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 Need help finding an affordable LMS
"How many users are you going to have? - MoodleCloud is free for 50 users and may give you an opportunity to decide if it works for you be..."
  • over 7 years ago11/03/16 at 11:20 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Problems uploaded Storyline 2 SCORM to Moodle
"typically that error suggests the web-server that hosts your Moodle site can't cope with the file size of your SCORM package - this usual..."
  • over 7 years ago10/25/16 at 7:45 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Storyline 1: SCORM file showing as failed when users exit the activity before completing
"Moodle 2.6 is pretty old (and not supported anymore) - you should be prioritising an upgrade asap. but - I'd try setting "force new atte..."
  • over 7 years ago10/19/16 at 9:53 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion swf interactive animation wont open in a new window
"Thanks Crystal - did you have any guidance on how to change the name of the "file" param within the articulate package itself? - is that ..."
  • over 7 years ago10/17/16 at 7:58 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion swf interactive animation wont open in a new window
"Susannah sent me a copy of the SCORM package with the issue and I've managed to reproduce the problem. The issue relates to the way the ..."
  • over 7 years ago10/17/16 at 12:05 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion swf interactive animation wont open in a new window
"cool - probably not an issue with slashargs if you are hosting with Pukunui and you get the same issue on a moodlecloud site. Seems stran..."
  • over 7 years ago10/13/16 at 11:12 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion swf interactive animation wont open in a new window
"How did you "contact Moodle" ? - I can't see any posts in the moodle.org community from you related to this? - Are you hosting your site ..."
  • over 7 years ago10/13/16 at 9:12 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Wrong quiz scores in Moodle
"I haven't seen the issues John reported on our systems with newer versions of Moodle and the latest Articulate updates applied. I have se..."
  • over 7 years ago10/13/16 at 6:51 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Linking Storyline 2 file from S3 directly to Moodle
"see the first option in my blog post here: http://danmarsden.com/blog/2013/09/24/managing-scorm-content-in-moodle-2-6/ it needs to be an..."
  • almost 8 years ago08/11/16 at 9:16 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle: Quiz is frozen with red bar at bottom
"if you're using a recent version of Moodle you could try increasing the suspend_data limits imposed by the SCORM 1.2 spec by going to Sit..."
  • almost 8 years ago08/09/16 at 10:42 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion LMS reporting failed despite SCORM set to passed/incomplete
"This Moodle FAQ is probably also useful: https://docs.moodle.org/en/SCORM_FAQ#Moodle_changes_cmi.core.lesson_status_from_.22completed.22_..."
  • almost 8 years ago08/03/16 at 9:50 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion LMS reporting failed despite SCORM set to passed/incomplete
"my guess is that you have a masteryscore set. in Moodle 3.1 we added a new setting that lets you override this and operate a bit more lik..."
  • almost 8 years ago08/03/16 at 9:49 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"Awesome! - Moodle isn't a simple static application - it's pretty big these days so requires a bit of tweaking/specialist hosting knowled..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/09/16 at 12:15 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"ah - I'd suspect the course cache rebuild function to possibly be a suspect then. When you add a new activity to the course it destroys t..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/05/16 at 11:11 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"yeah - don't go back to 2.4 if you can, it's just likely to cause other issues (let alone the number of known un-patched security issues ..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/05/16 at 9:51 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"it probably wouldn't be too hard to write a php script that moved each section into a new course - drop me a line privately if that's som..."
  • almost 8 years ago07/01/16 at 7:26 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"It would also be interesting to know when/how the crash occurs - do you get a white screen? - how long does that take to appear and the b..."
  • almost 8 years ago06/30/16 at 10:48 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"yeah - good point, the cloud might not be the right way to test 170 scorm packages - I have to admit some of the above post was a copy/pa..."
  • almost 8 years ago06/30/16 at 10:45 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Moodle problem rather than Storyline I think
"Here are some things I'd suggest trying: 1) Try adding your packages to a free MoodleCloud site - if they are quick to add there it poin..."
  • almost 8 years ago06/30/16 at 9:35 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Column Headings in Excel Export of Moodle SCORM Interactions Report
"it's a Moodle string -you can change the text using the language customisation interface in Moodle but it will apply to all SCORM package..."
  • almost 8 years ago06/16/16 at 9:04 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Default navigation buttons are appearing.
"Moodle has it's own navigation buttons that can be turned on/off - you should edit the settings of the SCORM package in Moodle and make s..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/31/16 at 8:47 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Get completion status of second SCORM
"I'd probably just use standard activity locking in Moodle and prevent access to the 2nd scorm until the first scorm has been attempted an..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/25/16 at 10:03 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Video not playing in project uploaded to Moodle
"great! :-)"
  • almost 8 years ago05/25/16 at 9:59 pm (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Video not playing in project uploaded to Moodle
"also keep an eye on your browser security warnings - if you're site is full-time SSL (uses "https" in the url) and you have included a ha..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/25/16 at 1:33 am (UTC)
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Dan Marsden replied to the discussion Get completion status of second SCORM
"The SCORM specification/API doesn't really provide for this sort of thing - I have thought in the past about implementing some Moodle spe..."
  • almost 8 years ago05/25/16 at 1:31 am (UTC)