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When building a new online course, we noticed that the “x” was missing from the jQuery UI dialog Close button in the upper right corner of the title bar. The image below shows the close
Continue readingI’m working on a game framework where “trigger” objects have a property “clickhandler” that contains the name of the function to be executed on click. All items in the game are listed with their properties
Continue readingI’ve been developing various xAPI projects using the ADL wrapper, which is a framework for making calls to the LRS. It became obvious early on that I needed a way to generate and test more
Continue reading@media statements in stylesheets are fine for defining responsive css changes that activate when the browser window dimensions fall within a certain size range, but what about when you want to activate a javascript function
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I’m working on an HTML5 project that uses Fontawesome symbols for the Previous and Next buttons. On most browsers including IE8, @fontface fonts just work, most of the time. They won’t work if IE8 is
Continue readingSaba People Cloud provides for settings changes through the UI for theme styles and labels. This may not be suffiicient to achieve the workflow and usability improvements you need. To do more significant theme changes,
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My department has been using a custom-built SCORM Learning Module template for developing our corporate training. The template permits a variety of page widths and flexible height throughout, and has features such as branching, dynamic pdf
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I’m working on an HTML version of a Flash Treasure Hunt training game I built a couple of years ago. When it’s done, this will be more of a flexible framework than a specific game, capable of being used for any of the many situations in healthcare that require finding the right tool, part or medication quickly and accurately. Searchable anesthesia carts, cardiac arrest team “crash carts”, cardiac catheterization tubing racks, operating rooms, and even patient rooms are just some of the possible settings that could be portrayed in the game.
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We use Captivate with our LMS both as standalone SCORM modules that communicate directly with the LMS, and as embedded quizzes inside custom learning modules. Communication of the Captivate score back to the learning module was done using a trick suggested by Adobe’s Andrew Chemey which involved redefining the built-in sendMail function Captivate used to send an email report of the quiz results.
Captivate 6 removed the built-in email functions, so we’re now using the very powerful Captivate API to do the same thing. The new API is very powerful and makes it much easier to get and set variables from outside the Captivate, using javascript.
Here’s how to get started:
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This is an example of the use of setTimeout() to detect if an element or object exists yet. In Javascript, timing is crucial. If an element hasn’t been loaded or rendered on the page yet,
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