Don.t run if screen capture software open
May 2, 2007 12:00 AM
One thing is for sure, there is no standard function in Lectora that tells you this.Our LMS (custom build) takes care of this by simply not letting go of the focus of the window. There is no such thing as 100% copyproof courses however. There is ALWAYS a way to avoid copyprotection as long as the learner is in control of the input devices. To the solution:The question you need to ask yourself is the following:What kind of copy should I protect my course against? With some scripting you should be able to turn of any process that starts or runs capturing software, just like the copyprotection found on most modern PC DVD/CD games (starforce or something it is called)although this is very hard to do, and might need administrational rights.To be very direct, I do not know how you can do this in a normal way, so that it works on every system.What comes to my mind: what is the motivation for such a question? Do you expect them to try and copy the course?Another thing that comes to my mind:What we do to make sure it gets a little more difficult is putting a copyright-element on the background (literally type it in the GIF/PNG/JPG file) of each page, and a copyright on the bottom of each page in ordinary text as well. A simple "Copyright Krixquet" should do the trick for the most common cases. They cannot alter it in the source, since they do not have it :) .These are just suggestions. Just remember that nothing can be made copyproof.
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