LMS.
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SCORM Cloud doesn't have this issue, but other LMSs do (Cornerstone for example) and unfortunately we are at their mercy on whether they will ever fix this. My guess is that they view it as some kind of security issue. For now I just put this tip at the top of lesson pages where there are videos:
To make the videos larger you will need to increase the zoom of your browser window. Press [Ctrl] + [+] several times to make the video fill the browser window. To return to normal zoom, press [Ctrl] + [zero].
Nice work-around tip Will. I'm seeing that RISE has an issue with videos that are embedded in certain block features (i.e. Accordion, etc.). I don't think this is necessarily an issue with the LMS being used.
Hi there, Robert. What are you seeing on your end? If you can record a Peek, that would be super!
I hosted this quick example in SCORM Cloud, and the video was able to open full screen for me from the accordion interaction. Can you let me know if that works on your end, too? Thanks!
I am coming up against this issue also with some Vimeo videos.
Videos that are embedded in a Storyline experience which is then embedded within a Rise course lose their fullscreen functionality. There are several reasons for this, but I'll focus on the primary reason.
When an iframe including embedded video is contained within a parent iframe, the video will not play fullscreen even if it contains the fullscreen attributes UNLESS the parent iframe also contains fullscreen attributes. See here. Unfortunately, code of the parent iframe here is dictated by Rise.
The only solution I know of is to use jQuery to add these attributes once the page has loaded. Is there a possibility that the Articulate team could add these fullscreen attributes to Storyline experiences embedded in Rise courses?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
Hi Mike - thanks for sharing. I'll check with the team on how we designed the Storyline block and let you know about any updates!
Hello Paul,
This has been reported to our team and this thread is attached.
I do not have much more information to share than that, but you should not be experiencing this outside of the Articulate Review environment.
Hi there,
I am having this issue when uploading the rise course (scorm 1.2) in our LMS cornerstone.
Videos that have been included as blocks don't open on full screen mode. You click on the "full screen" icon but it doesn't work. Same issue if we have added the video as part of a card in a labeled graphic.
however, when using a shared link, we have no issues and the video can open in full screen mode.
Is there anything we can do to make it work in the scorm package when uploaded in the LMS (cornerstone)? Do you know any workaround or coding we can add to the scorm package?
Thanks!
Hi, i am also having same issue which the full screen is not working on LMS but works in local. I knew the issue is with iframe element which is presented in the LMS environment. I have faced the same in Articulate 360, but i found a workaround and enabled it. but same thing I tried to add some external script to enable this in Rise, but couldn't. can you please help me to add some html in the exported package or any idea to communicate between parent to child iframe in LMS.
I thought this was fixed 3 years ago but apparently, it isn't. It only runs great when I have it in review, when I embed the video or using a link instead, the expand function won't work. Any solutions yet?
Hello,
Is this still an ongoing issue for anyone else? It seems the full-screen option is disabled (greyed out) for all our videos featured in our published Rise modules. Any and all advice is most welcomed :)
Many thanks!
Hi Marianna! I'm sorry the video block's fullscreen button doesn't work in your LMS. Since this is an LMS-related issue, you'll want to work with your LMS's support team for next steps. Perhaps you can share what Will outlined above with that team:
I have run into an issue where I have a course with an embedded video on a page that should have the capability to be shown full screen. However, clicking the button does not work. If I upload the course to a generic web server, the user can click the full screen button and it works without a hitch.
I think the problem is that online courses are displayed in an iframe by the LMS and that iframe does not have the allowfullscreen parameters included. All that needs to be fixed is to change this code below (in the page that launches online courses) from this:
<iframe id="activityFrame" title="Activity" frameborder="0" style="width:100%" src="/content/..."></iframe>to something like this
<iframe id="activityFrame" title="Activity" frameborder="0" style="width:100%" src="/content/..."allowfullscreenwebkitallowfullscreenmozallowfullscreen></iframe>We are going to try this but why is this continually an issue and what are the precautions we can take as IDs to prevent this?
This worked for Canvas! Thank you so much. This saved my life!
One last thing to try... I discovered by accident one day that our LMS now also supports uploading xAPI packages in addition to SCORM packages. You might try exporting as xAPI instead of SCORM and seeing if your LMS will accept the format? Long shot maybe.
Update: You will want to make sure the reporting you need still works the way you expect if you switch to xAPI instead of SCORM.
Hi Will,
Great minds must think alike because I recommended this today as well 😉.
Looks like it is an issue with the wrapping of the video itself as Articulate has pointed out and will probably have to be adjusted by LMS Dev Team. Would be nice if we could select common wrapping packages when publishing that could for account for stuff like this. Thanks again for all your knowledge and support on this!
Brian,
I also just discovered that I have this same problem. I uploaded a video to my Rise course. When previewing in Rise (before publishing) it works as intended. When I published the Rise course to our LMS, the full screen button doesn't make the video full screen.my only fix so far is to right click on video and open in new window.. but then users have two windows open
