Hi Clay
Thanks for your post on this. In the past, all the content on the Online Learning Center was compatible with mobile devices except for the videos in some courses ...
Hi Clay
Thanks for your post on this. In the past, all the content on the Online Learning Center was compatible with mobile devices except for the videos in some courses that required Flash to play (However even then, in terms of playing the videos on your ipad, from research, i know there are some options available for playing flash videos on ipads as outlined at http://ipad.about.com/od/Productivity-Apps/tp/How-To-Play-Flash-On-The-iPad.htm or http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/ipad/how-get-flash-ipad-3460979/ such as using Photon Browser etc).
This included the mp3 files which normally played in the browser they were opened in. How since reviewing your posting, i reviewed the OLC courses again and noticed that since we did our major upgrade of the OLC earlier this year, that the file structure now behaves slightly different for the files in that they force download when displayed as a directory listing rather than allowing them to play by default and this is built into the software and not easily changed, without completely redoing the courses and linking to the files individually in the new built in player. For most browsers on computers this is not an issue as it can open a local media player to play the files or use a player built into the browser. Then for most mobile devices it allows you to download files which usually go to a folder called Downloads which can then be browsed with a file utility and moved to the music folder but for ipads and other Apple devices this is more complicated as Apple restrict access to file management.
I reviewed some of the links that Kathleen posted and the ical app sounds interesting that is mentioned in one of her links as it is a fully featured browser that allows downloads of files but i was unable to test that.
So i would encourage you to explore some of the options for managing files with just an ipad as it will normally require some work around due to the limitations placed by Apple on having a full file system available to the user without using Itunes.
I also reviewed the course you are enrolled in and will send you an email with a link to the audio files on a separate Box site which can be opened in Safari and played online, so at least you can access them in that way.
I will now also continue more research on this and assess what further steps we can take to make the courses easier to use with mobile devices for users that do not also have access to a computer.
Eamon
