Breeze Resets Browser Window!!!

[Guest]

I've had lots of trouble trying to use Breeze for, apparently, something it's just not designed to handle - serving up reasonably architected flash-based elearning courses. I'm posting here in the hopes someone else out there can give me an idea what I'm doing wrong....

I've got a reusable course architecture, built in flash. It is basically a shell that dynamically loads in the separate content swf's when needed. The 'glue' of the course is an xml file that contains 'page title' and the content file's path. Although the Breeze doc says you can upload multiple swf files as part of a zip file, the only way I've gotten it to actually work is to have an index.html file as the starting file in the zip archive. Then all of the directory structure is maintained and everything loads properly. Problem is, I don't have tracking with my own course architecture - I don't know AICC and don't have the time for the foreseeable future to work on that. So I was hoping to rely on having the quizzes/exams in separate Breeze Training courses. So when the user needs to take a quiz, they click on a hyperlink in the current content swf. A new _blank window is loaded, with the url for the Breeze quiz, which was authored using the breeze presenter/ppt thing so tracking will work. All that works good. A new browser window opens as expected, the quiz opens, the tracking occurs....

Problem happens when the user closes the browser window with the quiz in it. When I do that, the original browser window that contains the course gets reloaded. So, for example, say I'm at the end of a piece of content in the course and I click on the link to open up a review quiz for that content piece. It opens up, I take the quiz, but then when I finish the quiz and close that window, the course browser window reloads so I'm back at the beginning of the course!

Is there a way to stop this from happening? I'm at my wits end with Breeze and am trying to make this work for my company one last time, before I request we ditch it for anything but the live presenter-led stuff.

[Ben_tgg]

Hi Mark,

I think I have a bit of an idea about why your problem is occurring. Basically Breeze is designed to work so that your courses all sit inside a curriculum and as such is designed to feed back to that curriculum page. So what happens is a user opens a course or test completes it and then closes it. Breeze is supposed to refresh the curriculum page so that the status of the course/ test the user has just completed updates on the curriculum page. However I am guessing that the breeze course code is designed to refresh the parent page which in your case is the flash frame.

I can think of two things you could try, one is to use content items as opposed to actual courses as your tests, I don't know if the do the refresh thing. The second is to just use a breeze curriculum instead of the flash shell. However this may not work depending on how you have structured your course.

Goodluck,
Ben

[Guest]

Thanks Ben. What you said makes perfect sense.

My problem is a lot of my courses are not really a part of any 'curriculum'. Unfortunately we're just not at that point yet with our elearning program where we have so much content that it all starts to interrelate and can be grouped/categorized by curriculums.

However, after reflecting on what you said, perhaps one option might be to just have a curriculum with one course in it. I'm not a big fan of multiple browser windows opening up, but if it works it works. I'll test it later and see how it works.

Thanks again,

mark