Changing Our Course DesignsĪnother option would be to change our fundamental approach to e-learning design. At that point, the auto-playing video and audio will play again. Learners will need to refresh the page for the setting to be applied. Open the drop-down menu and change the setting to, “No user gesture is required.” That will take you straight to the setting that we’ll be adjusting, without needing to scroll. To make the change, copy and paste this address into Chrome’s URL bar: Although the setting is a global one, our initial testing has shown that ads and autoplaying media on well-known, public sites appear to still be paused. The good news, again, is learners can fix the issue on their end by changing a setting in their Chrome flag preferences. Once the MEI has learned that audio is ok to play for a course, it should autoplay again as normal. The idea is that over time, the MEI will learn if audio was previously allowed to play on a website. It all depends on what Google calls the Media Engagement Index (MEI).
For courses that have audio on the first slide, it’s not quite as cut-and-dry-it may or may not show a play button when the learner first launches it. Learners will now see a play button when they launch or resume a course that has a video on the first slide. The change to the Chrome Autoplay Policy impacts both video and audio on opening slides.
Now it’s time for folks to deal with a similar change in Chrome 66, and later. Last November, e-learning developers were faced with Safari 11 preventing video from autoplaying on the first slide in Storyline courses. How to work around Chrome’s Autoplay feature
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