Do you deploy courseware to a LMS? (exit the course - revisited)

Hello all,

For some time there have been grumbling from developers having difficulty building a working exit button or experiencing a non-functional Close button on the Playbar. I've been in that situation myself so, so I hope I can help others. To that end, I am building a matrix for what works and on what LMS's an exit script works on.

I think I have determined that exit scripts and the Playbar close work fairly consistently when the Captivate course is opened in a child window (i.e. pop-up or separate window from the launch page).

Note: This problem only appears to manifest itself when Preferences/Quiz/Reporting (for AICC/SCORM) is enabled.

Can you please add your insight:

1. How do you handle closing a course?  
   a) Do you enable the Playbar's close button?
   b) Do you disable the Playbar and use your own custom navigation (what I do)?
   c) Do you instruct the learner to close the course by closing the browser window?
   d) Other?
   
   
2. What LMS's have you had success or failure with?
   
   
3. If you employ a custom exit button, what script do you use?
   
   examples:
   window.open('', '_self', '');
   window.close();
   
   top.window.close(); - this script works most consistently when a Captivate course opens in a child window
   
   history.back(-x) - I use this script when a Captivate course opens in the parent (launch) window. This results in taking the learner back to the launch page. "x" is equivalent to the number of browser "back clicks".
   
   
4. In which browsers have you experienced inconsistencies? In other words, if the exit button worked in one browser but not another.
   
   
5. Have you experienced any difficulties when exiting and marking the course as complete?

Thank you for your input.

Shawn