Course Autostart Single Object

1 Requirements

Current Situation

If an ILIAS-course contains only one object, a user needs to clicks to access it (click the course, then click the object).

Goal

If an ILIAS-course contains only one object, it should start immediately, I a learner clicks on it.
 

• This "Autostart"-Function should be a setting for each course.
• The autostart should not apply to admins, tutors, or anyone with permissions to edit the course.
• The autostart should also work, if a user accesses the course via admission-link + token.

Proposed Implementations

Course-Settings should have a setting "autostart". The setting should have effect for every user without permission to "edit" the course - as follows:
 
Variant 1:

• On clicking the course, it will show its content as usual.
• If the course contains only one object, it will open a new page immediately and start the object within.
• If the user is not allowed to access that object, it will abort opening the new page from the beginning.

• For SCORM/HTML-modules as above
• Any other object will be started in the same window (instead a new one)

2 Status

• Scheduled for: Not scheduled yet (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Funding: Required (probably funded by Douglas)
• Maintainer: (will be set by Jour Fixe)
• Development: Implementation of the feature is done by Leifos
• Contract settled: Not yet

3 Additional Information

Contact the following persons if you want to know more about this feature, its implementation or funding:

• Information about concept: Kiegel, kiegel@qualitus.de
• Information about funding: Kiegel, kiegel@qualitus.de
• Information about implementation: (name, e-mail) tbd

4 Discussion

Kiegel, 2013/10/11:

• What should be the fallback, if the user can not access the object?
• The user can not navigate back to the magazine from within certain ILIAS-Objects (i.e. SCORM, HTML, ..). These object should be started in a new window to allow back-navigation by closing the window.
• If a new window opens - what should the initial window display?

JF 14 Oct 2013: We currently do not see any technical possibility to implement this in the trunk. There are basically two approaches:

1. Checking "where to link (href and target) already on the linking screen (when a course is listed on the pd, in search, in the repository). This is not possible due to performance reasons. ILIAS would need to check for each listed course whether the setting is active, if this is the case how many any what objects are accessible. If this is only one, in the case of SCORM (or other object) additional settings would needed to be checked (open in new frame or not). All in all this would be very complex and time consuming.
2. Open the course presentation screen and then do all kind of checks and redirect (either per server side or by Javascript). Open and unsolved issues are:
   1. What to do with the opened course page, if no permission is given for the subobject?
      • Show a "no permission" message?
   2. What to do with the opened course page if the object has to be opened in an additional window?
      • Do never open in new windows?
   3. Redirects currently can do only to permanent links ins a generic way. For SCORM objects this opens the info tab, which is not desired here.

Zenzen, Enrico [ezenzen], 03 AUG 2022: This request no longer fulfills the requirements of the Feature Wiki. In consultation with the maintainer I change the status of the feature request to "Redundant / outdated". If the request is still relevant, please update template and mockups.

5 Implementation

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