[Xerte-dev] Re: Learning Object resume function

[Ron Mitchell]

Hi John
I really like this (great stuff!) especially as it's under author control.
e.g. I can see that for LO's where linear navigation has been disabled you
wouldn't want this enabled but for the majority it provides an easy way for
both authors and users to share or bookmark direct links.

Re .htaccess
This is in place on the Techdis /xot install which doesn't use .htaccess but
also in place on /xerte install which does use .htaccess and both seem to
work fine.

re Articulate
What I meant about Articulate is that it automatically asks a user if they
want to resume where they left off if as an author I left that option
enabled which is the default. This functionality works whether viewing the
articulate output via Flash or HTML 5 so I guess behind the scenes it must
be cookie based and therefore specific to a PC. You can see how it works as
follows:

View http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_291#resume=5
In that embedded articulate file use the articulate next button to navigate
to it's page 2 or 3
Close the browser and revisit
http://vle.jisctechdis.ac.uk/xerte/play_291#resume=5 you should see the
articulate prompt

So a possible extension of your code or something similar might be to enable
this kind of resume without the need to have manually bookmarked? 

The reason this is seen as valuable for the Maths project I'm working on is
that all the materials are going to be publically accessible but also if a
user registers and logs in (probably Wordpress) can be tracked via scorm
etc. So Tom's intention to allow resuming via Scorm is relevant but possibly
wouldn't work for the publically available non-scorm versions. Tom?

HTH
Ron

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[mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
Sent: 27 April 2013 19:10
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Learning Object resume function

Nah it's all client side I think... #hashlinks aren't sent serverside, or
are they?

Regards,

John Smith | Learning Technologist
Room A251, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences | Glasgow
Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
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[xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat @ Pgogy
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Sent: 27 April 2013 19:05
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Learning Object resume function

Htaccess?

On 27 Apr 2013, at 19:03, "Smith, John" <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Have now committed some code which gives an optional "Enable resume" 
> property for the LO that simply adds #resume=xxx (where xxx=page 
> number) to the URL client side. I've only done this in the Javascript 
> engine just now and just for Nottingham template to see if it's 
> useful. #resume= takes priority over page=, pageID= or linkID=
>
> Ron - would be interested to know what kind of parameters/data you would
need to store to allow deep resuming into Articulate (and potentially other
models).
>
> Tom - do you see this fitting with what you wish to do with SCORM?
>
> I'm considering encoding the resume string to prevent tampering and we
could also encode some model/scorm specific stuff in there I suppose.
>
> If someone can test and feed back then i'd appreciate it.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
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