Category: Docent 6.5

IE8: Navigation to the webpage was cancelled

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With the advent of IE 8, I started getting calls about a new error when accessing our learning management system.

“Navigation to the webpage was cancelled.”

This error can be caused by many things, but in this case, I believe it has to do with the fact that the LMS has both secure and insecure assets in the frameset. Unfortunately, many times messages will come up asking people whether they want to view both types, and they will click “no” without knowing that the page requires them to function.

Since I can’t ever really know what is going on with a user’s home computer’s security setup, I simply tell them to reset their Internet Explorer to its default settings.

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Captivate 3 Quizzes marking “failed” when quiz is not completed

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We use Captivate 3 quizzes sometimes with our Docent 6.5 LMS. Usually the quizzes have multiple parts or “SCOs” but occasionally we build one that has only one part.

Sometimes people launch a quiz but need to quit before they are done taking it, and in such cases we would prefer it be marked “incomplete” and allow them another chance to take the quiz. Usually we would also prefer any failed quiz to be allowed to be retaken.

But, by default, Captivate sees any failure to reach the mastery score as completions.

There is an easy fix,
suggested by Franck Buland on the Adobe Captivate forums

– simply modify the [project].htm file at lines 95, 96, 97.

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Create Inter-sco navigation for SumTotal 6.5

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SCORM courses in the SumTotal 6.5 Learning Management System are launched from a page that lists each SCO (lesson) in a list of links representing the course structure.

On clicking the “Enter the Lesson” button next to any SCO, a new frameset window opens. The screenshot below shows the “Enter the Lesson” page, with the course window open in front of it.


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