Hi Sven,

Thank you for the response. We are definitely very interested in using Adapt, and we are keen to understand the licensing restrictions that would apply to us.

The sort of scenarios where I'm worried that we might have an issue are as such:

- We create a course using Adapt Framework and as part of that we build a custom theme - starting off with the vanilla theme as a base and modifying it to add proprietary licensed images etc.

- We could now put that course up onto our own LMS and let people access it from there - perhaps charging them to access the content; I understand that at this point everything is fine - we don't have any need to distribute the course itself and therefore we don't need to share anything publicly.

- Now let us say that we get approached by a 3rd party, who has seen the course and would like to put it into their own LMS for their employees or whatever; we could sell them a copy of the course to do so - however, we now have a problem: since we have based the theme on GPL licensed code, we have to give the copy of the course to that 3rd party under the terms of the GPL. This in turn means that we have to allow them to be able to distribute it openly, as much as they would like. However - this would be incompatible with the license of the images that we are putting into it etc.

As far as I can see, this would apply not only to the theme - but also to the course content material itself (as Paul pointed out), since that too appears to be also inter-mixed with the GPL based sources. If we were to distribute a course, built with Adapt, then we would seem to have no way to control the intellectual property of the content itself - if we distributed a copy of the course to someone, we would have to do so under the terms of the GPL and then that 3rd party could distribute the course as far and wide as they wished?

It feels to me like there ought to be some separation between the framework (which I would agree could be licensed under GPL sensibly) and the course content and themes - which I think would be better to have more flexibility by including them under some different licensing schemes?

Thanks,

Matt

if you can, it won't be in a way that works totally cross-platform - iOS for sure does not allow media to be autoplayed (quite right too) - and I'm sure other platforms enforce the same rule.

It's nothing to do with the _setCompletionOn property though - that defines when that component gets set to completed: when it scrolls into view or when the user actually clicks play.

I don't think there's any way of doing it through Adapt at it is - but you could probably amend the contrib-media component to get it to invole the play() method of the media player when the component scrolls into view... inview is the function you'd be looking to hack: https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-media/blob/master/js/adapt-contrib-media.js#L58

you do have a <script> reference in your HTML page that's pointing to http://192.168.1.108:8080/target/target-script-min.js#anonymous

that doesn't seem right, perhaps that is causing the problem?

FYI I can replicate on iPhone 4 running iOS 7 (latest) but also get same issue on WiFi... so I suspect it's that the above resource is available on your Wifi network but not via the mobile data network

Hi Kevin

Have you seen the Accordion component? This functions as a hot text. 

You could break your text over several headers (therefore maintaining amount but losing the bulkiness) and have a graphic component of the Author next to the Accordion component. The only thing to be aware of is on a phone the graphic would either be above or drop below the accordion, depending on where you placed it in the block.

Each author could have their own block with an accordion and a graphic. Depending on how the content is written you could have them as in 'Author in focus' piece, inter-spaced throughout your course?

The reveal component - It's one where you can combine text and images, but the text space is still limited when you consider mobile devices. 

Another idea - how about putting resources in the the Drawer? If your bios exist in another form already you could simply upload them as a takeaway resource, to a place which is accessible throughout the build. 

Sounds like you can work some tech magic though, so I'm sure you'll think of something!

Hope that helps

Nicola

Hey Nicola,

To answer the questions for you :

- is there any way you could chop the actual text down?

For this particular excercise, no, being that i'm trying to sell Adapts awesomeness internally so they'll update the old module format to this, i have to use old module content which has been signed off already. Its Pharma based, so they setup review boards to check this stuff and getting them to do so for this would become a bit of a road block in moving forward. Ideally though in the future i'd probably steer the content away from being so verbose (450 words)

- How often would your users see these bios? Would they need to jump back to them then jump back into the learning content?

In the original module, the first page has 3 hot links to 3 bios you can select ( 'More information and dlsclosures') next to each persons name, and position. So its an 'opt in' viewing experience. Within the old system, it was page/slide based, so clicking on that link could simply show you an overlay page with a close button you could send away.

- Does the text need to have an associated image?

Yes a small thumbnail image of their face. 

"Also, have you thought about having the full bios in a separate contentObject, as you've said, but having mini-bios within the learning content as a reminder? You can always signpost users to the longer bios if needs be."

Yeah thats a compromise also i guess, it might not be a travesty to separate it out... i torn though, in this effort to replicate the same content in as close as possible format as possible i think there is going to be a need for me to travel down my APPROACH 2 method eventually anyway.

I had a library called 'popupManager' which would hook into links, images and hotspot zones and reveal overlay content. I think i'm going to need to probably step into component creation much sooner than i expected :)

To your knowledge do you know of a component which meets my needs to date?

https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt-contrib-triggered - might be useful but i'm not sure revealing a 400 word text block line would be a good idea... perhaps looking at hotgraphics overlay system  is better... 

Hi Kevin

Couple of questions:

- is there any way you could chop the actual text down?

- How often would your users see these bios? Would they need to jump back to them then jump back into the learning content?

- Does the text need to have an associated image?

Also, have you thought about having the full bios in a separate contentObject, as you've said, but having mini-bios within the learning content as a reminder? You can always signpost users to the longer bios if needs be.