Dan Marsden
Dan Marsden
Senior Moodle Developer at Moodle Partner - Catalyst IT
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    Dan Marsden

    I'm the core developer for the SCORM module in Moodle and work for the Moodle Partner Catalyst IT - we have offices in UK/AU/NZ and provide a range of different services including Moodle, Totara, Drupal, Mahara, custom development, hosting etc. http://www.catalyst-eu.net http://www.catalyst.net.nz
  • Christchurch, New Zealand
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Is tracking possible in web publish at all?
"Moodle 1.9.4 is over 4 years old - SCORM in 1.9.4 was really unreliable and had a range of different issues - if you want to use SCORM yo..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/25/13 at 2:11 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion moodle 2.2, storyline and ipad - tracking
"I've posted about this elsewhere - but we are aware of issues with the SCORM player in Moodle using Mobile devices - no one has come up w..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/24/13 at 8:42 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Second attempt not uploading to LMS
"also good to point out that Moodle 1.9 is really quite old and that the SCORM player in Moodle 2 gives you a lot more control over how at..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/23/13 at 6:34 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Evaluation Articulate Storyline
"Depending on your Moodle version the method to add a SCORM varies slightly: Moodle 2.5 Moodle 2.4 Moodle 2.3 Moodle 2.2 If you don't see ..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/23/13 at 2:58 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Storyline Resume Function in Moodle
"Make sure they are using a recent supported version of Moodle (2.3 or higher) - there are also a few settings in Moodle like "force new a..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 2:38 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Evaluation Articulate Storyline
"grrr... " Moodle 2.2 does not support SCORM activity anymore" - that is incorrect. Moodle 2.2 isn't supported anymore - bug fixes for 2.2..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/22/13 at 2:30 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Player settings Ipad
"support for mobile devices in the SCORM player in Moodle is crap - I have a GSOC student working on this at the moment for Moodle 2.6 I h..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/17/13 at 2:28 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle - tracking issue
"Hey Phil - can you clarify a bit on "moodle is allowing an overwrite of the score (shouldn't happen in review mode)." - I always thought ..."
  • almost 11 years ago07/09/13 at 1:58 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Tracking information for each slide
"Can't help with info on how to report that data from Ariticulate but FYI - I just created a new objectives report for Moodle 2.5 and high..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/12/13 at 4:03 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion iPad issue loading videos in html5 and SSL
"Thanks for the help Christine - We're going to switch to run SSL for login-only as this particular site doesn't need full-time SSL - MIME..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/09/13 at 8:09 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion iPad issue loading videos in html5 and SSL
"Just managed to get the scorm cloud to run in ssl and it worked fine... Hard to debug this stuff on an iPad - anyone have any guidance on..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/06/13 at 11:23 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion iPad issue loading videos in html5 and SSL
"Thanks Christine, yeah - I know it shouldn't interfere but it seems to be doing something wacky at the moment... the site uses standard a..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/06/13 at 7:29 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden started a new discussion iPad issue loading videos in html5 and SSL
"I have a client who has some SCORM 1.2 packages built with storyline that contain videos that usually work fine on the iPad using HTML5 t..."
  • almost 11 years ago06/06/13 at 2:06 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle is not logging completions at least half of the time
"Hi Lori, There isn't really enough information there for us to be able to give specific help, but your question is quite similar to many..."
  • almost 12 years ago08/08/12 at 3:38 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Articulate and new browsers
"The only IE9 issue I'm currently aware of in Moodle is actually a bug with Flash https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=292..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/29/12 at 2:00 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Articulate SCORM courses 'hanging' in Totara LMS
"Hi Jo,  I just responded to your post in the Totara forums, but I think this is probably your issue: http://danmarsden.com/blog/2011/07/1..."
  • almost 12 years ago07/12/12 at 7:33 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Black page on Internet Explorer
"yeah - sounds like a bug - I don't recall seeing anything similar reported yet - if you create an issue for it in the Moodle Tracker I'll..."
  • 12 years ago05/22/12 at 1:12 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Articulate and Moodle
"Hi Mariana, the Chrome issue is related to a recent update to Chrome but is fixed in the latest release of Moodle 1.9Stable, 2.1Stable an..."
  • 12 years ago05/02/12 at 1:55 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Reports
"Sure - we could probably manage that for you. I work for the Certified Moodle Partner Catalyst IT, we have offices in the UK/AU/NZ more ..."
  • 12 years ago03/19/12 at 12:24 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Reports
"You can't do this in 1.9.3 You can do this in 2.2 1.9.3 is really old... it has a range of SCORM related bugs and a bunch of serious secu..."
  • 12 years ago03/19/12 at 2:57 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Quizmaker Finish URL
"yeah - I've often seen people asking about adding a link and wondered if it was the window management in Moodle that was the real issue. ..."
  • 12 years ago03/18/12 at 1:30 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Quizmaker Finish URL
"I'm wondering if the "reason" you're wanting to do this is because of all the stupid windows the SCORM player in Moodle opens? - do you w..."
  • 12 years ago03/14/12 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle - Manifest Not Found
"If you haven't seen this already: http://docs.moodle.org/19/en/SCORM_FAQ#Manifest_not_found are you able to share the package in the foru..."
  • 12 years ago03/14/12 at 2:51 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle 2.2 Scorm stop passing score in review mode
"if you look in scorm_13.js.php you will see a line that starts with 'cmi.suspend_data' - near the end of that line you will see 'format':..."
  • over 12 years ago02/15/12 at 11:34 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle 2.2 Scorm stop passing score in review mode
"sure - you can change the datamodel stuff in /mod/scorm/datamodel/scorm_12.js you could increase the CMIString4096: CMIString4096 = '^[..."
  • over 12 years ago02/14/12 at 12:45 pm (UTC)