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Re: External Content in Adapt
by Matt Leathes - Monday, 21 September 2015, 7:10 PM
 

Hi Arend

You could use one of the community iframe plugins to display the Edge Animate content. We have used ours in a similar way to display HTML5 animations exported from Adobe Flash inside Adapt.

Yes you don't have to put Adapt content on an LMS. If the course will never be used on an LMS, uninstall the adapt-contrib-spoor plugin. If you want to be able to choose, leave it installed and simply deactivate SCORM tracking when not required.

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Re: External Content in Adapt
by Arend Raifsnider - Monday, 21 September 2015, 10:55 PM
 

Thanks again, Matt! I'll mention these options to my team.

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Re: External Content in Adapt
by Arend Raifsnider - Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 4:56 PM
 

Hi again Matt,

We're trying to test how we might host an Adapt course off of the LMS, but can't seem to get it working. I've gone to config.json and changed Spoor "is_enabled": to false and then run grunt build, but the index.html file doesn't seem to load any content when launched. Running grunt server does launch the course on my machine, but I can't seem to give my coworker a working build directory. 

Can you think of something I might be doing wrong here?

Thanks,

Arend

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Re: External Content in Adapt
by Matt Leathes - Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 7:27 PM
 

No, if the course works from grunt server then the build should be fine. All that does is create a node-based webserver and serve the course on it!

When you or your colleagues are running index.html - are they doing so by just double-clicking it i.e. 'running it locally' (the browser will have file:// in the address bar)

If so, try instead putting the course on a web server then running it.

Local security restrictions will generally prevent a course from working if you just double-click index.html on your local file system.

How much is prevented from working varies from browser to browser - and what settings you have applied to the browser. Chrome won't load Adapt at all for me like this, Firefox will after a short delay (but will log a few errors in the console); IE9 doesn't work either even though I've checked 'Allow active content to run in files on my computer'.

Web content should always be run from a web server. If you run it locally it either won't work at all or it will fail in some strange way.

If you do ever need a course to run locally - say you want to put it on a CD-ROM - you'd have to package it up as an executable file using something like NW.js - which is generally quite a pain to do.

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Re: External Content in Adapt
by Arend Raifsnider - Wednesday, 23 September 2015, 8:09 PM
 

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks!