How to turn off SumTotal Player

[Wendy H.]

Hello,

I am a new user of the Articulate suite of products and am very impressed with what I have seen so far. We have also just purchased a new LMS system (SumTotal) and I am currently in the process of testing various Articulate settings when publishing to this LMS. When I publish to the LMS using either SCORM 2004 or 1.2, the articulate presentation is launched within the SumTotal player. Does anyone know how to turn off the SumTotal player so that the only form of navigation that the learner would see is those included with Articulate?

Thanks

[ron c]

Wendy,

If you have access to the API help document for SumTotal, it goes into more detail, but this should get you what you need, and is how we do it for version 7.1.

In your manifest file:

Add this namespace

xmlns:c2lcp="http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/xsd/c2l_cp_rootv1p1"

Add this xsd

http://www.sumtotalsystems.com/xsd/c2l_cp_rootv1p1 c2l_cp_rootv1p1.xsd

And add this after your resourse element, and modify it to your liking

<!-- Scorm Extension -->
<c2lcp:ItemDataExtra>
	<c2lcp:ItemData Type="Course"> 
		<c2lcp:ItemSpecificData> 
			<c2lcp:CourseData> 
				<c2lcp:PackageProperties> 
					<c2lcp:CourseDisplay> 
						<c2lcp:ShowNavBar>no</c2lcp:ShowNavBar>
						<c2lcp:TOC>
							<c2lcp:MaxWidth>1</c2lcp:MaxWidth> 
							<c2lcp:ScrollBar>yes</c2lcp:ScrollBar>
							<c2lcp:BackgroundColor>ffffff</c2lcp:BackgroundColor> 
						</c2lcp:TOC>
					</c2lcp:CourseDisplay> 
					<c2lcp:Launch>
						 <c2lcp:Width>1024</c2lcp:Width>
						 <c2lcp:Height>768</c2lcp:Height>
						 <c2lcp:AllowResize>yes</c2lcp:AllowResize>
					</c2lcp:Launch>
				</c2lcp:PackageProperties>
			</c2lcp:CourseData> 
		</c2lcp:ItemSpecificData>
	</c2lcp:ItemData> 
</c2lcp:ItemDataExtra>

<!-- End -->

Hope this helps.

Ron

[dstone303]

Thanks for the info on turing off SumTotal's nav bar. I have two questions:

1. Where in the manifest does the xds line of code go?

2. Instead of adding all the additional code that you suggest after the Resources section of the manifest, would simply adding an instruction to turn off the nav bar work?

<c2lcp:ShowNavBar>no</c2lcp:ShowNavBar>

Wouldn't the other settings just default to the template settings?

Thanks,

David

[Justin]

Does this article help?
Hide the SumTotal Navigation Bar for Presenter ‘09 presentations – Articulate Presenter ‘09 Knowledge Base

[dstone303]

Nothing's ever simple ...is it? Yes, the Knowledge Base article helps a lot. Thanks much. David

[chrisb]

this does work for me. however, I have to do it every time I publish a course.

is there any way to set up a template so that this information is in the manifest file by default?

[beeneeb]

Originally Posted by chrisb

this does work for me. however, I have to do it every time I publish a course.

is there any way to set up a template so that this information is in the manifest file by default?

Hi Chris,

The core files for your installation of Articulate Presenter are located here:

C:\Program Files\Articulate\Presenter\players

Just find the folder that applies to the LMS standard that you are publishing to & make the appropriate changes to the file. Be sure to make a backup copy of the original file before you make any edits just in case.

[chrisb]

works like a charm - thanks!

[srholbert12]

Would you provide an example of what you changed - am newer to this. I would LUV to stop manipulating published files!!!

[pmw061299]

Would the code to be added in the article here be the same code to add in a Quizmaker manifest? Would it need to be modified?