I have an on-going problem with my Lectora courses playing slow from the company's Oracle iLearning LMS. The courses are published and uploaded to the LMS as SCORM 1.2 courses. Trivantis has looked at one of the courses that has been particularly problematic, and it plays fine on the Trivantis LMS. That particular course is a three-hour course (about 100 pages) that contains a dozen or so Captivate files that launch as external files. At times, individual pages load within 3-5 seconds. At other times, the pages take a full minute or more to load. The Captivate files, once loaded, play fine. All of the resources in the course are small. The audio files are small Flash files and only a few images are larger than 100K; the largest is 275K.
Network bandwidth seems to be the primary cause of the problem, but other courses (Articulate, Flash) on the LMS play fine, although they are much shorter courses.
I'm looking for any suggestions or potential solutions from a developer's standpoint that I might investigate or test.
Because of bandwidth limitations, do I need to carve up the course into smaller chunks? Will reducing an image from 150K to 50K make a significant difference in how fast a page loads?
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
