[Xerte-dev] Re: Learning Object resume function

[Smith, John]

Thanks Ron

I've had this idea for a while now but had it in my mind initially to allow bookmarking and the option was just called hashlink. But I loved the concept of being able to 'resume' and that the concept lends itself to encompass a whole lot of useful functionality.

I do need to put some more time into it though, I've already noticed that the resume page number becomes out by one in the examples you sent, well on this Samsung tablet anyway. And yes I still have to take care of the Linear navigation option.

I'll look into how Articulate stores it's data and see whether we can intercept it somehow. Really interested in the Scorm stuff too though, that would be fantastic, especially with Experience API just around the corner.

Regards,

John

Sent from Samsung tablet

Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
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

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