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Hi Courselab users. Can anyone please advise how to launch Windows Mail from within Corselab.

Also I have included a text input area in my module. Once the user has completed their text input and then leave the field I'd like their text response to be sent to a specified email adddress. Can anyone advise the best approach. If it's a Javascript solution can anyone advise what command text is appropriate.

Many thanks.
 
This is one of things that is asked reasonably frequently (and possibly ought to be included at some time) BUT as the content is primarily designd to be used inside of an LMS the LMS itself handles all communications.
In a stand alone the problem isn't launching a mail client, its actually controlling what it sends as content. For example if you have a test then unless you have encrypted the content (another tier of difficulty) or obfuscated the content (see above note) then the user can change what is sent.
This assumes a mail client installed on the PC itself, where a web mail client is used then it will fail.
First you'll need some javscript to open a mail client (IF there is one of course)a web search ought to find this kind of thing for you. Then you're going to have to modify the API that runs courselab to pass the variables you want as the message body.
Remeber unless you know that the users PC has the right software on it this won't work so you have to ask is it worth the effort??
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