Captivate fails test in ADL 1.2.7 test suite

I just had a customer ask me to test a Captivate SCORM 1.2 course in the ADL 1.2.7 test suite for them and as the test suite launched the content SCO a permission denied JavaScript error came up. I was confused because I had the test suite and the content both on the C:\ drive and my internet explorer 8 settings were to allow active content. So I went looking around in the code and I noticed some comments and an DOCTYPE declaration at the top of the main .html file that launches the captivate SCO (this file is usually the same name as your captivate project). I deleted the top 3 lines (shown below), saved the file and retested and it worked fine.

ADL ImplementationFest 2011 August 2 through 4 at the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, http://ping.fm/P1cvN

In Jacksonville at the "Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages" (TSOL) conference with the wife. Learning a lot of new free training technologies.

BlackBoard 9.1

Just had some clients needing to load content into BlackBoard 9.1. We created a very simple SCORM 2004 package for them using Simple SCORM Packager and sent it to them to post onto their LMS. They imported the content and then sent an email back to us saying that the course did not show a Table of Contents once the SCORM 2004 content package was loaded and running in the BlackBoard 9.1 LMS. We ran the package through the SCORM 2004 3rd Edition Test Suite and Sample Run-Time Environment and the course passed with flying colors. This told me that the issue was with the BlackBoard LMS. I searched the internet and came across this tutorial on how to upload content into the BlackBlard LMS "http://www.blackboard.com/quicktutorials/SCORM2004.swf". In the tutorial there is a screen that allows the admin to select whether they want to set Control Mode to Choice or Flow. It must be set to choice fi you want the student to be able to select items from the table of contents. That was the solution to the issue. I hope that you find the tutorial helpful.

Articulate SCO to SCO SCORM 2004 sequencing

This week the question was asked "How to get sequenced Articulate published to SCORM 2004 3^rd Ed  flies to move from each SCO to the next SCO correctly?". This is easily accomplished within SCORM by first publishing your multi-SCO articulate package. Then when you want to move from one SCO to another SCO automatically you will have to use adl.nav.request

doSetValue("adl.nav.request","continue");

The line above will move from the current sco to the next sco in the activity tree as soon as the current sco session is terminated.

In the Articulate SCO packages set this on line 169 for the "SCORM2004Functions.js" file

blnResult = blnResult && SCORM2004_CallSetValue("adl.nav.request","continue")


UPDATE 12/13/2011
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Once you make the change then you will need to package up the Articulate sco packages into a single course with Simple SCORM Packager. Once do that then test it on cloud.scorm.com.

If it works on cloud.scorm.com and not on your LMS then the issue is with your LMS. If it does not work on cloud.scorm.com then you did something wrong in your code.