Adapt Learning Community: Checking if course is served in an LMS

I need to be able to tell whether a course created using the Authoring Tool is served from an actual LMS or simply hosted on a server.

Reason is when the course is in an LMS, I will retrieve the user name from the LMS as suggested in this post. If, however, the course is hosted on a server, then there is no user name to retrieve and I want to use an alert box to get users to enter their names instead.

I'm using the SPOOR extension and even if the course is in a non-LMS server, the extension gives a fake name, "Sam", as the user.

Any suggestions as to how to detect whether the course is in an LMS or not?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, if the spoor extension is always going to be installed then you can check for the existence of the variable window.ISCOOKIELMS - if it's set to false, the course is being run from index.html; if set to true it's being run from scorm_test_harness.html; if it's undefined the course is being launched from an LMS.

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