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 Getting player to show full player Moodle
"there's about 40px of wasted space above the player at the moment in 2.X - I've got a patch here that tidies it up a little bit for both ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 2:13 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion GO TO URL opens two windows on close
"Firstly Moodle 1.9.5 is really old and has a range of public security related issues that could allow a hacker to cause severe damage to ..."
  • over 12 years ago10/27/11 at 2:02 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Quizmaker and Scorm Moodle
"Have a look at this post - it might give you some clues: http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/5781.aspx Also when posting about Moodl..."
  • over 12 years ago10/10/11 at 2:41 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Viewing Survey results
"Have a look at this post - it might give you some clues: http://community.articulate.com/forums/t/5781.aspx Also when posting about Moodl..."
  • over 12 years ago10/06/11 at 1:53 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Sometimes no elements are populated except x.start.time
"taking a guess that you're using IE  check these 2 out: http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-28295 (fixed in 2.0.5+ and 2.1.2+) http://t..."
  • over 12 years ago10/05/11 at 3:44 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Just one attempt in Moodle
"in Moodle 2.0 we also have a new setting "Lock after final attempt" which completely prevents access to the SCORM after the final attempt."
  • over 12 years ago10/02/11 at 1:05 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Stream Articulate presenter
"Keeping the file size down is good for at least a couple of reasons: 1 - lowers the amount of disk space you use on your server (I wonder..."
  • over 12 years ago09/25/11 at 8:09 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Course in Moodle showing up blank
"sounds like it could be a slashargs issue - especially if it works on one server but not another. SCORM forces the use of something in Mo..."
  • over 12 years ago09/23/11 at 5:07 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Course in Moodle showing up blank
"usually a blank page in Moodle is a symptom of a PHP error - try turning debugging on and see if it displays any more info.. admin > s..."
  • over 12 years ago09/22/11 at 7:06 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Tracking responses Quizmaker
"SCORM reporting in Moodle isn't great - especially around interactions/quiz results. Moodle 2.2(not released yet) has a new "interactions..."
  • over 12 years ago09/21/11 at 3:10 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion finding survey results
"it's still pretty much the same process for uploading - it's just the report screens that have improved a bit - 2.0 allows you to export ..."
  • over 12 years ago09/20/11 at 2:47 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion finding survey results
"the links Brian posted above are for Moodle 1.9 - there are some small improvements to the reporting in 2.0 and some bigger improvements ..."
  • over 12 years ago09/20/11 at 2:20 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Quiz player not fully visible - Moodle1.9 and Firefox 6
"also - make sure you're using and up to date version of Moodle 1.9.x  - earlier versions of Moodle 1.9 have hundreds of SCORM related bug..."
  • over 12 years ago09/20/11 at 2:14 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle (2.0.3) + Presenter don't like each other anymore ?
"HI Mike, any chance you could write some form of moodledocs wiki page, blog post with screenshots or something similar on using the plug..."
  • over 12 years ago09/18/11 at 2:57 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion problems with Articulate player loading in IE 9
"hehe - you're hard to ignore Phil the IE 7 bug was such a pain and made such a large change to the interface I couldn't really backport ..."
  • over 12 years ago09/18/11 at 2:55 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Automatic launch of presenter in Moodle 2.1
"Edit your Scorm in Moodle - make sure you show "advanced settings" and change the option "Student skip content structure page" to "always..."
  • over 12 years ago09/15/11 at 1:32 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion problems with Articulate player loading in IE 9
"1.9.7 is pretty old - you should upgrade on the basis of the security issues alone. this bug here is probably the IE 7 issue mentioned - ..."
  • over 12 years ago09/15/11 at 1:28 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion SCORM Problem
"great to hear it's sorted! btw Moodle 1.9.7 has a range of SCORM issues but it also contains a large number of publicly disclosed securit..."
  • over 12 years ago08/31/11 at 1:14 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion SCORM Problem
"Also - when asking Moodle related questions please provide the full version number you are using eg 1.9.12 or 1.9.6 SCORM in Moodle 1.9.4..."
  • over 12 years ago08/30/11 at 2:17 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Hiding a page until all other pages have been viewed
"Also - Conditional Activities are supported in Moodle 2.0 and higher - see: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Conditional_activities there are..."
  • over 12 years ago08/25/11 at 3:09 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Resume Feature - Mac and Firefox issue
"also make sure forcecompleted and forcenewattempt aren't set in the Moodle SCORM settings"
  • over 12 years ago08/24/11 at 3:34 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle - SCORM freezes (Dump File included)
"Hi Silvia, I haven't done any testing on this issue with IE 8 or 9 so it's possible that it may resolve the issue you were experiencing ..."
  • over 12 years ago08/07/11 at 3:46 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Hyperlink format for linking multiple Articulate presentations
"The only freezing issue I'm aware of for the latest 2.0 stable is related to new windows and IE 7 - http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/30/11 at 1:59 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Manifest Not Found - Uploaded from Parallels on my Mac
"start here - especially the first point: http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/SCORM_FAQ#Incorrect_file_package_-_missing_imsmanifest.xml_or_AICC_..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/25/11 at 12:47 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Gradebook percentage in moodle
"not quite what I was looking for - if someone manages to convert this into something that goes into the functions in mod/scorm that handl..."
  • almost 13 years ago07/20/11 at 5:30 pm (UTC)